Last week was my second week of working out since returning from our extended vacation in New Zealand.  The workout schedule that I give myself was not particularly hard, but nonetheless, I struggled with it big time.  I just felt tired and fatigued all week.  I think it is just a case of my body getting used to being at altitude again.  My heart rate has been a little higher during workouts than usual.  This might indicate that I don’t yet have the red blood cell count to cope with the lower oxygen content in the air here in the Denver area.

I found running to be particularly hard.  I’m sure some of this was because my bike sessions were quite demanding.  I found myself really struggling during the final interval of my ride on Thursday.

Despite my fatigue and finding my second week of working out to be tough, I was very pleased in that I did get all my workouts done. I think the fact that we had a nice warm spell of warmer weather really helped me with that.

Below is what I did this week. Strength and mobility work is not listed but I did do this too.

Monday :  Easy outside run
Tuesday :  VO2 Intervals on bike trainer
Wednesday :  Aerobic outside run
Thursday :  Extended aerobic progressive intervals on bike trainer
Friday :  Aerobic run outside with tempo intervals
Saturday :  Aerobic bike ride on trainer
Sunday :  Aerobic run outside

Total hours for the week :  Run = 3:53, Bike = 4:17

This represented a decent volume increase over last week.  I am still focussing on being consistent and making sure I do my strength and mobility work.  This upcoming week I will have a little more volume still, and this will be followed by a recovery week.