Here’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week:
- Monday, August 22: Biked 10.6 miles in 52 minutes 29 seconds.
- Tuesday, August 23: Biked 10.4 miles in 44 minutes 4 seconds.
- Wednesday, August 24: Biked 10.6 miles in 51 minutes 3 seconds.
- Thursday, August 25: Rest.
- Friday, August 26: Mowed lawn for 1 hour 43 minutes 1 seconds.
- Saturday, August 27: Officiated hockey for 1 minutes 47 seconds 4 seconds; Officiated hockey for 1 hour 41 minutes 6 seconds.
- Sunday, August 28: Officiated hockey for 1 hour 6 minutes 33 seconds.
This week hockey got underway in a pretty significant way for me. Early in the week, I got three 10 mile bike rides in, then rested on Thursday because I knew the rest of the week was going to be intense. I did my usual lawn maintenance tasks on Friday.
I officiated in a Junior hockey tournament in Exton, PA on Saturday. I refereed the first game and worked as a linesman in the second. On Sunday, I participated in the annual USA Hockey Level 4 Officiating Training Seminar put on by the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association. In order to maintain my certification as a referee at the Junior age level and qualify to participate as a referee in a USA Hockey National Championship, each year I must attend a Level 4 officiating training seminar each year and pass graded skating proficiency and rules knowledge test.
For the week, I exercised for 8 hours 45 minutes burning 6,893 calories, and covering a total of 31.4 miles on my bike. This is about the same number of miles on the bike as last week, but the number of calories burned in exercise doubled. This is an indication of why I need to increase the intensity and duration of my training for the first few weeks of September.