The rides are starting to get long for the sunday endurance ride on the CompuTrainer. Today was 2.5 hours. I felt pretty good and was able to hold 195 watts for the ride average 18.5 mph. My heart rate stayed mostly in the 140s except for the hill when it went to the 150s. Julie…
Author: Zane Zeeh
Outside Run
Finally made it back outside for a run. It wasn’t a very long one, but it was nice to get out there. I did have a little problem with my Garmin watch. I started it like I normally do and thought it acquired the satellites, it didn’t. A mile into the run I was waiting…
Good Friday Swim
It was a good morning in the pool today, everyone was in pretty early and ready to go. I think today was the first time that I actually finished the same amount of yards as everyone else kicking. Most of the time I get in about half of what everyone else is doing for kick,…
Steady Improvement
Looking back over the last few weeks and months of training I am beginning to see a slow but steady increase in the wattage I’m able to hold, especially for longer periods of time. In the last 6 weeks I’ve climbed from 198 to 223 watts for a 60 minute effort. Hopefully the trend continues!…
The Dreadmill
Yup, had to do it today. The sidewalks and roads were just too dangerous to go out running so I had to use the treadmill. Went down to the Danvers Y and ran for 45 minutes on it before it inexplicably stopped. I took that as a sign I should stop and that was it…
Happy Birthday JP!
The title of this post should really be something like “A man has got to know his limitations” – Clint Eastwood. It was another tough session on the CompuTrainer. The performance improvement program had me increase the load this week on the intervals. The peaks are now 16 watts over what I tested at and…
Superbowl hangover?
I’ve never seen so few people at the pool as this morning. Usually there is at least three or four per the two lanes that we use. Today there were three total for the first half hour! After the normal warmup, pull, kick we started doing 100 pull on 1:30 and that was giving me about…
Last 12 Miles of Lake Placid
I did my endurance ride this morning on the CompuTrainer and started the Lake Placid real course video in Keene, so about a 41.5 mile ride. It was the first time that I did the last 12 miles where the three bears are. The CompuTrainer said that the grade was between 2% and 6%. I…
Lap Swim
Today was one of the easier swims. As I’ve said in the past it seems like friday is a lazy day at the pool. I did our standard warmup, pull, kick and was thinking are we ever going to start the main set today or am I just going to do laps. The first time…
Snow day
I didn’t make it out to run yesterday. The weather has not been very cooperative on my run days so far it is either zero out or snowing. Starting on Tuesday it pretty much snowed right through yesterday afternoon. I wouldn’t mind so much going out for a run in the snow, but I’m a…