So far so good this week. Nailed the speed swim Monday morning, had a good functional strength session Monday night, had a decent swim Tuesday morning and a nice aerobic run in some serious heat Tuesday night. Getting lots of stuff done at the office and have been super paleo on my eating the past 4 days. That's another side effect of the higher work stress....hitting the snack bowls full of junk at the office. You can really feel a difference when you are very strict and then slip up.
So I got an interesting email today from training peaks. The subject read: Threshold notification for Nick Swanson. The body read:
"After analyzing the data you uploaded into your TrainingPeaks account, we believe your threshold(s) have changed. Below are the threshold(s) we believe to be correct according to our analysis of your data:
Suggested Pace Threshold: 8:25 min/mile
Current Pace Threshold: 6:26 min/mile"
Now, I admit, my threshold pace is not a 6:26 mile, or at least I haven't done anything to prove that it is this year. However, it surely isn't 8:25/mile either. Just thought that this was funny. It would be one thing if a training partner shot me a jab telling me that I was getting slower, but for my training log to tell me that, well, I can't even fire back.
I guess I've got some work to do!
Happy training
NS
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Catching up
It has been awhile since my last post. Things have been really busy with training and working both in my day job and the side gig, working in the yard, chores, etc. Race season has quickly come and is actually almost 1/3 over! To quickly summarize:
Las Vegas: Great race up until the run. Unlucky timing on #2 #2 of the day.
Voodoo Fire Mtn Bike race: flatted out. Fun trails - just not to race on.
Summer open sprint tri: Raced hard. Ridiculously crappy day to be outside. Seriously 3 ft swells on Union reservoir. Bike wasn't so much fun either with the wind. I wore a jacket because it was cold, so it was like having a parachute attached. Not a great result.
Xterra 4 corners: Had a really good race. 2nd in age group, somewhere around top 10 overall. The race course got vandalized so the run course was kinda hosed up, but most of us ran roughly the same 4.2ish miles.
Winter Park Hill Climb: Ouch. First race in expert class. Finished exactly in the middle of my age group, or 4th out of 7. Had 2 and 3 held to 20 seconds for first 3 miles, but couldn't hang on. Ended up needing about 2 mins better, but was happy with 42:49 as my time.
Next up: Clif Bar Fat Tire 40. 40 miles, 7500 ft of climbing. Followed by friends Jason and Alexis's wedding all in the mtn bike capital of Crested Butte. CAN'T WAIT!
Training in general has been very hit or miss with consistency being hard to accomplish. My boss left our company, so I've had to step up my workload considerably. Some weeks things go smoothly, other weeks I miss key workouts, such as last week when I missed a key LT bike/run combo then a key swim session on back to back days. Even when I can make the workouts from a time standpoint it is increasingly difficult to get in the right state of mind mentally. By the end of the day my brain is fried. Hopefully some help is coming but in the near term I am trying not to dwell too much on missed workouts and just make the workouts that I get in really count.
The Xterra Mountain Championships are the next key race. Lots of climbing training sessions on the bike and run are the formula right now. That race would have the swim go uphill if it could! I am very much looking forward to it though. After the race Jaime and I are going to see Brandi Carlisle at Red Rocks with Gregory Alan Isakov opening for her. I have become a huge fan of Isakov's and I enjoy Brandi's music as well, so it should be an all around fun weekend.
Time for some rest. Another big week starts tomorrow morning with a speed swim. Gotta get the arms moving faster!
NS
Las Vegas: Great race up until the run. Unlucky timing on #2 #2 of the day.
Voodoo Fire Mtn Bike race: flatted out. Fun trails - just not to race on.
Summer open sprint tri: Raced hard. Ridiculously crappy day to be outside. Seriously 3 ft swells on Union reservoir. Bike wasn't so much fun either with the wind. I wore a jacket because it was cold, so it was like having a parachute attached. Not a great result.
Xterra 4 corners: Had a really good race. 2nd in age group, somewhere around top 10 overall. The race course got vandalized so the run course was kinda hosed up, but most of us ran roughly the same 4.2ish miles.
Winter Park Hill Climb: Ouch. First race in expert class. Finished exactly in the middle of my age group, or 4th out of 7. Had 2 and 3 held to 20 seconds for first 3 miles, but couldn't hang on. Ended up needing about 2 mins better, but was happy with 42:49 as my time.
Next up: Clif Bar Fat Tire 40. 40 miles, 7500 ft of climbing. Followed by friends Jason and Alexis's wedding all in the mtn bike capital of Crested Butte. CAN'T WAIT!
Training in general has been very hit or miss with consistency being hard to accomplish. My boss left our company, so I've had to step up my workload considerably. Some weeks things go smoothly, other weeks I miss key workouts, such as last week when I missed a key LT bike/run combo then a key swim session on back to back days. Even when I can make the workouts from a time standpoint it is increasingly difficult to get in the right state of mind mentally. By the end of the day my brain is fried. Hopefully some help is coming but in the near term I am trying not to dwell too much on missed workouts and just make the workouts that I get in really count.
The Xterra Mountain Championships are the next key race. Lots of climbing training sessions on the bike and run are the formula right now. That race would have the swim go uphill if it could! I am very much looking forward to it though. After the race Jaime and I are going to see Brandi Carlisle at Red Rocks with Gregory Alan Isakov opening for her. I have become a huge fan of Isakov's and I enjoy Brandi's music as well, so it should be an all around fun weekend.
Time for some rest. Another big week starts tomorrow morning with a speed swim. Gotta get the arms moving faster!
NS
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