“Fuckity fuck fuck.”
“This is such a disappointment.”
“I need to get off this bike.”
“I need a hug.”
These are all words that have come out of my mouth in the last 36 hours or so. All of them the result of Ironman Hawaii and my poor performance. I don’t want to dwell more than a paragraph or two on Kona; If it isn’t …
Read MoreWell my writing time last week was devoted to documenting the results of my wetsuit testing, so I didn’t get around to doing the weekly update, so this one is a twofer.
While I seem to have solved the swim issue, my bike fit continues to be a work in progress, after playing around with shortening the reach and it …
Read More- Barely made this update before the end of the week after it’s updating. It’s been a busy week this week. Between work and family activities, I haven’t had a lot of free time. After pondering a lot last week about my swimming and the potential impact of a wetsuit I’ve decided that I’m going to do some testing. I’m …
Read More - This past week was a really solid one. It ended with a good performance at Elkhart Lake. I’m really happy about how the race went. It wasn’t without it’s negatives – I was a bit sad faced about my bike split when I compare it to James/Blake/Andrew, but this was probably my best Olympic distance result in at least 4 …
Read More - This week was a very solid week. I successfully pulled my reach in a fair bit, and have been really happy with the results in how I feel on the bike, my power output, and how much my hip flexors have relaxed. I’m going to make the cut on the bars, which are currently uncut tri-rig extensions, although maybe I could …
Read More - This week I spent a lot of time focusing on my bike posture – I did some reading/searching about bike position, power loss and power sustainability. The highlight of what I found is summed up pretty well in an article by Steve Hogg. The synopsis of it is that our brains can only recruit so much muscle when you are …
Read More In an effort to try and jump start my blog updates, which I find to be very cathartic, I’m going to try and post a weekly summary of my training. Being the week after an Ironman, this week was primarily focused on sleep and gluttony.
Monday was a zero, which was followed by a slow and easy 20 minute run on the …
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