Week 2 Recap

I hope everyone had a nice, long Thanksgiving break this past weekend. I know I did. It was a relaxing, albeit lazy week since I skipped a few workouts. That's to be expected though, right? After eating some turkey, eight rolls, a pound of mashed potatoes, and drinking a liter of Coke, who wants to do a tempo run? Not me.

From Thursday on out was not a complete loss. On Saturday I took part in a friendly game of tackle football. Sure I'm 30 years old and probably shouldn't be playing but I couldn't resist. After a few plays it was quite evident I was in much better shape than any of the 20-something guys I was playing with. I've found its difficult to be modest about being a triathlete when you're schooling people with fitness alone. I won't even get into my other grand football abilities.

Sunday was a day of rest to recuperate from the football game. I was tight from all the sprinting to say the least. I broke out the heating pads for a few sore spots and stretched them out good. If you've been following along, this meant I was missing the important 11-mile run I was scheduled for. Given that Week 3 is an easy week I opted to replace the first easy day with the long run. I finished that last night and felt great the whole way, which was a huge difference from Week 1's 10-miler. Some might find this odd but I'm looking forward to Week 4's 13-mile run.

Week 2's volume was up slightly to 5 1/2 hours due to my introduction of swimming. I swam 3500 yards and ran 22.5 miles (including Monday's run). You might have noticed I didn't do any of the planned biking. I've decided to wait until I purchase a time trial bike, which could be this coming weekend.