This was my first Recovery Week in my new training plan - I used a concept called periodization to plan out how my training weeks would play out. The first training chunk was something like this:
Base 1
Wk 1 - 12 hours (actual 12.5)
Wk 2 - 14.5 hours (actual 15)
Wk 3 - 16 hours (actual 13)
Wk 4 - 8.5 hours (actual 15.5)
Even though my recovery week 4 was many more hours than planned, I really felt like I pared back my training. Exhaustion caught up with me (and possibly more), and I ended up sleeping a whole day - I just could not get up and out of the house. Also, this weekend, I enjoyed an awesome trip to the Grand Canyon, hiking with my 6yo at his pace.
Monday
- bike to work and home 8 miles
- lunch ST 35 min
Tuesday
- NOTHING - NOT A THING
Wednesday
- Long bike to work - 9 miles
- Lunch Fun Run - 4.55 miles
- bike home 4 miles
Thursday
Last push for workouts before the trip out of town for the weekend
Friday
We drove up to the Grand Canyon early early Friday morning, and when we got there in the afternoon we walked over to the rim, checked things out - and then I went for a quick run while Paul was resting post-drive
Saturday
- Grand Canyon Hike - 9 miles
(Thanks for taking pictures Terry!)
- REST DAY!!!
Week 4 (Base 1 - Recovery) Report
- Run - 11.5 miles (1:53)
- Bike - 33 miles (2:44)
- Swim - 0 miles (0:00)
- 2 ST, 0 Yoga (0:50)
- Hike! 9 miles (10:00)
- Total hours for the week: 15:30
- (goal was 8.5 hours for the week)
Love it Rachel!! I can't believe Jude hiked for that long! Sophie gets tired and bored after 10 minutes LOL ;)
ReplyDeleteIt was an interesting challenge - but I tried to have him lead most of the way so we were going his speed - and kinda let him play on the rocks and mostly let him rest when he wanted to - or coax him up one more switchback...
DeleteHe was a trooper!
Rachel Hassett...I was just talking to someone about you the yesterday. Smartest IT person I ever knew. This running thing is cool. I like the website, did you do it?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, funny I should mention you yesterday and someone sent me the link to this site today. Hope things are going good for you.
Ken Owsley
Very random...
DeleteOur blog is a cookie-cutter blog from blogger.com - heavily modified by me especially to include an awesome picture of Paul running his very first ultra!
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