Week in Review: Decent Again...

... and hopefully one more decent week this week before a random Thanksgiving week.

I had a big week of training 2 weeks ago partly because I fit in a nice long outdoor ride and my wife was gone for a few days so I could squeeze more workouts in at the last second. Last week's training was decent, but didn't look as good as 2 weeks ago:

Last week. Pretty normal looking.

I didn't have ALL the saddle time that I had 2 weeks ago, but I still had 2 decent spins.

And my strength days were decent (I seem to be doing more for my upper body than I ever have before).

And my runs were good: Monday's long run had some pace miles that were 6:18 pace, Wednesday was just a normal easy run, and Friday was a track workout that I posted about earlier this week.

Nothing was AMAZING, but it was just "decent" all around. The only way it could have been better would be if I got in a ride on Tuesday, maybe some outdoor spinning on my mountain bike, and maybe some slightly longer core workouts. But the last 4 weeks have all had a decent amount of "intensity minutes" according to my Garmin:

A slight up-tick in the last 4 weeks compared to the previous 7.

My totals aren't going as high because I'm not commuting anywhere by bike. I need to get back into the habit of running "nearby errands" by bike when it works - we've just been busy lately where I don't have that time.

And my weekly steps for the last year shows all weeks (except 1 in June) with more than 125K steps, averaging over 141K weekly:

The last 2 weeks were more "normal" after a big 3 weeks.

Like I said in the first line of this post, I'm hoping to keep making this a big week as well. That would be 5 nice weeks in a row after 2 weeks of easier workouts after the TC 10 Mile (and 1 week of easier pre-race workouts before that). And then next week will be a built-in "back off" week as there are a handful of family commitments around Thanksgiving.