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…
Category: Triathlon
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…
Are you mentally ready?
This morning I was on the CompuTrainer once again and doing intervals. If you recall from the last time I did this half way through the second set I just fell apart. The last 10 minute interval was even worse, probably made it 3 minutes into it before I just couldn’t keep pace. All week…
Morning swim
Had a good swim workout at the pool this morning. The 500 hundred sets were tough, the first not too bad, but the next two were tough. The second and third were harder because I really pushed it on the 50 sprints. Even though we were doing the 50s on a minute I was getting…
Another Endurance Ride
Today was another Endurance ride on the CompuTrainer. This was the first ride with the new Heart Rate cable from CompuTrainer. I had been having problems with my HR disappearing during the ride or not even having one at all. After an e-mail to the folks at Racermate they sent me out one of the…
Back in the pool
Felt good to be back at the pool. Slow start on a Friday again, so I got a few extra yards in during the warmup as people slowly drifted in. The lane was packed though by the time we started the main set. 750 warmup 600 pull 250 kick 300 300 3×100 300 4×75 300 6×50 300 3×100 300…
Vacations are bad
Yup, that’s right, vacations are bad. It doesn’t take much to lose any gains in fitness and vacations seem to accelerate those loses. Probably for two reasons, poor diet on vacation and less exercise. Sure, you will get physical activity in walking around Disney and you might even get out for a run, but most…
Can we get some more snow please?
This morning was a run day. I was seriously contemplating getting on the treadmill this morning when I looked at the temperature in my truck and it read 2 degrees. Thinking about how cold it was and how there isn’t much room to run because the sidewalks are not always cleared I was setting myself…
Too Much Ice Cream
Well, today was the first day back working out since the trip to Florida. I really paid the price this morning for not having been on the CompuTrainer in 12 days. I had already decided before I left that I would repeat the week 6 workout for the PIG program. It was a good thing…