Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Double workout? Of the multi sport variety

So two a days for me are nothing new, I mean I've done them in running, I've done them in cycling, I haven't done them in swimming nor would I really want to, let's be honest here.  But what I haven't done however is two a days that consist of back to back workouts in different disciplines.  This morning I figured it probably was as good a day as any other to get off my ass and go do a bike run workout.  It's been tough trying to juggle the single discipline races (Velocity SR, Mothers Day 10K, possibly something in the Calgary marathon weekend, Tour de Bow) as well as the big one (IMC) and I'll be quite honest, I've been piss poor at juggling my responsibilities.  To the point where I would almost say I'm not juggling them at all but rather just kinda tackling each one and hoping it will all come together.  Unfortunately that's really an awful way of going about it, so I started actually kinda following a plan for these two weeks to see how it would go.  Yesterday's swim was longer than originally scheduled by the plan, but Lisa thought up of a brilliant workout which will probably do me good.  Today's ride was supposed to be aerobic followed by another aerobic run

Sorry for the blurry picture but the workout was 2 sets of 20 repeats 30 seconds on 30 seconds rest at 120% of FTP power.  In a simple way that's essentially how many watts you can push for an hour.  So finished this, probably could've pushed a little bit harder but hey it was a good way to see how the legs would feel after a ride going into a run.

The run was then just a nice easy jog at around a 8'30 pace for 3 miles.  The cool thing was I was done both of these slightly after 7:30 in the morning.  What did you get up to this morning. 

I think I'm going to make a post about some foods that have started to become staples in my training, and the cool thing is this isn't even something that is only for those that are doing athletic pursuits, for example Muesli is a super easy breakfast that you can make and just chuck in the fridge and eat as necessary.

~Cheers

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