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7 Weeks
So I guess I'll start the 7 weeks to go - first 6 hour ride scheduled for this weekend, followed by Camp Week!! next week. Think I might have to shift the order of at least one of the workouts there, but won't get ahead myself yet; gotta get through this week first. The intervals in the pool were a rough order today. Looking forward to the longer sets tomorrow. Have a great week ya'll.
Mark
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Hope everyone has an awesome week!
Mark
Mark F. great to hear your making progress as planned! It feels good both physically and mentally to know things are shaping up good for the race.
Crazy busy work day yesterday!!! I made to the track early this morning both to beat the heat of the day and get the run in before work became overwhelming. I had a mile and a half warm-up run from the house. My legs were still feeling tired from the weekends biking. At the track hit both mile intervals at 6:20 pace. I'm very happy with the effort especially on tired legs. Ran back to the house for my cool down and ended with just over 5 miles. Swim is up next!
Have a great Tuesday Team!
Eric-Are you still heading to Madison this week? Should be good weather Saturday!
Mark F.-will you be heading to Madison for the camp week? Wait till you hear the banter in person...
Mark H.-I'm also looking forward to the camp week! Just have to buy some new bike shorts to prep for it....haha
Great job everyone!
Getting settled tonight in Madison. My plan is race reheare the bike tomorrow followed by a 6 mile run. Same thing on Saturday. Sunday I'm running the course probably 16-20 miles. It will be the same flavor as camp just not with all the EN peeps which is a bummer. I may not have a cycle partner but my girlfriend Sarah will be running with me which is cool.
Training this week has been a challenge. Work has been stupid. I'm not getting the pool time I need. I feel I'm lagging in that area of the training. I'm spot on with the bike and doing ok with the run. After this weekends volume I'm going to beardown and make training my priority for the last 6 weeks.
I hope everyone has a good weekend of training and as always crush it!
Pretty good week, been very busy with work so I have had to juggle my workouts around a bit but I am getting it done (mostly) :-). I did an abbreviated long run his morning, guess it was just short, just 70 min (stupid meetings) and will be running a local 5k tonight.
The big thing for me this week is updating my aerobars! I've noticed as the miles / time increase my wrists have begun to hurt when I rise out of aero to brake. I have s-bend bars and was looking to replace them with ski-bend bars. Well one thing leads to another, as it often does, and I am ending with with the Profile Design T3+ Carbon aerobars. This will replace my stock Felt DA4 bars with something more adjustable and comfortable. I am hoping like heck they get here before Camp Weekend, as hard as I tried I could not find them locally.
Swim tomorrow. Local Sprint Tri on Sat, followed by more biking (weather depending, or I will be on the drainer - I need to do a sweat test anyway...). More biking/running on Sunday.
Glad to hear all is going well for everyone
Hope you kick some at the 5k and Sprint Tri!
Tried to swim Lake Michigan this morning, but wimped out - it was freezing cold.
I got the bars today, still waiting for the risers - looking at the setup, I am going to be happy I made the change.
Also, I PR'd the 5K last night - Woo Hoo!
Cheers
We'll ride #1 on the IMWI bike course ended on mile 21 on Messerschdit. I was cranking up a hill and chain came off which I thought was odd. It turned out my rear chain de-railer had snapped when I shifted gears. I called my girlfriend to come get me. I was very disappointed. The weather was overcast a little rainy and wind gust from every direction. Not perfect riding conditions but great for race rehearsal. The ride had been going awesome. The course was beautiful, roads were in good shape for the most part. I got my bike back to Madison and dropped it off at Machinery Row. Frame was bent, new rear-derailer, new chain $270.00. Prognosis negative for the long term of the bike due to the frame bend. The good news it will be put back together and ready this evening so i can attack the course tomorrow. I got a good 6 mile run from the hotel along the lake and back. Hopefully tomorrow will go better. Better to have all the troubles in training rather than on race day.
Train on team!
So sorry to hear about your rear derailleur and frame, as you said "Better to have all the troubles in training than on race day".
To be honest, I am not 100% sure I am going to bump my training zones, maybe I am dogging it a little -> call it first timer nerves but I really don't want to get myself in to trouble on the run. I am already in a negative mindset about the run, I don't want to add anymore pressure while I crawl of of my negative run place...
Eric-I'm with Mike. Better today than September 7th. Sucks but you'll be an animal out there tomorrow! Have a great ride!
Mark
Mark F
Mark-Looking forward to hearing how your makeshift camp goes
Eric-HOW did your ride go???
I was able to get in a great 80 miles today followed by a a 3500 yard swim (missed all my swims this week so it was necessary-but not easy to do after a long ride!) It got pretty hot out there today, but glad to get it done. Really looking forward to camp week!
Lauren- great job on the bike and the swim!
Mark H- great to hear your week was good! It is funny how we start looking forward the long bikes.
Mark F- I was in the same situation with camp. Getting my volume this week (or at least was trying to)
Bike ride went great today despite riding without my power meter. (My Garmin would not pick it up so no power pacing or RPMs). Rode 100% by feel. Perceived effort on the bike seemed ok. I ended up with a time of 6 hour 30 min. Which included several traffics stops and a pit stop for powerade in Mt. Horeb. The 6 mile run after felt good. Legs felt fresh for the run. I was real leery about riding without any source of pacing. The WI course is so technical I'm glad I got the experience (not on race day!). On race day I will be faster- more aero POWER Meter and no stopping for traffic. I'm confinement I can hit 6:15 on the course again or faster. Once again glad it happened in training and not on race day. All in all race rehearsal was a success!
Keep crushing it!
Today-I scored some mental toughness points. 2 hour treadmill run. Shoot me now. Haha But due to a number of factors (waking up late, needing to be close to home, heel kinda tight) I stayed home and ran. Boy was I sweaty.