Proud, yet Humbled. While I can’t find the exact word to describe my feelings about my race here in Hawaii, the combination of those two words is the closest I can come to putting them into words. Looking back at my race, it was all that I could have hoped for
- a challenging course
- beautiful weather
- great support …
Read More- Did a race sim ride yesterday. 4 hours on the bike + 1 hour run. The bike was spectacular, windy, very windy. Ended up with 83.8 miles in 4 hours. – 20.9 average – my fastest training ride ever. I rode it similar to how I plan to ride in Kona. 135 soft HR cap, 145 hard HR cap. I only exceeded 145 once – was going …
Read More Last night I did my old stand by 48 mile loop followed by a 30 minute run.
I did this exact workout (same route, followed by the same run) an equal time prior to IMAZ.
I did this ride about 7 minutes faster then I did it prior to AZ, and the run was right around 7:00 mpm (versus ~7:30). The ride was hovering just …
Read More- Had a great run last night. I was pretty nervous for it all day, especially with how my legs felt during my swim in the morning. It felt like every flip turn, I was reminded how tired my legs were. It wasn’t painful tired, but a more “If you make us work today, we’ll do the work, but you won’t like it” kind of …
Read More - In 19 days, I’ll be racing in Kona. Last week was a tough week for me mentally, I didn’t feel the greatest in training, I had an urge to do lots of hard work to build my fitness because my race was rapidly approach and I need to get in better shape. Fortunately, cooler minds prevailed and I took some good rest last …
Read More - He had a great admiration for the Spartans, you know the Grecian army people who I remember even as a kid myself, reading some story, I can’t remember whether it was in mythology or some ancient history book anyway, but where a Spartan had stolen a fox and he’d been detected, and rather than get detected and lose face, …
Read More I was going to do this week as a tough week, a near duplicate of last week – but I’m pooped. I did my normal 48 mile loop last night and just didn’t have much pop in my legs – and it’s definately not there today.
So I’m going to follow my original plan for this week and make this a recovery week. Not sure what this …
Read More- Recently on slowtwitch there was a thread where someone was asking for "the secret" to training for a fast Ironman marathon. While my 3:27 and 3:28 IM marathons aren’t the fastest ever – I think that I have a decent understand what it takes to run a good IM marathon. Despite what some people think it’s not …
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