Friday, November 12, 2010
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I very much enjoyed my two-week hiatus from all things cardio after the marathon. All of the little aches and pains that had developed over the course of my 2010 racing season are now a thing of the past, I’m feeling very good and it’s time to get going again. It was a highly successful season and I enjoyed all of it, but now it is time to begin the march towards Ironman finish #4 that I hope to get on June 26, 2011 in Coeur d’Alene, ID. I’ve been doing some reading so let me get a review out there and then I’ll update you on my current training regime and plan.
I recently finished reading The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ. This series of books looks at different beliefs in Christianity and then the author meets with highly-educated scholars or highly-placed members of different religious organizations to prove or disprove the question at hand. The questions in this book were was Jesus real? If so, was he truly born of a virgin mother, did he truly die on the cross, was he truly resurrected after death in a bodily form to walk amongst people again, and did he truly ascend to Heaven in his bodily form? All good questions and all are questions that everyone asks or thinks about from time to time. Of course if you go on the Internet you’ll find the answers you’re looking for regardless of which way you lean. But, according to the professors and church leaders the author met with on these topics and answer to each question is a resounding yes. You can choose to believe it or not – that’s up to you. But I do believe Jesus was real on Earth is still real in Heaven. However, if you aren’t so sure then you need to read this book. You are exactly the type of person it was written for and I’d recommend it.
Now I’m reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard that my Regional Director at work gave me. We are getting set to embark on a massive healthcare EMR project at work that will take 3-5 years and $850,000,000 to complete and with that comes some tremendous change within our organization and our entire healthcare system. This book will help us tasked with managing through this change to be better managers and help us deal with the change for ourselves and our teams. I’ll let you know what I think of it upon completion.
So I’ve started to get active again this week with some swimming, cycling and running once again. This week was an ease-back-into-it week before I start a new training regime next week. The plan I’m going to follow is an Out-Season Training Plan from Endurance Nation. The Ironman training plan that I used and tweaked for my first three IM finishes worked well and garnered me 11:29 in 2005, 10:50 in 2007 and 10:57 in 2009. But for 2011 I want to go 10:30 or thereabouts so I figured I’d change it up with a new training plan. I’ll follow the EN protocol of spending this off-season (out-season) building my “fast” with a TON of interval work on the bike and the run and then next spring I’ll add my “fast” on top of it. We’ll see how it goes, but that’s my plan!
But, in prep for starting that plan next week I’ve gotten in a few sessions this week to start easing back into things and here are those recaps…
Monday I hit the pool at 5AM for the first time since mid-August! And it sucked. It was hard, I was slow, the water was cold and I shortened the workout. But I was back in the pool so there’s that.
Stats for Monday’s swim: 1,600-yards in 36:28 (37:58 w/rest) 4x400 w/30-sec. rests.
Tuesday morning began with a 4:40AM session on the bike trainer which was also the first trainer session since mid-August! It didn’t suck, but I could tell it had been awhile since I last rode. Then at midday I got my run on for the first time since the marathon 16-days prior. It was wet and cold and windy and wonderful. After the initial shock wore off about 2-miles into I felt great and was loving the fact that I was running again.
Stats for Tuesday’s bike: 14-miles in 1-hour.
Stats for Tuesday’s run: 6.2-miles in 50:10 @ 8:05/m pace.
On Wednesday I was out the door at 5AM to run once again. It was warmer and drier than the previous day’s run and I was able to run a bit faster and it felt a bit easier.
Stats for Wednesday’s run: 6.2-miles in 47:44 @ 7:42/m pace.
Thursday was another early morning bike trainer session and this time I did a couple of big-gear intervals but nothing to too crazy.
Stats for Thursday’s bike: 14.1-miles in 1-hour.
And lastly, this morning I was once more back in the cold pool at 5AM. This time it wasn’t quite as hard, I was a little bit faster and it felt a little bit easier.
Stats for Friday’s swim: 1,500-yards in 32:51 (34:51 w/rest) 5x300 w/30-sec. rests.
Thanks for stopping by…
I recently finished reading The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ. This series of books looks at different beliefs in Christianity and then the author meets with highly-educated scholars or highly-placed members of different religious organizations to prove or disprove the question at hand. The questions in this book were was Jesus real? If so, was he truly born of a virgin mother, did he truly die on the cross, was he truly resurrected after death in a bodily form to walk amongst people again, and did he truly ascend to Heaven in his bodily form? All good questions and all are questions that everyone asks or thinks about from time to time. Of course if you go on the Internet you’ll find the answers you’re looking for regardless of which way you lean. But, according to the professors and church leaders the author met with on these topics and answer to each question is a resounding yes. You can choose to believe it or not – that’s up to you. But I do believe Jesus was real on Earth is still real in Heaven. However, if you aren’t so sure then you need to read this book. You are exactly the type of person it was written for and I’d recommend it.
Now I’m reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard that my Regional Director at work gave me. We are getting set to embark on a massive healthcare EMR project at work that will take 3-5 years and $850,000,000 to complete and with that comes some tremendous change within our organization and our entire healthcare system. This book will help us tasked with managing through this change to be better managers and help us deal with the change for ourselves and our teams. I’ll let you know what I think of it upon completion.
So I’ve started to get active again this week with some swimming, cycling and running once again. This week was an ease-back-into-it week before I start a new training regime next week. The plan I’m going to follow is an Out-Season Training Plan from Endurance Nation. The Ironman training plan that I used and tweaked for my first three IM finishes worked well and garnered me 11:29 in 2005, 10:50 in 2007 and 10:57 in 2009. But for 2011 I want to go 10:30 or thereabouts so I figured I’d change it up with a new training plan. I’ll follow the EN protocol of spending this off-season (out-season) building my “fast” with a TON of interval work on the bike and the run and then next spring I’ll add my “fast” on top of it. We’ll see how it goes, but that’s my plan!
But, in prep for starting that plan next week I’ve gotten in a few sessions this week to start easing back into things and here are those recaps…
Monday I hit the pool at 5AM for the first time since mid-August! And it sucked. It was hard, I was slow, the water was cold and I shortened the workout. But I was back in the pool so there’s that.
Stats for Monday’s swim: 1,600-yards in 36:28 (37:58 w/rest) 4x400 w/30-sec. rests.
Tuesday morning began with a 4:40AM session on the bike trainer which was also the first trainer session since mid-August! It didn’t suck, but I could tell it had been awhile since I last rode. Then at midday I got my run on for the first time since the marathon 16-days prior. It was wet and cold and windy and wonderful. After the initial shock wore off about 2-miles into I felt great and was loving the fact that I was running again.
Stats for Tuesday’s bike: 14-miles in 1-hour.
Stats for Tuesday’s run: 6.2-miles in 50:10 @ 8:05/m pace.
On Wednesday I was out the door at 5AM to run once again. It was warmer and drier than the previous day’s run and I was able to run a bit faster and it felt a bit easier.
Stats for Wednesday’s run: 6.2-miles in 47:44 @ 7:42/m pace.
Thursday was another early morning bike trainer session and this time I did a couple of big-gear intervals but nothing to too crazy.
Stats for Thursday’s bike: 14.1-miles in 1-hour.
And lastly, this morning I was once more back in the cold pool at 5AM. This time it wasn’t quite as hard, I was a little bit faster and it felt a little bit easier.
Stats for Friday’s swim: 1,500-yards in 32:51 (34:51 w/rest) 5x300 w/30-sec. rests.
Thanks for stopping by…
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This is a great book indeed, been reading this book too...
“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is a great book indeed, been reading this book too...
“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
--carmelo spyder jackets
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