IRONMAN........ I on my way to earn this title

This is a Journal to my trials and tribulations of my journey to conquer the 140.6 miles of pain and mental anguish.

So, I plan to journal daily.. if you want to be apart of this journey.. follow by blog.. You will see the up and down days of training for an event.. hopefully it will be something that can inspire you to do something crazy.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

On the Path to success...

Its been a while since i have blogged here..  So this shall be a long entry...

Mon:

First workout of the New year.. It felt pretty good to get out and run.  I was a little cold out, so i had to break out the running tights.  The first two mile felt really good.  2 mile split was 18:23..  Then started to feel the burn of not running in a long time.  Lungs started burning and quads started to fatigue. Good thing the run was almost over, because it began to really suck..  So back from run, then had to move on to the bike.  I jumped on a spin for about 15 mins.. yeah it was short.. i was running out of gas.. So I did some high rpm spinning just to loosen the legs  from run..   After spin, i felt  i could do something else.  So i jumped on the new elliptical..  cranked out 2 miles on that thing.. SHIT that was tough.. felt harder than the run.

Tues:

Day 2.. Feeling awesome and motivated for workout.  Started on the treadmill. 30 mins.. after i finished working out. i looked at schedule i was suppose to do 45 mins.. DAMN IT!!!  On the treadmill, i did a mile warm up at 9:40 pace..  felt ok. After warm up, i started to intervals at every 3rd 100..  Interval speeds were between 8:30-7:00 pace.  After that shifted to doing intervals on every other 200m.. speeds were 7:30-7:00 pace.  that finished up the run.. Legs felt great afterwards..

Now off to the pool.  i was suppose to do a long workout.. 800 warm up, 1000 main set, and 150 cooldown.  I called an audible did 20 x 50s..  considering i haven't been in pool much seemed to be best option.  The first 10 felt good..  breathing was surprising ok.. shoulders and lats were good.  The second 10, sucked ass..  so i sped up and incorporated the flip turn... i got tired a lot faster but the workout was finished and i was happy about it..   After workout.. sat around until i dried off.

Wed: 

I had another swim workout..  looks like the stars werent aligned.. A light broke and fell into the pool.
So know swim.. It was a little to cold to go running.. (like 26 degrees) UMMMM HEEEELLLLLL no.. i couldnt switch and do something else because i promised to run on thursday.  wore wrong shorts to jump on the bike and didn't bring spin shoes.  So i went home...  :) i know lazy right.. lol

Thurs:

 A day of triumph.  I went for a run with Sammy.  i had no expectation about how far we were gonna go.. because i haven't really run much.. last months run volume was in the toilet.  i think i may have run like 20 miles last month..  but nevertheless who knows.  I wanted her to set the pace.  She ran beside me.  We are cruising.. all i hear is music and breathing.. so i look over to see if she was ok. she looked ok and strong.  around the 1.75 mark... i got into a groove.. and i started to pull away.. i just felt good..  i didnt hear music and breathing.. so i looked back.. SHIT, i left her behind. i wasn't on purpose..  2 miles.. whoooo hoooooooo.. This time she was tired her breathing was pretty labored..  so looked at and gave hand gestures for her to slow down and get her breathing together.. Got her to take some deep breathes.. and we were on our way.  On way back in my Tibialis Anterior began to get tight.. so i had to stop briefly to stretch it out..  we took back off..  we got to the bridge on Brambleton.. i began to pull away again..  mile 4 whoooo hooooo.  i stopped to see if she wanted to continue.  i was stretching..  she said lets go..
i told to keep going, id catch her.  we then took out again..  physically i was feeling pretty good other than muscle tightness...  man the temp, took a chance.. got a lil cold out there.. the breeze of the water gave me chillss... brrrrrrrrrr it was time to get moving.. so i sped up a little.  Took one last walk break.. then we were off to complete this long ass unanticipated cold run..

Good thing tomorrow is a bike day. My legs are gonna hurt in the morning.



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