Sunday, January 22, 2012

Week 03 - When the going gets tough the ...


... tough get going. It`s a pretty lame quote, but it makes sense to a lot of dedicated and passionate athletes. In many (most) cases we aren`t professionally dedicated to our sport. So once in a while, I reach out to this lame quote.


This was quite a hectic week. I`m in full delivery mode on the project at my client site in Detroit. This means I`m working 40+ hours in a 4 day timespan. If you then count the time that I travel, those 4 days are on the busy side.

Nevertheless, I try to keep up with the training schedule as well. The training load was manageable as I ended up with 93+K in running and 2 recovery workouts in the water tank (12K alternative pool running). The only – and most important – part of the training schedule had to compensate all the time spent on the items above: SLEEP.

I end up with nights of 5-6 hours what is simply not enough to recover properly. The challenging workout of Saturday suffered a little bit from this lack of recovery. The 1000s of my 3x3x1K workout (1` jogging as rest / 3` between the series) were 2-3” slower than last week. It was a rainy workout this week. However, it was still nicer than the weather in Detroit (4F/-15.5C) on Friday morning.


Sportive regards,
Wout

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