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.

It’s almost been a week since I’ve written anything, it looks like I’m doing more training than blogging! I’ll write about my Saturday workout and then catchup on the rest of the week tomorrow.
So Saturday… A friend from church called Friday evening and asked if I wanted to go riding with him  at 6:30am. I’ve [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I haven’t blogged since Wednesday so here is another little catchup post. My bike is still in the shop, so Thursday I went to the gym and road the trainer for one hour. I put The Lord of the Rings – Two Towers on my iPhone the night before, so I was ready to go! [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]