Just another Friday morning swim at the Andover Y. Lots of talk about when the pond will be warm enough to swim. I know I’m looking forward to it! 500 warmup 500 pull 500 4×125 – IMO 300 4×75 – free, back, breast 400 4×100 – free, back, breast, free 800 4×200 – pull 400…
Author: Zane Zeeh
Quarq Power Meter and other toys
UPS and FedEx have been very busy the last couple of days in Boxford. On Tuesday they dropped off my new Power Meter, the Quarq Cinqo Saturn mounted on a SRAM 975 Crankset. Then on Wednesday they dropped off the X-Lab Wing Kit. I went with the Power Meter on the crank because it seemed…
Easy Run
My legs have pretty much recovered from the half-marathon, but I still took it pretty easy today and did just over 7 miles for an hour run. Kind of chilly out this morning, hands were cold. After yesterday morning when it is practically 60 when I got up this was kind of disappointing. Warmer weather…
Back to Intervals
After a nice relaxing active recovery week last week it is back to killing my legs with short hard intervals. The next 4 weeks training has been set with the results of the CP30 test I did Saturday morning. This first session is supposed to be at 108% effort of the CP30 score, but because my legs are…
Late, short and fast
Forgot to set the alarm for this morning, so I woke up and it was already 5:20. At that point I’m usually just getting ready to hit the water. Instead of showing up late and having to kill myself to keep up without a warmup I decided to go to the Danvers Y for a…
Great Bay Half-Marathon
Had a good run today at the Great Bay half-marathon. Wasn’t sure how it was going to go because I haven’t been running as much as I did last year to get ready for it. I’ve been on the bike a lot more and in the pool, but that doesn’t always translate to better running….
Small Gains
This morning was my CP30 test and was the 4th test I’ve taken. I was able to eek out another gain in watts, but a small one. I guess a gain is a gain and I shouldn’t complain. My last three tests have been 248,254 and 259, gaining about 5 watts per every 4 weeks…
Swimming and race weight
This morning was a pretty easy swim, most showed up late so I had about 1500 yards in before we actually started the workout. Jan was in the pool today so there was no messing around once the workout actually started. 500 – warmup 500 – pull 500 – swim,pull 1000 – 2 x 200…
Spacely Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs
My bike came with an 11-28 cassette and it seemed fine to me, never really paid much attention to the numbers. I just figured bigger one is easier smaller one is harder, let’s ride! Well, for sometime now I’ve noticed that when I would shift from the middle of the cassette up I would lose…
The run report
Went out on the usual Wednesday morning run with Julie. We have been doing 7 miles for the past couple of weeks now. Usually do about and 8:15 pace. At mile 2 there is a pretty good hill and I usually push up it pretty hard and then slowly jog while Julie catches up on…