Another long break from updates, but training has been moving forward. I am currently in week four of the Alcatraz training, so my first recovery week is here as well as in week 5 of my half-marathon training. I am getting some breaks on the tri stuff, but still hitting the road hard on my runs. The plan I have for Alcatraz is a high level Olympic distance plan, so I am putting extra work in compared to my last ones, but with the quirky distance of Alcatraz I will have to add some distance to the run and swims in the last month. And lots of hills too.
It has been a tough month to get outside here in Atlanta, so I have only had one actual ride outdoors. The second one I attempted resulted in a flat about five minutes into the ride so I have been exclusively on the spin cycle trainer so far. The weather has been brutal as well, we had 8 of 31 days in January with heavy rain, 4 of those days were Saturday/Sunday combos, so the long work on the weekends was all done indoors. Along with the rain we had 20 total days of sub-freezing temps, and 15 of those were all in a row the first two weeks of the month. Way too cold to do the typical early morning runs, so I have become very friendly with the treadmill as well.
Over January I had 30 scheduled workouts, and was able to get to 21 of them. That is skipping a lot more than I would like, but travel for work and the awful weather has contributed a lot. Thankfully I am already running much longer distances than required for the triathlon plan; my ½ marathon training has me ahead of the curve there. However, I am a bit concerned about the biking, I really need to get outside to replicate actual riding conditions as the indoor trainer only does so much. Totals for the three weeks of training in January were 5 miles in the pool, 114 miles on the bike, and 37 miles running. Nice little base period, but the volume will be kicked up a notch in the next month.
Overall I feel good, but a little anxious about the missed days. I need to make sure to keep those to a minimum this month as I enter the build phase for the triathlon training. We shall see. Tomorrow I have a 10K race and shooting for a sub 50 min time. That will get me in the seeded group just behind the pros and real runners in the Peachtree Road Race. The weather is awful today, but tomorrow morning is expected to be 35 and dry, so conditions are good with a flat track. It will be a stretch, as most of my training runs are putting me at the 55 min mark for 10K. We will see how it goes.
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