The week ending March 4th, was a awesome week for me training wise. It topped the scales at a little over 25 hours total volume. Here’s how it broke down: Swim: 13,850 SCM – 4:20 Bike: 237 miles – 13:20 (all on the trainer) Run: 40 miles – 5:32 Strength/Flexibility: 2:09 This was a great …

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Had a decent workout last night, and a great swim this morning. Last night I did 2 hours on the trainer followed by a 30 minute run. Both were at a very easy pace – which was good because I had a very hard time elevating my HR, I think I was still pretty tired from Tuesday nights run. I also came pretty close to …

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Well it’s crunch time – not for training, but for my website, since tomorrow is a new month, the blog archive feature will kick in, and all of these posts will disappear from the main page and Feburary, 2007 will show up in the archive box to the right – that’s all well and good except I don’t have the archive display …

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I was visiting a website today, that of another amatuer triathlete Mark Gingrich, and I remembered a thread on TNO (Trinewbies) a while back, where Mark was hasseled pretty badly for having a nice website, and claiming to be an elite triathlete. While I may or may not consider Mark an elite triathlete (We’d give each …

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Monday is my “recovery day” and my long swim day. I do a 90 minute swim or so and try to get in about 5k SCM in that time. This morning I did two main sets: Main Set #1 4×150 @ 2:15 Main Set #2 2×200 @ 3:00 2×400 @ 6:00 1×800 @ 12:00 2×400 @ 6:00 2×200 @ 3:00 Made for a …

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About a month ago I made the decision to go ahead with my training and race Ironman Arizona on my powercranks. In the back of my mind a small amount of doubt over this decision has crept in – some of it related to “Am I faster on them”, “Can I ride 112 miles strongly on them”, “Can I ride 112 miles in aero?”, etc. As I …

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It’s amazing what a short stretch of nice weather will do for your mental state. We’ve had a couple nice days here in Milwaukee – nice enough to ride outside. So for the first time in over a month I was able to suit up and go for a ride outside. It wasn’t the fastest ever, but I enjoyed it like not other – the wind in …

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So far training this week has been A-OK. It’s a rest week for me, so I don’t do anything super long, but most of my other workouts are the same. Last night was beautiful, about 35 degrees (F), which for February in Wisconsin, is awesome. Did an 8 mile run in 59:18 – which is 7:24 mpm, which is really good. Had a great …

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55 days. That’s all that stands between me and Ironman Arizona. 3 weeks of hard training, a rest week, 2 weeks of taper/intensity, and then it’s race week. It’s coming fast, maybe a bit faster then I’m prepared for, but I’ll be ready. This past week was a pretty good week for training, I got a long run in, a long ride, …

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For some people fear is a demotivator, something that causes them to freeze up. For others pressure causes this same reaction, everyone is different. Personally, in some situation pressure causes me to freeze, while in others it doesn’t – same with fear; sometimes it’s my worst enemy other times I welcome it. Last year …

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