Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 58)

These are BIG tents with benches inside to sit on and change.  Volunteers are running around in there to help out also.  There's a men's tent and women's tent.  Don't almost run into the wrong one like I did.

February Totals:
Bike 19:02 329.8 mi
Run 19:38 104 mi
Swim 4:15 12,400 yds
Yoga 4:15 0 mi
Total 47:10 440.8 mi

I feel pretty good about this month.  I could swim a bit more, but this amount of swimming puts me MOP, which I can live with.   I'll start ramping up my bike mid to late March when I can get outside.  All but 37 miles of bike this month was done on the trainer or in spin class, so I'm calling it good. Unfortunately, this amount of running still won't give me MOP on the marathon.  As you can see, my run is very slow, so it's a huge time commitment, but I intend to average 140 mi/month until June (~35 mi/week except recovery weeks).

I've appreciated the threads about different approaches to running lately.  They have given me hope that I'll get faster over time if I keep consistenly putting the work in. I'm not sure yet what my goal will be for the marathon this year.  I've tried the run/walk approach, but it slides too easliy into a walk/run.  I like the idea of trying to run the whole thing without thinking about a goal time. I'm working on the mental toughness to carry it off.  My personal opinion about having your longest run only be 2.5 hours is that it doesn't work for slow runners even with a high weekly volume.

Is anyone here active on twitter?  I get a lot of motivation from what other trigeeks post there also.  Feel free to follow me @rystyk.  I'll follow you back if you say hi.

Hope you don’t mind a late arrival, but I am in the need of some assistance.

This will be my first IM and my training has been going well until recently when I changed jobs.  The good news is the job is a going to be amazing but the town I now call home doesn’t have an indoor pool and the outdoor pool did not open until the middle of June last year.  There are some lakes around, but the cold water temperatures will be similar to the local pool and will not be an option until early June.  The nearest indoor pool is 140 miles away so likely I will only be able to swim maybe once every two weeks. 

Overall , my swimming ability is average as I am not fast however I seem to be able to swim long distances fairly easily.  I don’t want to be the new needy kid, but does anybody have some suggestions of good dry land training exercises and some advice of swim workout for when I am able to get wet.  My concern is implementing a plan to build some endurance, but not getting injured. 

Thanks in advance,

Jared