This past week was another good week overall in terms of activity. I am really concentrating on “fine-tuning” my fitness for the century ride I will be doing May 3rd so weightlifting was not on the agenda again this week.

Cycling

This week was another good week for cycling. I rode 4 days with one of those days being another long ride.

  • Tuesday- I rode outside on my regular loop but to mix it up a little I did all of the hills on the route at a fast pace.
  • Wednesday- I rode for almost an hour and a half at a moderate pace outside
  • Saturday-  I rode an hour long workout on the indoor trainer concentrating on keeping my heart rate in zone 3 (140-150 bpm)
  • Sunday-  I rode another long ride of 65 miles on a fairly hilly course.

Total ride time for the week was just under 7 hours.  I feel like I am prepared for the century fitness wise.  My body will most likely be a little sore after the ride but I should get through it fine.

 Healthy Eating

This week was pretty normal in the area of food.  We did good Monday-Friday, eating our usual dinner menus.  For lunch I had Subway a couple of days, and some peanut butter and jelly a couple of days.  We use a whole wheat, high fiber bread for our sandwiches.  I managed to eat yogurt for mid day snacks as well as oranges and apples.  Overall, a good week food wise.

This coming week will be a little tough since we are taking a much needed long weekend that will include some good seafood as well as micro brewed beer.  I have planned for this in my training and am eating a little less at the beginning of the week to compensate as much as possible.

We’ll see how it all works out.  Stay tuned.

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