Before you look at me all crazy eyed about the title, read on!
I had two races this past weekend, that I’ve been looking forward to for quite a while. The South Shore Half Marathon, and the Single Bong 20k Time Trial. I’ve done the South Shore Half a few times before, but the Bong TT was a new one for me, and it was …
Read More- Was talking with Mary tonight about bikes and stuff. Subject drifted to if what bike I’d want if I had the opportunity to get a new one. I don’t see much difference between frames. I mean an “entry” level frame isn’t that much slower then a “top end frame”. I mean Normann’s new bike the Kueen K wasn’t even designed …
Read More - 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 …
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