Category: Triathlon

heel, injury, pain, Triathlon

#67: Tri Training for Dummies? Watch out for speed bumps

That’d be me folks The week started out with a few obstacles that I knew were coming down the path….and a few that were unexpected.  The first (expected) was that my swim training was going to be thrown off a bit with my normal “Y” doing some pool maintenance for the week.  Although this was a little bit of an inconvenience, with some planning, not a huge deal, something I could overcome by dropping-in somewhere nearby.  The next was that […]

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training volume, Triathlon

#66: So you’re going to the ragoo festival? Well, crank it up…..

Ok, if you’re an Adam Sandler fan you might know the reference…..no? Well, don’t worry, you’re probably smarter for not knowing it….it’s a pretty dumb skit that (not surprisingly perhaps) I found HILARIOUS the first several times I heard it…..OK, this has just about nothing to do with my blog or my training…….except that this week the objective was to increase the training volume some, and that makes me think of a line in the skit.  Crank it up….Where was […]

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runner's high, swimming, Triathlon

#65 party poopers and runner’s high….a crazy week of triathlon training

Last week I was headed out the door to go get some footage of my swimming caught on tape.  If you’ve read along, you know that my swimming is a definite limiter…..lots of room to improve.  Part of the reason of course is b/c I never really learned to swim for speed growing up……never participated on a swim team, so it’s like learning a new skill.What I’m finding about swimming though is that it is at least as much skill […]

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