week 3, day 1 & 2

Monday's goal: cycle - hill training intervals
Monday, we were still in Marble Falls. I was looking forward to doing hill interval training on my bike ever since we arrived! Well, Monday arrived and it was cycling day! Of course the only time I was able to get away was in the afternoon. When the weather was super hot & even the breeze was hot - like a blow dryer on high heat! Nevertheless, like the crazy woman that I am, I thought that biking in the heat can't be that bad? After all, going down hills you can catch some breeze. Hot breeze that is! My trainning didn't last as long as I wanted, but again, happy I got something accomplished while away on a mini family retreat.

My training went something like this:
1.06 mile warm up
.88 mile hill 4x - each down one side & up the other and back took about 4:30
had a .4 mile break to get my Gatorade!
1.5 mile cool down / ride home.

It was hard to warm up and cool down as there is no flat road over there.Every petal is either working yourself up a hill or flying down another! I treated myself to a dip in the lake after my ride. What I should've done was take a dip before my ride to keep cool.


Monday's accomplishment: 6.15 mile riding over all. 3.5 of it was hill training. Approx 45 mins of riding.

Tuesday's goal: 3 miles of speed training at 7:30 pace, with about a 1.25 miles of easy laps in between

We returned from the lake on Tuesday morning, so it was too late in the day (too hot!) for speed training. I went out just after 8pm and the weather was fine. I was still unable to complete the entire speed training routine. Whew, it's hard! But I got further than last week:) That's what matters the most.
Here's how it went:
Lap 1 = warm up = 2:18 / 9:12 pace
Lap 2 = speed = 1:51 / 7:24 pace
Lap 3 = easy = 2:22 / 9:28 pace
Lap 4 & 5 = speed = 1:51 & 1:53 / 7:24 & 7:32 pace
Lap 6 = easy = 2:54 / 11:36 pace
Lap 7, 8, & 9 = speed = 1:51, 2:04, & 2:06 / 7:24, 8:16, & 8:24 pace
Lap 10 = easy = 3:00 / 12:00 pace
Lap 11 = speed = 1:52 / 7:28
Lap 12 = easy = 3:00 / 12:00 pace
Lap 13 = speed = 1:55 / 7:40
Lap 14 = cool down / walk = 4:10

I did take time to write down times and take a water break. they were usually between 10 - 30 sec.

Tuesday's accomplishments: 2 miles of speed training approx. averaging 7:50 with 1.5miles of easy laps. 3.5 miles total