Big week, Hurting now!

Well I had a great week of training, that ended with a Bang! Last week was my biggest volume swim week to date. Logged in 14,570 yards total (swam Mon-Fri everyday).

I had a broken 1650 TimeTrial in the pool, and the net time came out to 23:19. In theory on a good day, accurate course and swimming in a straight line 23;19 is what I should be able to swim now in a 1500meter swim (compared to 26-27 minutes last year)! factor in drafting and maybe I can go even faster....we'll see. The good news is I am actually enjoying swimming now. It is no longer something that I am doing just because I have to. I look forward to it every day!

Bike- I logged in about 150miles total. Had 4 hour ride on the trainer Saturday morning which was a pain in the ass (literally)!

I logged 38miles on the run, which included a 21-mile z2 long run yesterday (I was supposed to stop short at 18miles but felt really good). I ran with my buddy Matt, we completed it in 2:24:20 (so about a 6:52 pace), on the Sellwood-Steel bridge loop. I was in z2 the whole time and felt great. problem is i decided to run up to a water fountain at the end of the 21 miles and come to an abrubt stop. i thought it would be really cool to finish off the long run stopping right in front of the water fountain and raising my hands to the sky in Joy! Well it wasnt so cool...... since the concrete is very slippery, coming to a complete stop off of a sub 7minute pace....my legs flew out from underneath me and i slammed hard onto the ground. I bruised up my greater trochanter bone pretty bad, skinned up my left hand, bruised my left ankle and I just noticeda nice sized lump on my right elbow. What a way to end a 21-mile run! I hope I can recover in time for Saturday's race.......we'll see/

In total I put in 17hours and 54 minutes training......my biggest week ever.

i'm also really excited for my two training partners: Sal who is blowing me out of the water on the swim, he has IM Arizona in less than two weeks. And Matt who beats me up on the run 9and watches me beat myself up) who is running the Boston Marathon on april 21st.

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Been getting back into the training schedule w/ good volume, high quality workouts and swimming with the high school cats and my buddy Sal, who is training for IM Arizona. Since returning from the wedding & honeymoon my weekly hours logged have been 12:32, 15:30, 12:09 & 16:01......I wanted to get 2more hours in on the bike this last sunday but it was just too damn cold!This is high volume for me however. Last year I think I got in one 14:45 week. So we are slowly getting my body used to handling just a little more volume at a time so I dont have to worry about getting injured in the process

I'm looking forward to kicking off the race season big time- looks like I may have 3 short races back to back to get my body used to racing again. Beaver Freezer Triathlon (500yd pool swim, 12mi bike, 3.1mi run) in Corvallis on april 5th, Spring Classic Duathlon (5km run, 15mi bike, 5k run) out on Marine Drive on april 12th, and (if I can sneak into this race without my coach knowing) the Bridge-2-bridge 10k run down town portland, april 20th.
then i'll have two weeks until Napa Half Iron, then it will just be 5 weeks until World Championships in June!

I miss my best friend Kyle (walk-a-mile Kyle (with a smile)), and I'm thinking of him always. when i was struggling with my last 4minute hill repeat today (there were 6 of them), I thought of him and how fortunate I am to still be able to feel pain. I said "this ones for you walk' and i dug deep and ran 100yards further up that hill than I had in the previous 5 repeats. I'll be thinking about you during those last miles of my races this year bro! there are a lot of things i deeply regret about not being there for him enough the last year of his life. I know the best way I can make it up to him is to look out for his family and his girl. They really are a great family! i love looking at those miniature donkeys at his dad's house!

This video just makes me wanna get out on the treadmill and go hard!
(gotta love these canadian pros)