Championship Soccer Game

So my company competed and won the championship soccer game last night for our indoor league. I was great and fun but of course took away from my real training. Indoor soccer has so little to do with distance training but I live to compete so I can't say no. The game was great and we ended up scoring the winning goal with about 5 minutes left in the game to go up 6-5. This was the most we have scored in one game and the most we have let up. It was a great game and a lot of fun. I played for about 20 minutes of the game and pretty much the entire time your on the field you sprint so I'd say with stoppages and delays I sprinted about 2 miles. Not exactly a great distance workout or nearly the time I wanted to be running for yesterday but better then the off days I was having. The game did let me know just how different my body is from my old soccer playing days. Each shift we play is about 5 minutes long, indoor soccer for those of you that don't know works more like Hockey then you just sub on the fly, at the end of every shift I was breathing heavy but even by the end of the game my legs weren't tired. This is the complete opposite experience I've had in previous years where I train shorter distance and higher speeds, its always been that my legs are beat but I can breathe fine after a few minutes. It's yet to be determined if this is a good thing or not for my Ironman Triathlon Training I'm doing or not.

This morning again I struggled to get out of bed. I had planned on getting up going over to the gym and getting a good swim in. That didn't happen but I did manage to get up and bike for 45 minutes and during this time the realization hit me. Swimming for me will always be harder in the morning then biking or running. I've been getting up pretty easily at the earlier time my fiance gets up, 6am, but by the time I get moving and would be able to get to the gym change and start my swim its way to late for me to get the full work out in I want, shower, change, and get to work on time. So I've decided that from now on if I have a swim planned it will be after work any biking for running I'm to do, unless it's scheduled to be over 90 minutes, I'll do before work. The biking and running I don't need to leave the to go some where change, workout, shower, and change again I can just get up put on my workout close and get to it. This mornings work out was much easier without all the stress of worrying about having to finish up before I'm really finished to get to work. And that lead to my other realization my biking and running are much easier to finish if need be in a shorter amount of time when I'm pressed to get to work because although my training guide only ever lists times and heart rates to do for running and biking I can easily switch to a higher gear biking or increase my pace a little running and get the miles in that I would have going at the slower pace. Now this might not be exactly what is intended from the people that made the workout plan obviously they have done this before and I believe what they are trying to say is you need to get your body used to be in motion for that long at this point and not focus so much on the miles, the miles will come; but still increasing my speed and finishing up earlier makes me feel like I got a full workout in. And at the very least I'll be building my cardio up a little earlier then intended.

Oh and the 45minute bike this morning I'd estimate I did just over 10 miles, I really need to get a bike computer to know for sure but my birthday is coming up and I think I might be getting one for that.