Easy...you call that easy?

The challenging workouts for my 'easy' week 8 are finished and I'm looking forward to the 6 days of rest that I'm allowing myself. Sunday featured my best swim so far. I did one mile total and 3/4 of that was continuous. This was after a disasterous swim on Friday after which I had decided that there was no way that I could train simultaneously for the Rockies race and the 1/2 Ironman Triathlon. I'm still uncertain about doing so just due to the sheer volume of time I spend running (14 hrs and 90 miles last week). That leaves very little time to train for a 56 mile bike and 1.2 mile swim. The door is still open at this time, but I'm not optimistic.

With respect to this week's run schedule...easy! 19.3 on Monday, 6.5 on Tues, and 22.3 in the woods at FH on Wednesday. Felt surprisingly good last night. I went for a bike ride this morning and my legs didn't even feel that tired. I'm giving them today and tomorrow off to rest up for my two triathlons this weekend. I could probably run a short, one hour run today and be fine, but I'm very concerned about not making it through the 1/2 mile swim on Saturday. I want to be well rested so between now and Saturday I'll just be swimming once, biking once, and lifting twice.

And I'm even going to treat myself to two more days off after the tri's. I won't be running Monday or Tuesday to allow myself some recovery time. I'm also hoping to gain some weight during these 10 'easy' days. My weight is already 6 pounds below my lowest marathon weights and I still have 5 to 6 intense training weeks to go.