More post race rambling

I was only half kidding about the massage gun in my last post.   I've been using it several times a day, both with the heat setting, yes it has a hot/cold option, and today is the first day I don't have some deep tissue soreness.   Honestly I don't know how I worked out without it.   I guess it's easier when you're young.  I'm still struggling with some general hip pain but that seems to be easing and I'm not sure if it's muscular or joint pain.   If I was going to guess, I'd say it's a bit of both, but between Yoga, stretching, massage gun and JJ's pain ointment it's getting better.   Maybe I should be a little more patient?   I did push myself pretty hard on Sunday and I need to let myself recover.  I need to remember that I'm 56 not 26 and to be completely honest, I feel like I was somewhat underprepared for the race and should have trained better which I think is why the run was so hard.

On that note, assuming I didn't damage my hip, I'm planning on running another Triathalon in Tarpon springs in September (9/21) and am already looking at training plans.   I winged it this time and I feel like I was a little underprepared, so this time I'm going to use a training plan I found online and see how that goes.   I might need to modify the running a bit, but I have time to work on running before I start training for real.  I also lowered my monthly cycling goal this month.   I had to account for the pre-race ramp down so I wasn't sore and tired as well as this past week of recovery.   It was just going to be impossible for me to hit it and I didn't want to feel like I underaccomplished this month.   So, it's down to 350 miles which I should be able to hit, and I'm already 200 miles in the positive this year so I'll make up the difference.  

So, what does it look like going forward?   Well, assuming my hip holds up, I'm going to maintain a bike/run/swim/row combo until I start my actual race training plan.   I think it will look like this:

• Sunday: Outdoor cycling until it gets too hot
• Monday: Rowing and/or Yoga and weight training
• Tuesday: Endurance cycling
• Wednesday: Low impact cycling and run
• Thursday: HIIT cycling and weight training
• Friday: Intervals and weight training
• Saturday: Ocean Swim and easy walking

I think that will keep me moving in the right direction and help me get ready.   I'll adapt as necessary and based on previous history, I'll probably cycle too much and for anyone worried about rest, zone 2 training is an active recovery, so between that and Yoga I'll be ok.