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Saturday - October 30

Bike

40m 43s
12.00 miles
17.68 Mi/hr

Just out to get in what I could today. Wanted to go longer, but a bit of road construction cut my ride short. Worked on 90+ cadence and keeping my HR down. Nice easy ride for a staurday morning. Now I will go blow it on a little tailgating and a football game. Damn cajun friends are killing me!!! Good thing this is the "off season".

Health data: Sleep: 4 Stress: 4 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 7.5 Overall Workout: 2

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Friday - October 29

Run

21m 11s
2.50 miles
08m 28s /Mi

Treadmill @ home

Health data: Sleep: 4 Stress: 3 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 7.5

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Thursday - October 28

Swim

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1000.00 yards
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Again not really worrying about distances. Just wanted to work on my stroke count. Kept it around 18-19, but would quickly go up to 21 if I tried to speed up. I will continue to drill like this for a few weeks then test to see what type of speed I can maintain per 50/100, etc.

20x50 on 30

Health data: Sleep: 3 Stress: 3 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 6 Overall Workout: 3

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Wednesday - October 27

Bike

25m
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Finally got on the new trainer. Worked on cadence (90+) while keeping HR low.

Run

20m
1.93 miles
10m 22s /Mi

Tried to maintain a 90+ cadence and stay below 75% MHR (138). Had trouble doing both. Had to continue to drop the speed on the treadmill to maintain HR. Felt like I was speed walking instead of running. Guess I have to go back to that comment from earlier in the week..."Check the ego at the door". I hate going that slow, but I have to say that I could have gone for days at that pace!

Failed at that goal..but I kept it around 77%. I will take that as a 1st timers learning curve!

Cadence workouts. Also just got my two new books...beIRONfit and Going Long....Does the insanity ever stop??? I now have my own triathlon training library. I think I now own every book out there on triathlon training.

Health data: Sleep: 3 Stress: 3 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 7 Overall Workout: 3

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Tuesday - October 26

Swim

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1000.00 yards
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Did drill sets today....BORING!!!

Health data: Sleep: 3 Stress: 3 Soreness: 2 Fatigue: 2 Hours slept: 6.5 Overall Workout: 3

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Monday - October 25

Off Day

Health data: Sleep: 3 Stress: 3 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 6.5

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Sunday - October 24

Bike

32m 48s
10.36 miles
18.95 Mi/hr

Forced myself to get out of bed and go for a ride. The one day that I am actually able to get some sleep, I push myself out the door for a ride. What was I thinking???

Oh well, now that it is over, I am glad that I got the ride in. Legs are dead from the ride on Friday and the run yesterday. Nice easy ride for the first 5 then alternated with a high cadence gear and a low cadence higher gear every 2 tenths of a mile on the way in. (Big ring for both) Actually noticed that my higher cadence was then moving over to the higher gear and of course resulted in an increase in speed. Yeah!