Category: Ironman

bike, Ironman, Run, Swim, Training, Triathlon

#114 – The party’s over, now BACK TO WORK

“Christmas week is over, New Year’s week is a thing of the past….and now, well past the start of 2014, it’s time to get back to work”……those were my my thoughts when I woke up this morning…..the day after an insanely cold thermometer reading sealed it as an “inside” day (-6 deg is automatic “indoor” workout for this tender athlete)…..I took a look at my training plan and realized, the viking lady was in the midst of her crescendo…..that today was the […]

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140.6, bike, IMNYC, Ironman, Ironman US Championships, Run, Swim

#93: Ironman NYC – the after “math”

Did you ever have something that you worked really really hard at?  Something that you wanted and you could almost taste, touch and smell but it seemed to just stay out of your grasp?  Me too, and that pretty much caps this chapter of the Red-iculous effort.  Significant progress…..but not yet achievement.  Ugh!  But a solid journey…..so here’s how it went. 3 AM – up and at ’em Want to see depleted?  Compare this to the last pic – yikes […]

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bike, hell week, Ironman, long run, Run, sensory deprivation, Swim

#87 Last long run, Hell Week and some Train-cation

This week was slated to be the biggest, baddest, and most difficult week of the training season; the first of two weeks of “over training” – the kind name endurance athletes use for the blaring wake up call to those final few fibers of muscle and connective tissue that aren’t currently being used to get to attention and fall in line.  Hell week for tired muscles.My goal going in was to have high volume AND high intensity, but unfortunately, that […]

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