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#88: Sun baked, sand blasted and salted: OBX Train-cation

That’s about right. This week was my “train-cation”.  As I’ve mentioned, the idea was to use the family vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina to my advantage getting as much training in the hot (and notoriously windy) terrain that this little strip of beach can offer.  With Ironman in August, I’m pretty much resolved to the fact that it’s going to be hot and humid, so why not get a week of real heat tolerance work right?  Well, […]

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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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cut down, elliptigo., Ironman, peak, recovery, rest, sleep, Training

#86 Get some rest sleepy-head

Yes.  Like that. Coming off of the solid, but draining 1/2 Iron weekend in Providence last weekend, I decided that I would follow through with my plan to take this week to freshen up a bit with some recovery and rest and let the training hours drop substantially off.  As a tactic, this is tough because the natural instinct (at least mine) is to worry about how much you’re losing……when the truth is, you’re gaining and gaining big.  My theory […]

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