Thursday, May 22, 2008

YSL: Week Dunno; Day Dunno

I've finally had three good workout days in a row, even if I skipped yesterday's swim. My legs were fried from Tuesday's speedwork in both the pool and on the road, and today's workouts--5x 5-minute hill accelerations on the bike over an hour and twenty minutes and a 38-minute run immediately following to mimic race conditions--were both good.
I'm a little worried about all the hills in the race. I'll muddle through, I know--it's not like I"ll be working against the added disadvantage of being at elevation or anythiing--but it does remind me that, if I'm going to do Austria 2009, I'll have to be even more serious about trainng that I am now. The Alps are no English hills. I know that area of Austria, somewhat, and boy, it's pretty frackin' mountainous. While I'm looking forward to going back there (it's the place in which I first discovered what it meant to truly be awed by the outdoors, and be truly in love with it and make it a true part of your life), I've got to take the difficulty of the race into account as I go into training for it.
Here's today's run.

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