Blog and Log

Training for Ironman Lake Placid V2.0 has continued in earnest for the last 2 weeks.  It's down to the wire here, and I am almost exclusively concentrating on my weak spots. Directly after Rev 3 70.3 (Quassy) was a bike focused week.  I rode about 5x in one week, on top of the running and swimming.  The training consisted of almost entirely of timed hill repeats on the local hills that have always given me troubled. My run workouts are done with goal of negative splitting, and the swim workouts all intervals.  It's hard to tell if I am making progress, as my body is fatigued...in the final two weeks of an intense 6 month training program. 

The good news is that last Wed. night, at the annual Solstice Sprint 5k I hit a PR on the somewhat difficult WH Reservoir course. Certainly, it's far from my overall 5K PR, but a 22:55 (7:25 or so pace) on that hilly course, after a long work day, in the midst of Ironman training--I'll take it.  Tonight's swim was an ever so slight improvement on overall yardage for 1 hr, and that's with the skimpy rest intervals mixed in there too.  And the bike hill repeats SEEM to be getting faster.

However, I once again have stopped logging my workouts.  Well I'm getting the hours in, and following the plan so that's what is most important. 

Only time will tell.  Right now less than 5 weeks to get all the details straightned out.  Hoping to drop about 1-2 lbs before race day.  Also, depending on how finances look, thinking of getting the Timex Run GPS which looks like a great device for all three disciplines, and will help with pacing myself on race day.

Also working on some mental training.

And getting myself focused for the descent into Keene. For that specific portion of the course I have gone from my fancy carbon Americal Classic Wheelset to the standard alloy rims that came with the bike for improved brakining power. 

I guess the other big thing that is on my mind is what happens on July 23....I won;t be signing up for Lake Placid again next year, what will life be like after Ironman???  What's next???