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Race day arrived. The day I had prepared for all summer long. In a few ways, the day I dreaded all summer long. It’s like that with the Ironman 70.3 race (or the marathon, or the Goofy Challenge): No matter how hard you prepare, there are 1,000 doubts still in your head leading in. Remember the corner [...]Oct01
I’ll put up my full race report with a podcast in the next day or so, but I wanted to get this posted while I was working on it. If you didn’t see my marathon of tweets and Facebook posts, I finished in 5:14:21 – obliterating my previous PR by 50:14. It felt so damn good. And [...]
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The training is finished. The miles are logged. It’s time to review my race goals and get racing. Couple of notes: I’m going to finish this training with about 300 miles more training logged than last year. Many, many fewer days off. Bike rides were harder. Running speedwork was faster. I, anecdotally, got more swim workouts in, [...]
The much-awaited taper has begun! MONDAY: Spin class. Took it a little easy and didn’t kill myself with tough resistance or anything. Worked on high cadence for the sprints, but took it easy otherwise. TUESDAY: Took the day off. Intended to go for my group ride, but it rained all day, and I decided that a fast group [...]
This was the final peak week of my Augusta Ironman 70.3 training. I’m exhausted, sore, and just plain worn out. I’ve really been pushing it for the last two weeks. I looked back at last year’s training and found that in the final 28 days, I logged 16 workouts and took 13 days off! I’m sure I [...]
