Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 4)

June 21 is 5 months away!!

How's the training coming? 

My December was a little light, but January is turning out pretty well.  My IM training plan starts in a few short weeks. 

5 months???  Shoot that's plenty of time.  Move over and make some room on the couch.  I don't have to start moving for at least a couple of months.  

Does that couch have a motor???

I'm not really sure how my training is going, it is very different than what I have done in the past.  This is week 15 of 16 for my Endurance Nation "Out Season" plan that focuses more on harder efforts with less volume in order to increase your bike and run thresholds.  I was doing pretty good until the holidays and then got derailed for two weeks.  January has been good but my run intervals have not gotten back to where they were pre holidays.  Another oddity with Endurance Nation is there is no swimming during the Out Season so I haven't been in the pool since July!

In two weeks I'll start transitioning to more of their season type training that does have swimming and starts off with a couple of 3 hour bikes per weekend plus some shorter midweek interval work.  I guess that is when I'll see if I completely boogered up the last few months or not.

I've done a half marathon the last 3 Super Bowls but will not be doing that this year.  I can't say I'm too disappointed.  Hopefully I'll be able to keep a high level of focus through cda with my true training starting so much later in the year.

February 1 is 20 weeks out.  If you are planning to do well at CDA, you might want to start getting more serious (unless of course you are already into more serious mode)...

'09 baby....its gonna be huge!

I have been going through ART for my Plantar Fascitis, it has helped tremendously. That in combination with regular stretching. I am back to running, 3 x per week mixing intervals, tempo and a long run. So far so good, much less pain. I am doing strength and core training on days I can't get out. Weather hasn't cooperated for road riding but I have gotten out on my mountain bike pretty regularly and ridden the trainer at least once per week. I am about where I need to be right now. Hoping for a early, dry, warm spring to get my mileage in on the bike.

So far so good!!! 

Official IM training begins today for most of us today!  We are now 20 weeks away.  Who is ready to crank it up?  How did everyone do in January?

January was a good month for me with lots of bonding time between my hiney and my saddle.  Let's keep rolling! 

I wanted to get my January bike total over 400 miles, but x-c ski training cut into that a little.  After ski races are over on Feb. 22 I can crank it up. Swimming.....ummmmmm

I'm working my way thru a personal 100 day training challenge.  So far it is going ok.  January totals were:

Bike = 28h 32m
Run = 17h 26m
Swim = 9h 35m

February plan look like just a little more than January with a focus on dropping some weight.

January training went pretty well for me.  I had one week where I had a cold and cough and that cut into training.  Overall fairly pleased, want to get the bike and swim miles up more in February.

Rehabbing my heel and lousy weather have really cut my running and riding but i am feeling much better now. If the weather breaks early i'll be boosting all of it up quickly!

Well ... I thought I was going to be FAR FAR  behind, in comparison, to the group hours posted thus far, for the month of January, at first glance... but I've actually done well! (yay). Swim... oh yeah... slacked on +++swim sessions; and some slack at the end of Jan. on week nights due to work, etc.,  but I've made up what I could on wknds for slack days.  My legs have gained a lot of strength and my bike endurance is way better than it was, but I need to get on with some OWS as well as road riding/running.... which will soon come as training increases. This is alll with working FT and being a single mummy!

Here are my #s

Jan Totals

Last week of January was the start of more running; 4 weeks in the books and 20 to go.  Definitely ahead of last year.

2000 yard swim this morning (in place of the 1700 yards on the plan for tomorrow.  A 12-mile run tonight/tomorrow, an 8-10 mile run tomorrow/Sunday, and a 2-hour ride (trainer) on Sunday. 

3000 Yard swim this morning and an hour ride tonight

7 Mile run tomorrow

2 Hour ride with a 15 minute brick run on Sunday (assuming it isn't snowing, then the run get's scraped)

January was GREAT...way ahead of last year at this time in quality/quantity

Wow! Looking at all the totals from January was impressive.  You guys have a lot of good training going on.  Of course, you've made me realize how far behind I am.

My wife and I got back from Afghanistan a few days ago and we're in the process of getting settled in.  The bikes are at the shop getting serviced and we got our pool membership today.  Jorge is going to need to kick our butts into shape if we're going to be ready for this thing.

Is four months enough time?  I don't know, but we'll find out!