Only 16 weeks to the Louisville Ironman! I have taken it kind of easy for the last couple weeks following the Boston Marathon. Then I had a cold for a week and a half. I am still recovering from that somewhat. But now I am into my Ironman training schedule. I combined the Furman FIRST marathon schedule, with an Ironman training schedule. My goal is simply to finish.
My schedule today had my riding for 2:15. I went out and did a 30 mile ride. It was a hilly out and back ride, with a stop at McDonalds in the middle for breakfast. It was nice and sunny when I got up. But it turned cloudy almost the instant I stepped out the door. The 15 miles out was nice. I was cruising along and averaged a little over 17mph. But while I was in the McDonalds, it got colder, and windy. The ride back home was into a cold headwind the whole way, and I spent most of it in the lowest gears. It was like a nearly 15 mile uphill ride.
When I got home, I was under 2 hours. So I jumped on my fluid trainer, and spun for another 18 minutes, to make up the difference.
I looked up my route on Bikely.com, and found I did almost 1150 feet on climbing in the 30 miles.
Sunday:
I did an hour of aikido class. Due to snow storms, karate classes were cancelled.
Monday:
I swam 1.2 miles at the pool doing one length freestyle, one length backstroke. I had fun.
Tuesday:
I did 2 hours of karate classes. I never did do my planned intervals.
Wednesday:
I spun on my fluid trainer for about an hour.
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Completed my first triathlon. I even won my age group. It was just a small indoor triathlon. 15 minutes pool, 15 minutes stationary bike, 15 minutes treadmill.
Later, after a nap, I went and did 2 hours of karate classes.
Monday:
I went to pool and swam a mile, doing half freestyle, half backstroke. Then I played a little bit floating, diving to the bottom and just having fun in the water.
Tuesday:
I did 2 hours of karate. When I got home, I ran an easy mile, then did 6 x .26 mile intervals @ 6:00 pace.
Wednesday:
I swam one mile doing freestyle. Then I swam maybe another half mile doing backstroke. I also played around in the water just having fun.
Thursday:
I ran 6 miles. I ran 2 miles @ 10:00 pace, 2 miles @ 6:56 pace, 2 miles @ 10:00 pace.
Friday:
Due to a snow storm, I skipped swimming and karate classes. I spun on my bike for an hour.
Saturday:
I ran a little over 9 miles of my planned 10 miles. I was in the middle of my 9th mile when my dad called. After talking to him for a while, I didn’t feel like getting back on the treadmill.
Sunday:
Ran a half marathon on my treadmill. I finished in 1:54 actual time. But I ran 1:47 something if you don’t count the time off the TM to refill my Gatorade. I didn’t have any volunteers to pass me cups at the mile markers.
Monday:
I swam 1.2 miles. I started off doing freestyle, one length at a time, working on form, and stroke count reduction on the freestyle. Then I transitioned into doing one length freestyle, one length backstroke. After the push off, I was managing to cross the 25 yard pool in 17-21 strokes, mostly doing 18-19 strokes.
Tuesday:
I was intending to run intervals, but I started experiencing some foot pain, like the bottom of my foot was bruised. I skipped my run. I di do 2 hours of karate classes.
Wednesday:
I swam 2 miles, doing one length freestyle, one length backstroke. I again worked on my freestyle form, trying to reduce my stroke count. I was managing to take mostly 16-17 strokes (sometimes 18 or 19), after my push off. A lady showed up and was swimming in the next lane. She had fins, and was doing breast stroke and freestyle. I was almost keeping up with her while we were both doing freestyle, and I wasn’t wearing fins, and was working on my long easy stroke.
Thursday:
I ran 6 miles. 2 miles @ 10:00 minute/miles, 2 miles @ 6:56 minute/miles, 2 miles @ 10:00 minute/miles.
Friday:
I skipped swimming before karate, planning to do a swim on Saturday. I did 2 hours of karate classes.
Saturday:
I went to swimming pool to do laps, only to find a big inflatable kiddie slide in the middle of the pool. I thought maybe I could swim laps on either side of it until I saw ropes tethering it to each side of the pool. They said it was going to be there the rest of the day! I turned around and went home with no swimming.
Sunday:
I did 2 hours of karate class.
Monday:
I planned on going swimming. But due to the holiday schedule, the open/lap swim session was cut shorter than normal. Then as I started driving to the pool, the snow was coming down, and the roads were getting messy. I just decided it wasn’t worth it. I turned around and went home and spun on my bike for about 45 minutes.
Tuesday:
I planned to run intervals, but I got home from work a little later than usual. I normally squeeze my run in between work and karate classes. So instead of running, I vegged for a few, then headed to karate classes. I planned to run when I got home from karate classes, but was tired, and it was little late, so I skipped it.
Wednesday:
I had the day off from work. So I headed to the pool in the afternoon and did a long easy 2.4 mile swim. That was my longest farthest swim to date.
http://www.fitness4sports.com/swimming-24-miles-ironman-distance.html
Thursday:
I ran 6 miles: 2 @ 10:00 pace, 2 @ 6:57 pace, 2 @ 10:00 pace.
Friday:
In the morning I spun on my bike for about an hour. In afternoon, I swam one mile using only freestyle. This was the longest/farthest I have swun using solely freestyle stroke.
Saturday:
I ran 6 miles. I planned to run 10, but started having some knee pain in my left knee.