Monday, July 04, 2011

2-Mile Ocean Swim with Cat

Cat & I kicked off our Big Day yesterday @ La Jolla Shores with a swim to The Cove & back. Jennie also made the crossing over with us. Congrats!


Cat & I came home, rested for 90 minutes and left for our five hour bike ride to & up the coast. The coast was nice, cool & mostly overcast with a thick marine layer. Not so in Poway where we started. It was in the 90's when we left.


90 minute rest when we got back and off on a 2 hour run. The sun set while we were running & it was dark when we got home at 9:00 PM. Great day & good confidence building for July 31st.

Saturday, July 02, 2011

Open Water Swim With Cat

Cat & I hit the water yesterday @ La Jolla Shores.

Beautiful day.

Cat plowed out & back like nobody's business ~ good job!

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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Pre-Half Marathon Bike Ride

A little ride, with hills yesterday to prep for running the Rock & Roll Half Marathon today.

It really didn't look like the hills were all that bad when I mapped this out.

This might have been the hardest ride I've ever done, including the two 100 mile centuries.

Hopefully I can still run today.

:-)

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Week 11 Training Plan

The weeks are counting down.  11 weeks until Vineman Full.  Working into Base 2 period for my training.  12.5 hrs scheduled for this week, but without being able to workout twice a day, can only plan on fitting in 11.5.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

How I'm Using my Blog

In case you found yourself on this page & wondering what the heck I'm doing here...

I make my detailed training plan for the week every weekend.  I print it out & put it on my desk so I can see what I'm supposed to do each day.  But when I'm at work I don't have access to the plan...until now.  I just take a screen shot of my plan each week & upload it to my blog & I, as well as anyone else in the world can see it.

I plan my workouts in time rather than distance.  I have to do a quick calc to figure out how for to run or bike, just dividing the time by my expected pace.  For instance, I'm supposed to have a 2 hr run today.  Divided by 9:00 min miles that works out to over 13 miles.

See ya'!

Week 14 Training Plan