Posts Tagged ‘Run’

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.

Thursday 19 August 2010
Ironman Training #16 – The Big Nasty

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Monday 12 July 2010

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 [...]

Friday 9 July 2010
I am Ironman!

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 [...]