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In just 2 short weeks, i'll be getting ready for bed in lake placid NY. my bike will be racked already, my gear bags and transition bags will be packed. i'll be anxious and excited and nervous. i'll know i should go to sleep, but my body and mind will fight it.

even if i sleep, i will be having ironman dreams.

my training this time around has me prepared for a great race. i have really cut back on swimming of late. this is for no good reason. but my form is good, and i've done several long ope… Continue

Had a fantastic training weekend up in Lake Placid. We went up on friday, and got in an hour swim in the afternoon. The underwater lines have been moved, set up now for rowing i think. swimming the loop felt long, and my time was longer than anticipated, so i'm not sure if it was truly just a 1.2 mile loop. but it's so nice swimming in that lake it really doesn't matter!

saturday we got out on the bikes. i did this same training weekend in 2007. that year, riding the course (112 miles) took me… Continue

I am truly enjoying this monday morning of REST. and i'm amazed that i'm not sore and not tired. but it is incredible what your body adapts to, how it gets used to the exercise. you really begin to see with ironman training that your body IS a machine, and that you are capable of things that you never thought possible.

this saturday, i left the house at 6:20am on the bike. rode to wyckoff for a steady/fast group ride around the tri course, got a good paceline with rob/tim/george going and that… Continue

I knew that time would go by quickly. But can it really be only 2 months till the race??

Trainings going very well, with the occasional hiccups that life throws in. Overall, I've made great progress in the last 7 months, and am doing much better that training 2 years ago.

I had a 6-8 week period of just lacking motivation to swim. i would miss a swim workout, or 2, every week, and usually had to cut whatever i was doing short because i got there late and had to get to work. But even with that,… Continue

So, after a long, cold, dark, dreary, drizzly, snowy, cold winter, i think we were all surprised just how hot it was this weekend! Too hot in fact. No time to adjust!! Warm weather is here!

Since November I've been steadily following the program, through ups and downs. Swimming laps. Running with a quick turnover. Single leg drills and high cadence cycling. Heart rate zones, strokes per length, warmups and cooldowns. Variable Gearing drills, Loco swims, strides, tempos, and LSD. (not the drug!)… Continue