Wow! What a great past 2 weeks this has been with my training! I’m really feeling like I am getting the hang of being on top of my time management. Right now, Ben has me doing lots of speed work on my runs and keeping a very high cadence on my bike. The swims have moved into some hard (non or…
This is my quest to do Ironman Arizona for a 2nd time using Ben Greenfield's Triathlon Dominator program. My goal is to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles in under a time of 10:59:59. I will be doing this by training an average of 10 hours a week.
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Jul
Moving right along….
I am back.
It’s not that I really left doing my workouts anyway, but more of the fact that I hate typing. First and foremost, I’d like to report that I have been doing my workouts as faithfully as possible. On any given week there is 0-2 workouts I might miss out on because of poor planning, but I have been…
Last week I was in St. George, Utah coaching 2 guys that have been training for the past 5 month or so for their 1st ever Olympic distance tri. They raised several thousand dollars each for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. They did an awesome job.
The race director also let me in with the other swimmers to do the swim as…
After 6 weeks of traveling I am finally back for good. I really thought I could get my workouts in while in Atlanta and Toronto, minus my bike rides of course. I also thought that I could get my long rides in on Sunday when I got home, but I’d end coming home, hanging out with Belle and crashing for…
Training is going very, very well. I am finding that while these workouts are tough, they are very, very doable. At this point in time, I feel very strong after the workouts. Don’t get me wrong, they are still mean, but Ben does an amazing job in making each and every workout very specific and easy to follow.
I am noticing…
Sorry I took so long to get back to this. It has been a very busy 2 weeks here at the Smith household. Belle (our daughter), did a number on the spacebar on the keyboard, and we finally got it fixed. My work is keeping me very, very busy. In one week from Wednesday I will be in Atlanta and…
By week 2, I mean that I am starting week 2 tomorrow.
Week 1 was good. It kicked my butt a little bit, and I think it was Thursday that I approached Cherry and gave her a hug and with a little bit of a whimper and asked if what I was doing was worth it. She chuckled and made mention…
This is finally it. After almost 4 months off of training I am jonesing to get out and make it happen. To keep some form of fitness up over these winter months I have been running 10-20 miles a week and indoor rock climbing 3-4 times a week.
As I mentioned before, I am using Ben Greenfield’s Ironman Dominator training program which…
There used to be a very cool website that came along with a cheap newspaper print that came out 4 or 5 times a year. It was great, and it was also one of the sites I would visit quite a bit to support my local updates about the triathlon world.
That magazine has since gone the way of the Dodo…
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Jan
Feb 1 is the date
This is the date I start my training for Ironman Arizona 2010. I’m pretty nervous. Actually I’m very nervous. I know it’s over 9 months away, and I’m going to make it happen.
I’m nervous about starting it up all over again, but I feel good that Ben Greenfield has spelled out exactly what I should do.
I haven’t swam in 2…
