Ironman Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 42)

After a long break from the group i figured I would join back up. Had my first run at the full distance swim since last year at Lake Placid and have gone from a 1:20 swim to a 1:04 yesterday morning! So happy with that as I come from an absolutely zero swimming background. Glad I took those swim lessons to learn a proper technique this winter!

In other news I was pumped to finally get outside for my long bike on saturday as this week has been in the 50's/60's all we and they are calling for 30's and thunderstorms now... time to find another movie to watch while i ride the trainer...

Nice work!  I wish I could drop a few.  I wanted to drop a few to begin with, and then ended up gaining some over the winter!  Nothing seems to work for me lately.

I just looked at my count down app on my phone today. 100 days and counting until cannon time. Yikes!!

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That's insane!  I'm inspired to do a FTP test now.  Will have to wait until next Wed / Thru since I'm on the Fink plan.  Hopefully riding outdoor sometime this weekend.

BTW, anyone on the Fink plan swaps the long bike and long run based on the weather?  I prefer to ride on a dry day and run on a wet day.  Not sure what effect it has to ride on tired legs or ride on tired legs.

Does the count down app automatically flash and beep when it is time to panic?  I am so under train in my swim.  Hopefully the situation will change once they open the outdoor pool at my gym.

ok that made me laugh out loud...the panic statement.  Where do you log your workouts? TP?

Keep up the good work everyone...big weekend of training ahead for me! 90/4 brick.

I did the Fink plan last year and swapped things around all the time based on work or family commitments.  This year I'm using the same plan and have swapped only a couple of times -- but switching Saturday and Sunday around isn't that big a deal except that it means you run Friday-Saturday...which can be tough.  I did it twice in March.

If you can improve pace while heart rate comes down -- sounds to me like a winning combination.

I swap the run and bike every week, due to kid activity requirements.  I am also trying to move the long run to Fridays (this was first test week), to space the two out.  I have found that my long rides have definitely been impacted by a previous day long run, and I am really trying to get a sense of what my real long ride pace.  This is starting to deviate a bit from the Fink plan a bit, but that said, I am not going at the "competitive" level.  I use it as general guide for total work for the week.  

The other modification I have made is to try to get 4 bike workouts (sweet spot(TR), threshold(TR), revolver(TR), long ride(outside)) and 4 runs (one shorter recovery).  This has improved my running/biking fitness a lot, at the expense of swimming, which is more logistically challenging.  I can be on the trainer or running within 10 min of waking up (yea run outside!) vs 15-20 for swimming.  Run is targeted at a 4:45 LP marathon.

Goal is to get total weekly TSS for bike up to 600ish over the next month (right now 450ish).  I will not get up to the peak hours most of you will, probably peaking in the 14-16 range, at most.  Just trying not to get hurt (revolver on TR is only real stressful workout) outside of pool.  

Quassy will be the first real test of this; that bike course will really work me over.  I added the revolver workout specifically for that race, to add variability.  Sorry for the longish post, would appreciate any thoughts!  FWIW, I am feeling fine and perhaps could push harder...

Ugggh! So I went out for a 60 mile ride this morning. It was raining and 45 degrees. After about an hour I was soaked and very cold. I decided to call the ride and head back in for a couple of hours on the trainer. While I was riding in the basement the rain stopped and the sun came out. I was pretty annoyed when I saw the sun out when I was done. Oh well, I still got 3 hours in the saddle and got a 20 minute run on the treadmill after. Hoping for better weather next weekend. I really need to get some good miles in outside.

3k in the pool this morning.  77 on the bike this afternoon.  If race day temps are in the 30s, I will be well prepared.  Seriously...enough of this f-ing weather.  At least it was sunny...it made up for the brief snow flurries around mile 50.

Week:

S None

B 4:55

R 3:15

T 8:10

Recovery... will restart swimming this or next week.  Feeling ready to ramp it up a bit.  Hope everyone else is well and healthy.

Good morning all. I've been absent for a while, but I'm moving back into my online presence. Last Monday hit me hard and I was in a bit of funk for most of last week. I married into a Boston family and have adopted it as a second hometown. I've got an amazing group of virtual friends from around the world that I met on the Runners World Boston forums and we gather every year around the race weekend. Some of us race throughout the year together at other venues as well. It's one of my favorite weekends of the year. I wasn't racing this year, but those of us who aren't racing still gather at mile 25.5 and hand out cannolis to those racers that will have them (a long and comical story). Just a sad and surreal ending to what is otherwise such an amazing day for me.

So I took a break from online discussions last week. I still ran, and got more than my intended mileage in. I left the Garmin at home and just ran and meditated. I didn't bike ... no time in the pool ... just running for the sake of running. It was very good.

Cornick ... thanks for checking in. I appreciate the camaraderie and concern. And congratulations on the weight loss!! Svelt and fit!

Brian ... I hope you are managing to find ways to celebrate the good things from race day. One of the things my virtual Boston group did was to write up the race reports and celebrate all that was good about the day. While it was a tragic end to an otherwise amazing and historic event, you ran the BOSTON FREAKING MARATHON!! Be sure to revel in that. I've already got my BQ for next year and plan to run it with emotion. I hope you can join me there.

I'm back on track ... ran 18 on Sunday ... back in the pool last night. All is continuing to move in the right direction. 

Well said!

Everyone must be training hard...it's been quiet on here. 

Morning all,

Looks like some serious training has been going on here. I'm now focusing on Placid after getting through Boston last week. Still taking it easy this week, but ramping up. Did my first ride in six weeks on Sunday, 2.5 hours, slow and on the training bike, but lots of hills, it was good to get the saddle sores primed for another hard season!

Thinking a long swim tonight and maybe I'll get out to run with Kent on Friday, see if I have any form in my legs. 

After this week though, training begins in earnest. 

I feel bad for those of you with the winter weather still in the air, it's glorious here in DC, but we all know it's short lived before we have to be out at 5 or 6 am to avoid the heat and humidity!

Be well everyone.

Pat

Ha, true.   How often is this race wet suit legal on race day anyway?  I hadn't thought of that.  Maybe this colder spring will pay off that way bit there's still 3 months to go where it will probably be sweltering.

I believe, but stand by ready for correction, that in the 14 years of the race at Lake Placid 2011 was the only year the wetsuit/temperature rules came into play.  That year it was wetsuit optional.  Last year I wore a wetsuit and was comfortable -- the reported race day water temp was 73.