Endurance Turtle A journey through this turtles triathlon adventures

So last night, George and I were eating at The Habit and discussing what all couples talk about…our upcoming training schedule for the Spring/Summer. We realized that the Nautica Malibu Tri is about 5 months away and Strawberry Fields is 3 months away. We also know that we would really like to improve our performance this year and challenge ourselves. So I put the following together, what would an Endurance Turtle post be without an Excel screenshot!?!

This is just a preliminary schedule and we will get a bit more granular as time goes on. Specifically, we are going to put each workout in our calendars so that we actually get reminders each morning of what is on the schedule that day. We are actually backing off of the training on the swim a bit and will pick it up more as we start to do more open water swimming. I feel like the pool is hard to compare to the open water and I much rather spend the time training in open water than a pool. We are really turning our focus to the bike and the run and then from there really focusing on running. We will integrate some speed work in there as well as some tempo stuff. I am hoping this will help with our overall fitness. A couple of other things we are cutting out is excessive drinking. We don’t drink much now, but we will be more aware of what we consume. We will also be focusing on rest and recovery. PTC has their weekly bricks on Wednesday’s and after they usually go to a restaurant to eat (and usually includes margaritas). With our new little regimen, we probably won’t go out too often. Still trying to keep to that budget (budgets are no fun….but necessary), trying to cut out drinking and rest we will be the social butterfly’s of the season! Not sure why George and I are taking this a little more seriously this year, I guess we just want to get better…what a concept…