Training Plan

So this week of training went really good. I got a couple good swims, couple hard bikes and easy runs in. This weekend I am going to do a 2.5 hour bike ride as it will probably be the last time I will get to do it in nice weather and enjoy myself. Sunday I will finish up with an hour run and a half hour bike. This week I will have gotten in 8 hours of training, plus 2 hours and 20 min of walking, and 45 min of lifting, also I mowed my lawn last night...finally. So now this brings me to reading over my work out schedule for the next year. This thing is telling me to do this workout in the morning and do this workout in the afternoon. Now the first thing that comes in my head is: "does this morning workout have to be productive?" Last year I tried to do a run and a bike in the morning and it was not going to happen. I spent the time doing them, but I could not do anything more than go through the motions. I do walk in the mornings with my dog for 20-25 min but I dont have to try for that, he just pulls me along. I would have to get up 2 hours before I actually wanted to workout to get my body ready to workout, so now it is 4 am which means I would have to go to sleep the night before at 7pm. This is just not sounding any better. The problem is, is that I have a sleeping disorder called Idiopathic Hypersomnia where basically it is like narcalepsy but I dont have the sudden sleep attacks, but I am always tired and could sleep at anytime so I have to get 9 hours of sleep a night. Some of you probably are thinking, damn I am jealous that you get to sleep so much. Let me tell you, I am jealous of you not having to sleep as much as I have to. It is such a waste of time that I could be enjoying life, but instead I am sleeping. So back to the workout schedule. I decided that I am just going to put in the effort each night after work plus then I only have to convince myself once to go to the gym :) I am kind of looking forward to training this winter and being able to get everything done at one time instead of going to the gym to swim, then going home and changing, then getting the bike ready to go for a ride. It should be more efficient when it is all at the gym. I think running on the treadmill will be a huge relief for my legs from running on concrete all this summer and last winter. Next Monday will be 49 weeks out from Ironman Louisville. I thought about taking some time off, but feel that once I do that, I wont want to workout again, so now I am working out but not nearly as hard as I was. The "professional trainers" say to take this time to work on your weakest disipline, but I feel I did that last year and it made the other two take so much longer to come around and I feel like I have improved so much over this season that I will just keep working on all three and see where that leaves me next year. I really feel that my run has the most potential to get better, but right now my legs couldn't stand pounding out 4-5 runs a week so then that leaves me with a lot of time where I am spent recovering and not being productive. So week 49 will be easy training, week 48 will be my "recovery" week since that week will mostly be craming for my exam at the end of that week and then week 47-41 will be working on building my weekly hours easily so I am ready for week 40 when my training plan starts. I cant wait!! It is going to be hell!!!