After Week 12

Week 12 was a difficult week for training.  A busy work work, with long hours nearly every day, and a trip to San Francisco for the weekend for the last dragon boat tournament of the season.  The weekend marks the end of the dragon boat season, but also meant a full weekend with no triathlon training and lots of time eaten up traveling.

The week started off with a bike time trial, which went really well (results to be posted soon).  But by the end of the week, there was one skipped swim session (2000m) and one skipped bike/run brick (105 min on the trainer + 2 mile run).  But I added one more long run under my belt - a total of 14 miles, which was the total mileage all week.



The hardware.



The training sessions I got in were all quality sessions, with some knee pain after the run (but not during).  Something to keep an eye on as the running increases in both frequency and mileage.  Otherwise, my body seems healthy, if a little ragged from the rigors and stress of work. 

Happily I can report huge successes for my dragon boat team, which took top honors in the top division in San Francisco while collecting a bunch of other hardware and logging in the two fastest times of the weekend.  An amazing feat by itself, but made even more so by the fact that those two top times were earned by two different crews.  It goes to show the depth and strength of the team.

Week Twelve totals:

Bike: 17 miles (time trial)
Run: 14.0 miles
Swim: 5000 meters (3.1 miles)

Total Time: 4:30 (excluding dragon boat tournament)