1/2 - 1/8 in review January 10, 2006
Posted by riverbrady in : Training , add a commentA good start to the first full training week of the year. At this point in the year I'm trying to my heart rate at 145 bpm or below. Overall the only thing that's really knocked me off that have been the days struggling through the wind on the bike…and that day I ran with a friend who simply couldn't slow down…
Monday
35.8 mile bike - 2:14
3.0 mile run - 30 min
15 min stretching
Tuesday
6 mile run - 58:37
15 min stretching
100x crunches, 25x leg lifts
Wednesday
1200M swim [400w/u, 2x 50M fast, 4x 150Mfree/50Mkick, 100M c/d]
10 min stretching
Thursday
15 mile bike - 1:10
6.12 mile run - 1:13 (brick)
15 min stretching
100x crunches, 25x leg lifts
Friday
Day off
15 min stretching
Saturday
3 mile run - 36:24
32 mile bike - 2:21 [windy!]
7 mile run - 1:28
15 min stretching
100x crunches, 25x leg lifts
Sunday
32 mile bike - 2:21 [windy both out and back…owww]
1 hour aquajogging (slight twinge in ball of right foot)
15 min stretching
Totals:
14 hours training
Swim - 1200M, 0:30
Bike - 115 miles, 7:55
Run - 25.12 miles, 3:15
A New Year January 1, 2006
Posted by riverbrady in : General , add a commentThe first day of the new year, the first day of training.
Looking back at this year, it feels like things passed much more quickly than intended. On the whole, though, it was a good year. My first Ironman finished, a better general plan, and a happier me overall.
My first sprint triathlon was my junior year in high school at the end of a week-long running camp before our season started. It was one of those random events where our coach was going to have us run it as teams, for fun, and I decided to do the entire race myself. I got first in my age group that year…on my mountain bike and sidestroking the entire swim. Only afterwards did I find out that I was the only boy there under 18.
The following year I repeated the race. Afterwards, life turned to varsity track in college and tris seemed out the window. It wasn't until about a year and a half ago one of my dancer friends mentioned that she was getting in shape for triathlons, as the guy she dated ran them.
As I had just started my new job a month later I gifted myself with a new Cervelo Dual…my present to me for my first real salaried position.
…and now I'm here…starting training for the Pacific Crest Half IM and the Vineman IM. Right now it's just a general plan. Base work primarilly on the bike and run…swim work with Andrea Fisher once their clinics run again.
I'm very much looking forward to this year.