Flow State

Solid week. No complaints. Everything came together nicely and the workouts felt strong across the board.

Swim 🏊

• Workouts: 2
• Total Distance: 5,025 yards
• Total Time: 1 hour 34 minutes

Both swims felt strong. The second one came shortly after a six-mile run, which made it a bit spicy. Still got through it just fine.

Bike 🚴

• Workouts: 4 (spread over three days because I split one 60-minute ride into two 30-minute commutes)
• Total Distance: 67.3 miles
• Total Time: 4 hours 29 minutes

Yes, I know. 4:29. Had I realized that while riding, I would’ve stayed on the bike another minute just to clean that up.

The big ride this week was today’s 40-mile ride in 2:40. I finally broke out the road bike again. It took a block or two to remember how it felt compared to the e-bike, but after that, it was smooth sailing. Really happy to have it back in the rotation.  Today’s long ride was a bit slower than I’d like, but 15% of that was a strong wind and 85% was having to stop at WAY too many stop lights.  As much as I can, I’ll be driving out of town to bike.

Run 🏃

• Workouts: 4 (including one 15-minute brick run)
• Total Distance: 16.7 miles
• Total Time: 2 hours 45 minutes

Slightly short compared to the plan. Two of the weekday runs were supposed to be 60 minutes, but I just don’t have that kind of time during the workday. I made them both 45 minutes instead and moved on.

Total Training Time 🧮

• Total Duration: 8 hours 48 minutes

TrainingPeaks Metrics 📈

• Fitness: 69
• Fatigue: 143 (rest day tomorrow!)
• Form: -74

So the numbers say I’m going hard, flirting with overload, and accumulating fatigue.

Reflections ✍️

This is definitely a harder program than I’ve done in the past, and the training volume has almost doubled compared to earlier in the cycle. Surprisingly, I actually feel pretty good.

Fatigue is climbing, though, so tomorrow’s rest day will be welcome. The goal now is to keep stacking solid weeks without tipping over the edge.

Base Phase Week 8: strong work, still moving forward.