Random Banter

So I just finished week 5 of training on Saturday.  This is the first week after our "deload" week.  It was easy.  The amount of work was a bit more than my week two training.  I'm trying to stair step up my time and not push it to hard. Each 4th week I kind of back off an do a CP test at the end of that week.  The first time around I took off the Monday from running but I'm not sure yet if I will do that this time around.  Time will tell. The biggest thing about this week is that I was able to input a couple of my runs that I did outside that were faster and a critical power test and my power jumped WAY up (my watch wasn't syncing with Stryd).  I went from 193 CP (LOL!) up to 261 CP I believe.  So I'm now running about where I think I should be. Saturday was my first day running at this power and it felt good.  Felt like I was doing something! Most of the running was in high zone 1 and low zone 2.  I'm really trying to take things easy....

 After a long break I'm back to running and I've got that itch.  I just want to run all the time!  I'm sure at some point every runner is like this. Things feel good and all of the races seem possible.  I'm not putting many miles in at this point.  I'm just building back up.  Currently maybe 6-8 miles per week...yeah not a lot.  Hopefully that becomes more over time but I also don't want to rush things.   I spent some time, after I started running again, reflecting on my hypothyroidism and I think part of that has to do with my running and not cycling things.  I wasn't getting any better or faster as I was training and I think I was just over trained all of the time.  So as I head into this next running season, if you will, I'm really paying attention to how I feel and making sure that I don't go overboard.  It also helps that I'm getting blood draws every 3-4 months to make sure things are staying good.  On top of that I ...