- A lot been going on lately. Some decent training, a couple of races (well one). I did a 5k this past weekend. Last year I did this race a month before Ironman Arizona. I went 18:41 for the race, this year in what I would term good shape, but not world beater shape, I went an 18:22. It’s about 6 seconds faster then …
Read More - Last night I set a new record for observed HR while biking – 165!. Talk about crazy, previous the highest I had even observed was 163. Once upon a time seeing that HR while biking would mean I was close to blacking out with effort. It came during the 15 minute rep of a workout that consisted of 20, 15, 10, 5 minutes …
Read More Training is going good. Last week was pretty good, not great, but had a planned hiccup last week that threw Thursday and Friday off, but all’s good.
Saturday was a big swim, 5,250 meters (5×500 @ 7:15 was main set). Sunday was a 3 hour ride with a 4 mile run. Averaged ~229 watts (removing 20 minute warmup), run was …
Read MoreSo I’ve spent a long time hemming and hawing over how to train this year. Something new? The old reliable? What?
Well I spent a bit of time looking at my training log for my 3 tri seasons to date, done a lot of reading, and thinking. And I’ve come up with a basic strategy that will work and [hopefully] give me …
Read More- For a couple of years I have watched various internet forums and personal blogs rant and rave about powermeters. For various reasons, a couple of years ago I decided I wanted/needed a powermeter. Those reasons ranged from I want to be one of the cool kids with bling, to I’m a total geek and to be able to know all …
Read More Did a bike fitness test last night. It was great timing. It was time for one, and my newly purchased SRM arrived. After installing it and getting everything going I did the test. I followed the same protocol as last time.
The result was 21.1 mph average (not sure if I selected the right rollout for my wheel), 313 …
Read MoreAs a follow up to my swim fitness test back in December I did another one this morning. Bit of a different warm-up
- 200 Swim-Kick-Swim
- 8×50 Drill
- 12×25 (world’s greatest transition)
- 1×1000 TT
Final time was 13:10, just shy of where I had hoped to be when I did this about 7 weeks ago – was aiming for sub 13. I am …
Read MoreThere are parts of triathlon that I love and hate. Not surprisingly this is how most things in life are. Today I’m writing mostly about things I dislike in triathlon – I’ll save the love stuff for another snowy day!
I straddle two worlds in my day to day life. One being an uber geek – serving as systems admin in a …
Read More- On the surface Triathlon (and athletics in general) is an endeavor of the human body and mind to see how is the fastest, fittest, or strongest (and sometimes other attributes) depending on the sport. While this is true, sport is ultimately something more then that. It is really nothing more then project management …
Read More Finally had a week where I got everything in last week. There were a few sessions where I didn’t get the amount I wanted, but I got them all!
Total for the week was 13 hours, 59 minutes. Pretty good for January I think. Going to shoot for a little bit higher this week and then slowly build to 18 or so hours and then …
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