More Volume

In 2007, when leading up to IM Moo, in early March, I was up to about 10 hour training weeks with about 5000 yards of swimming, about 80-100 miles of riding, and 20-25 miles of running in any given week.

In the past 4 weeks with my new coach, I have surpassed 10,000 yards every week in the pool with the last week at 10,600; I have run 30, 35, 38, and 39 miles per week; and I have biked ~90-100 miles each week, but also done a significant amount of cycling-specific strength work on top of that. We'll see how the biking evolves, but so far in late February / early March, my total training time per week for the last 3 weeks has been 15:18, 14:42, and 15:36. In 2007, I had one week in April >15 hours because of an early season century ride, but otherwise didn't get up over 15 hours until June!! I've done 3 weeks in a row of ~15 hours and it's only March 8th! Definitely more volume. So far, my body has been responding well. I have been stretching more and trying to get around 7-8 hours of sleep a night, which I think is key.

Having said all that, I still think I have a long way to go to reach my rather lofty long term goals...