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Category Archives: Triathlon Central
Weekly Update: Week 9 Get Faster
Continuing to discover my current limits. Last week: Swim x 2 OWS 1 hr & 1:10Bike: 1 x VO2 set of 7x 2′(2′) @ 1.10-1.20 IF; 1 mtn ride of 47 mi/5200’/3:36, 2 good climbs @ 1 hour & 30′Run … Continue reading
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Weekly Update: Independence Day
Continuing to discover my current limits. Last week: Swim x 2 OWS 1 hr & 1:10Bike: 1 x VO2 set of 7x 2′(2′) @ 1.10-1.20 IF; 1 mtn ride of 47 mi/5200’/3:36, 2 good climbs @ 1 hour & 30′Run … Continue reading
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My Knee is Healed?
I started running @ age 50. I’m lean – 5’8.5″ (used to be 2″ taller)/146#, so excess weight is not an issue. But decades of weight lifting (heavy squats, leg extensions), hard-core skiing (bumps/moguls) and breaststroke swimming (whip kick) took … Continue reading
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Heat Training and Adaptation
I don’t know where I copied this from, but it’s chock full of good information: The science of running in the heat Body temperature and heat removal Why is running harder when it’s hot out? It all comes down to … Continue reading
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Ironman CdA 2006: Part I
PRE RACE PARANOIA An Ironman is a bit like a wedding: “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue…”. I’ve got a lot of old rituals to keep, and I’m always trying out something new. Often, one forgets things, and … Continue reading
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Ironman Coeur d’Alene 2005
One of my last orphan posts… Ironman USA – Coeur d’Alene June, 2005 I’ve been here before, but this time, I’m getting desperate. Last year I was fourth, and the top THREE got into the Hawaii Ironman World Championships at … Continue reading
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Ironman Music By The Lake: Coeur d’Alene 2004
This may be the strangest race report I ever wrote, before I ever had a blog to put it in. From 2004, my first Ironman podium, at Coeur d’Alene 2004… “Let’s go down to the Lake and listen to music”. … Continue reading
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Ironman, A Look Back II
It’s March, 2000. I have just signed up for my first Ironman – first weekend in November, in Florida’s panhandle, Panama City Beach. Ironman – the one in Hawaii – had been going on for a bit over 20 years … Continue reading
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Ironman: A Look Back, Part I
Twenty Years, thirty-seven races…it’s time for a look back at my experience with racing the 140.3 distance triathlon. WHY DID I START? It all began in the Spring of 1979. Or maybe in the summer of 1956, I’m not sure. … Continue reading
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