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So a few interesting things to report on.  Had a really good week of workouts and actually hit my goal time for the week - 11 hours of workouts.  Now it certainly didn't happen the way the plan was laid out - swims took a bit of a hit and I compensated with more bike and run work.  Its probably not a bad bit of substitution given my relatively poor performance on the bike and run portions of Ironman Canada and my relatively good performance (by my standards) in the swim. 

The interesting thing for me as well in the couple of months sicne Ironman Canada is how little I've actually got out to team training sessions as compared to last year when I was there religiously.  It's been tough this year to get out there - probably for a variety of reasons including being a father of 2 kids now, work being decidedly more crazy, and a few out of town trips.  I'll have to commit to more consistency of that in the new year.



I did make it out to the November team meeting and was highly motivated to do so.  Was an opportunity to hear a great overview of nutrition requirements for triathlon training, race day and recovery.  The key piece for me was hearing how incongruous the goals of weight loss and intense training are.  So, to some extent, it gives me more freedom to eat more robustly with a view to working out more robustly and hopefully enhancing my race performance next year.

I also did lactate threshold testing with Kevin Masters this past week as well.  It was important to me to see if there was any difference from last year's test - and thankfully there was!  Greater power output at relatively same heart rate zones!  Good news.  In addition, I was pleased with the view on the compu trainer with how my legs were working - relatively even on the up and down strokes.  So there is improvement from my rookie year.

All in all it was a good past couple of weeks.  Onwards and upwards.