Late Summer update

August was a rough month. Mentally trying to deal with the DNF, as well as other assorted work and personal issues.  In the midst of all of that (?because of all of that) I began having dizzy spells and paplitations.  I caught my heart rate once up to 217!  I think it's all atrial, but I can hear a pretty good 3/6 systolic murmur...It's got a musical quality so I think it's physiologic, but I'll get it checked out sometime soon. 

Anyway, swim training with my total immersion coach is going well. I hope this new style of swimming eventually leads to faster times.  In that vein, I am looking at getting the Poolmate Swim watch to assist with my swim training and data collection.

Biking went well, the tri bike flies!!!!  I calculated approximate power ranges based on speed for a bery specicfic set up on my bike trainer, and am working on increaseing FTP through the use of approximated power training.

And my very own, specially designed "superfoods diet" is awesome.  Gives me lots of energy and keeps that weight down. 

What's not been going well??? My running.  Ugh. Legs tired and leaden. Heart rates wayyyyy to high. Sometimes I have felt like I can't breathe while running. I did manage a course PR at the Lobster Loop 5K in mid August, and a new Olympic Triathlon PR at Lake Taramuggis Tri last weekend. HR still super high, so I QUIT (ouch!) drinking coffee. This seemed to help, I managed to get that 20 mile training run done 2 days ago, and trained all weekend. I had more even readings at the New Haven 20k RR today.  My time was 1 minute slower than last year, but it was a new course, and as I said, I trained right through this one. 

My next and last tri of the season is next weekend. I am thinking of doing my run workouts on my old Nordic Track ski machine to see if that helps foster some much needed recovery.

Posting NH pics- one terrible one of me running (note ice cubes sticking out under my shirt and pained look on face), as well as an HTC group shot.  Good times!