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Hit 8.25 miler today at 8:25/mi pace.  I hit just shy of 20 miles this week for a recovery week. 

Next weeks goals:

weigh 190 on Jan 1 2013.  currently at 193.

Run 26-28 miles next week with a 9.5 mi. long run.

s/b 2x.  30 min swims around 1200-1400yds, and spin bike for 50 min.

Drink no more than 2 tasty, quality 22 oz. bevi's.

Report on last week's goals:

• Increase my running totals by running 4x this week.  Only ran 3x
• Sign up for a yoga class. 
• Continue to log my calories so I don't end up eating dozens of oreos.  3 pounds lost for the month (and I still managed to sneak some oreos!

This week's goals:

1. 2 hours of stretching/Ice 5x 
2. Yoga 2x
3. Continue to record calories.  Maintain a deficit for the week
4. Sign up for races with pre new years day discount

Ian - Glad to have you back and good on your for eating right this week!  Although, if hospital food has been your only option, eating right may have been out of self-preservation

Good luck on your goals.  I'm drinking a raspberry fruit beer in your honor (St. Ambroise Framboise - it's a beer out of Canada any of you Canucks tried it?)

Got a nice 3.64m run in today.  Felt real good the whole entire way, no pain,aches, or soreness.  Also had a chance to fire up my son's xbox with the Nike+ Kinect.  Let me start by saying this was crazy fun!  It was like I had my own personal trainer.  If my chest was forward on a squat I was told to straighten it up.  When my form was bad I was showed how to correct it.  I am a bit of a video game nerd and to actually play a game AND get in shape at the same time is right up my alley.  I thought this is going to be silly, boy was I wrong.  I actually feel like I got a heck of a workout off it.  When I started it had me do range of motion and then a fitness test to see where my fitness is currently and what exercises to add.  Now I have my very own personal set of workouts set based on my ability that change as I progress.  Pretty cool

Great job on the run!!!  I'm going to have to check-out that game.  I love those sorts of things and would love to do a bit more strength training.

I've been trying to force my hand a bit on some bike training.  I really want to make an effort to increase all my training distances this year.  So, I'm considering adding a bike only event to give me something to train towards (run is covered and I'm working on the swim).  Do you think this is insane?  Ultimately, I'd love to have completely half-iron distances in all 3 events by the end of the year so I could be well positioned to do a half-iron next year.

• January - Training
• February - Princess HM
• March - Training
• April - Diva Tri-a-Tri
• May - Calgary HM
• June - Chinook Oly
• July - Training
• August - Medio Fondo - 100km (??????)
• September - December - Training

Now that the baby is older, I'll have a lot more time for training next year so the increased training necessary should be doable.  I figure if I can get my long bike distances to 70km before the Chinook Oly that by mid-August I should be able to get up to 100km.  I'm not currently particularly fast but because they are running a Gran Fondo at the same time, I'd have 8.5 hours to finish the distance and, I'm not THAT slow.  

AWESOME!  Well done on your goals!!  Congrats on the weight loss too.  Losing weight in December is impressive.  

Great training everyone!

This weeks goal:

stick to my training plan. My HM got me off the bike for a while. I also canceled my 2nd gym membership to justify buying a tri bike. The 2nd gym had a great spin class but it was hard to justify the cost especially as I try to convince my wife that I need another bike. My plan is to get a fairly entry level tri bike, trainer and use sufferfest vids and maybe trainer road. 

Speaking of bike. I finally got back on it for a good ride. I am in East Texas right now and the hills out here are pretty intense for me. I think not doing spin class for a month also got me. Anyways, great 2.5 hour ride on my mountain bike. Dog that bit me last time came out to say hello. I had a piece of PVC pipe in my hand this time and that seemed to stop him from clamping on.

Let's all keep moving.

Happy New Year all and enjoy some good beers.

(I need to make a beer run today. The beer store out here is pretty hilarious. It will be interested what I can get. Bud light with lime is sometimes the fanciest thing they have....does that count as a fruity beer?)

Happy New Years all,

I start my official training for Ironman Lake Placid today. Got an hour on the bike but the pool was closed at 5am when I showed up this morning. Wasn't too pleased about that but I will make it up tomorrow.

Plans this week:

                         Run- Half Marathon on Saturday

                         Swim- at least 2 hours- work on drills, bilateral breathing

                         Bike- 4 hours- saddle time, saddle time , saddle time- have to get the but used to being on the bike

                         weight- lose 2lbs - Currently at 297.5 this morning.

Do you have a cycle trainer? They are great for winter riding at home! If you can ride 40k, you can ride 100k in 8.5 hours no problem! Where is teh medio fondo? Does it go through the foothills?

I also added a sprint tri for you in July to end the tri season off for you...

After racing an Oly, I find it is a blast finishing the season off with a sprint, it really hammers home all the training you have done.

Are you buying a tri bike or road bike with tri bars? What brand are you looking at? What kind of trainer? 

Bud light lime....better then coors lite!

Nice job on the training! What is the date on your race?

Well the restart button for me is quickly arriving! Wednesday morning, back at it. 

Plans for the month on January are 3 runs/3 bikes per week. I may download a sufferfest video and see how that goes!

Now that the weather has smartened up, I have been on the outdoor rinks playing shinny with my family. Love hitting the rinks when the weather is nice!

Tonite going to friends house for overnighter...yikes. Good-they have a back yard rink(acreage) Bad-5 families staying over...

Going with my standard Phillips hop box and picked up a 6pk of cable car IPA, I think out of Rochester, NY...

Happy new year everyone!

Thanks, although I have a full schedule everything is geared towards Lake Placid in July. After that just finishing up the year with a local HIM and then to meet up with a friend and do B2B together.

This is my schedule for 2013

06-01-2013 Rev3 Quassy - Olympic Distance- Middlebury, CT

06-02-2013 Rev3 Quassy - Half Iron- Middlebury, CT

06-30-2013 North Country Triathlon - Half Iron Distance- Hauge NY

07-28-2013 Ironman Lake Placid - Lake Placid NY

09-01-2013 Big George Half Ironman- Lake George NY

10-26-2013 Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon- Wilmington NC

that is a a boat load of racing! My wife would kill me if i tried to to do that! 

I would be somewhat concerned about injury with so many long races. 

LOL!  Thanks!!  How did I miss that Sprint on there?    Actually, you have a good point that a Sprint would be a nice way to finish things out.  Unfortunately, we're going to be in Vancouver that weekend visiting the in-laws.  Actually, my husband is doing the Subaru Vancouver Oly that weekend.  Maybe I'll do the Sprint if Grandma and Grandpa are up for watching the kids.  

The medio fondo is in picturesque Nanton.    It does go through some sort of hills - there's quite a bit of elevation gain.  I gather it's pretty - Grand Fondo Rockies.

We have a computrainer so my plan is to ride all winter and get built up.  I finally got the tension set properly and got it correctly configured so I'm cycling close to my actual speed.

Our pool is doing stupid hours too.  That sucks that you were there at 5 though and couldn't swim.  

I totally missed you were doing IMLP!  I hear that's an awesome one!!  Best of luck on your goals this week.  How is the spontaneous HM training going?  I think I'd be weepy all run - I bet that will be a very powerful event.

That sounds like an awesome way to kick in the new year!  And great that you managed to get out and doing some exercise with the family!!