Oh my - welcome to my workout world

A little background first - I have a goal of Duathlon Nationals this year - it is very early in the year for an A race but I figured I would give it a try. My training has been altered greatly because of a minor knee injury I suffered and missed over 8 weeks of training. My training for Nationals started on 3/2 for a race on 4/26 - 8 weeks is not an ideal time to train for a race of this magnitude but Sean and I thought it would be worth a try any way. Since I was pretty far behind in my training we have really tried to step things up and go through Prep, Build, Base, Peak, Taper phases all in 8 weeks - normally we would take 16-18 weeks for something like this.

Right now I am in my last two weeks of hard effort (Peak) before 1 week of easy (Taper) training for the race. I get my workouts from Sean on Sunday night for the following week - however I only look at them one day at a time. I figure one day at a time is all you can control any way so why fret over Thursdays workout when you still have to get Monday's workout done????

Tuesday night when I was logging my results on Tuesdays workouts I looked at Wednesday and here is what I found:

1 mile w.u
4 x 90 sec fast/90 sec. recovery. You should feel like you are going to throw up..
800 easy jog
2 x 800 fast/400 recovery
1 mile c.d

25 mile bike over a rolling course

Yes, the effort is listed as - "You should feel like you are going to throw up".

Wednesday is coming off a race on Sunday, easy weight and run workout Monday, Intervals on the bike and run on Tuesday.

WELL, the workout went well - the 90 second efforts were hard as heck! The first one was ok, 2nd got a little tougher, 3rd was murder and close to throwing up, 4th was a little easier because it was the last one. After the 1/2 mile recovery I did the 1/2 mile speed efforts in 2:47 and 2:46 - so there was still a little left in the tank!

I hear tomorrows workout is worse - we will see tonight when I am prepping for the morning session - at least tomorrow we have a big group working out together - then we can all suffer at the same time!