Swam 30 minutes yesterday. also ran 2.5 miles.
Bikes about 18 miles in the hills today.
Taking tomorrow completely off.
Shitty man. My new kicks felt great yesterday. These are them.
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I've been taking a different approach. After all that heavy riding and running over the weekend, i decided to keep moving but lightly this week. I swam on Monday, swam and ran 2.5 yesterday, swimming again today as well as a sexy date tonight, then hopefully biking and running tomorrow. Friday completely off. Very light ride through the course on sat. race my ass off Sunday. Don't know if this is the right way to do it, but we will see. I hope so. I set my goal to complete the entire event in 1 hr 21 minutes. Plan: 2 miles in 15 min, 12 miles + transitions in 50 min, 2 miles in 16 min. Try and achieve that this year. Next year? I am taking it all. ahhhh
I am really excited for this race. I need to practice my transitions. At the very least on saturday. Its so cold and rainy up here this week. Bull shit.
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I've been taking a different approach. After all that heavy riding and running over the weekend, i decided to keep moving but lightly this week. I swam on Monday, swam and ran 2.5 yesterday, swimming again today as well as a sexy date tonight, then hopefully biking and running tomorrow. Friday completely off. Very light ride through the course on sat. race my ass off Sunday. Don't know if this is the right way to do it, but we will see. I hope so. I set my goal to complete the entire event in 1 hr 21 minutes. Plan: 2 miles in 15 min, 12 miles + transitions in 50 min, 2 miles in 16 min. Try and achieve that this year. Next year? I am taking it all. ahhhh
I am really excited for this race. I need to practice my transitions. At the very least on saturday. Its so cold and rainy up here this week. Bull shit.
iced the shins for about 2 hours last night.... after a quick 5miler. Tried to run as fast as I could to race pace (maybe faster) just to get an idea about what it's going to feel like.
It was a little scary. I ran 2.5 in approx 16:30 and then back (another 2.5) in 15:45. This was with a 5 minute break in between. The reasoning for this break and the fast running? I have no idea. I just felt like the right thing to do (in my heart). Also, i cried afterwards.
but seriously, the shins were aching pretty badly, so I switched back to my old running shoes and stopped wearing those stupid dress shoes. Now I have to go, during lunch, and see if i can score a pair of decent dress shoes. Fuck, fuck, fuck the fashion police.
It was a little scary. I ran 2.5 in approx 16:30 and then back (another 2.5) in 15:45. This was with a 5 minute break in between. The reasoning for this break and the fast running? I have no idea. I just felt like the right thing to do (in my heart). Also, i cried afterwards.
but seriously, the shins were aching pretty badly, so I switched back to my old running shoes and stopped wearing those stupid dress shoes. Now I have to go, during lunch, and see if i can score a pair of decent dress shoes. Fuck, fuck, fuck the fashion police.
Whats the dillio kid?
Hows the shin?
Hows the bike and components?
Training over weekend.
Sat- 3.1 mile run followed by 22 mile bike
Sun- 12.5 mile bike followed by 5.15 mile run
Gotta start making some plans and arrangements for this weekend. My cousin Yvonne lives about 10 blocks from the transition area so I am going to ask her some details.
Hows the shin?
Hows the bike and components?
Training over weekend.
Sat- 3.1 mile run followed by 22 mile bike
Sun- 12.5 mile bike followed by 5.15 mile run
Gotta start making some plans and arrangements for this weekend. My cousin Yvonne lives about 10 blocks from the transition area so I am going to ask her some details.
the bike did come. what what!
the sad part is that I had to go out for Brenna's birthday so I didn't get back to LI to see it until 1:30am. I did try on the shoes and the helmet though. they both fit perfectly (thank god).
So hopefully tonight will be the night. I want to try to put this thing togeter asap. It looks oh, so beautiful in the box. If not tonight, than definitely tomorrow morning. I'll be damned if I can't take it for a ride tomorrow.
dude, don't worry about the timing on the run. you just gotta get a good base in before we can start working on the speed. You just have to run lots and lots and lots of miles now and then when it's starting to get closer to the actual race, you can start doing more speed intensive training..... like mile repeats, or half mile repeats.
In other news, my left shin is KILLING me. It hurts to walk, let alone run. I have been housing Ibuprofen like it's my job. I have it narrowed down to two scenarios.
Scenario#1: I an getting painful shin splints from my running shoes. I made the mistake of buying Nike+ shoes instead of buying real running shoes and they are hurting my calves. The calf muscle may be bruised/sore. I have also neglected to focus on stretching, so I could just be a huge douchebag and should have stretched more.
Scenario#2: Due to my constant pounding on pavement (instead of running on soft grass, etc) and my lack of real shoes... I have given myself a stress fracture in my shin. This scenario is certainly a much slimmer chance, but it feels like the pain is coming more from the bone than the muscle. It reminds me of how it felt when I had broken my thumb. Balls. It's certainly not broken, but it could be a stress/compression fracture or just a bruised shin. It doesn't hurt if i put pressure on the calf, but it does hurt when i put pressure on the shin (with my fingers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_splints
OH! and my bike and associated equipment is due to come in sometime tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out. Hopefully going the economical way didn't fuck me.
T-Minus 11 days until the first race of the season. Try to find a good 5K in Boston for sometime before the Triathlon. Let's start doing at least one race a month, if we can. BOO YA!
T-Minus 11 days until the first race of the season. Try to find a good 5K in Boston for sometime before the Triathlon. Let's start doing at least one race a month, if we can. BOO YA!
Recapitulate
Here's a recap, due to my lack of posting...
Sunday: Run - 7.2 miles in 65:00
Monday: Swim - 100m warmup, 600m drills, 4x100m
Tuesday: Run - 6.29 miles in 45 minutes
Tonight: Swimming again! Hooray!
Want to hear something ridiculous. I think I'm getting seasick from swimming. I'm going to try out ear-plugs tonight since my coach says its probably cause the water is sloshing around in the inside of my ears. I bet you that is why I get so green when I'm surfing too. I'm such a big pussy, it's out of control.
Sunday: Run - 7.2 miles in 65:00
Monday: Swim - 100m warmup, 600m drills, 4x100m
Tuesday: Run - 6.29 miles in 45 minutes
Tonight: Swimming again! Hooray!
Want to hear something ridiculous. I think I'm getting seasick from swimming. I'm going to try out ear-plugs tonight since my coach says its probably cause the water is sloshing around in the inside of my ears. I bet you that is why I get so green when I'm surfing too. I'm such a big pussy, it's out of control.
Hahaha
I went swimming at lunch today. 1 hr. did something like 50+ laps i think. did the first 45 minutes with a float between my legs. Then did 15 minutes with out the float. Just a matter of figuring out a pace that I can handle. I found it today.
Running when I get home. We'll see how long. And hopefully it doesn't start raining.
I went swimming at lunch today. 1 hr. did something like 50+ laps i think. did the first 45 minutes with a float between my legs. Then did 15 minutes with out the float. Just a matter of figuring out a pace that I can handle. I found it today.
Running when I get home. We'll see how long. And hopefully it doesn't start raining.
Forced Run
After feeling grossly undermotivated yesterday, I strapped on the running shoes and went for a run. I think I definitely have OCD. I started to realize that I was counting to 100 (by ones) over and over again in order to keep pace. Sort of like singing a song, but in actuality I was just counting every third step. Weird. I might need to talk to someone.
Anyway. 5.52miles in 39:20
Anyway. 5.52miles in 39:20
Hey man. sorry for the missed few days. Been kind of busy.
I am glad to hear you enjoyed Rome. St. Peters is sick and being that it was build by fucking hand so many years ago, it is truly amazing.
On Monday I swam for 1 hr. Not constant.
Tuesday - Biked 15.3 miles and ran 3 miles.
Wednesday - swam for 50 minutes (non stop- ill explain below) and ran 3.5 miles.
thursday - going swimming again today and Muay Thai tonight.
So what I have come to realize through studying my pace and heart rate and all that good stuff, is that when I bike and run and a medium clip, my heart rate is really high. Between 160 and 170. this requires me to breathe heavily. It doesnt effect me in the run or bike (as drastically) as in the swim because I am limited to air of course. So I just have to keep at it till my heart and lungs get stronger and don't get so strained so easily. What I did yesterday and will do again today is put a float between my legs and not kick. Work at my form and go slow (painfully slow) and I can swim all day. So, verdict is that I can swim fine and my muscles can handle it no problem, just my lungs and heart (not ever being trained this way) need to catch up and not work so hard when I'm exerting energy. Problem is, that takes time and I don't have that much time but i am going to work with what i got and try and make it better. Moral of the story is I need to go slow so that I don't get short of breathe and can go the distance. Get my heart in shape and then work on my speed.
bummer but the price needs to be paid.
Ive been doing pussups and pullups and stuff till failure every night this week. Made a deal with myself to do them every night and record my progress. You should try it. Pretty sweet.
I am glad to hear you enjoyed Rome. St. Peters is sick and being that it was build by fucking hand so many years ago, it is truly amazing.
On Monday I swam for 1 hr. Not constant.
Tuesday - Biked 15.3 miles and ran 3 miles.
Wednesday - swam for 50 minutes (non stop- ill explain below) and ran 3.5 miles.
thursday - going swimming again today and Muay Thai tonight.
So what I have come to realize through studying my pace and heart rate and all that good stuff, is that when I bike and run and a medium clip, my heart rate is really high. Between 160 and 170. this requires me to breathe heavily. It doesnt effect me in the run or bike (as drastically) as in the swim because I am limited to air of course. So I just have to keep at it till my heart and lungs get stronger and don't get so strained so easily. What I did yesterday and will do again today is put a float between my legs and not kick. Work at my form and go slow (painfully slow) and I can swim all day. So, verdict is that I can swim fine and my muscles can handle it no problem, just my lungs and heart (not ever being trained this way) need to catch up and not work so hard when I'm exerting energy. Problem is, that takes time and I don't have that much time but i am going to work with what i got and try and make it better. Moral of the story is I need to go slow so that I don't get short of breathe and can go the distance. Get my heart in shape and then work on my speed.
bummer but the price needs to be paid.
Ive been doing pussups and pullups and stuff till failure every night this week. Made a deal with myself to do them every night and record my progress. You should try it. Pretty sweet.
Holy Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ!
I think I almost drowned last night. We swam so ridiculously hard in this workout. It was ABSURD. But seriously, I almost drowned.
100m Warm-up
100m Just right arm
100m Just left arm
10x 25m Sprints
6x 100m Repeats (25 second rest between sets)
Needless to say, I only made it through 4 of the 6x100m and felt like i was going to need emergency CPR, but still, that was ruthless. So if my arithmatic hasn't failed me, thats a 950m workout. Hooray! I finally was able to swim the distance of the race... even if not consecutively.
I think I almost drowned last night. We swam so ridiculously hard in this workout. It was ABSURD. But seriously, I almost drowned.
100m Warm-up
100m Just right arm
100m Just left arm
10x 25m Sprints
6x 100m Repeats (25 second rest between sets)
Needless to say, I only made it through 4 of the 6x100m and felt like i was going to need emergency CPR, but still, that was ruthless. So if my arithmatic hasn't failed me, thats a 950m workout. Hooray! I finally was able to swim the distance of the race... even if not consecutively.
hey dude. it was really really good. rome is probably one of the most epic cities that i have ever been too. everything was so old... and HUGE. every once and a while it would hit me that the church I was standing in was over 2000 years old. So weird.
The women were not as beautiful as I expected, but everyone was pretty friendly, nonetheless. And the wine flowed like beer, so that was also amazing.
As far as Myrtle Beach goes, I think at this point I'm definitely not gonna go. I think you may be right about it being skeezy, and I'm not really into paying alot of money just to go around with some dirty biker dudes and trashy women. I would most definitely be down for a bike/camping trip. I think that would be tiiiight. Real good to hear that Cas got the GSXR. I feel like he's gonna have alot of fun on that thing.
Had to skip swimming last night, I was vommitting all over the town. I meant to write back to you yesterday during work, but i felt so miserable, i couldnt bring myself to type. Anyway, today I'm going to try to get out and bike maybe 16-20 miles and then try to get some running in right after that. Who knows how it will pan out... but I'm intending to give it a shot.
How did the workout go yesterday?
The women were not as beautiful as I expected, but everyone was pretty friendly, nonetheless. And the wine flowed like beer, so that was also amazing.
As far as Myrtle Beach goes, I think at this point I'm definitely not gonna go. I think you may be right about it being skeezy, and I'm not really into paying alot of money just to go around with some dirty biker dudes and trashy women. I would most definitely be down for a bike/camping trip. I think that would be tiiiight. Real good to hear that Cas got the GSXR. I feel like he's gonna have alot of fun on that thing.
Had to skip swimming last night, I was vommitting all over the town. I meant to write back to you yesterday during work, but i felt so miserable, i couldnt bring myself to type. Anyway, today I'm going to try to get out and bike maybe 16-20 miles and then try to get some running in right after that. Who knows how it will pan out... but I'm intending to give it a shot.
How did the workout go yesterday?
So how was it mang? What did you do there? how was going with your bro? On a side note of your brother, did he get in trouble with the cops in NYC the night of Toms bday party? something about smoking gods green plants.
So as far as Myrtle Beach goes, I couldn't really find to much info on it. To be completely honest, I am not really sure I want to go. It seems really skeeve. What I did find out last week is that Cass got a bike. Brand new GSXR 1000. Crazy bastard. So what I had thrown out there would be to have him and Faass (and maybe Boffi is he has his license) to come down to LI for a weekend. We ride out to meet Lang, then ride to Montauk and camp or something. Chill and drink and then ride back. Would you be interested in something like that? Or maybe we can all chill at Langs place but ride out to Montauk or orient for the day. Cruize a long the water. Let me know your thoughts.
So as far as Myrtle Beach goes, I couldn't really find to much info on it. To be completely honest, I am not really sure I want to go. It seems really skeeve. What I did find out last week is that Cass got a bike. Brand new GSXR 1000. Crazy bastard. So what I had thrown out there would be to have him and Faass (and maybe Boffi is he has his license) to come down to LI for a weekend. We ride out to meet Lang, then ride to Montauk and camp or something. Chill and drink and then ride back. Would you be interested in something like that? Or maybe we can all chill at Langs place but ride out to Montauk or orient for the day. Cruize a long the water. Let me know your thoughts.
whoaaaa! jet lag.
im back in the USSA (<-- beatles reference?) and it is very niiice. start back to the regular training tonight. got swimming tonight at 8, so I might try to get there a little early and put in some miles before the workout in the pool. gotta get back on the horse as quickly as possible.
also, gonna try to order up that bicycle today, if possible. if not, tomorrow. hooray!
how you feeling? also, any verdict on myrtle beach?
im back in the USSA (<-- beatles reference?) and it is very niiice. start back to the regular training tonight. got swimming tonight at 8, so I might try to get there a little early and put in some miles before the workout in the pool. gotta get back on the horse as quickly as possible.
also, gonna try to order up that bicycle today, if possible. if not, tomorrow. hooray!
how you feeling? also, any verdict on myrtle beach?
So after about a week and a half off of training from being sick, I started up again yesterday and well all out.
Ran 3 miles in the morning
Biked 17 miles at lunch (w/ new bike which is fucking awesome)
Muay Thai at night
I'm a little sore today.
Off to the pool right now.
Hope your having fun in Rome you bitch!!
Ran 3 miles in the morning
Biked 17 miles at lunch (w/ new bike which is fucking awesome)
Muay Thai at night
I'm a little sore today.
Off to the pool right now.
Hope your having fun in Rome you bitch!!
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