Makin' Hay...

One week closer...the barn is getting full.

Last week was one of the biggest volume weeks to date. Coming off of the Long Course made it interesting. I have a soleus muscle that has been talking to me for a few weeks now, but to this point a steady regimen of ice, heat, stretching and massage have seemed to keep it at bay.

Key workouts for the week included a 20.5 mile run...3 x 10k+ loops while boiling the frog with a warm up/cool down. A negative split on #3 loop was the goal which happened. (1:02:40; 1:03:31; 1:02:19) The 4,750 meter swim was long, as was the 112 mile bike, both were solid but not what I would hope to do at IM. Our remaining breakthrough workouts - this week, swim (5,000 m) and brick (70/17) and next week, bike (135 miles).

Each workout represents a bail of hay, more or less. These key peak workouts are like 10 bails of hay. Once logged, I'll stack them away in the barn to draw from on September 13t both mentally & physically.

27 days.