Week Ending March 4th in Review

This was a great week for the training logbook; a lot of discovery in theory that I’ve experienced now in practice.  The week in summary:

• Hyannis half marathon.  I learned the run/walk strategy for racing.  Having always known the theory, I was always resistant to putting into racing, but by doing so, we preserved my body and both had a very enjoyable experience, as well as a solid decent finish time.  I executed the strategy with precision.  Ah-ha number 1.
• Cadence to generate power.  After Thursday’s brutal FTP intervals (short), I knew that Saturday’s long FTP intervals would be incredibly hard unless I changed something around.  I needed to leverage muscular endurance over muscular strength.  Thus, high cadence comes into play.  By keeping my avg cad in the mid-90s, I was able to get through the longer intervals while generating the required power.  This was my second of two huge ah-has this week.
• Threshold swimming on Friday resulted in a strenuous set of 200s at T-pace.  Although challenging, this work was manageable and felt incredibly powerful.  With only 0:15 RI, this workout reminded me that I can endure a lot of T-pace work.
• Garmin 910XT was added to the repertoire this past week.  This thing does almost everything.  The swim metrics are definitely new to me and will take some fine-tuning.  All the power data is very similar to that of the Joule2.0.  The pairing of this unit was SO easy.  Still, need to export the file and upload to TrainingPeaks for complete activity data.

All this great work completed with having a head cold since Wednesday and having Matt gone to Florida. I’m really looking forward to what is in store over the coming weeks and months when I’m 100%. Looking forward to working through some of the new potential we’re about to unlock.