two a day

First time i completed two workouts is a day.. one in morning and other in the evening...

the run this morning was tough initially. first 5 mins. felt like my body was wrapped in concrete.  holy shit..i founds my stride later in the run.  only ran 2+ miles.. nothing to brag about.  my legs were killing me.  the overhead squats and bike. were definitely felt this morning. DAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNN...   even walking around, my quads hurt like holy hell.

i did some stretching after the run. and some active stretching afterwards.  actually i felt great all day.  maybe its a combination of working out and being more consistent.

so the pool.. OMG it was tough..  i think i swam maybe 800 meters..  the first 400 felt ok.. the last 400 felt like death.  the pool was pretty warm at 82 degrees.  my stroke is off..  i need to get on the ball with swimming.  i need a swimming partner.. someone else swimming. not necessarily with me, i don't mind that. having someone else there. would help the time pass.. swimming alone bites. especially for training.  in a race there several others doing the same thing.

Ill get it together.

Hump Day

Im still adjusting to being home from travel.. sleep habits are all screwed up still..  i stayed up til 0200 yesterday morning doing homework.  went to sleep for about 3 hours.. then went to gym for an hour

i did some work on the bike. 35 mins on the exercise bike.. i chose to do alpine pass.. so some climbs.. i used the climbs as sprint intervals..  14.4 miles in 35 mins.. avg 24 mph. with avg power of 189 watts.  max power output was 340 watts.

prior to getting on bike.. i did 4 sets of overhead squats with 15 lbs weight bar. 4 sets stability ball crunches.

feeling awesome working out..

Running

I ran yesterday.. It felt really good.. Temp was decent, around 46 degrees.

The first mile of run was good. I felt great breathing was ok.. Two miler things started changing.. I looking at my watch.. HR was 179.. I was like holy shit, need to slow down a little bit.

Physically, i felt awesome.. But i was gased.. I lost my stride after that. I hope to get out tomorrow for a run.

Purchased a new toy.. The timex global trainer.. Hell of a tool.. Cool thing is that its a direct interface to training peaks. Which is aawwweeeesssssoooommmmeeeee.

Tomorrow is a run swim work out. I will probably run/bike though. We shall see..

I weighed myself today.. I wasnt happy about what i saw.. Gotta turn up the intensity..

Back on US soil and motivated

Im finally home.. Feels good to be home. to bad its frickin freezing.. brrrr..  it sucks leaving a hot climate to come home to snow.. DAMMIT

But Im on the move.. had a good work out this morning.. legs feel really good..  back at it tomorrow..

happy to be back rolling.

I pulled the trigger

Im currently on travel for work.  So, I had a lot of time to think about this year and goals i have for myself.
I started school.. the work load seems to be very manageable. im happy with that.  Work is work.. glad to be employed.

Now, my race schedule had not been determined.  I though alot about it.  Figuring out what i wanted to do.  I mentioned to some friends that i want to do B2B Full.. hence the start of this blog.  I had a great month last month of training.. so, im on the race to a good season so far.   As i sit in a foreign country.. i pull up setupevents web page and begin to register.. while registering,  i get this scared but excited feeling..

Im now on the road to become an IRONMAN.. so PUMPED!!!!

LET THE TRAINING BEGIN.

Gotta get focused.

Thinks were looking great initially with the new year.. Work seems to always throw a curve ball my way.. Grrrrrrr.. When i start ti get in a groove.. Murphy has a tendency to show up alot..

But, today i ran for first time.. It felt so good run sucks it was on a treadmill. But oh well.. I suppose to do a 45 min run with a RPE of 3..  I did 4.53 miles in 43:25 mins.  I was running out of gas.. I walked last min and some change to get HR down.

Was suppose to swim after run.. Walked to pool afterwards.. Pool was really busy.. No lanes.. So many kids, you would think it was summer break.  So i didnt swim. Went and stretched for about 20 minutes.

I plan to start splitting up my workouts.. Seems like i dont have enough time to fit it all in the evenings.. I hate daylight saving simetimes..

Speed work

Today was suppose to be a brick.. 

It was raining and cold out. So i jumped on the dreadmill.. Good old speed intervals..  Typical one mile warm up. The started the torture..  One qtr mile on (80-90%) RPE one qtr off (60-65%).  I did this 8 times, then a 1 mile cool down.

I got hungry right after.. So i didnt eat enough before working out.. I was suppose to swim. I didnt bring wallet to purchase something like a power bar..  I went to the pool.. And looked around.. I was full of people.. People never want to share lanes.. Then there was a class with 6 people that occupied 2 lanes and swim lessons the took two lanes as well.... Gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Next time