Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 111)

I am soooooo very sorry to hear this -- always makes me sad and turns my stomach when I hear about people crashing and crashing badly. I'm VERY GLAD YOU ARE ALIVE and able to communicate with us!! There will always be other years to race, let's hope. Focus on healing your body. Again, really sorry to read this.

I think I'm ready for Kona, weather wise.  Today was 5:30 in the seat.  It was 92 degrees with 50% humidity and 24mph sustained winds with 40mph gusts.  WTF is up with this weather?  I had to totally mash the pedals the whole time to hold my target pace.  So much for a Z2/Z3 ride.  

Over the last 30 hours I've consumed 800 ounces of water and gatorade.  Only peed twice.  Seems healthy, right? 

Our weather in Dallas, SUCKS!!!!

I feel better now.  Party on.

Awesome week!!!!  Jealous.  I'm getting in around 20-22 each week and the weather seems like it is killing my training.  The heat index was 100 today.  You just can train the same in the that kind of weather.  I need to move to Cali.   

same conditions as you in ga 3aims. from my blog today:

"Hilly windy 90 degree solo ride from hell. This was the hardest (and slowest) ride I have ever had for the distance. Just roasted even going slow and tending to hydration." 

Yesterday was a sweatfest. Pee'd like twice all day despite drinking a keg of water.

HR and Power are the most important -- the rest is data (interesting though).

No power for me, so if only 2 fields total mileage and MPH. Not a slave to HR, prefer RPE on race day, and just like to know how far I've been and what pace I'm going at any given moment. Can keep total time on the watch if necessary. 

Current HR and Avg. MPH is what I monitor on bike computer. 

I had a pretty good week and ended up taking both saturday and sunday completely off to take my son camping with the cubscouts.   Friday though I was able to take a longer  than usual afternoon run and knocked out a really easy 13 miles at a pace I am pretty proud of these days.  That run actually gave me a total of 53 miles in 6 days.  Whoa. 

Today was my birthday, so I did a really nice oly distance brick.  Wore my race gear and everything is working as it should.  Best part was that I was a good 20 minutes faster than my last oly race. 

Here's last weeks breakdown:

Swim:  8000 yards

Bike:  80 miles (no long ride, which was a nice change)

Run:  32.5 miles

Current speed and cadence.  Current speed just because I'm constantly curious how fast I'm going.  Cadence because I find if I shift as necessary to keep the cadence around 90, I can take the what the course gives me through the uphills, downhills and flats to maintain a fairly even effort.  If I can show a third on there (which mine does), it would be HR.

Aw man, I'm very sorry that happened to you.  I'm certainly glad it wasn't worse.  I hope your recovery goes well and you are able to get back up to speed as you see fit.  Best wishes for quick healing.

Ouch! Sorry that happened.  I'm sure your CdA plans were flashing before your eyes.  Glad to hear you've been able to make your way back while bringing the great attitude along for the ride!

My quads are officially beat down.

Had an interesting weeekend.  Saturday went and cleaned up tornado damage for 4 hours.  Mostly moving cut down trees into trucks. Very sad to see how much damage some people have suffered.  Glad I could help in a very small way.

Yesterday, ran a very tough 10k that I've been trying to break 50 min on for about 2 years.  There's about 400-500 foot climbing and it was hot.  Was thinking I could do about 47, but ended up at 49 flat.  So I was pretty happy. 

But to really cap off the weekeend, my 6 year old and I ran the subsequent 5k in 37 min.  I was stoked, she was stoked.  She has run them before but always was pretty whiny.  This time, it was nose down, cranking the miles out.  I had set my garmin to do intervals of 1/4 mile run, 1 min walk.  That, plus the jelly beans during the rest intervals, worked perfectly. 

Then my 4 year old and I ran the 1 mile fun run.  She busted out a 10:57 mile.  She was smiling the entire way and only asked to walk twice. 

Very proud of both of my daughters.

Had an ok week of training. I just really wanted to sleep all the time, and didn't have motivation, so I did back off a bit more than I had planned, but it's better to be under trained than over trained. I leave on Wednesday for a tri camp down in AK. It will be some good open water swims, and hills and some fun times with other IMCdA people!

Swim- 6,000 yards 2h20m

Bike-100 miles 5h45m

Run- 15 miles 3h

11h 5m total hours of training

Have about 13 hours scheduled with this camp this week, so that should be good! 26 days!!! OMG!