So a lot of guys my age look forward to their fantasy football drafts. Or right about now its fantasy baseball draft time. Well, Saturday night I had my own version.
A training friend and I were supposed to go out for a couple of beers, but instead we decided to go over the 2011 race season and have those beers in the comfort of our home.
Like fantasy football, we had our own sort of big board. But instead of players, we had races. We had our 6 month calendar laid out before us and just started plugging things in. Totally dorky moment…but a blast, and we have races planned through November.
It’s interesting where we have come in a short time. When I first started, the big deal was scheduling around which Olympic distance races we were going to do. Now, in a weird way, the Olympic races have become standard. Our focus is around the obvious full “ironman” distance in September, but also where we are going to slip in a couple of half distance races.
Truly, this is an illness that I owe to the particular person that was sitting next to me.
On the training front, I had a good week, even considering it was “Blackout 2011” in our house which had our dog Potter and I huddled around the fire, sleeping in our 45 degree house. Not kidding… slept in running pants, wool socks, t-shirt, long sleeve shirt, fleece pullover, sweatshirt, winter hat and I still used a two blankets.
Forgot to mention that our gas fireplace is in the draftiest room in the house.
The blackout was followed up by a blizzard on Friday, where on my way to swim I conveniently lodged my vehicle in a snow drift by my gym’s driveway and had to walk to the front desk for a shovel to dig my car out. Nice. Good stretching before my swim.
Saturday, I was able to increase my long run to 14 miles and I am still on schedule for the marathon. Tough run with snow and I had to take a lot of extra steps. Made for stiff legs on Sunday, but I was able to get on my trainer and swim before dinner.
The unmentioned workouts last week were fairly routine.
Although, one nice thing I have discovered – well behind the curve – is that I can watch Netflix on my phone while I ride my trainer. It looks odd, as I have my phone propped on the ironing board in front my trainer as I ride, but it was effective and a nice change of pace.
I watched the series Spartacus: Gods of Arena while riding. It is actually a decent series, but as I told Anna it’s like watching a mix of MMA fighting and soft-core porn.
This week I am going to taper a little bit in the run and push a little bit more swimming, otherwise it should be a normal week.
(Editor’s Note: He forgot to mention the three hours of shoveling he did in the backyard to make the 4 foot sledding hill/half-pipe for the girls to sled down. Every time I looked out the window he was shoveling more snow onto the thing.)
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