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Saturday - May 2

Bike

2h 37m
43.50 miles
16.62 Mi/hr

Woot! IMWI course with the BT gang. Good times.

It is 11:30 p.m. and I just got up from a four hour nap... I'm not good at getting up before 5:30 a.m. Had beers at the UW terrace after riding and by the time I got home from that I wanted nothing more than to sleep. Now I have to figure out what my best strategy to stay on a normal sleep schedule is. Great to see everyone today.

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Friday - May 1

Bike

1h 24m
23.80 miles
17.00 Mi/hr

Almost sunk into the couch but got pulled out onto the road by a friend. Great night for a ride.

Swim

32m
1400.00 yards
02m 17s /100 yards

Swim: Speed day
wu: 400 continuous. last 50 in each 100 is kick
main: 8 x 100 EBEH (each 100 = 25Easy, 25Build, 25Easy, 25 Hard)
cd: 200

Chatted with Matt Amman who gave me some tips on my form. Really made a difference! Felt pretty dang good in the water today, especially after adjusting my arm positioning thanks to Matt's suggestions. Or maybe it was all the extra rest between sets while gabbing. Whatever!

Easy ride tonight. Madison tomorrow in the sooper early a.m. to ride the IMWI course with BT peeps. Woot!

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Thursday - April 30

Run

32m 13s
3.50 miles
09m 12s /Mi

Suck.

Planned to run for an hour, but shut it down due to shin splints in the left leg. Going to have to back way off on the running for a week or so, I think. Gotta get this healed up so it doesn't get worse.

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Wednesday - April 29

Run

45m
4.00 miles
11m 15s /Mi

Tri Wis hill workout.

One mile wu.
8 x .25 mile hill circuit
One mile cd

That was hard!

Swim

32m
1650.00 yards
01m 56s /100 yards

Swim: Race-specific
wu: 4 x 75, last 25 in each is backstroke.
main: 3 x 400, 1 is RPE 3, 2 is RPE 4, 3 is RPE 5
cd: 150 easy

Felt average. Gabbed with tri wi peeps between sets. That last 400 was tough though!

So far today:

wake up
rush out of the house
slim fast in the car on the way to the office
big ass black coffee from sbux
meeting about ill conceived new appraisal law going into effect 5/1 (damn you Elliott Spitzer!)
work
cold pizza snack
work
banana snack
go to Y and do swim workout per training plan at lunch
subway five. five dollar. five dollar footlong (chx on wht w/lots o veggies)
Chipotle veggie burrito

Anticipated:

work
diet coke
apple snack
work
cold pizza snack
Tri Wis hill workout (makeup for run skipped yesterday)
shower
unknown dinner
sit on couch
yogurt with choco chips and nuts snack
bed

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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Tuesday - April 28

Bike

1h 36m 43s
30.40 miles
18.86 Mi/hr

Tri Wisconsin Lannon ride. Good stuff.

Doing the Tri Wis Lannon ride tonight, followed by a short run brick.

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Monday - April 27

Run

40m 22s
4.50 miles
08m 58s /Mi

Lunchtime treddy at the Y.

Swim

15m
850.00 yards
01m 46s /100 yards

200s
200k
200p
250s

Post run swim.

It appears that I am supposed to start Ironman training today. I suppose I can do that. Plan to swim at lunch and run after work.

Cleaned my road bike last night after the rain riding this weekend. Also installed a new computer on it. Went with a basic cheapie by Specialized. Wired speed only, no cadence. Nice big display. I modified the supplied mount so it would be right on the stem in the center of the handlebars. Next project is new tires.

The flat I picked up in the race on Saturday was a cut right in the middle of the tread on the rear tire. Also found a cut on the front tire which is not as big but is big enough to pick up debris and lead to another flat. These are ProRace3's that have less than 1000 miles on them. Not too happy with that. For now I've got the Bonty Race XLite wheels that came with my tri bike on the road bike with some heavy training wheels on the tri bike. Will probably stay with that set up for the summer. But, the Bonty's have old tires on them that should be replaced too. So, I'm debating putting the low mileage ProRace2's from my tri spokes on the road bike and putting some fresh ProRace3's on the tri spokes for race only.