Two Very Different Weeks of Training! BIG and Small.

The last 2 weeks of November were quite opposite.

I noted that my week of training 3 weeks ago was a decent one, and that I figured I'd have 1 more big week before an easier week. Well my big week was BIG...

... and then my small week was small:

That's 34+ miles of running, nearly 5 hours in the saddle, and 16+ hours of strength time the week of the 17th!

But then just 13+ miles of running, 3 hours in the saddle, and 9+ hours of strength time the following week.

(That's over 60% less running, 40% less saddle time, and about 44% less strength time.)

I had 5 "decent" weeks in a row (with 3 of those 5 being really nice), so it was a good time to have a "back off" week. I backed off partly because it was the week of Thanksgiving (with lots of family time, and I'm good at getting in the workouts when I can and not FREAKING OUT if I have to ease up for a few days), and partly because it was a race week because of the Turkey Day 5K on Thanksgiving morning (so I took it easy a few days before and the day after).

The week BEFORE Thanksgiving was an intensity minutes PR!

March and July each had a week of 2000+, but 2 weeks ago was 2124! First time over 2100!

That would have been a decent week the way it was, but it became a PR because I moved my Monday run (Nov 24th) up to Sunday (Nov 23rd) which means I had 2 long runs that week. I also had 3 decent trainer workouts, and even a little spin on my mountain bike down by the river.

And then last week was just easy all around, except for the Thanksgiving morning race. And it had a lot of missed strength days as well because of Thanksgiving fun with extended family.

This week will hopefully turn out "decent" again! Back at it!!