Training Log: 2/22 - 2/28 (Rest Week)
I generally train on a four-week cycle, three working weeks and a rest week. Last week was a Rest Week, and it came off of a very hard Week 3 in which I put in a super-intense session of yoga, swimming, and Mossa Group Power endurance weight training on Saturday, followed by a 6.5-mile long, slow distance run on Sunday. That combination flattened me, and even with the Rest Week, it took me until Thursday to start feeling like myself again. There's a line between working and over-working, and I think I went over that line two weeks ago. It's good to have time to recover, but the sheer amount of recovery required this week was a little frightening. I did eventually put in a good run, but it wasn't until Sunday, and up to then, I'd felt like hamburger. Swim, Bike, Run My weeks typically look like this: