Cold and miserable, pretty much describes my run this morning. Going out I didn’t think it was going to be too bad because it just seemed to be raining lightly on the drive to the gym. Once I got out on the road though, the wind was driving it right at me and along with…
Category: Ironman Lake Placid
These are all the posts related to training and racing Ironman Lake Placid.
Getting warm in the garage
Spent another Tuesday morning in the garage on the CompuTrainer. This session was another set of short intervals. I felt pretty good this morning, heart rate was going between 160-163 for the last few minutes of each interval and would quickly recover to 130s before the next interval. Intervals were 6 minutes long, so not…
Getting closer to pond season!
Pretty good swim this morning, but more importantly we are getting closer to getting back in the pond. George stopped by with the official horse thermometer and took a reading of 48 degrees. I’m thinking maybe 6 or 7 more degrees and we’ll be good to go! 500 warmup 500 pull 300 drill 200 free…
Finally outside for a long ride
Finally made it outside for a long ride and what a nice day to be out on the bike. Started out a little chilly at 40 degrees, but easily was in the 50s an hour later. Good thing it was a nice day as our group was all over the place today, some of us…
Test ride outside
Tomorrow is the first long ride outside and I needed to make sure that everything was in working order and it is quite nice out today. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as nice. Went for a short 10 mile ride and it was good to get out and actually ride on the road. The new…
Another Friday Swim
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…
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…
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…