Week Six Re-Cap

Week Six was pretty strong. I can feel the volume and intensity increasing. Most of the bike workouts have big gears and varying RMSs to simulate hills and the runs require me to up the incline much more than I'm used to doing. In pre-season, Liz would have us dabble in inclines for 30 seconds here or there. Now, there are 60 minute treadmill runs with 6 x 5min sets of 2-6% inclines. It's amazing how your body adapts. I started paying more and more time to the strength workouts and it's helping to just stay at the gym and hit it for the 30 minutes as I run straight though the 2 sets of 15 exercises on a minute each without stopping. The lunges actually feel good after the intensity runs on the treadmill. It's been good to fit everything in.

I did fight being sick this week as well, everyone is sick at work and it's extremely annoying. One of the 3 OTs has been on vacation for 2 weeks so it's nearly impossible to call in if you're not feeling well. I've done all the workouts, though, with the one exception of biking for 40 minutes after work on friday. It was optional and I chose rest.

Also this week was my long-awaited massage at Peace Spa. It was pretty good. I asked Kimm to focus on my IT band and anterior tib due to shin splints and I think that helped a lot. At this level of training, massage really is a necessity rather than an indulgence. Ironically, Ironman sent me an online survey this week inquiring about my opinion on massage during training...