Paths of Design

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to water aerobics. I’m your instructor, Ms. Old Lady with too much lipstick. Today we will be isolating two of the three swimming lanes and agitating the water to tsunami proportions. Make sure you stare at the young guy in the speedo, to make him feel as uncomfortable as possible.
It seems like I can’t [...]

This is the first post tracking my Half Ironman training. I’ve been training for a few weeks now, but this is the first time actually documenting it.
I missed yesterday’s brick workout with the guys (not sure if  they did the one that was planned), so I wasn’t sure what today’s training entailed. I some how [...]

Yesterday afternoon I signed up for the much anticipated Austin Half Ironman. The race was not cheap, and I have all of my friends and family to thank for helping support me accomplish a dream. Not only was the entire race payed for by friends, but my wife and I have somewhere to park our [...]