It’s back
Sep 4, 2007This upcoming weekend I get to experience something entirely new! I get to go to an Ironman and watch! That’s right – I get to be at an Ironman and just watch! I’m really looking forward to it, but I do have a part of me that really feels a draw to take part in IMWI this weekend – fortunately I’ll be supporting my …
Read MoreLong weekend
Aug 27, 2007I didn’t post about this earlier, but I’ve slightly revised my training plan leading into Hawaii. Due to the fact that I feel I had some issues with consistant quality training earlier this summer, and spent much of it pretty flat, I decided that I was going to spend 5 weeks (counting last week) doing some very …
Read MoreMy Ankles are a bit bruised!
Aug 22, 2007Did my track workout last night – 2k warmup, 8×1000 at Vdot Threshold and interval pace. For the purposes of this workout I estimated my Vdot as 56 based on this chart – based on my IM run and my HIM run I am between a 55 and 56. Being the over-achiever I used 56. So the plan called for 4×1000 on 3:53 on 6:15 total …
Read MoreOpps!
Aug 20, 2007Well the swim didn’t go as planned tonight. Got to the Y only to discover my goggles weren’t in my swim bag – I had left them in the bag I took to the Tri yesterday. I flopped around for a little while and got a nice easy recovery workout and blurry vision! Maybe I needed it!
Read MoreRandom Stuff
Aug 20, 2007A few varied things to talk about – first is vistors, I’m surprised by the number of people who have visited my website – some quick stats (since launch) 1,632 distinct vistors Biggest Month – June – 460 Smallest Month – January – 16 10,000 pageviews Biggest Month – June – 2106 …
Read MoreRest Week!
Aug 8, 2007This week is a rest week – so no crazy training exploits to brag about. Just a realization of how tired I actually am. I almost feel more worn out then I did on Sunday. Last weekend was a very solid training weekend. On Saturday I rode the IMWI course. It was my fastest ride ever on the course (5:24), it wasn’t quite …
Read MoreTough double
Aug 1, 2007Was really hot last night, only put in about 17 miles. Followed it up with a track workout this morning. It’s my first of four prior to Hawaii. This one was 6×1000 meters @ 2 minute rest (4:10/4:08/4:07/4:22/4:18/4:10). Very easy spin tonight.
Read MoreOn the burner
Jul 31, 2007Short update on what the plan for this week is Monday Off Tuesday AM: Broken Ironman distance swim 300,500,3×1000 @ 15 sec rest – swimming time was mid 53 PM: Long run – targetting 18 miles in ~2:20 Wednesday AM: Track workout (1st of 4 before HI) 4×1200 @ 10kish pace PM: Easy bike Thursday …
Read MoreJuly in Review
Jul 31, 2007Here’s a breakdown of my training for july: Swim 41,500 meters 12 hours, 12 minutes Bike 962 miles 50 hours, 55 minutes Run 153 miles (18 planned tonight) 19 hours, 17 minutes (2:20 tonight) Both the bike and the run are my largest volume (distance) 4 weeks of the year, with biking being the biggest timewise by about …
Read MoreSpirit of Racine 2007
Jul 31, 2007Extremely short race report for this one – in the end it was a very solid day. It fellshort of what I had hoped for, but how can you complain when you turn in a time that is a minute off your time from last year and you had an aweful run? No complaints – just a reminder to work on my run. The day started off with my …
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