Archive for the ‘Austin Half Ironman 2010’ Category

Sunday 29 August 2010

Welp, another great week in the books. You know it has been good when you feel completely wasted at the end.
Monday – Off (08.23.10)
Tuesday (08.24.10)
Feno and I did some crazy swim workout that are training plan called for. I don’t even really know what to call it other than “the crazy”. I’ll see if I [...]

Tuesday 24 August 2010

I’m really getting bad with these belated posts. It’s been so long since I’ve written about my training that I don’t even remember what I did. I’ll see if I can jar my memory and figure it out.

Friday 13 August 2010

I haven’t blogged since Monday, here is an update!
Tuesday
I usually do a nice interval workout with the running club, but only one guy showed up (faithful Harvey). We did 30 minutes on the bike and than a 30 minute run. Since we weren’t doing any speed work, I tried to run a good tempo pace [...]

Tuesday 10 August 2010

I usually take Monday off, but the days are narrowing and the race is getting ever so close. I went ahead and tried to swim yesterday (Monday). It was the first attempt since my accident with Satan’s Van. My neck and shoulder still ache, but are getting better every day. Since swimming is my weakest [...]

Monday 9 August 2010

I had a great workout this past Saturday. I really wanted to hit it hard, and was able to achieve the goals I set for myself. I try to set high, but attainable goals when it comes to training. I think that being realistic about your abilities is very important. I like to step back [...]

Wednesday 4 August 2010

Here is a brief catchup post on my training this week.
Monday
After “The Incident” on Saturday, I took Sunday off and pushed to go to the Gym on Monday. There was no way on earth I could swim, so I just road the trainer for 45 minutes and called it a quits. The trainer at the [...]

Tuesday 3 August 2010
Ironman Training #10 - Satan's Van

A little late with this one, needless to say life got really crazy over the weekend, so I’ve not been able to write for a few days. This past Saturday I wanted to ride 50 miles (10 more than the week before).
I woke up at 6:15am, and got everything ready to go. I brought food [...]

Friday 30 July 2010

Knowing that swimming is probably my weakest area, I was hoping to accomplish a good long swim before the week’s end.  Yesterday morning, I decided to do just that.  I arrived at the gym around 5:30am and knocked out 30 slow laps. I really worked on taking a breath after every 4th stroke. I took [...]

Wednesday 28 July 2010

My toddler (almost 3) kept us up last night. For some reason he was extremely wired and just couldn’t fall asleep. I was supposed to swim today and possibly ride the bike, but I decided to stay in bed and get some much needed shut eye. Though I did do a pretty good core workout [...]

Tuesday 27 July 2010

Today I met with the local running club to run the Tuesday track session. I haven’t ran intervals in a few weeks. I’ve been trying to stick to our half ironman training schedule, so our interval runs have been few and far between. We ran 1.5mi warm up to the track, then did 4 x [...]

Monday 26 July 2010

I woke up early this morning to meet the guys at the gym at 5:00am. We did a pretty stretching swim which consisted of a 200m warm up,  600m at medium effort and then a 600m all out. The battery on my watch failed, so I wasn’t able to keep track of my splits. It’s [...]

Sunday 25 July 2010

I woke up around 6:00am yesterday morning, read the bible and prayed for a bit. I had a bowl of Sunbelt Granola Cereal (love it!), and then took off to meet the Marshall Bicycle Club. There were two groups riding, one started at 7 and the other at 8. I decided to meet up with [...]

Thursday 22 July 2010

I missed a few training posts, so I’ll make up for it here.
Monday
The day after the triathlon. I wasn’t as sore as I thought I would be, so I didn’t want to waste any time. I did a real good core workout, and then did some lunges and stairs. It was probably only a 35 [...]

Wednesday 21 July 2010
Jefferson Heritage Triathlon Recap

This past Sunday I participated in the 22nd Annual Jefferson Heritage Triathlon, held at Lake of the Pines here in Northeast Texas. It was 1 year ago where I watched my buddy / co-worker Justin Rector do this same event, and inspired me to come back this year and try it myself. This is my [...]

Friday 16 July 2010

Better late than never! I’m posting this training session a day late. I took today off to rest up for the Jefferson Heritage Triathlon this Sunday. Yesterday I went to the gym and spent 15 minutes on the row machine, about 20 minutes doing core exercises and upper back, and then 25 minutes on the [...]