Mini triathlon today!

Today's workout:
Bike-145 minutes (36 miles)
Run-16 minutes (1.8 miles)
Swim-30 minutes

We started at 10 am this morning. It was a great ride-about 75 degrees for most of it and sunny. Really windy though-a cold front is on it's way through tonight. I'm going to try to post the route that we followed.  Wayne has his iPhone set up to record all kinds of things-speed, distance, route, elevation...he can then upload it to his computer! It seems as if the battery in his phone will last for a while-and he has an extra battery pack that goes around his phone to give it extra charge time. It might even last for some of our longer rides! The ride was supposed to be "zone one". I think that means that we should be comfortable and able to talk for most of the ride. I think it went pretty well. Until Kristi asked me to tell a really long joke going up a hill-zone four! Zone four alert! So I looked up the zones to get a better idea of where we should be...

Zone 1-Easy pace "This is where you will be in the early season and in between hard workout days during the season. For many people, this is the hardest place to be. That feeling of "I'm not working hard enough" seems to be difficult for many people (Kristi). This is the zone, however, where you can maintain your fitness while recovering from harder work."
Zone 2-"Relatively easy zone to be in, but requires steady, moderate effort."
Zone 3-"This is where many people spend most of their time, because they "feel like" they're at or above 78%.
Zone 4-"Hammer zone-not used in Ironman training-usually Sprint or Olympic. Excessive time spent in this zone will quickly lead to diminishing returns."

It was kind of hard to tell our zone today because of the wind. The wind definitely makes my asthma act up a little, so I'm breathing harder anyway. Here's another way to look at it-from the training book-on a scale from 6-20 of Perceived Effort, Zone One is between 6-10, Zone Two is between 10-14, Zone Three is between 15-17, and Zone Four is between 18-20.

Ok, enough of the boring stuff. So we finished our ride, changed, got the pups, and ran our prescribed 15-20 minutes. Up, around Central Market, and back for 1.8 miles. Then a quick yogurt, two chocolate digestives, and some water-then off to the gym for a 30 minute swim. The heater isn't working yet. But surprisingly it wasn't too bad after the first couple laps! When I was finishing up, a lady was trying to get in the lane next to me-she asked if I was cold and I told her that after the first couple laps you get so numb that you can't even feel the cold anymore! She said it was like Barton Springs without the sun!

I decided to swim freestyle for the 30 minutes today. It was a nice change of pace. I took breaks every few laps to empty my goggles. I figured I should probably take the "easy" 30 minute swim on Saturdays to even out my arm muscles from just swimming breaststroke. 30 minutes seemed really easy today.

Kristi just reported in to the Blog Master-says her pool is 60 degrees. Ridiculously cold! I couldn't do that. No way.

Bonnie reported in-Ran this morning in the "wintry rain". I don't miss that weather at all! She's going to do the long ride on the trainer tomorrow.

If I had to sum this training day up in one word, it would be "Hungry". Here's what I ate today:
6:30 am-A bowl of gross rabbit food cereal with a glass of OJ/H2O.
9 am-Smoothie and two eggos
During the ride-Almond snickers and a bag of honey stingers
After the run-Yogurt and two cookies
After the swim-Spinach salad, cauliflower cheese soup, and another smoothie.

I bottomed out with hunger twice-once before my second breakfast, and once at mile 33 on the ride. But the swim was good-no hunger at all. And I'm nice and full now. Toasty warm, sitting on the couch with the sun streaming in through the windows. I should sleep well tonight!

Later gators!
M :)