Computrainer PIG Week 13 Session 4 Recovery

I planned session four for the second work morning this week. I find that getting up early the first day is easy but the second day is much harder. With an easy recovery day planned, if I had slept in, it wouldn't have mattered too much.

Computrainer PIG Week 13 Session 3 Tempo

I opted for session three before session two for a couple reasons. This is the first workout at oh-dark thirty in a couple weeks and if it didn't go well, I could always just make it a recovery ride. I also wasn't sure if I would even get up this early so if I missed something I would rather miss workout three than two.

As it was, oh-dark thirty wasn't too early and the workout went pretty well. Now I just have to hustle for the work thing and the rest of the day.

Computrainer Week 13 Session 1 Intervals

Today's main set was six by six minutes with three minutes rest. The six minute reps were at 265 watts and the three were at 125. From past experience, the 265 was a tough number for me. I started to reach failure on rep one at five minutes so I altered the six minute reps to five minute reps. I didn't want to not be able to finish the last reps and if I tried to hold six, I might have failed around rep four. I stretched the five minutes to five-ten, five-twenty and five-ten on reps two, three and four. Rep five was a fractured into two pieces but I recovered it on rep six.

One thing is for sure, the PIG program is tough.

2011 - The Good

Where to start on what went right and was good? Family are all relatively healthy, I'm employed, completed my eighteenth year on the ski patrol, help remodel an animal shelter, got to race a lot, went cycling with an old friend, didn't have to travel too much for work, got to build some cat shelters for a feral colony, was sponsored by Wheaties Fuel, won several races, had a few seconds, and a few thirds, got paid to go to the gym.

Ok, I didn't win Powerball or MegaMillions but the odds are pretty high against that.

On the 0 - 10 scale with 10 being great, 2011 was probably an 8. I don't know how it could get better but there can always be improvement.

2011 - The Bad

They say in every life a little rain must fall but looking back at 2011, I think most days were clear with lots of sunshine. I am trying to think of anything really bad that happened and I can't really think of anything too bad.

There might have been a race or two I wanted to do but I really can't think of one and even if I did miss one I wanted to do, is that really that bad? I did at least ten races and that's quite a bit.

Ok, there were a couple tough workouts that I suffered through and didn't do as well as I would have liked. Is that really bad or just life and tough workouts?

On a scale of 0 - 10 with 10 being Sith Lord bad, 2011 was probably a 0.

2011 - The Ugly

Looking back at 2011, I don't think anything went truly ugly. I learned that Clif Bar is no longer making my favorite recovery drink but when I contacted them, they sent me sample Clif Roks which are now one of my favorites.

The closest thing to ugly was the water in the Potomac when I went to do the Nation's Triathlon in DC. After torrential rains and a hurricane, the Potomac was muddy with a lot of debris. To their credit, the race cancelled the swim and other than running through the muddy transition area, everything else was perfect.

About the only ugly thing was the case of distemper that attacked the kittens we were fostering. Without the valiant efforts of a few people thinks could have been horrible. As it was a few kittens didn't survive but it could have been so much worse.

On a scale of 0 - 10 with 10 being Cthulhu ugly, 2011 was a 3.

Computrainer PIG Week 12

I love completing all the workouts in a week with a day to spare. Since everything was done, I could do whatever I wanted today so I'm starting the new year off with another recovery workout. Don't want to over do it on the first day of the year and tomorrow is the dreaded interval workout.

Happy New Year to all.

Ps. The title now has Computrainer in it because they are running a contest for course videos and a free trainer.