Ironman Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 35)

Glad to hear your son's okay!  You've had a fun month or so (weren't you sick?).

Thanks. Yes, it was a pretty eventful month. Oldest has had some weird infection that turned into an abscess. Seriously disgusting. Youngest and I both had the flu.

What's funny is according to my coach I'm pretty much dead on track with training. except I need to get some work done on my swim form. Given level of conditioning and volume I should be faster than 2:25/100m. Another problem to solve.

Feeling pretty spent today.  Was feeling good yesterday until I woke up today.

Tough week so far on the legs and it's not going to get easier! 

Sun: half marathon
Tues: 1.5 hill repeat and high cadence work and 3 mile run
Wed: 11 mile interval run

Feeling a bit tired and wishing I had a roller at work!!  

So quiet here. Starting to stress about Boston and doing a marathon on low mileage. Also was stressing about not making much progress in the pool speed-wise, so swallowed my pride and went to Masters swim last night for the first time. Posted about it in tri-talk, it was a great experience. Shared the lane with a guy who just got back from doing Escape from Alcatraz and had done LP last year.

20 miler on tap for tomorrow and it's supposed to snow/sleet/rain. Every $%@& Saturday I have a long run, like clockwork. I've already done an 18 miler and a 20 miler on the treadmill this winter, it's utterly miserable.

Are you kidding me? On a treadmill?! Put me under...

The gym is at least 70 degrees, so doubly miserable. I had to stop twice to refill my 22oz water bottle. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person at that gym ever to eat Gu on the treadmill.

sheesleeva I have an extra room. PM me and I can give you the details.

Agreed with basketball on the TV; so easy to watch.  And I have the occasional gu as well...

Nice TM run, Brian. I hate the TM ... no way I could stay on that long.

Had a pretty good first week back from my Giardia induced break. Missed a run and a swim, but I'm please to have returned to active training.

Swim: 2 hours
Bike: 4.5 hours
Run: 3 hours
Total: 9.5

Heading out for 15 on the road (running) in a bit ... legs are feeling yesterday's ride/run, so they'll be easy miles. 

A friend of mine just got a cancellation (she was on a waiting list) at Art Deviln's a week or so ago.  She gave up her room at the Best Western.  Not sure if they had a waiting list or if it might still be available.  Good luck!

Brian, killer TM workout!  That takes dedication I'm not sure I have.  I've done 16k on it before, but I think that was my limit.

I just got home from Curacao last night.  It was so nice to train outside and to have fishies to watch while I swam.

This week's totals:

Swim - 4h

Bike - 12h (my coach took full advantage of me being somewhere warm!)

Run - 3h20m

Strength - 3h

Big week for me!

Thanks all for the kind words. One more week of long runs and then taper. Bib numbers were posted this past week, and the race is exactly 4 weeks from tomorrow. I am starting to feel good and getting excited to run this race. I just need to keep doing the piriformis stretches now that I got a twinge. My old nemesis, fades but comes back to say hello once I get over 40mpw.

Not a good week for cycling, but a great week for running and swimming. Middle of March and 29k yards in the pool, I thought it would have been impossible. I'll try and bang out some more time on the trainer later, but with the kids and all it might not happen. Coach keeps telling me not to worry, but having rode LP last year, I am!