An Easier Week, and Then Back to a Bigger Week!

I posted about 3 big weeks with back-to-back-to-back PRs for "intensity minutes" according to my Garmin. (I'd never been over 1798, and I had 3 weeks of 2041, 1819, and 1855 minutes.)

Then the following week (2 weeks ago) was more normal with 1460 intensity minutes - even slightly on the "low" side.

And that brings us to last week. I wasn't trying to make it anything special, but I ended up making it 1888 minutes for my 2nd biggest week ever...

... and now my 4 biggest week have all come in the previous 5 weeks:

Actually, 6 of the last 7 weeks have been above average (which takes us back to
the 2 smaller weeks when we were on the road for Henry's fencing tournament).


Also, back to having a lot of steps last week: 141K+.

Here's what last week looked like:

• MON: long run and legs. I did 11.67 miles in 1:20:54 (6:56 pace) with the middle 6 at 6:12 pace.

• TUES: good swim and GOOD upper body! It was my favorite "broken 3x400 / 3x200 swim" and then some REAL GOOD upper body at the college gym. In the swim, I had a bit of a slower/lazier 100 (in the part where I do 4x100) of 1:31, but then I really tried to hit those hard - then I posted 1:29, 1:27, and 1:26. I was DEAD and still had all the 200s to go. And then for lifting, I did 8 sets for everything and then an extra 3 sets for lats and 2 sets for shoulders. One of my longest upper body workouts ever at 81 minutes.

• WED: easy run, short MTB ride, and good legs and core. Nothing fancy, but put in some good time.

• THURS: shorter upper body day, and OK trainer ride. The trainer ride was NOT at full intensity as I was taking it easy planning on some intervals the following day...

• FRI: 12x400 at the track, good legs and good core. I posted about the track workout a few days ago, and that was a good one! Then I "burnt out" my legs with some good leg exercises, and relaxed them with a short MTB ride.

• SAT: decent upper body circuits and long-ish tempo ride. I posted about this tempo ride over the weekend, and that one beat me up! (Combined with the heavy legs from the track workout the day before.)

• SUN: just core. A nice rest day.

Oh, also I finally ended a big run of "workouts before 7 a.m." as well. There's a "badge" for that in the Garmin app for 7 straight days of workouts started between 4 and 7 a.m. Monday of this current week (the 14th) would have been 4 STRAIGHT weeks of workouts before 7 a.m., but I slept in unitl 7:15 on Sunday to end the week noted above. So the streak ended at 26th day. (I tried to sleep in about a week before, and I told my wife I was going to try to do that, but she came into the room 3 times early [once with her flashlight on looking for mis-placed workout gear], and she let out the cats and put one in bed with me at 6:30. So I got up and worked out. Oh well.)