Recap – This week I added two more miles to the running, plus the half mile swim. I’m trying to be conservative on how many miles I add a week, cause the last thing I want is to get sidelined by an injury when things are going so well. In the coming days I’ll write a detailed post on my thinking about my current training goals, but lets just say right now it is all about basebuilding and dropping weight. Trying to do that in a smart way is going to mean adding the miles on slowly, including more crosstraining activities and watching what I eat.

All that said, this week hurt running wise, all I added was fifty air squats* and two miles of distance but my legs were dog tired all week, and the Saturday ten miler was a lot harder than I expected it to be. This is my third week in a row doing a Saturday ten miler, I have no idea why this week was so much harder than the others. Maybe the increase in my training just caught up to me. Next week is going to be all about maintaing this distance and getting enough sleep in the face of my final session of law school exams. *J from movementmovement and crossfit 305 was in town this week. He got me to do airsquats and pushups for time. They killed my quads. I have to start working weights and more air squats into my routine.

Training numbers for the week ending 4.19.09

This week’s training numbers are brought to you by wishing death on French tourists who crowd the whole goddamn sidewalk.

Monday

Run 3 miles in 28 minutes

Pullups – 20

Push ups – 40

Dips – 20

Tuesday

Run 4 miles – 38 minutes

Push ups – 50

Air Squats – 50

Wednesday

Run 3.25 Miles (Fartlek) – 29 Minutes

Thursday

Run 4 miles – 37 minutes

Friday

Run 3 miles – 27 minutes

Pullups – 20

Push ups – 40

Dips – 20

Additional core and balance work (including handstands, pistol training, hanging leg extensions and various other forms of pull up bar fun)

Saturday

Run 10 miles in – 1:33:00

Sunday

Swim .5 miles in 25:00

Average Weight: 191

Weekly Totals:

Running Miles: 27.25 miles in 4.2 hours

Bike Miles: 0

Swim Miles: .5 in 25 minutes

Total Time: 4.45 hours

Total Miles: 27.5

Pull Ups: 40

Push Ups: 80

Dips: 40

Next Weeks Goals:

1. Maintain distance and speed work

2. Increase Sunday swim to one mile.

3. Do body weight work three days

4. Bike to school at lease once

* A note on the times. I am using my standard wristwatch for this, hence, no seconds. I’ll probably treat myself to a running watch eventually.