Transition

This week was a recovery week for me. I ended up using more as a transition week instead. They are basically the same the thing, but a transition period is one of more unstructured training. I was a bit tired overall on Monday and Tuesday, still recovering from the weekend ski. It was important for me to start feeling completely recovered going into this weekend because I didn't want to come back to hard training too soon.

So far, I'm not sure if I am totally recovered. I still feel tired, but this is mostly because of the workouts I chose to do this week. My wednesday run ended up being a tempo run. It felt great, but I'm still sore in some spots from that. On Thursday I had a pretty rough day at work, and got some negative energy out by jumping in the pool for a 1000 yard time trial. That went pretty well. I wasn't too excited about my time (15:15), but I wasn't unhappy with it either. It was a good marker as to where I am at. Yesterday I ran the Lake Linden 5k course, and went a bit faster than I had planned on doing. There was a nasty cold wind too, and my legs were getting tight in the middle section. But, again, it was still nice to get out and run.

I am thinking about doing the Journey's Marathon...and too start training for that I'm adding long runs to my weekend workouts. Tomorrow is going to be a 2.5 hr run. Jumping into marathon training this late may not be the best thing, but I think its fine with my specific goals for this marathon. I'll divulge those goals later. Thinking about a marathon brings up the question, does one NEED to do a marathon when training for an ironman?? I've heard both sides of the story. If you have any thoughts on this topic, please chime in. I'm very interested as to what you all think.