Subject: RE: Ford Ironman Wisconsin : Official ThreadFred Doucette - 2010-12-18 7:08 AM Just wondering how everyone is doing? My formal training will start January 1st and I am pretty excited about it. I have still been consistently SBRing, but not so much volume.
Another question? Are the northerners doing the race using a trainer and treadmill or just toughing it outside? I have done both approaches in different years, but have decided to essentially do all my training indoors until March. Maybe the occassional run when it is nice on the weekend afternoon. Curious about other people's approaches. I'm just outside of Philadelphia and have been running in the cold. There's a group of us that are pretty dedicated that run every Thursday morning in and around Valley Forge National Park. On the weekends we head down to the city for longer runs in the Fairmount Park area (the venue for the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon ). I'll bike on the trainer until it warms up and there's more daylight. Right now most of my running is getting done in the dark before work. My official training starts in a week but I've been keeping in shape running and swimming a lot over the past 2 months. I actually got more running mileage in December than any other month in 2010. Pretty sure that won't be the case this year though. Really excited to start this 34 week adventure! - Larry |