Month: April 2011

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Ironman Lake Placid

Good swim morning

The Y was pretty empty at the start of the swim so I had about 1500 yards in before we started the workout. Then we did a few sets and another young woman showed up who is very fast. She really upped the intensity of the workout adding probably another 900 yards at the end and not at a slow pace either. Apparently she is getting ready for this swim http://www.bayswim.com/index.html.

500 – warmup
500 – pull
500 – free
200 – 4×50
500 – 5×100
1000 – 1×300, 3×100, 2×200
200 – 4×50
450 – 6×75 pull
500 – free
Total: 4350 yards

Weight: 165.5

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Ironman Lake Placid

CompuTrainer – Long Intervals

I just realized this morning that I forgot to post yesterdays workout. It was another CompuTrainer workout with long intervals. It is getting kind of warm in the garage, I may have to take these Tuesday and Thursday morning rides outside soon if it gets much warmer.

Weight: 165.5

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Ironman Lake Placid

Finally a long run

I have been planning to make wednesday my long run day, but up until today it just hasn’t happened for one reason or another. Today though, I made was able to get 10 miles in. I think if I’m going to go longer than that I will have to have Gatorade or something at the car and make the loops longer. I did two 5 mile loops this morning and just basically tried to keep my heart rate under 150 the entire time. I did ok at keeping it down, the averages were alway under 150, so that was good.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81893242

Weight: 164.5

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Ironman Lake Placid

CompuTrainer Tuesday

Another Tuesday and another day of Interval training on the CompuTrainer. It really feels like doing a series of hills outside.

Week 19 Session 1

Weight: 165.5

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Ironman Lake Placid

Run and Swim

Changed things up a little bit today. Instead of going and swimming at the Andover Y at 5:30 I went down to the Danvers Y early and did a quick 5 mile run before swimming. It’s hard to get a run in when I go to the Andover Y because I would have to get up much earlier or run later, neither of which is very appealing. I still need to get to the Y just a little bit earlier as I ran out of time swimming and only managed to get in 2500 yards.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81431812

Weight: 165.5

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Ironman Lake Placid

Swim and Bike (long and short)

Long day today, but a fun day. Started out with an easy 3000 in the pool. Just a straight forward swim alternating pulling and free every 500 yards. Just about 45 minutes to do the swim and felt pretty good.

Then it was off to bike at 10am. Wasn’t really sure how far we were going to be going and didn’t have any idea of the route, just wanted to make sure I wasn’t dropped. Before the ride even really got going I had 10 miles in so I knew I was going to be racking up some miles so I just stay in the middle of the pack for most of the ride. Once and a while my buddy Mike was dropped on the hills so I’d wait to make sure he knew which way we were headed. Took a little bit of work to catch up to the group after that, but they would wait up once they realized we were off the back. The best part of the ride was stopping at Abe’s in Newburyport for a bagel. Too bad I can’t do that in the Ironman!! We ended up getting in a little over 50 miles.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/80831569

Then a couple hours after that Julie wanted to ride. My legs were feeling a litte tired by the time she showed up. Starting out was tough, but my legs actually loosened up about 5 miles into the ride. It was a short ride though, more like a time trial. We did 19.1 mph, so felt good about that.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/80860378

Weight: 165

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Ironman Lake Placid

New tires and Intervals

Put new tires on the bike the other night and jumped on the trainer this morning. Apparently there is some coating on new tires that came off on the trainer wheel. Had to stop 3 minutes into the ride to clean it off, everything was good after that. I’m glad it started making the funny noise before I made it into the interval sets. It would have really sucked to have stop then and restart.

Weight: 165

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Long Time Short Run

Went for a short run with Julie today. She is still in recovery mode after her impressive Boston Marathon performance.

Julie Marathon Time

Did a short 5 miles at a pretty easy pace to try and loosen up her legs. No rest for the weary! IMLP is only 94 days away!

Weight: 164.25

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Late day trainer ride

Decided to sleep in this morning and do my ride after work. I should have got up and did it in the morning. By the time I get home from work I never feel like doing anything like that, but I went and got it done. Felt pretty good really once I got warmed up and going. I was really kind of hoping that it wasn’t raining and dry so I could go out on the road. Oh well, maybe Thursday.

Weight: 165.2

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Swim (rest day) Monday

After two day of riding in the wind the legs needed some rest so it was off to the pool this morning.

500 warmup
800 pull
200 1×100 on 1:30 1X100 easy
300 2×100 on 1:30 1×100 easy
400 3×100 on 1:30 1×100 easy
500 4×100 on 1:30 1×100 easy
600 3×200 pull
Total: 3400 yards

Weight: 164