Week 30: September 24, 2020

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴/ Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Off
47	Interval	22M	22M	60	5K
				30
50K	VR25 - Short	VR 25 - Bike	VR 25 - Long	Off	Bike / Run	Off

(Read more about my 🏊🚴🏃training plan here.)

Have a look at my week in review.

Completed V25 this week.  The long-run was tough and so I took an extra recovery day.

September 24: 50K

September 25: VR25 - Short

September 26: VR25 - Bike

September 27: VR25 - Long

September 29: Bike / Run

VR25: Completed

Completed VR25 this week. These were the longest distances I've done in an Ironman VR event -- the long run was, in fact, the longest run I've ever done. Glad to be done. VR26 is a 'taper' week.

"With your 3:35:08, you finished 1,279th out of 2,329 finishers and 280th out of 510 in your Age Group."

Week 29: September 17, 2020

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴/ Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Off
47	Interval	22M	22M	60	5K
				30
50K	VR23 - Long	VR 24 - Bike	VR23 - Short	Bike / Run	5K	Off

(Read more about my 🏊🚴🏃training plan here.)

Have a look at my week in review.

Completed V24 this week and got a personal best in the 5K.

September 17: 50K

September 18: VR23 - Long

September 19: VR23 - Bike

September 20: VR23 - Short

September 21: Bike / Run

September 22: 5K

(A personal best time!)

VR24 Completed

 Run 20 minutes; ride 40 minutes; run 30 minutes. Done.

Week 28: September 10, 2020

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴/ Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Off
47	Interval	22M	22M	60	5K
				30
5K	VR23 - Short	VR 23 - Bike	VR 23 - Long	50K	Bike / Run	Off

(Read more about my 🏊🚴🏃training plan here.)

Have a look at my week in review.

Completed V23 this week.

September 10: 5K

September 11: VR23 - Short

September 12: VR23 - Bike

September 13: VR23 - Long

September 14:  50K

September 15:  Bike/Run

VR 23: Completed

Another Ironman VR completed -- VR23.  1.5km run; 50km bike; 12km run.  This is my longest run to date.

"With your 3:17:11, you finished 1,583rd out of 2,871 finishers and 352rd out of 627 in your Age Group."

Week 27: September 3, 2020

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴/ Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Off
47	Interval	22M	22M	60	5K
				30
Bike 22	VR22 - Short	VR 22 - Bike	VR 22 - Long	100K	2M Run	Off

(Read more about my 🏊🚴🏃training plan here.)

Have a look at my week in review.

What a week! Completed V22 and did my longest bike ride ever (100km).  It was hard, but I didn't feel as painful the next few days as I expected.  I did a short run the day after for recovery.

September 3: Bike

 

 September 4: VR 22 - Short

 

 September 5: VR 22 - Bike

 

 September 6: VR 22 - Long

 

 September 7: 100K Bike 

(Woah!)

 

 September 8: 2M Run

VR22 Completed

 Another Ironman VR completed.... VR22.

"With your 1:37:37, you finished 2,030th out of 3,814 finishers and 432th out of 803 in your Age Group."

Ironman Kona Series

Ironman announced their Kona Series of virtual reality races.  These races have varying distances (or times).  I plan on participating in all of them -- except for the last one.  (The last one is just too long.). I'm grateful to the Ironman crew for these VR races.

I'll treat the smaller of the runs as my short run and generally run without worrying about my BPM.

Also, it occurs to me that having my two bike rides on the weekend may not be the best strategy. Once this VR series is completed and I return to regular training, I'll look at shuffling my schedule.

Edit (9/3/20): I'm going to start shuffling my schedule. I'm going to split the biking apart (long bikes on Thursday & on the weekend).  Hopefully, that'll give me more time to recover. I should've implemented this before.

Week 26: August 27, 2020

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴	Bike 🚴/ Run 🏃	Run 🏃	Off
47	Interval	22M	22M	60	5K
				30
5K	VR 21 - Short	VR 21 - Long	VR 21 - Bike	Bike 22	40min run	Off

(Read more about my 🏊🚴🏃training plan here.)

Have a look at my week in review.

August 27: 5K



August 28: VR 21 - Short



August 29: VR 21 - Long
(A personal best for 5K & 10K!)



August 30: VR 21 - Bike



August 31: Bike 22



September 1: 40min Run
(It was raining in the morning; substituted a run for the brick.)