Ironman Arizona week 8-starting anew….

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 a couple hours.  I was able to get some good run and track workouts in, and that’s about it.
Anyway, now that I’m back, I was able to start strong with week 8.  Monday-Friday all went very well.

Saturday morning I rode up along Wasatch Blvd with a friend and up to Immigration Canyon.  I was pressed for time and needed to get back home, but Jared insisted that we make it up to the summit.  Instead of coming back the same way home we decided to go along I-80.  While it was quite scary riding 25-30+ mph next to vehicles going 80+, the huge shoulder made it very doable.  I did end up blowing my tire out due to a pinch flat.  All in all we rode just over 55 miles that day.

Sunday morning I swam 2,700 meters that was made up of several 400 meter repeats.  It was all that I could do to keep the same pace throughout and I did a horrible job at it.  It was the longest swim I’d done in over a month.  I did it though.

I also had a long run to do today that I was able to do with another friend.  It consisted of a 20 minute warm up, then 3 miles running as slow as I can keeping my heart rate as long as I could.  The last 7 miles were at a moderate pace-almost like I had found my groove moving outside of the low HR zone.  I felt pretty worked after all was said and done.  My heart rate didn’t climb as much as I thought it would.

I was talking with my running buddy today (Alecio) about this whole Ben Greenfield Ironman Dominator program.  It really is an amazing deal that you are getting by signing up for this.  He gives you a 36 week program, Holistic Fueling for Ironman, Top 12 Resistance Training, No Guesswork Guide to Ironman race week, Endurance Sports Supplements Secrets CD & Triathlon Supplements Discount Guide. This takes ALL the guesswork out of Ironman, it really does.  I had to take a huge step back today and realize what I great thing I am able to take advantage of.  If you have any questions about this, feel free to let me know, of better yet, email Ben and I PROMISE he’ll get back to you.

See you next week!

Te Koi