19 Weeks - Week of 2/1 - 2/7

OK, I love and appreciate your doing my testing BUT I can't go by those heart rates. In order to be in zone 2 while running I have to walk. The moment I start running I am in zone 4 (which was my old zone 2). On my bike as I was riding, I felt good I was not working hard at all and was totally conversational and when I would look down I was again in zone 4. So, I thought, ok I'm going to see what speed I would need to bike to be in zone 2 . . . .it was between 10 - 11mph. This was on a flat. I'm slow but I am not that slow. I can't even do the run, the only way to get my heart under 133 is walking. A 25 bpm is a very large drop. I don't know what to do Tim, please tell me what you want me to do. But I can not walk my long runs.

Sunday - Superbowl Sunday run, my legs were still pretty tired from yesterday's ride. I was also very sleepy having gotten up at 5am to put a pork roast in the oven (seriously slow roasted pulled pork is da bomb). So, I ran in between bastings.

Distance - 5.26 miles, Time - 52:00, Pace - 9:53 (getting faster), HR - 156 (high zone 2 just like you said, new zone this run was zone 4)

Monday - Swim - Ok, so i did the 2,000 but there is no way I can do a 300 @ 6:00. I can't even swim 1 - 100 under or at 2:00. So, I took a 30 - 45 second rest in between. The kicking sucked, even with my Zoomers . . kicking sucks.

I know I had a 90 minute bike tonight, but I also had my Ragnar team meeting. I didn't get home from that until 8:30pm. There was no way I was getting on the trainer at that time. In my head at the time I thought, I'll do it tomorrow morning. That's when I recalled tomorrow is the spin brick workout and opted not to spin in the morning too.

Tuesday - Lunch Run with Team Chances - yep we are still running at lunch. It was an easy run 3.18 miles, in 36:26. An 11:23 pace, 155 HR (again new zone 4).

Brick Spin Class aka Need to Puke Spin Class - SHIT, OUCH! Interesting how you can see how I came out of the gate really hard then slowly starting getting slower and with what looks like less effort, although I didn't feel that way in class. I was fairly consistent on the bike effort and the higher hear rates was pushing bigger gear. But the run, I crashed and burned. Could have been the 3 mile lunch hour run, or could just be that I went all out on the first lap, first go round. Also, I've decided to start wearing my HR monitor to class with me, so I can make sure I am doing what I am suppose to be doing. Looks like I need to work harder. New notes based on my heart rate zones, looks like I was working my ass off. So at least now I know why I felt so crappy and couldn't understand my numbers.

Total Time - 1:04:16 (that's when you started, not Anthony), Average HR - 149 (new zone 4), Max HR 191 (seriously)

I. Bike 10:24, HR - 152 (zone 3, new zone 4) , Run 4:32, HR - 177 (zone 4, still new zone 4), Speed 9.3mph

II. Bike 9:19, HR - 145 (top of zone 2, new zone 4), Run - 4:59, HR - 166 (zone 3, new zone 4), Speed 10.2mph

III. Bike 8:41, HR - 139 (zone 2, new zone 4), Run - 5:01, HR - 166 (zone 3, new zone 4), Speed 7.8mph

IV. Bike 9:03, HR - 141 (zone 2, new zone 4), Run 3:31, HR 160 (zone 3, new zone 4), Speed 4.7mph

Wednesday - Swim - Ok, I did not get the 2,000 on I only managed 1500. I woke up late and got to the gym 20 minutes late. I had training class so I couldn't even come into work late. So, I did 500 warm up, 10 x 50, 500 cool down. So my warm up and cool down were status quo, a 2:18/100 pace. The 50's I gave myself a 10 second rest. The first 3 50's were under 1:00 (55, 58, 59) after that I was just at or slightly over 1:00. My average pace for the 50's came out to 1:00:30 (not bad) but it was really hard. I didn't count my stokes, but I know they were high ad I had to breath every 2 strokes.

Weights - Went to the gym, did an hour upper body and core. Don't know what to tell you about this, other than it was hard to get started and it's going to continue to be hard to get back into it. BUT I do know that weight training is going to benefit me a lot. I will keep at it. It's just hard for me to push myself.

Thursday - Spin - I got up this morning and did 90 minutes on the trainer. On Thursdays I don't get home until after 6:30pm so, it just feels very late to eat, spin, etc. I prefer the mornings. So, it was just me, a cup of coffee, the TV, and my big chain ring.

Run - My lunch hour run sucked ass. I felt crappy. I think it's just that I was started to see some improvement in my heart rate and pace, etc. but today was just yuck! I kept slowing down to bring my heart rate down, but I wanted to speed up, I wanted to have fun.

Distance - 5.0 miles, Time - 52:24, Pace - 10:29, HR - 161 (low zone 3, aka new zone 4), Max HR - 191 (and I felt it).

Friday - I do love my day off.

Saturday - The 50 mile bike. I worked so hard at keeping my heart rate down and it was so very very hard. Miles 50.35, Time - 3:25:30, Pace - 14.7mph, HR - 126 (low new zone 3). I hung back a lot with my girl friend, slowed down to wait for her which helped keep my heart rate low.

Run - I tried so very hard to keep myself in the new zones for this 5 mile run, I just can't do it. I ran so so so slowly. Distance - 5 miles, Time 58:50, pace - 11:46, HR - 147 (that would be zone 4). There was no effort in this run, I don't know what to tell you.

Tell me what to do Tim . . . . . . . . .