It seems like forever now since I completed Ironman Florida back in early November. At this point, I am well into the offseason, and feeling a certain set of challenges that we all as Ironman triathletes feel. Every year I feel the same thing, so I’m quite versed at how to deal with it, but […]
Bike FTP testing completed…
It’s been an up and down kind of week for training, as of my last post here, I was moving forward with an automated training program called TriDot. I’ve since been turned off a bit to it as I read many of the reviews on it (not terribly positive) and I feel like its missing […]
Go anaerobic everyday …
I somehow find myself being inspired these days by an 80-year old Ironman triathlete named Lew Hollander. I first saw his profile on last Decembers Ironman triathlon championship in Kona, Hawaii that I had on the DVR (and have since watched several times since). Since I watched it so many times, I just had to […]
soreness is bliss ..
I can’t say that my body is feeling any better after a recovery week, but the way I built my training plan, I guess I couldn’t expect to feel too rested. I don’t have another recovery week until the week of the Doylestown duathlon on April 9th, which is in just 5 short weeks, so […]
what a recovery week …
It seems that my first week of recovery in my triathlon training program has left me with sore knees, a sore back and a sore tailbone (no jokes please). Even though i’m supposed to be taking it easy, I still did the circuit workout with Stacey on Tuesday morning, which was just brutal .. we […]
had a good week …
I’d have to say that so far, this has been the best week of conditioning/base training i’ve had since I started back in mid-November. I guess its because I can feel myself getting stronger and better at the different things i’m doing, plus I think I have a pretty good mix of things that i’m […]
It pays to practice …
Its funny how dedicating yourself to trying something new can be so rewarding. During Wednesday mornings swim workout, I actually felt like a swimmer .. it was kind of like that moment when I started running so many years ago when it stopped being work and started being enjoyable. I still have a lot more […]
weekly wrap-up
I finished a pretty tough week although its still left me wanting more. I started doing the boot camp twice this past week and plan to continue to do it twice a week because I think I get a lot of value out of it. There really is a big difference between doing it at […]
It only gets better
I somehow had this thought that the off season, or what I call my conditioning period, would be easier than marathon training would be. So after a few weeks of doing conditioning, I’ve found that this certainly is not the case. My body is aching is spots that I never even knew existed, but I […]
its conditioning time ..
Its been two weeks now since the OBX marathon, and the next chapter in my training has begun. The first noticeable change is that my blog has changed in a few ways … how you might ask? Well, first I converted from b2evolution to WordPress today and then also merged the two blogs I had […]