Rest Day - Lock Yourself in a Closet
With the IM race just 25 days away, I have this mental desire to train very, very hard. However, my body just won’t cooperate. I’m feeling a bit sore and tired today as if I raced this past weekend. I didn’t. In fact, I haven’t raced YET this season and my last triathlon was 9 months ago. My schedule just has not enabled me to get any races on my calendar.
What I did this past weekend although deserves a day off. Since we were up at our Lake (perfect place for my mini-training camp) I practiced two open water swims a long bike and then a brick. The swims consisted of a 30 minute venture out into the deep on one day to become acclimated to the low 60 degree water temperature and then 60 minutes the following day to find my relaxed and consistent stroke. The bike consisted of a 90 mile journey over 5 hours on some farm land and rolling hills around the lake community. I topped off the holiday weekend with a brick. The brick consisted of 1:45 run / 1:45 bike / 60 min run. The last run was difficult at first then I seemed to find the rythem. Total training logged was just about 11 hours.
Anyway, even though my type A personality says oh just a swim to loosen up and a 90 min recovery ride would be fine. I’m choosing to rest and ‘lock myself in a closet’ if I have to because the longest of the training happens in a just 4 days. This weekend coming up I will ride 112 miles with a 60 min. transition run and then the next day run 20 miles or 3 hours with a 90 min recovery bike later in the day. When you rest your body will be stronger for the upcoming workouts which leads to a greater improvement in race day performance.
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