Tough, but fun week. Did most of the Wildflower long course, parts of it several times, in addition to my other workouts. I also broke 10,000 calories burned for the first time– we’ll see if I can keep it up in a normal week without practice weekend to buoy the numbers. Totals for the week   Read More …

I really had a hard time this week. Work was completely off-the-rails hard and so my usual slots to sneak in workouts during the day all dried up. I was forced to be a lot more creative about when I got them in, and sometimes had to work out at times (and in weather conditions)   Read More …

Pre-race/Packet Pickup:   The first race on my calendar for this year is a small local race. I am of a few minds about the race and the quality of the production, and will try to fairly address both the positive and negative here. The Go Green St. Patrick’s Day Half Marathon (and 5k, 10k)   Read More …

As this week ends, so too does the first third of my Ironman training. Starting this coming week, I have twelve workouts per week at greater distance and intensity, including interval training and some more races. Over the past ten weeks I have gone from six hour training weeks to twelve hour ones, and seen   Read More …

It was a relatively tough week, not least of which because it ended with this weekend– 45 miles yesterday on the bike and a half marathon today. I’ll get to handling the weekend in greater detail below, but this week was an exercise in resisting my temptation to go, go, go when I transition from   Read More …

This was definitely my hardest week so far. There were plenty of times I just plain didn’t want to do anything, but I got out and did it. I’m sure the 48 hours of rest I have coming will help to re-energize me, and realistically I did have pretty awesome paces and distances this week.   Read More …

Eight weeks down, twenty-two to go! Pretty fun, slightly lower volume week. There’s a nice symmetry to the way the days of the month fell so there were exactly four weeks of my program this month. The next four weeks each increase volume, intensity and ultimately, the number of workouts per week (in two weeks   Read More …

So February is over, and that means that Base Phase is almost over with, too.  February was about 20% more volume and duration than January. February consisted of: 1 day, 13 hours, 45 minutes, and 27 seconds of working out.  This means that I spent 1.68 minutes out of every 30 minutes this last month   Read More …

All things considered, this was a good week. It poured rain nearly every single day but I got all my workouts in, in their full durations, without any modification and with minimal bitching. This week looks better, although it still seems that next weekend might get sort of rainy and cold again. I turned to   Read More …