tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76941577100525758112026-05-06T16:24:31.529-04:00Swim bike run. Not always in that order.Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455307792115305791noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694157710052575811.post-24911994141727203752018-08-24T11:20:00.005-04:002018-08-24T11:53:25.635-04:00

See the bike post here I grabbed my bag, headed into the women's change tent, and found a chair. Unlike after the swim, there were only a handful of other women in there, and it was a lot less stiflingly hot! I dumped the bag out on the floor, shoved my helmet, shoes, and bike socks inside, and then spent an inordinate amount of time pulling my compression socks onto my sweaty legs. It was

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See the Swim post here. I ran into the transition tent, grabbed my T1 bag (I noted some athletes had added brightly coloured tape to their bags to make them easier to spot, although since they were in numerical order it wasn't tough to find mine), and made my way into the women's change tent. And did my first good deed of the day, grabbing a woman who was about to walk into the men's tent and

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Pre race post here. Yeah, didn't so much get a lot of sleep. I fell asleep for a few hours, woke up at 11:30 (OMG it's only 11:30?), got back to sleep at some point and then was wide awake at 3:30. I figured I was best off just lying quietly and trying to relax (fat chance) but by 4:30 I couldn't take it anymore and got up. Got into my tri kit and morning clothes, made a cup of tea, ate a banana

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Oh man my thoughts are such a jumbled mess right now I can't even. Just going to start typing here and see what comes out. First things first, I AM AN IRONMAN now, so spoiler alert if you haven't been following along on my instagram, it was kind of the most awesome race ever and now I'm going to write about 30,000 words about it. Figured I'd sprew out some pre-race stuff while we wait for the

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so that's it. Didn't I just register for this thing? How is it race week already? Excuse me, I'm going to go stare at the current weather forecast and try and will it into not changing, cause it looks pretty decent right now. Also, the water temps are just barely wetsuit legal at the moment so we're going to focus on maybe that coming down a few degrees, please. THANKS FACEBOOK I FORGOT ALL

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No I'm not freaking out you're freaking out. Shut up. Swim: 7960m Bike: 223 km Run: 42 km So this week was kind of it, really. Now into the true taper. The fitness is either there or it isn't. Time to cut back a bit, organize all my gear, and attempt to avoid too much panic buying of all sorts of random things I might suddenly decide I simply MUST HAVE (uh, yeah, I did place a $100 order with

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Good lord, 30 weeks? And I've manage to blog them? That's the real challenge, here, trying to find something to say every week. This week was not as originally planned, but overall I'm in a good spot to start TAPER. Although with the lack of running I feel like I've already been tapering for about 2 weeks, but hey, the 5 week long taper, it's the newest thing. Everyone is going to be doing it!

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Well, cutting straight to the point, I'm not fully healthy, which is so immensely frustrating so close to the race that I can't EVEN. Especially watching my friends do amazing work at Lake Placid yesterday, which stirred up a lot of Feelings and Nerves and gah it's all so complicated and terrifying right now. Swim: 8650m Bike: 204km Run: 16k So, what's the situation. Wednesday my left achilles

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Right to the facts: Swim: 5640m (?) Bike: 305 km Run: 39k (?!) Explanation on those reduced swim and run numbers down in the Sunday section. Although any week where you miss a couple of workouts and still do almost 17 hours must be an Ironman peak training week... Monday: 2600m swim The kids were off visiting their grandparents for the week, so when Fab said he was thinking about doing a

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I took two naps on the weekend, so I think it's safe to say we are entering the peak training weeks here. Swim: 9050m Bike: 248km Run: 66km I looked it up and that's the most run mileage I've done in a week since I trained for the Mississauga Marathon back in 2014! And then I was only running, not adding in all this other nonsense. That's kind of blowing my mind, to be honest. I remember how

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First week of the last 8 week block, which means things are getting close and it's time to build up that last little bit of fitness and then hopefully be ready to accomplish something cool in August. Basically a solid month of hard long distance training to go. How'd week one go? I'm having some trouble remembering given my last two days were spent mostly doing stuff like the below, but I'll

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First triathlon of the year! The story starts Friday night, with me being generally laid back and lazy and tossing all my shit together at the last minute. What a change from when Welland was my first ever tri a few years ago and I was Prepared and Ready and Organized. Now I'm all 'Whatevs, I'm sure it'll all work itself out'. Spoiler: I kind of fucked myself over on this one. But that's

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Been a long time since I had such a low weekly total for # of hours (I think I'd have to go back to December), but I did do a race, and the next 5-6 weeks shit gets crazy before I get into the taper (aiiieeee), so another down week seemed like a pretty good idea. Swim: 9000m Bike: 111k (3:42) Run: 35k Really low week on the bike and the run, but I think that will pay off in the bigger picture.

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Much needed recovery week this week. And due to starting my plan a week early to allow for potential issues (mostly I was worried about getting sick), I now have a free week in my schedule I have to figure out, which is really a good problem to have. Next week I'll start the specialty plan for the final push to Tremblant, so this week is about a little more recovery and maintenance. And then

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A little bit of catch up - my heart wasn't in doing a recap last week so just a brief summary of week 22 to keep things complete. Just about done the build plan now, which means I have to figure out what to do with the extra week in my schedule, and get ready for the Welland long course tri! Week 22 Monday - rest Tuesday - 2650m swim; Mt Hale +3 Wednesday: 16k run; 3000m swim Thursday: 8k run;

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This was a difficult week, but it wasn't due to the workouts, which all went fine. This picture is from a few years ago, when I helped as a lead cyclist at the Road to Hope for the first time. The guy on the end (left side) with the cowbell is Jeff. I didn't know Jeff super well, but I saw him at Gulliver's a lot for team swims, rode with him a bit on at least one of the Brian Smith charity

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I'd say something boring like 'wow this was a big week' but at this point they are all big weeks, so what would be the point? Usual sort of week. Did a lot of stuff. Feeling good. Very hungry. (the amount of food I am eating these days...oh man. Post Ironman is going to be quite an adjustment.) Swim: 6220m Bike: 245 km (8:32) Run: 56k Monday: rest There are worse places to be on a Monday

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Ah the recovery week. I always look forward to the recovery and then for some reason it never really feels all that restful. Some of the workouts this week, ugh. They felt harder than the objectively more difficult ones from the week before! But that tends to happen a lot on recovery weeks, so it wasn't really a big surprise, and overall I do feel ready to tackle the next round of build workouts

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455307792115305791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694157710052575811.post-39934876433418014982018-05-15T14:24:00.000-04:002018-05-15T14:24:44.959-04:00

Saw a few days ago that it's now less than a hundred days to race day, which once again was another rude shock that I'm actually planning to do this. WHAT. Well, that and the fact that I'm now into my first recovery week of the build plan, which means not that many more 4 week cycles to go through. Eep. Fortunately, this was a really great, confidence building week. Also the most training hours

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Usual sort of week around here - juggling workouts around events and weather weirdness. Didn't quite fit everything in but got close enough. Swim: 7000m Bike: 6:05 (164k; 80 outside) Run: 51km Monday: TR - Triple Divide Switched things up a bit this week because my daughter turned 13 on Tuesday (aieeeeeeeeeeeeeee teenager in the house!), so I got my usual Tuesday ride done on Monday

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Starting the build plan makes this all feel a little more real, somehow. Yikes. And this week got really complicated to fit everything in... Swim: 8200m Bike: 176 km (76 outside) (6:30) Run: 51k Monday: rest Tuesday: 2500m swim; TR ramp test + South Twin -1 back and forth, back and forth Really solid swim. After swim, I looked at my mileage summaries and to this day this year that's 116 km

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455307792115305791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694157710052575811.post-60341059917574536732018-04-23T12:43:00.002-04:002018-04-23T12:43:29.761-04:00

That really didn't feel much like a recovery week. Somehow it only ended up 3 hours lighter than the peak week. But there was  some fun stuff in there, so let's get to it. Base training is OVER. Swim: 8100m Bike: 178 km (86 outside! 3:15 on trainer) Run: 38 km Monday: REST Tuesday: 2600m swim; TR Bird -1 Another really solid swim. Feel like I'm really making some progress here

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455307792115305791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694157710052575811.post-51544845296947996102018-04-16T16:53:00.003-04:002018-04-16T16:53:50.011-04:00

Wow, it's hard to believe that it's almost the end of base training. This week was week 11 of the Trainerroad plan, which meant the biggest hours of the whole plan before the final week, which is a recovery week. Things went really well, when mother nature allowed them too. It got a bit messy over the weekend, shall we say, and I have just the tiniest bit of regret over missing my recovery run

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455307792115305791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694157710052575811.post-4087024474505003132018-04-09T12:45:00.001-04:002018-04-09T12:45:27.704-04:00

Getting so close to the end of the base building phase now! This is both exciting (ooooh a new training plan to obsess over) and terrifying (there are only how many more months until race day?!). This was a really great week, though, so I'm feeling confident. Had really solid workouts across all three sports and I'm feeling very fit right now. Just have to maintain that and stay healthy. Swim:

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Last week, last week, what the heck happened last week? Life is turning into a blur of swim, bike, run, cook, laundry, occasionally hug the children, 40 hour work week, possibly some sleeping, etc and I can barely remember what I did this morning, much less a week ago. Swim: 7050 m Bike: 253.8 km (8:30) (!) Run: 49 km Monday: rest day Wasn't feeling great Sunday afternoon/evening and woke up

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