Week Summary, Feb 18-24

Pretty busy week with 2 call shifts. Feel a bit beat up and tired Sunday night.
Up for about 24 hours Saturday, slept 3 hrs after call ended Sunday morning, then managed to get in long run around 3 pm. HR zone 1 average, some prolonged zone 2 as there was about 1500 ft climbing on the run. This led to a leg strength bonk about 14 miles into run and final 4 were tough for me to maintain 8 minute pace, even though my HR was under 100. Better luck next weekend.

Week summary

15 workouts in, which is about all I could handle with my call duties.

Swim: 15000 meter (4 sessions) Time = 4:40
Bike: 155 miles (5 rides which included 3 long time trials and one interval session, and 1 short recovery ride) Time = 9:30
Run: 51 miles (6 runs) 5:46

around 20 hours. This was one of my bigger weeks on the bike and run. Dont let 155 miles over 5 bike workouts be misleading. These are tough miles with climbing and time trialing. All however averaged power zone 2 at the end of the rides.

Running felt great all week until my long run Sunday. One contributor likely my 6 mile run on about 1500 ft climbing saturday morning, followed a couple of hours later (after breakfast) of 47 miler on the bike with about 3500 ft climbing and a 25 minute big gear low rpm time trial. Being up all night after this didnt allow my legs to recover for the long run. So, I shut down my long run to 7:45-8:00 pace on the flats, and 10 min pace on the steeper hills to keep HR down. This helped a bit, but only to mile 14 when the inevidible bonk occurred.