May in Review: A Final 'Good' Month Before a Busy Summer

March was a huge month. April was decent. And May was pretty solid overall. Here's what it looked like:

• SWIM: 11,900 yards (average)
• BIKE: 306.13 miles (nice!)
• TRAINER TIME: 1 hr 40 mins (1 workout on a chilly day)
• RUN: 93.54 miles (OK... shorter because of skipping a long run because of a race)
• STRENGTH TIME: 57 hrs and 46 mins (top 3 months all time!)

I ended the month with back-to-back decent bike workouts which was the only time that happened all month. I've been letting my bike speed slide in the name of being more rested for harder runs. (My overall bike "fitness" is OK as 300+ miles is good, but my "speed" isn't there because I haven't been putting in the specific speed work.)

I had 2 decent track workouts on back-to-back Fridays. The first Friday of the month was after a 10K so I took it easy, the next 2 were the hard workouts, the next was before a 5K, and the final was resting up after the 5K.

The only stand outs are the bike distance (which was nice!) and the strength time (really high). Just a nice month.

And it didn't have my biggest WEEK of steps (that's still 164K+ from walking in Italy 2 years ago), but I had lots of bigger weeks which ended up making it my biggest overall MONTH of steps ever:

March was my previous biggest month with 633,838, and then I got 665,994 in May.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: June is going to be a really random month with LOTS going on, so my training will take a hit for the next few weeks. I've had a good few months, so I'll be OK backing off a bit! I'll still get in my running, but maybe not the speed work I'd like. My swimming will take a decent hit, but I might be able to squeeze some in here-or-there. But my strength time and biking will nose dive shortly. And who knows what my step count will do. Stay tuned!