bike, brick, injury, Ironman, NJNYTC

#68 A cautious return to the starting blocks

This was my favorite caution sign With “official” training scheduled to start on March 1st, last week wasn’t exactly the blast out of the gates and big-entrance to the training season I was looking for…..a torqued left heel and the subsequent ripple-effect “you’d be wise to leave me alone for a bit” messages from my body combined with a crazy kid activity weekend became a down training week pretty quickly……these things happen I guess…..well they do to me anyway…..but it’s […]

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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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