As mentioned in the previous post, I carried over the run threshold test into Monday and had very good results!

Because of the test on Monday I had to shuffle around the rest of the week but all in all it went quite OK except for Sunday when I was too drained to train and chose to skip the speed brick workout entirely.

I had great swims with my new training zones and the long run was a little slower this time but that’s due to me pushing our twins around. I still managed to run a half marathon so everything’s good :)

The only real problem was Thursday’s long bike session.

Now that I am in the build phase things get a little more race specific so the long bike ride has now some bigger efforts mixed in. Up until now I started at one power and kept it that way for 2 or 3+ hours. Now I had to do a 3x10 minutes at close to threshold. My problem was that I didn’t take the “easy” part before it serious as I should have.

I was always doing those long bikes at the very top of the prescribed intensity levels and, if I fueled correctly, could hold it or even increase my power as the session got closer to the end.

This approach won’t work like that anymore because I won’t be able to hold high power values and then keep surging for 10+ minutes a bunch of times.

Now it’s time to start training smart :)

Keep the easy parts easy so you can push on the hard parts.

All in all it was an eventful week and I am getting close to the half way point which is pretty exciting but also a little scary since I know that it won’t get any easier :)

*estimated by my scale

My training distances are now quite good and most of the times I feel I could do a little more which is a good sign that things are moving in the right direction.