{"id":5196,"date":"2015-08-10T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2015-08-10T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T21:28:37","slug":"road-to-kerrville-week-1-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/road-to-kerrville-week-1-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Kerrville Week 1: Waking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 1 down, 7 to go.<\/p>\n

Training – Waking up the Muscles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Aug10-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve got two different feelings this week and they contradict each other, but that’s where I’m at.<\/p>\n

Feeling #1 – behind the curve: I felt this way last year since a 2 month intensive 70.3 “camp” was an unknown.\u00a0 It ended up working out well, so I shouldn’t be feeling this way, right?<\/p>\n

Well, I was only able to eek out 7.5 hours last week instead of the 10.5 I was this week last year.\u00a0 It was all good quality stuff, but not enough volume, in my opinion.\u00a0 I really need to be on top of QUANTITY for the next 2 weeks because this is really *it* for the volume building portion of this exercise.\u00a0 And considering I haven’t raced anything longer than ~2 hours since the marathon, I really NEED some time in water\/butt on bike\/shoes on pavement.<\/p>\n

Feeling #2 – confidence: I know this is a totally weird thing to say after disclosing the fact that I’m freaking out a little… I woke up to my brain saying “aaaargh, not enough time, omg”, this morning, but the work I *am* putting in is showing some promise.<\/p>\n

I only swam once last week, but still I’m comfortably able to cover a good portion of the swim distance significantly below my race pace last year.<\/p>\n

I biked 35 miles on the same terrain I did last year to train, which is much harder than the bike course.\u00a0 Even though this was my first ride this year over 2 hours, I was over 1.5 mph faster than this time last year and I was not completely spent.<\/p>\n

I ran most of last week stupid easy, but I was able to pull out 2 very hot 10:20-pace miles after the bike when my intent was to go faster than easy (fingers crossed, this would be race pace).<\/p>\n

I still haven’t done a 2k swim, a 50 mile ride, or a double digit run, but I’m feeling pretty confident that it won’t take me too long to have those things in my comfort zone again.\u00a0 It just takes (see #1) putting in the work.<\/p>\n

Week 1 Training Stats:<\/span><\/p>\n