Fred D's Ironman/Half-Ironman focused Mentor Group --CLOSED (Page 78)

haha - very cool video - all i could think of is 'wwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' - looks like fun! 

x2.  Great post.  Thanks.

Well I was wide awake at 3:30 am this morning due to a teething baby so made the best of it.  Figured this would be a good opportunity to get a longer mid-week ride in.  Was able to ride for 95 minutes this morning with some alternating intervals.  Nice to have that all done before 6 a.m.  Well maybe not that nice...I would have liked some more sleep.

Have a lunch meeting so nothing else happening for me today.  Planning on a 15k hilly road race here in a couple weeks so excited for that.  Hoping to get under 1:01 on this tough course and then shoot for sub :60 this summer at a flatter venue.

Nice swim Thomas!  You were up early too...just me, you and the birds get up that ridiculously early.

Gains in fitness breakthroughs are archived (I believe) by pushing oneself past the comfort level.  If you want to be a fitter triathlete then swim your prescribe workouts. 

I am not going to say do more but to push harder.  Keep telling yourself that you will be a better cyclist and runner by being a better swimmer. 
 
Don’t look at the workout as omg I have to swim 3000yds.  Instead look at it positively in increments; 300 WU check, 3x200 check, 6x50 on :50 check  etc…If you can find a positive swim partner that WILL most certainly give you a boost. 

Day 3 of IM training - in progress.  Woke up and did the optional 60 minute bike.  I need to 'become one with my bike'  so i need to do it as much as possible

Tonight, we are going to the coached tri swim session which i think will be tough on both DH and I. We haven't really been swimming and most certainly not with any intensity.  I am very glad Friday is a rest day on my plan. 

You know you're getting to peak training when you're craving a break. 

You'll be racing soon enough and it will make you thankful for the time you did spend in the pool.

I'm getting to be the same at all three, S/B and R.....    I think next year I won't be signing up for an early season HIM again.  Makes for a very long season when you start training in December and race through September..... 

I had my first outside ride in a long time yesterday.  This was maybe even the first since Oct 10’ and definitely the first real climbing ride since. 

So I decided to test out my climbing fitness yesterday.  I love climbing hills, just going up.  I love the quite, hard, sweat drenched, heart pounding effort.  Thing about climbing for me I can make it fairly easy or very hard.  I was happy with the ride overall but I have a lot of work to do on the bike.  My bike fitness is now my weakest part and I would say maybe at 60%.  As apposed to my swim and run fitness which is much higher. 
 
I have a noon swim with Lindsay and I will probable do another bike ride after that.   

Have a great day everybody! 

Hi guys,

Into Day 4 of ironman training.  Did the planned fartlek run this morning - i was quite sleepy and it took a while to warm up but did get it done.  Felt really good for getting out the door when i did because not 10 mins after getting in did it start to rain.  It was also crazy warm! Temps will be dropping all day.  At 15C I couldn't believe the number of runners i saw out in tights and jackets looking all bundled.  I was in capris and long sleeve and i was hot.  A lady out walking her dog told me i 'looked like spring!'

So, there are two more workouts on the plan for today - an optional swim which I think i will do tonight and a short and easy strength workout which i think will be my kettlebell workout

The weather is looking amazing for the weekend and provided the rain clears som of the salt we may just ride outdoors this weekend!!! I'll need to clean off my roadbike which was co-habitating with DH's woodworking projects ...

How's the day for everyone else?

Oh and i went to a coached swim session last night - and the coach put in what i see as the equivalent of the 'beep test' we had to do for running in high school.  We did it as a group and I sucked - but i just kept going ...

so, question - what is your most dreaded workout and why?

I will go with the 20 minute FTP test on the bike haha.  I sometimes cannot sleep at night if I plan on doing this first thing in the morning.  Knowing that I may fall off my bike in the last 2 minutes of that test due to pure exhaustion and pain....how fun!

X2.  Probably why I never did one this year and am just using last years numbers