Weekly Review

I'm highly motivated on the bike and the run and making progress on both. However, swimming right now SUCKS.... I dread getting in the pool. Part of the reason for this, is I don't have a good feel for the water and my stroke feels inefficient. Well, something has to give this week, as tomorrow is my self imposed deadline to join a master's swim group. I'm going to try out the master's program at Lifetime either tomorrow or Wednesday. Hopefully this will help and the group environment will hopefully keep me motivated.

For the week I ended up with:

• Cycling - 5:00
• Running - 3:30
• Swimming - 2:20
• Weights - 1:10

I was off about an hour on the cycling and this was mainly due to the fact that I was supposed to do a 2 hour bike ride today. It was too cold in the DFW area (at least for me) so I did an hour on the trainer instead. These days my max time on a trainer is about an hour. After that I just totally break down and lose focus on the ride. I've tried watching movies, listening to music, etc but no luck with the trainer monotony. It amazes me how some people spend 4-5 hours on those things. So, since I've now figured out my trainer load, I'm going to have to start scheduling my bike workouts around the weather.

My typical workout week looks like:

• Monday - Swim, Weights
• Tuesday - Bike Intervals, Brick Run
• Wednesday - Swim, Tempo Run
• Thursday - Long Run
• Friday - Swim, Weights
• Saturday - Long Bike, Brick Run
• Sunday - Long Bike, Brick Run (Sometimes)

All of the kid activities (school, karate, basketball, etc) start back up this week. I'm going to start coaching my oldest son's basketball team this week. This should be interesting. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to take the Bobby Knight approach with 6&7 year olds. Basketball is my favorite sport and the one I actually know something about so this should be fun and hopefully I won't make too many kids cry on the first day of practice :)