Goal of the day – check. I did a back to back run/swim this morning. I started things off with two miles on the treadmill in 18:20 minutes:
And then I swam 1,000 yards in 25 minutes.
My beloved Splish Suit <3
What day of the week do you reserve for your long workouts? Sunday? Or Monday? Or Friday? Or another day entirely? I used to be a Friday woman. Now I’m a Sunday lady.
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I’m pretty devoted to my Sunday Runday. I bartend and coach six nights of the week, and Sundays are my only day when I don’t have to spend a few hours on my feet. I do my long runs on Sunday so I can go home to a bubble bath, have a beer and relax.
Wooohoooo! Probs for checking off two events! Your suit is super cute
For my long workouts, I like to do them Saturday or Friday. More time!
Friday is a rest day for me! I like to get some hiking and lifting in on Saturdays or Sundays, but I really just do a little something every day through the week. Good job on your block, you rock mama!
Saturday has always been my long run day. Works out nicely since Sunday is my rest day with a hike thrown in here and there.
wow, that would be amazing to do, but I dont know if I ever could! I cant even run a whole marathan let alone running after swimming and biking! If I am going to do a long workout I usually plan it for one of my days off from work, which is different every week.
I don’t really have a ‘long’ workout day I don’t think… How do you define ‘long’ Caitlin? Nice job on two workouts!
By virtue of being a classes girl my workouts, aside from runs, are all an hour long!
Generally I am:
M: Run (up to 1 hr – I am working up to a 10k at the moment! If it’s before work 20mins – 30 mins) OR Rest
T: British Military Fitness (1 hr)
W: Rest
T: Pilates (1hr)
F: Run (30 mins)
S: Longer run or sprints/hills practice
S: BMF (1 hr)
I like Saturdays because then I can have a more relaxed Sunday and get re-energized for the week ahead.
I usualy do my long workouts on sundays,cause, well its obvious.Not a work day
I was doing long workouts on Friday, but now I’m working Fridays, so I’ll have to switch them to Saturday.
I just did my first Triathlon yesterday and rocked it! It was so much fun! Thanks for all your tri-related inspiration.
Nice brick! I go long on the weekends, long swim/long bike on saturday and short bike/long run on sunday
I have a question – there are tons of swim workouts on the internet, but when you say you swim 1000, how do you break it up? I have to think that for tri training, simulating race conditions (AKA 1000 m straight) – is best, but is so boring! Do you just suck it up and plow through or do you break up your workout into 100, 200s, 50s, etc?
I swim 100 yards easy, 100 yards fast, 50 yards easy, then I take a 30 second break and repeat 4 times.
Since I don’t do races (I left my racing days behind in high school with cross country and haven’t looked back since! I hate the pre-race butterflies!), I don’t have a designated “long workout” day. My workouts are pretty consistent in length of time, but I try to vary up the intensity 2-3 times per week. So, usually, I’ll try to gauge how peppy I’m feeling when I first step on the elliptical or treadmill and then decide from there if I’m going to attempt an interval workout of some sort or just a regular, steady cardio session. That being said, I sometimes find that Monday, I can surprise myself with just how much I can crank out intensity-wise (probably because of a bit more sleep and less exercise over the weekend…), so maybe Mondays are my unofficial “long workout” day. If I’m feeling it