18 days left. My taper began Monday. What a great weekend of workouts. I couldnt have asked for better quality. After really not feeling it earlier in the week, I couldnt believe I was able to come back and really finish strong. Check out my training log for specifics! Cycles well over 160miles in three days.
Spring break was awesome last week, but went by SO unbelievably fast. Most like because I spent 21hrs of it working out. School started back today and its a little stressful. Having to worry about assignments and exams while tapering for an Ironman thats less than 20 days away is.. well.. to say the least.. no fun. I also found out im probably going to miss an exam the thur before IMAZ. Not good either, but I spent 6months training to qualify and nothing is going to stop that. Ill do my best to explain to the professor what im going to do and hope that he understands.
Im going down to Galveston this weekend to "race" the olympic/quarter iron triathlon. Im definitly looking forward to finally getting to hop in the wetsuit again and get in the open water, plus get to ride on the disk again. Everything is going to be nice and easy at IM race pace. On the swim in just going to go off percieved exert, then hold ~21mph on the bike and <8:00/m on the run. Lets hope for strong winds.
Happy birthday to my mom ! I cant believe you're _ _ years old!! haha.
Hope everyone is having a good week. Looks like the weather is going to change for the best! 80s+ here we come!!
_Jacob_
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Focused...
So ive gotten carried away with my beginnertriathlete.com blog. It really is an awesome site to log workouts, and workout data.
Whats the theme for the week so far? FOCUS. I realized a few days ago during my 100 miler that I was more or less just going through the motions. I wasnt having quality focused workouts. All of my workouts so far this week have been amazing. Even my nice EZ hr run was awesome. Unbelievably focused.
IMAZ is so close. I have 8 more days of "building" and then im done. My taper will be on. Technically there is nothing more I can do. Its odd how fast IM training can fly by. These new few days are going to be the best workouts ive ever had. I have a planned day off this week. I may end up subing a swim in there.
Im FOCUSED like never before. This is good.
So, for some fun updates.
I bought an upgraded lighter 55T chainring.
Oh.. and did I mention I finally bought a new DVD holder??? :)
Whats the theme for the week so far? FOCUS. I realized a few days ago during my 100 miler that I was more or less just going through the motions. I wasnt having quality focused workouts. All of my workouts so far this week have been amazing. Even my nice EZ hr run was awesome. Unbelievably focused.
IMAZ is so close. I have 8 more days of "building" and then im done. My taper will be on. Technically there is nothing more I can do. Its odd how fast IM training can fly by. These new few days are going to be the best workouts ive ever had. I have a planned day off this week. I may end up subing a swim in there.
Im FOCUSED like never before. This is good.
So, for some fun updates.
I bought an upgraded lighter 55T chainring.
Oh.. and did I mention I finally bought a new DVD holder??? :)
So much has happened.
I PRd for a half mary. New PR is 1:23:09. Mentally probably one of my best performances yet. Heres the link to check out my race report entered on BT. Just click here. Havent gotten to race a tri yet. Im going to do the LoneStar quarter.. Definitly wont be racing. I just want to get some good open water experience before IMAZ. The bike and the run are both going to be IM race pace.
For today, one last "long" run with some speed stuff thrown in, a 1:20-1:30 bike ride, and some light weights.
Back to "work" I go.
OH YEA!!
I learned how to unicycle. This is an old vid. Ill add a new one as soon as I get unlazy enough to upload it to YouTube.
_Jacob_
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