February in Review: Light but Hard Running, Heavy Biking
>> Saturday, March 07, 2026
It was a pretty uneventful month, but here's how it stacked up:
• BIKE: 45.17 miles (all on old MTB)
• TRAINER: 18 hours and 20 minutes
• RUN: 91.56 miles
• STRENGTH / CORE: 47 hours and 38 mins
For it being a "short" month, those are OK numbers. Less than 100 running miles isn't stellar, but if the month had 2 more days at the end, it would have been nearly 103 miles (more normal). One nice thing here is that each Friday was a speed day... none of those workouts were GREAT, but at least I was trying to run hard. I did a treadmill 5K, 2x2 mile intervals along the river, treadmill 3x1 mile intervals, and a 3 mile tempo run outside.
The biking is big for me: that's nearly 22 hours in the saddle, which is solid for a short, winter month. That's averaging 5.5 hours/week, or 1 hr and 50 mins for 3 rides/week. And EACH WEEK had 3 normal days of biking! (Bike workouts on Tue, Thur, and Saturday, with a few extra rides in there.) I had a long trainer ride on the 10th, and then the 24th and the 26th both had outdoor mountain bike rides to START the workout, with then more done on the trainer on my tri bike immediately after - that was a fun way to get 2.5 hours in the saddle on each of those days!
The month started with a few treadmill runs, had some decent outside runs mid-month, and then I was back on the treadmill for 2 runs near the end of the month (12 total runs, 4 on the treadmill, 8 outside). Sidenote: I always run treadmill runs to the perfect TENTH of a mile, and I make sure outside runs go to a HUNDREDTH, so that I can take a quick glace and see what runs were on the treadmill. So my Monday long run on the 16th was outside because it was 11.59 miles, but I was inside on the 23rd because it was 10.9 miles.
So a decent month with some consistent workouts!
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