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…
Category: Ironman Lake Placid
These are all the posts related to training and racing Ironman Lake Placid.
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…
Active Recovery!
This week is an Active Recovery week for the bike performance improvement program. I’ve been kind of looking forward to it. So today was a 45 minute ride at no more than 60% of my CP30 or threshold power. So, yeah, it was pretty easy! My heart rate average was 120 for the ride. Looking…
Monday swim
Had a good swim this morning. Short fast intervals again. although the first 500 seemed to be just one long set! I barely had any rest at all on that one, but after that I was fine. For the first 3 months of the year I’ve done 84,750 or 48 miles swimming twice a week….
Dehydrating on long rides and the week ahead
Today was another long endurance on the CompuTrainer. Again at the 3 hour mark my legs started to feel tired. Last week when it happened I thought it might be nutrition, but I seems to be taking in plenty of calories. This week though, I tried doubling up the Perpetuem in 2 of the bottles…
Short Run
Did a short run with Julie today to help her finish up her 20 mile training run for the Boston Marathon. We held a 8:40 pace for the 6.5 miles, not bad for her considering she had already done 13.5. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/75154227 Weight: 165.6
Swim Sprints
I enjoyed the swim workout today, everything was pretty short distance. So even though I’m working hard it is only for a short period of time and then I get to rest 🙂 I was pretty beat after the 75, 50 and 25s though so 200 pull was more of a cool down for me….
More long Intervals
This morning was another good Session 2 workout. My heart rate slowly made it’s way up to just below 160 for the first 20 minute interval and was pretty much at 160 for the entire second interval. My legs felt pretty good this morning starting out. I noticed that if I make an effort to…
The running zone
Out for a run this morning with Julie. We pretty much ran the entire 7 mile loop at Julie’s pace. There is a hill on the loop just as we start mile 3 and I pushed it there and she dropped back a bit, but caught back up on the downhill. This was a pretty…