Week In Review

2009 September 7

by Jackie

Since I’m now logging my workouts at Daily Mile I thought I would cut back my daily ride posts and do a week in review. I hope to set some weekly goals, and each week review the goals, where I met them, fell short, and what I want to work on next week.

This week I didn’t really have any goals set other than getting all my workouts in. I had planned on 2 interval workouts, 2 recovery workouts and an endurance workout. I also planned on two weight training/core workouts.

Monday I did my first hill repeat workout ~ it went pretty good. I didn’t push it super hard, since it was my first time. I did a 4x workout. The hills I chose were just about 1/2 mile long.

Tuesday I did my core workout ~ dug out my Core Secrets dvd, and did the Fundamentals workout. I love working on the ball, and this dvd was nice for a full body workout all while getting a good core workout too.

Wednesday I went out and the wind was blowing something fierce. I ended up getting overwhelmed by it and only rode a little more than 5 miles. One of my goals is going to be getting my head and body around the wind.

Thursday we went to the track and did intervals on the track. I ended up doing 6 repetitions. It was a really good workout and I felt great afterwards. I ended up riding 10 miles for the whole workout.

Friday I did another round of Core Secrets ~ this time I did the 25 minute full body workout. Another good full body and core workout. Loving the ball.

Saturday the day got totally away from me. It looked like it was going to rain so I kept putting off my ride ~ ended up pruning the rose bushes and weeding my garden (realized the weeds were so tall I couldn’t see off the porch. oops). Went to a birthday party in town and got back too late to go out for a ride.

Sunday woke up pumped for a nice long ride. Did the “big loop”. It’s this loop I envisioned myself doing, but only a couple weeks ago thought there was no way I would ever make it. I did it today in just a couple hours. It ended up being 28 miles. I felt good during, and good afterward. The ride was beautiful, the sunflowers are in full bloom, farmers were harvesting their fields, the wind was only so slight. A great feeling of power, gratitude and amazement. I also helped my husband build my garden shed today, which was a LOT of heavy lifting ~ didn’t know all that was going to be involved lol.

Next week I’d like to work on increasing my miles about 10%, which is hard since I don’t really have a pre set amount of miles I plan to ride ~ so maybe that’s the first goal. I’d like to be doing at least 10 miles for my intervals, 15 for my recovery rides and 30 for my endurance ride.

For my intervals/hill rides this week I would like to accept the challenge to ride into the wind. I’m sure I’ll have the opportunity for windy rides. So for at least one interval ride this week I’d like to use the wind for it.

That’s my week in review!! If you have cycling goals for the week I’d love to hear them, feel free to drop them in the comment section.