Todde's Tri Blog

this morning was breakthru workout #1 for the taper. I planned a 90min bike/30min run brick but do to waking up this morning and then falling back asleep the bike was trimmed to 60min. my legs were so heavy from weights yesterday it was tough to turn the pedals on the bike. my legs eventually warmed up and i managed to hold a HR in the high 120s to 130 for most of the hour. after the a 3min transition it was off for a 30min tempo run. i used the first mile to ease into the run (8min pace - hr 136-138). the next 3 miles were run at a 7:10 pace which had the HR around 145 to 150. the run felt strong as the humidity did its best to slow me. i definitely feel this was a good workout to prep me for race dace. tomorrow is another day in the pool.