Five months out from IM Lake Placid 2021, here is how things went:
Swim - 9275 yards in 3 hours (up from last month)
Bike - 330 miles in 18 hours, 36 minutes (down from last month, but most ever for a February)
Run - 59.1 miles in 10 hours, 45 minutes (down from last month)
Weight Lifting - 2 hours 24 minutes (down from last month)
Total Hours for month - 34 hours, 45 minutes (down from last month)
Training Stress Score (TSS) - 1953 (down from last month)
Intensity factor - .72 average / workout (-.03 from last month)
Chronic Training Load (CTL) on Febr, 2021 - 66 (+7 from last month)
You will easily notice I'm down a little this month in several areas from January. This is due to a (hopefully) slight injury at the beginning of the month while using my TRX straps. I performed some of those exercises incorrectly and hurt my left hip area. This caused me to reduce load and intensity at the beginning of the month.
Now that we are at the end of the month, here are the upsides:
- The injury seems to be mostly under control at this point. There is some weakness still, but I believe things are going in the right direction.
- For any February since I've started to record, this is the highest biking mileage
- My Chronic Training load number is now at 66, so there is a nice increase there.
While I was worried at the beginning of the month due the injury, I am ending the month feeling encouraged after a strong 3 hour, 45 minute ride today with a .67 intensity factor (i.e. the intensity an IM is typically ridden at).
I am hopeful about he month coming up and looking forward to some warm weather training at the end of the month.
Shout out to Ryan and Eddie for some really great training this past month. Ryan looks on track for a really strong base phase. For Eddie, I'm impressed with his training and preparation (and I'm pretty sure he's heard enough suggestions from me at this point :-).
