- 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 …
Read More - I think I may have used that subject once already, but it’s OK. I’m currently 32 days out from Kona – it’s coming fast, but before I blabber on to much about my stuff – I just want to say how proud I am of my wife, Mary, and how well she did at IMWI two days ago. She went 12:33, and finished as the 124th women! She …
Read More - This 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 More - I 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 More Did 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 …
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