We are up here in Lake Placid, NY for the training weekend. Long drive from MA in the pouring rain, but not too bad. At around 4:30 after we put all our stuff in the rooms we headed down to Mirror lake for a swim. The first thing you notice is that they have lane…
Category: Ironman Lake Placid
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No long run this Wednesday
Heading to Lake Placid this weekend and will be doing a long run over the weekend so today was just a swim and short run. I was going to do a double but ended up taking pictures of the pond for about 20 minutes so just did a single crossing instead. Then ran 5 miles…
Legs still sore
My legs are still a little sore from the half-ironman this past weekend so my ride wasn’t as hard as I was planning for it to be. Still it was a good ride, started out slow and rode the first half the ride in a gear less than I really wanted to be in. That…
Back to training for IMLP
Went to the pond with the idea of doing a double this morning. Water temp was 72 and I was cold after 1 crossing without the wetsuit, so instead of freezing myself I cut that short and headed out for a little bit longer run than I planned. I had intended to only run 5,…
Patriot Half Ironman Review
Saturday morning was the Patriot Half-Ironman. It’s a good warmup race and a good point to figure out where I am with my training for the Ironman. Learned plenty of things from this race. Hopefully I will be able to correct them for Ironman. The Swim I was in the last wave for the swim,…
A different bike workout
I tried something different this morning on the bike. I wanted to start out with a hard effort going as fast as I could out and on the way back ride at a more comfortable pace. Well, I accomplished the second part by not the first. I should have been paying more attention to my…
Slow swim and fast run
After taking the day off yesterday I was back at the pond this morning. Checked my e-mail early and saw that Karen was up for a double this morning so I got down to the pond at 4:45. I had not planned on a double for today but figured I would join her for the…
Rainy weekend but a nice pond morning
The weather wasn’t very nice this weekend. I went out for a ride early Saturday morning to get some extra miles in. Wasn’t a very hard pace it was good to get out before the rains came. Did another 40 on Sunday in the rain and called it a day. This morning it was a…
Nice pond morning
Met Jan and Karen at 4:45 for a double at the pond this morning. It turns out that I have a much faster wetsuit than Jan does. We did the usual double this morning but without the Neo, she just left me in her wake. I thought I was feeling pretty good this morning too. Went…
Swim on the bike?
The day started out nice. Biked down to the pond and the sun was rising up over the pond. Looked like it was going to be a beauty of a morning. Then about halfway across the pond it seemed awful dark and the sun was gone. By the time we reached the other side you…