9 Weeks!
This training block is flying by! I actually got my butt up and in the pool at 6am. That was a first! Alrighty-let's kill this testing week friends!
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This training block is flying by! I actually got my butt up and in the pool at 6am. That was a first! Alrighty-let's kill this testing week friends!
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9 weeks means test week! I hope everyone crushes there bike testing and there 5k!!! Good Luck!
I have to be honest, I am not looking forward to testing this week - but I will get it done.
I ended up in a ditch after coming around a corner with unexpected gravel, early in the ride, but I was very lucky and was able to keep it upright and ride out.
To be honest I'm not sure if anybody really looks forward to testing. They are tough and the can be great they can also be mentally challenging.
Chris that is awful!! I'm glad your ok. It sucks about your bike. I hope Felt comes through for you. It's a good thing you have your road bike to train with for now.
Swam at lunch today! I managed to get all 3400 yards done. I felt drained afterwards. Drank my endurox and grabbed Subway on the way back to the office. I'm feeling better just needed food!
Chris-Are you the Chris that crashed on a ride with Jeff S.? I'm a friend of his-heard you got roughed up pretty bad-how are you feeling? That's great that you have another bike to train on for now.
Eric-Great job on the swim! Glad you felt better after eating. After swimming, I'm always so hungry!
I am also dreading this testing tomorrow. But, I'm setting the bike up on the trainer tonight to be ready to get on early tomorrow morning for a 6am test. Going to bring out the old Linkin Park CD to blast to get me through this test....my neighbors are going to love me tomorrow morning.
I'm hoping I can test well tomorrow. I can get past the road rash pain, but my left ankle, not sure
Chris- I hope you are able to test but if your ankle is hurting too much I would rearrange your week and test after you have healed more. The coaches can help you rearrange your week so you can maximize it.
Good luck tomorrow everyone! Crush it!
I hope everyone else testing is going well. I'm looking forward to seeing your posts.
Keep up the good work team!
Hi everyone, haven't posted anything here yet so quick introduction. I live in Plymouth Wisconsin ( about a 2hr drive from Madison). This will be my first full distance after finishing several 70.3's. Will also be doing the Door County 70.3 next weekend.
Did my test after work & before the rain today & got a nice 10 watt bump. Not looking forward to the run test.
I will be riding in Madison this Saturday morning, 2X the loop starting in Verona at the baseball park. Give me a shout if your interested in riding.
As for me...this is a very odd IM build. Trying to keep on track, but there are way too many things going on for me to be able to follow the plans religiously.
Hope everyone is rocking it out, healing up, and fixing their bikes - sending some mojo to overcome the challenges - weeks are flying by and I'm excited to get to race day fit, healthy, and focused to perform!!
Probably...
But seriously, I know as a runner/triathlete we tend to share all sort of things that our 'normal' friends simply would not understand.
I am glad you said that as that is kind of what I noticed on my std tire, thought I was nuts.
I hope things are settling down for you a bit, I simply cannot imagine...
Mike-I agree with William. Switch out the race tire for a rugged training tire.
William - I wasn't sure if we would even see you in the forums this year. it is good to see you post. I'm so sorry for your loss. Trying to keep on track with training at this point is truly amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing you this September.
Mark-Dude endo'd the big?!? dang I'm glad your ok! Sucks that your bars bent but it could have been much worse. Good luck with your sprint!
And yeah maybe TMI.
Happy Hump Day!
Chris were you recovered enough to test on the bike?
No change for me on my Vdot (still at 50) On tired legs I don't think I'll see a bump until after the race this fall.
It's been another crazy week! I'm looking forward to biking this weekend to feel the pain of my new watt zones!
Hope everyone is doing awesome! Keep crushing it!
I also switched my bike tires so I am in full-on training mode as soon as I can.
Good call Mike testing when sick would not be a good thing. Hope your cold clears up soon.
Mike-Smart move. Feel better!
Chris-Any updates on the ankle? So sorry to hear you are going through that!
So my week has been nutty. I basically rewrote my plan for this week because I was given the opportunity to head up to Madison for a random 2 days-so I forgot about the testing and headed up there. Wednesday night I ran an easy 6 along Lake Monona-which was absolutely beautiful. I love that town. Every time I head up there I am reminded of how lucky I am to have Madison so close to home (only about a 2.5 hour drivee). Thursday, some friends that have never ridden the IMWI bike course wanted to experience it-all of it. So, Thursday became long bike day and we ended up with 114 miles on the course! There was a detour at mile 106 which was not fun-knowing you have to turn around that late into the ride is not ideal-but so happy to get in such a long ride on a random day. Since I was still up there this morning, I headed out for my ABP ride-did 1 loop of the course, so cut the ABP scheduled ride a bit short, but I figured since my long ride was MUCH longer than scheduled it wasn't a big deal. Unfortunately I was under my Z2/Z3 due to some fatigue from the day before, but I was still happy to get another loop in before heading home.
With that random trip, I decided I am just going to try and get a swim/run in Saturday and a bike maybe on Sunday. Totally screwy week, but happy to get some time in on the IMWI course!
Great job all, keep rocking!
How awesome to get some training time in Madison and with friends too! I love that city as well. It sounds like you had some great training days with volume. I'm looking forward to being up there on the 25th to ride the course and run the course.
Smile, train on and have fun!
The race T and OJ were training for is this Sunday, and we decided last weekend that OJ would do it as long as she continued to want to. It's an hour away from our house (mercifully), and I've been driving her down to the race site to practice with a team that we loosely affiliated with this year. (Loosely because they are in DSM, and there's no reason we need to go there to swim or run.) Anyway, it made her feel better to practice with other people from her "team" and get re-acquainted with the bike course. It turns out that it's really a two-day thing because there is an "iron kids" event Saturday on the same site that the kids had raced in and there's a mandatory meeting for the draft-legal race, so that will occupy my day. In the evening, there is another local road race that a whole bunch of kids from the school are signed up to do wearing T-shirts, so I am going to that, too. They have a 5K and a 10K, and I will do both and call it my long run for the week. Anyway, all this is very important stuff, but it dictates a lot of how I got to train.
I got in 3 decent early-bird swims and a solid 1-hour outdoor bike from home. We were supposed to test this week, and time constraints meant I had to shorten the warmup/cooldown a bit,but the results suggested by FTP hasn't changed from about 3-4 weeks ago. Maybe drifted up a few W, but nothing dramatic. To be honest, that felt like a pretty huge success.
I've gotten in 3 1-hour runs (could do a couple during the OJ workouts). One was pretty hard and the other great. This is typical right now. Some days are just better than others.
I had no idea if I'll be able to get in a second longish bike ride this weekend, so I elected to take the morning off from work and do a little extra-long one today. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate. I was in no mood to bike and get depressed AND rained on, so I went to the basement so at least I wouldn't get rained on. :-)
Ended up doing 5 hours on the trainer and not drinking quite enough. But it was a good quality ride. Ended up with 342 TSS points (using my old FTP), which is well above target for race day. I didn't get the quality "neck work" of an outdoor ride, but at least the legs did their duty.
For the next couple of days, the kids come first, but I'll get that long run in.