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Big Training Week!!

>> Tuesday, November 10, 2026

I've been "building" since the TC 10 Mile and the following day when I had a vasectomy and took a week off. Last week was NICE:

I believe that's only my 2nd time over the past year (using this training log) that I've been over 25 hours for a week of training!

The other time it happened, it was the week before the TC 10 Mile where I didn't have Sunday as a rest day - I moved up my Monday run to Sunday, so I took out an hour+ of core and replaced it with an hour+ run AND 2+ hours of leg work. That sort of "artificially" made that week so big.

Last week, it was because I got in solid workouts all around, including 2 longer trainer rides! (2 hours and 2+ hours.) Runs were all good, and strength time was all NICE.

Everything was pretty normal until Thursday: I couldn't sleep, so I woke up at 2:30 a.m. and finally got out of bed at 3:30. Then I "had time" to hit the trainer for a longer ride. I also did NINE sets for my upper body at the gym later that day! So I woke up with a "training readiness" score of ONE on Friday:

After a fartlek run on Friday morning and some good core and legs, it was ONE again on Saturday morning. Saturday was a longer trainer ride again where I did efforts of 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 minutes:

With 50% the effort time as easy riding in between.

So Sunday morning was still a LOW "training readiness:"

My weekly intensity minutes were climbing... up over 1700:

Only the 2nd time over 1700 minutes since late August.
(19th week over 1700 minutes in 2026, and not any "filler"
commuter bike rides or anything - all "training.")

I also hit 150,000+ steps for the week too.

So after a tiny October and a few "building" weeks, I'm thrilled to have put in some good work last week! This week will have a few more "random" days that will keep it from being as big, but that's OK after such a solid week last week!

A TINY Month: October In Review

>> Monday, November 09, 2026

October was the WILDEST looking month I've had in a long time! Here's what it looked like:

With a brief "visual" explanation, here's that monthly pic with colored blocks:

Here are my meager totals:

• SWIM: 4,600 yards
• BIKE: 37.75 miles
• TRAINER: 5 hours and 26 minutes
• RUN: 70.27 miles
• STRENGTH: 35 hours and 23 minutes

These totals are mainly low from resting up post-vasectomy... even after I was allowed to run, I didn't want to sit on a bike seat, and I still was supposed to not "soak" it in a pool for an extra week as well (so only 2 late-month swims). My strength time was about HALF of what it was the month before!!

I started the month with a GOOD race at the TC 10 Mile. Then the day after the race, I had a vasectomy and had to make sure I healed up to go on a trip the following week. My first runs after the vasectomy were ROUGH - I mean, just look at all of that nothingness the week of the 5th (the yellow week). I finally had a hard run in the Faroe Islands, and some 2x2 intervals later that week. (But my right hammy was really acting up! That was noted by the purple on the 19th.) It was feeling a bit more like a normal week that week... but then I had a HARD fall to start the last week of the month, as in LIMPING for DAYS. I've never done anything like that before. I couldn't even do my normal leg strength work as it hurt too badly. For days. Even though I had to cut back strength work and skip a run on that final week of the month, it still ended up looking OK.

October had 518,137 steps which is the lowest in ALMOST 3 YEARS! December of 2023 had 515k steps, which was the most recent month to be lower than October!

Also, my "rewards" earned on the app "WeWard" show where I had little movement in October as well:

The week+ from Oct 3-11 I missed my steps goal, then picked it up as the month went on.

p.s. If you want to start earning rewards for walking (and it logs a lot of "steps" if you have your phone in your pocket while biking too), download WeWard and use code JUSTFISH6195 so we both earn a bonus. That's where the calendar came from above.