L3 Brick

I haven't done a brick in a while... forgot how heavy your legs feel after riding. Whew! I'm a little tired!

Started the workout with a 1.5 hour bike ride on the trainer. Rich Strauss' Offseason Ironman Plan calls for a 2.5 hour ride today... but I just can't do much more than an hour on the trainer. I just don't don't have the stamina to deal with the boredom. I did talk to Rich, and I think the problem with my PPI workouts so far have been that my FTP is lower when I ride on the trainer than it is when I ride outside. This makes sense, as it's much harder to get motivated to ride on the trainer. I dropped my FTP to 260 watts for this workout, and I think I may have it pretty close. This workout consisted of an easy warmup followed by 2 x 20' at L3 effort (w/ 3' RI) and then a 14' cool down.

Immediately after the bike workout, I laced up the running shoes for a 30' run. I was supposed to run at steady L2 effort, but my HR immediately shot up to about 160-165 (upper L3 - lower L4) effort. I felt great, so I didn't worry about slowing down. HR was probably a little artificially high because of the bike effort.

Tomorrow is a long run, about 1:20.