Ramblings of an amatuer endurance athlete...
What a weird few days. I haven’t had a case of taper madness in a while. This week it hit me like a ton of bricks…. Monday was fine. Tuesday I was feeling off. Wednesday morning I skipped my swim, convinced I was getting sick. Wednesday afternoon I felt 100%. Wednesday night I had a [...]
Peak week. Aka the hardest week of them all. It started with a 3.5 hour ride with a good bit of race pace efforts. Followed by a hard track interval session. And a hard bike interval session. Leg strength. Long run with race pace efforts. And to cap it off, a 3.25 hour brick with [...]
Some people follow canned plans, others join clubs with a team leader who organizes training and others hire coaches. All approaches will work if you trust the plan set out and follow it. When I first got into the sport of triathlon I signed up with Mark Allen Online. I knew people who were successful [...]
Chronic Training Load. CTL. The little blue line. If you use TrainingPeaks Premium you most likely have the Performance Management Chart (PMC) on your dashboard. It is one of the key features of the Premium upgrade. Both a blessing and at times, a curse. I have had a habit of following that line too closely. [...]
Intervals. I’d bet you would be surprised if you knew that this is the first year I’ve really done intervals in training. Sure I would do some speed work here and there but my training was primarily long, slow, steady, aerobic endurance training. And it worked. It worked well. Insanity: Doing the same thing over [...]
2012 Was a great year filled with fun and anguish as well as my first duathlon and a return to some of my favorite races! Here are the totals… 13,128 – Number of Unique Page Views, up 50% from 2011 726 – Number of Unique Page Views on the years most popular post 9 – [...]
Yesterday wrapped up the first training block with Coach Nicole and all told it was a good one. It was our first real training block since starting as I had that pesky Hamilton Half Marathon to prep for and recover from. It was an interesting experience, much different than what I was used to in [...]
I’m stealing this idea (even the picture) from my friend Adena’s blog. She signed up for her first 70.3, 2013 Rev3 Cedar Point, got a coach and started working towards that goal. She put down some rules that she is following as she works with her coach. I thought this was a cool idea so [...]
Ahh race week. There is nothing better in some cases. There are usually a few days off work, a lightened training load, and a crap load of stuff to pack. Bikes to clean, clothes to wash, gear to pack. The weather this time of the year can be anything from cool and wet to [...]
Tomorrow officially starts the taper for Ironman 70.3 Poconos and having a true second “A” race of the season I was curious if you could in fact peak twice within a year. Well, I think you can… This is my PMC for the year. Ignore the peak at the left (in yellow) as that was [...]
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