first week of the season
by Jeremiah @ Jeremiah's Tri Training Experience
The first week of the training season turned out great. I didnt get a chance to write daily about each work out, so here is a quick summary. My workout schedule is slightly different than the rest of my teammate. My schedule works out better with the rest of the things I have going.
Monday - my designated rest day. I went to the gym, but actually didnt lift weight because my friend Courtney wanted to play basketball
Tuesday - is a run day. Met up with Donna and a co-worker of hers(David) at Rancho for a morning run. I met them at the first parking lot(which I had never been to) for the run. The run starts off with a long hill(about a mile by my estimation). I was not ready for this, so I was sucking air on the way up. I tried to conserve some energy because I didnt know what was up ahead. I hadnt been on this route before, so attacking the hill was not a smart idea. After the first hill is a long downhill that brings you right past the farm. There were some steady rollers before we got to the big hill. This hill was steep and lots of short switchbacks. I was glad when we got to the top. Coming down was a breeze. Nice steady pace
Wednesday - swim day - Swam with the Los Gatos Master group at Los Gatos High School. Love the pool, and Pete Kain is always lending a helpful hand
Thursday - 2nd run day of the week - again at Rancho with Donna and David. This time around I knew the route, knew where the hills were so I had a much better run.
Also on Thursday we had our first team track work out. This was more of a meet and great track practice.
Friday - 2nd swim day of the week - I worked on my stroke. Trying to be more efficient, hopefully that leads to an improved swim speed :)
Saturday - the first team weekend workout - Being that this was the first bike ride and there are some on the team that don't know the rules of riding, we went out for a short ride to get people used to ride in groups and on the rode. I was a little bit nervous before that ride but everything turned out well.
on to week 2...................
Monday - my designated rest day. I went to the gym, but actually didnt lift weight because my friend Courtney wanted to play basketball
Tuesday - is a run day. Met up with Donna and a co-worker of hers(David) at Rancho for a morning run. I met them at the first parking lot(which I had never been to) for the run. The run starts off with a long hill(about a mile by my estimation). I was not ready for this, so I was sucking air on the way up. I tried to conserve some energy because I didnt know what was up ahead. I hadnt been on this route before, so attacking the hill was not a smart idea. After the first hill is a long downhill that brings you right past the farm. There were some steady rollers before we got to the big hill. This hill was steep and lots of short switchbacks. I was glad when we got to the top. Coming down was a breeze. Nice steady pace
Wednesday - swim day - Swam with the Los Gatos Master group at Los Gatos High School. Love the pool, and Pete Kain is always lending a helpful hand
Thursday - 2nd run day of the week - again at Rancho with Donna and David. This time around I knew the route, knew where the hills were so I had a much better run.
Also on Thursday we had our first team track work out. This was more of a meet and great track practice.
Friday - 2nd swim day of the week - I worked on my stroke. Trying to be more efficient, hopefully that leads to an improved swim speed :)
Saturday - the first team weekend workout - Being that this was the first bike ride and there are some on the team that don't know the rules of riding, we went out for a short ride to get people used to ride in groups and on the rode. I was a little bit nervous before that ride but everything turned out well.
on to week 2...................