Training update

Hey all,

I figured that since it's been another week since I last updated, I might as well update everyone on what's happening. I haven't done much for training this week, missing three workouts because of reasons related to exams, but the training that I have done has been hard. I had my first swim meet in 2 months on Saturday, and it went pretty well, but it clearly highlighted the areas I need to work on such as sprinting. I am recovering well from not practicing very hard in December due to injury and other things, but I still need to do a lot of work.
Now that exams are over, I can get back to working hard for swimming and biking. As January comes to a close I am continually reminded that the weather will clear up soon and I need to get biking. However, next semester is going to be fairly hard with english, math, and gr. 11 anthro/psych/soc and chemistry, so I will be struggling to find time for extra workouts.

That's about it, thanks for reading,
Luke

New Week

Well, in the title I said it was a new week, but really that's not true because it's a Thursday.
However, it has been a week since my last post.
My body has slightly adapted to 2-3 workouts per day, but I am extremely tired and sore from this week.
On Monday, I went into the weight room at school with Evan Redka and tired out a bunch of important upper body muscles for swimming, and as a result the next 4 swimming practices were really painful.
Anyways, enough with the complaining.
You might think that as exams are coming up I should take time off to study, however, the only workouts I'm missing are the ones at school because I won't be there. Anyways, North Americans waste way too much time on entertainment when they could be doing work, so I will take half an hour or so out of this entertainment time to study the night before my exam. I do have Western Regional Swimming Championships next weekend and a small swim meet this Saturday, so those affect my workouts because the day before is devoted to racing preparation and pace work.
Fun fact: Provincials for swimming are in one month!
Keep you updated,
Luke.

Workout progress!! :D

Ok, well since January 2nd I've done 14 workouts, including 3 separate ones today, so I'm a little tired right now. However, obviously good things are coming out of it and I can tell the difference in my strength between then and now. Most of my workouts have been swimming, although I got on the stationary bike at school twice last week. I am planning to workout with Evan, another member of the team, on Mondays and Thursdays at lunch and probably also do a solitary workout on Wednesdays at lunch. I also do swimming practices every day after school, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings. As a competitive swimmer I also frequently go to weekend swim meets. My swimming practices are mainly cardio, some strength/speed, a bit of technique, and occasionally fun stuff. If anyone wants more information about my workouts, you can contact me on Facebook, email to luke.lewis95@gmail.com, or comment on the blog. I haven't heard anything more about the trip, except that we got in contact with Cambridge Cycle about bikes. I plan on posting every week on the blog about new updates and workout stuff.

Thanks for reading,
Luke

Intro to my life and EPIC

Hi, I'm Luke Lewis. I recently joined EPIC(Enthusiastically Pedalling for Invisible Children), which is a cross-Canada bike tour to raise awareness and funds for Invisible Children. This tour is going to happen in the summer of 2013.
My training right now consists of swimming 8 times a week, and dryland workouts in the weight room at school during lunch. I plan on joining a biking group in the spring where I can get some professional coaching or tips about group-biking and tours. I also did a lot of biking last summer which is a good start to my training.
I am really excited about joining EPIC and I hope to inform readers about the training and preparations I am doing for this trip.

Happy New Year!
Luke.