Jason – Week 5 – Rev 3 Olympic Training

Monday – 1250 yard swim (fartlek)

 

Tuesday – 32 min run (fartlek)

 

Wednesday – 53 min bike (short hills)

 

Thursday – 1400 yard swim (fartlek)

 

Friday – 46 min bike (steady state)

 

Saturday – 29,000 vertical/53 mile distance snowboarding at Killington

 

Sunday – 45 min bike (steady state)

 

Week Summary

Swim – 2650 yards

Bike – 2hr 24 min

Run – 32 min

Other – 29k vertical/53miles snowboarding

 

This was my best week of training so far, due in no small part to the beautiful weather during the week.  I really felt like I followed the plan, with the exception of snowboarding rather than running on Saturday.  Bike distances were slightly shorter than plan although the core of the workout was followed.

 

Snowboarding Report

This is spring riding at its best.  Nice soft snow and warm weather.  Crowds were not too bad either.  Last time I’ll be able to ride the lower Skyship and Ramshead areas on the mountain as they close next weekend.

 

 

The day started out bluebird with a few laps on Superstar and the Needles Eye area.

Took a few laps thru the terrain park and was having trouble getting speed in the soft snow for the jumps.  Also need to work on ollies as I had issues trying to get onto the rails and boxes.  Medium boxes and rails require you to jump onto them rather than ride on. 

  

Got a picture by the sharpshooters which is really cool (but I don’t know how to embed it)

http://photos.sharpshooterimaging.com/pr3/photocard.aspx?pc=755B5BA40359C5EEED239F1BF04D77E0

 

Unbelievably the Squeeze Play woods were very hittable with lots of soft snow and even untracked. 

 

 

Started to cloud up with some threatening skies but made several more runs after lunch on some nice easy trails as the steeper trails were getting heavily moguled and my legs were toast.     

 

Great day out and hoping there will still be snow Easter weekend for more riding.  Next weekend will be in LA to watch Rico at Ironman California 70.3.