{"id":6776,"date":"2017-03-30T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=6776"},"modified":"2017-03-30T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:50:27","slug":"protecting-the-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/protecting-the-hay\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the hay."},"content":{"rendered":"

It really is week by week here, folks.\u00a0 Last week, I hit every training session and felt awesome.\u00a0 This week, I’m securely on the struggle bus.\u00a0 But hey, if things went great all the time we’d be terrible problem solvers, right?<\/p>\n

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Problem: too much of the left side, not enough of the right side to recover\/soak it up (pictured, with a yogurt breakfast, was literally all I ate – oops).<\/em><\/p>\n

But, since this is a recap of last week, let’s talk about the highlights.<\/p>\n

Last week had my longest training day before the Ironman: approximately 9 hours and 40 minutes for a 2.7 mile swim (2.4 had me halfway across the lake), 112 mile TT ride, and an hour run of 5.4 miles.\u00a0 I talked about it plenty here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week had my peak training week before the Ironman: 16.25 hours.\u00a0 I know some people who train 20-30+ hours for these races but this is definitely enough for me with a full time job and a life. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Last week I hit all my weekday workouts:<\/p>\n