Calendar Schmalendar

This week my training schedule is a bit… “off”…but not necessarily in a bad way.

You see, last week’s 15-mile bike ride – scheduled for Sunday – was pushed to Monday due to a thunderstorm.

So I needed to readjust my training calendar for my last week in the 5 Weeks of Labor Challenge.  Basically, I’m taking out 2 workouts and adding a 5k race 

Here’s how the week looks right now:

Monday consisted of a 13 mile bike ride before work.  Ended up having to cut my scheduled 15-miler short so I wasn’t late for work!  It was a glorious 13 miles with low humidity – a small sign that fall just might be on its way.  (Or a sign that a storm is brewin’ out there in the tropics…)

Tuesday was a rest day.  My favorite day of the week 

Wednesday was, of course, 6pm spin!  (My favorite workout!) My only comment about this workout:  standing sprints are f-ing HARD.  But I’m getting better at them. 

To finish off the week I’ve scheduled the following for myself:

Tonight (Thursday):  YOGA care of an on-demand video from Fios

Friday:  AM Brick Workout.  30 min bike ride followed by 30 min pounding the pavement. 

Saturday: I may  check out a group run as part of a training program that my spin instructor is hosting.  I’m 100% undecided about this right now though & can’t decide if it’s going to be for me.  But it’s probably worth checking out.  Then I’ll do either a mini-tour on Larry Long Haul or an open water swim.  Probably the mini-tour. 

Sunday:  TBA – whichever one I don’t do on Saturday.

Monday: Canes Cross Country Classic 5k Race!

Diggity and I have done this race many time now – it’s really fun and close to home and we ride our bikes to the start!

You may have noticed that I don’t have a pool swim in there this week, nor do I have an interval run scheduled. 

I don’t really have a reason for the missed swim.  It’s certainly NOT because the pool looked like this:

It’s really becaue was lazy on Wednesday morning and didn’t get up before work to fit it in.  Bad Eggplant.

 The intervals were taken out due to another pathetic excuse:  I still don’t have Garmie back from the repair shop & don’t like doing intervals without him. 

While I will admit I am slacking off on my self-imposed challenge,  I don’t think this week (or last week) will change the outcome of my overall training.  I am still ROCKING my workouts, and I’m doing A LOT more than I was a month ago.  That’s good enough for me. 

Anyhoo – hope everyone is gearing up for a nice LONG WEEKEND!!!  I know I am!

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Oooohhhh!  Before I forget:  Tune in tomorrow for an extra special post!