I needed to get back into a routine
My birthday is December 29th and this year I will be turning 50. I want to be fit again by the time I am 50. So here it goes… fit by fifty. Using an event as a motivator. Participating in IRONMAN Cozumel on November 22nd.
Starting off slow… trying to get all the hick ups out of the way. Building a weekly routine that includes heavy session on the bike and a morning at the beach.
The heavy session on the bike is on the indoor trainer…. The goal is to improve both my power and my threshold on the bike. I implement something I call the Double Bubble. Something that involves Z4 and Z5 Sessions. (My Z4 and Z5s explained here). It’s about two hours long including Warmup and Cooldown. The Zone 4 sets are 4-minute intervals (like intervals on the running track) and the Zone 5 ranges from 1-minute down to 30 seconds and would be like strength session on the squat rack.
The Beach sessions first hour is a strength session on the beach, the second hour is a triangle swim course in the water with water the conditions give me.
The 2nd week was looking good until I was heading home… as I was heading up the incline of the bridge my bike chain decided to give up on me…
