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Week 1

12 Week race-specific block for IM AZ starts on Monday! Are we ready to roll?

Get fired up by watching the finishes at Canada and Louisville Sunday on Ironman.com. 

Comments

  • Fired up already. Last gen prep day tomorrow with 4 hour ride and 1 hour run. Few hours to let loose then it's on come Monday!
  • I started my ramp up this week because I will be in Colorado for 4 days of Week 1 and will only be able to run out there. I've cranked up the volume -so to speak- and am definitely feeling it. Like Terry, I'm going 4 hours on the bike tomorrow plus a brick run.

    Dam Status - Bladder 3 lifted into place on 25 August. It takes 2 weeks to install all the bolts, but they are on track. 30,000 lbs of debris have been removed from the lake bottom. We'll probably have the cleanest water in the history of the event.
  • OMG.....seems like I have been waiting for this all summer....finally!
    Racer ready to roll.....livin' the dream.

  • oh ya, ripped the mile intervals the morning in the forsty (almost fall) air. Loved it.
  • Took a look at Week one this morning and my first response was "you have got to be kidding." This is going to be an interesting 12 weeks. Next week I will be in one of the following: Houston, Some back water place NJ, NYC, or PHL. Try planning around that.
  • Knocked off 4250 yards in the pool this morning. Never swam that far before. Great mental boost for me. Doing the run this afternoon. Gonna take my new paces out for a spin!
  • did the 3 x1mile as a 5km TT, since i didn't get to do it last week: Vdot 53 (equal to fastest it has been for me).  thought about stopping at 0.5mile to go, but kept hammering!    12 weeks to improve.

    later  today is the swim for me.  T-pace is 1:46min/100yrds (fastest it has ever been for me).  12 weeks to improve.

    167.0lbs.  12weeks to improve.

    safe training to all.

    g

  • Heading for OWS this afternoon. Really fun and easy run this morning, again... in the dark.
  • Have the opportunity for open water swim 2.4 mile distance in Boulder, am thinking of doing without the wetsuit as an added test, water temp between 68-70, air temp will be cold in the am, about 40, any thoughts? 

  • That's a long time to swim in water that cold. Why do you want to do this? (I would never do it.) 

  •  Well, started because my friend from masters swim is doing it without a wetsuit for the hardcore factor, and I thought it might be fun to try and since AZ is supposed to be such a cold swim would be good for my confidence????

    Then again, since my friend is solely a swimmer who competed in college and I am NOT maybe this is not such a great idea......hence the need for EN smart people feedback, so think I'll pack the suit

  • I'm putting the mile intervals off until October for this block. Did 14x220 on the track this morning with 220 jog interval rest. I want to get a little of my speed back before I start working up to repeat miles.

    @ Stacy - I'm with Al...why suffer needlessly. You are going to race in a wetsuit, so might as well train in it.
  • Stacy - I just saw you are in New Castle. I'm in Snowmass for the next two weeks, and will be doing a fair amount of training not only on the roads up here, but also along the Rio Grande Trail from Glenwood to Basalt. I'm planning a race rehearsal ride (for Kona) on Sept 12th, and would normally just go up and down the Roaring Fork and Fryingpan Valleys. Is there any way to get a decent ride going west from Glenwood, at a lower elevation? 

  • Excited for you guys! Stacey, swim with a wetsuit...more valuable for you pre-race. John, schedule the work of the bikes when you can do it, run on the travel days, don't swim period. As Gilberto notes, 12 weeks to improve! image

    P
  •  @Al, Paul, and Coach P....Roger that will wear my wetsuit!

    @Al.....Snowmass for two weeks, that sounds awesome! So don"t know if you have done the Rio Grande trail but it can be hard to stay aero sometimes if the path gets busy, just my experience but if you ride early am you should be okay.

    If you start in Glenwood there is about 7 mile section with no frontage road so you are riding on I-70 through winding South canyon towards New Castle, people do it but can be sketchy (if you ride the 12th though there is Glenwood Tri going on that morning and the course goes from GWS west to Canyon creek and back so you could tie it to be on that stretch of 70 during the race where they alert traffic, etc......and then you would just be on your own going back East......just a thought.

    You can start in Glenwood and ride all the way back up valley to Aspen with a detour along frying pan in Basalt and then another detour up towards Snowmass, and a third towards Maroon bells, then make you way to Aspen and back to Snowmass, but this is not really much lower elevation GWS area, but would not involve driving or 170......

    Another option which would involve a drive through Glenwood canyon would be start in Avon (Beaver Creek) and ride west to Dotsero, then back to Avon, about 75 miles and can stash water bottles along the road as you drive to Avon. And to add another 30+ miles just go back to Eagle from Avon again......not as scenic or hilly but easier to stay aero and good for the mental toughness with elevation about 6000-6700 the entire ride.

    Let me know what you think and I can certainly help you map out your RR for Kona!

     

     

  • I'll be running my favorite trail in Colorado Springs this weekend...looking forward to some nice cool and dry mornings instead of 83 degrees and 84% humidity.
  • Two friends just went under 12hours at IM WI, 12 hours has always been our goal. Now more motivation than ever - I cannot be left out of the club - time to suffer and ficus on good diet!
  • Actually it is Week 3 and my legs were trashed today on my long run (I start on Sunday, so Wed is Thurs). Thinking about taking tomorrow off before Big Day on Fri. They just feel dead. Couldn't get much beyond Z3 during the run. IMAZ coming soon - my first. So taking that day off won't kill me right!
  • @chuck, I think taking a day off if you body calls for it is pretty smart.  Like others here have said, sometimes it really hard to get out of bed and get moving.  This is my first IM too, so I can totally identify with you

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