Upgrades all around

I'm now into Build 1 Week 1, and it's upgrades all around. I start a muscular endurance plan for swimming this week that builds to 1x1500yds in 20minutes. I'm starting at 3x500 in 8 minutes with 2 minute rest. I know I can hit these intervals, but I need to make sure my body can handle the overall increase in volume. I also upped the weight in all of my weight lifting routines. On the bike, I move to 3 sets of 23 minutes, up from 4 sets of 17 minutes, both with two minutes rest. I hope to hit four runs of five miles each this week, up from three runs in previous weeks.

Sunday was a Sufferfest. I improved in categories: gearing, HR, and cadence. I'm quite excited about it. I realized that the muscular endurance plan is more than the Sufferfest, but the Sufferest is an all-out 20 minutes (it's a Spinnerval DVD workout on the trainer).

Sunday night was a rough night with Paul, so I didn't get up for PT in the morning. Instead, I shifted the morning workout to after work. I ran five miles at lunch really easy. I realized that I wouldn't be able to swim after work because lap swim doesn't start until 6pm. So all I did was a lift, but I increased the weights all around to the "next up" level. I'm writing this Tuesday night, 24 hours after the weight lifting workout, and I'm a bit sore from that workout still. Interesting for sure. I didn't expect to be sore just from a 10% or less increase, but here it is. We'll see how I do tomorrow morning after I swim 3x500 and then try the same weights.

I got in a bit of a bike workout today, but not what expected. Paul cooperated a little bit but definitely interrupted things. Plus, my legs were sore from the weight lifting, and turned out they were tired, too. So, I ended up doing more of a recovery ride than anything else. 45 minutes at heart rate of 127, with easy gears and cadence. I turned it into a chance to practice good form for 45 minutes.

Who is this Paul guy who keeps interrupting my bike rides, sleep, work, and other things?

Is he the coolest dude on earth or what?