{"id":5229,"date":"2015-09-15T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:59:43","slug":"5229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/5229\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6: The Destroyer of Workouts and Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 6, oh my – let’s get on with it!<\/p>\n

Zilker Relays<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Sept15-7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our tri friend B had discussed wanting to do this race.\u00a0 I haven’t done a relay before, and it sounded like fun, so we decided we were in.\u00a0 It was a Friday night race, and we had a birthday thing to go to that night anyway, so our big training day was already set for Sunday instead of our normal Saturday.\u00a0 Good timing!\u00a0 And, we won a free entry, to boot!<\/p>\n

We headed downtown and sat in traffic for an hour (grrr) but arrived with plenty of time to meet up with everyone, get situated, and get a nice long warmup (just over 1.5 miles).\u00a0 My legs felt pretty sluggish, so I figured more warmup = better, since I’m used to the long slow stuff these days.<\/p>\n

Zliten kicked off the relay by doing the first leg, and he’s our wildcard.\u00a0 Depend on what kind of day he was having, it was going to be a 7 minute pace or an 11 minute pace.\u00a0 Seemed like he was having a good go of it, he looked strong through the turnaround where we could see him, and came in just over 22 minutes for the 2.5 miles when he handed over the super fancy baton (an empty tube of Nuun).<\/p>\n

Our friend M was running the second leg, and he was supposed to take it easy-ish because he was riding the Tour De Cure for the next two days (80+ miles per day), but he still made it back in just under 24 mins (and still rocked the tour… he’s awesome!).<\/p>\n

I was third – once I got the baton, middle school track kicked in and I started sprinting until I realized that was a bad idea (2.5 miles is WAYYYYY different than 200m) and shut that shit down quickly. Once I found a pace in the 8s, I just tried to hold it.<\/p>\n

Honestly, ever inch of this felt terrrrible, just like an effort this short should if you’re racing it right, I guess. Every moment I had no idea how long I could hold on to the pace I was doing but I just tried to stay in that moment and not worry about blowing up.<\/p>\n

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Being on the third lap, I kept getting passed by super fast runners obviously on their last, flying by me like I was walking. Can’t lie – it was a little frustrating, but I tried to use that frustration to just keep pushing.<\/p>\n

After negotiating holding my speed and not dying on the side of the road at least until the tree, the arch, the zone 1 flag (whyyyyy was I not in zone 1?), etc, I handed off the baton to our anchor who smoked us all by 1.5 minutes.\u00a0 We finished around 89 minutes with an average pace of 8:55\/mile (gosh, I wish I could run 10 miles that fast myself!) and ate tacos and listed to the band. Heck yeah!<\/p>\n

\"Sept14-6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Stats:
\n176 AVG HR (not bad – I maybe could have gone a LITTLE harder at some points but this is pretty much my max sustainable)
\n93 cadence!!! yeah!!!
\nMile 1: 8:38
\nMile 2: 9:11 (big hill)
\nMile 2.52: 8:21 pace<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For not having done any real 5k type speed work since… June… I think I’m pretty happy with this.<\/p>\n

Also, we got 34\/70 in our division.\u00a0 Top half, yay!\u00a0 There were lots of fasties there, and there were some incorrect times (random low 4 min\/mile pace in some relay results, which is probably not possible which means maybe we even came in higher!<\/p>\n

Other Training Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week was the last week of volume, and volume we got.\u00a0 Slightly less than week 5 at 9.5 hours, but a little more intensity, so there’s that.<\/p>\n

Some specifics-<\/p>\n

Did a 3 mile race pace brick off the killer cycling class.\u00a0 Reaffirmed in a hard way that even if I feel super crappy off the bike it usually ends up fine.<\/p>\n

Had a 10 miler planned for Wednesday night, but started getting rained on around mile 2, and then started getting POURED on (we were literally running through ankle deep water at times) around mile 4.\u00a0 It was SUPER fun, but lightning getting closer, dark vs no headlamps, and fear of major blisters (my shoes were SOAKED, y’all) made us call it around 8.\u00a0 My soul was happy though!<\/p>\n

Obviously, happy with my awesome 2.5 miles of speedwork at the relay.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t yet gotten a outdoor 50 mile bike so that was Sunday’s order of business.\u00a0 At first, I wasn’t into it and my stomach was upset, but a potty break and a gel, and I was right as rain and finished around 17 mph pace.\u00a0 We hit the bricks (literally!) after and did a nice little 2 mile run around race pace.\u00a0 Felt really sore off the bike, but the run made me feel better.<\/p>\n

\"Sept14-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I skipped one swim, but I plan to spend a lot of time in the water this week, so I’ll let it go.\u00a0 Stuck with the program for the most part (and what more can you ask for, right?), a little more intensity, more cycle heavy this week, a little less volume.<\/p>\n