Yesterday marked a milestone in my run training. With the completion of yesterday's run, I wrapped up a 40 mile week. While this isn't anything ground breaking or complicated or innovated, it does give me some idea of the level of effort needed to build upon this much running volume. This is important because as the year progresses, I'll be adding more biking and swimming into the mix, especially after my marathon in March. Carrying and keeping as much run fitness into the tri season will be paramount. I suspect that a 30-40 mile/week run volume while swimming and biking will be necessary to hit my goals at the Olympic tri distance, while converting one of the shorter 'prep' runs into a speed workout.
As for the New Year, my goal is to stay as active, if not more, in 2011 as I was in 2010. I'm learning quite a bit with regards to training, diet and recovery so I plan on putting all of that to good use with this new year. I don't have a particularly aggressive schedule of events, but I do hope to set some new PR's with each event that I do.
To further that mindset of activity, I do want to keep encouraging and inspiring others to become active. At the same time, I don't want to be 'that guy' who only talks about working out and hounding others to partake in athletic events. I think that there can be a good balance of inspiration, education, and irritation (hah!) when it comes to encouraging others to think of their health as something they can positively affect with just a few good decisions each day.
Cheers, to good decisions!
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