These Holiday’s are killing me! I looked back to last year and I had taken the last 2 weeks of December off the pool, so I guess 10k a week is still better. I am kind of tired of the Christmas ales, the cookies, and the excess food. That’s good. My work schedule has been tough. Coming in at 4 am trashes a day of workouts. I managed to get a 20 mile trail run in Sunday after work…at 730a. I also managed to roll my left ankle worse than ever. 2 days later I’m a bit swollen. Not good. It’s feeling very weak and I’m afraid of a worse injury if I keep it up on these trails. January 17th I’m running a 50k trail race and I’m thinking about cutting down to 13. Not sure. Although challenging none of this has been more difficult than the way I’m I’ve been feeling. I’m not sure why but, I’ve become extremely stressed and rather aggressive. I was once able to deter these feelings with any type of workout. Now I find it takes me at least an hour of intense training to not want to hold a noodler under water. This is something I need to research little and try to determine what chemical is out of balance and then find a way to restore myself to normal. I guess I could have bigger problems.
On the positive note, training has been going well. I’ve completely ignored any form of a proper diet to a point where I’m sick of junk. I’m biking a few hours a week with some high intensity intervals that I’ve never done before. I know my swim is fine but, with the changes I’ve made I have found that my speed is picking up. I did my time trial workout and I’m quite a bit faster than last year. I may even do it again this week. So check this out:
1000 warm up
400 sub 4:25, 200 recover
200 sub 2:08, 200 recover
100 sub :59, 100 recover
50 sub :27, 50 recover
6x50 IM no free
500 kick
It’s a good TT 3k workout. I like to gauge myself on it. The run is going well also except for the ankle. My overall speeds up but, so is the weight. I’ll get on that next week.
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