| Week of 5/28 | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swim | :45 | 1:00 | 1:00 | 2:45 | ||||
| 2:00 kayak | 2:00 | |||||||
| Bike | 1:00 | 2:15 | 4:15 | |||||
| :30 | :30 | 1:00 | ||||||
| Run | 1:00 | 1:15 | 3:00 | |||||
| :20 | 2:00 hike | 2:20 |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Mountain Man Plan week 3/13
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Mountain Man Plan week 2/13
| Week of 5/21 | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swim | 1:00 | 1:00 | 2:45 | |||||
| 1200m | :35 | |||||||
| Bike | 1:00 | 2:00 | 4:00 | |||||
| 1:00 | :45 | 1:45 | ||||||
| Run | :45 | 1:15 | 2:30 | |||||
| :30 | 1:22 | 1:52 |
Friday, May 18, 2012
Mountain Man Plan week 1/13
| Week of 5/14 | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swim | :45 | 1:00 | 1:00 | 2:45 | ||||
| Bike | 1:00 | :45 | 1:30 | 3:15 | ||||
| sod! | ||||||||
| Run | :30 | 1:00 | 2:00 | |||||
| :30 | shoveling! |
Monday, May 14, 2012
Mountain Man Plan... Yes, Already!
| Week | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 1 | Day off | S :45 R :30 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 R :30 | S 1:00 B :45 | B 1:30 | R 1:00 |
| 2 | Day off | S :45 R :30 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 R :45 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 B 2:00 | R 1:15 |
| 3 | Day off | S :45 R :45 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 R 1:00 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 B 2:15 | R 1:15 |
| 4 | Day off | S :45 R :30 | R :30 | S :45 B :30 | B 1:00 | Brick 1:30/:30 | Day off |
| 5 | Day off | S :45 | Day off | S :30 B 1:00 | Day off | S 1:00 B 2:30 | R 1:30 |
| 6 | Day off | S :45 R :15 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 R :45 | Day off | S 1:00 B 3:00 | R 1:30 |
| 7 | Day off | S :45 R :30 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 R 1:00 | Day off | S 1:00 B 3:15 | R 1:45 |
| 8 | Day off | S :45 | R 1:00 | S 1:00 | B 1:00 | Brick 1:30/:45 | Day off |
| 9 | Day off | S :45 B :30 | R :15 | Brick :30/:30 | Day off | S 1:00 B 3:15 | R 1:45 |
| 10 | Day off | S :45 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 R :30 | Day off | S 1:00 B 3:30 | R 2:00 |
| 11 | Day off | S :45 R :30 | B 1:00 | S :30 R :45 | Day off | S 1:00 B 4:00 | R 2:00 |
| 12 | Day off | S :45 | B 1:00 | S 1:00 | R 1:00 | Brick 1:30/:30 | B :45 |
| 13 | Day off | S :30 R :30 | Day off | B :45 | Day off | Brick :20/:10 | Race !!! |
Wildflower Long Course Triathlon
Well, it has been just over a week since the race, so I better write it up before I forget about it. The end result maybe is worth forgetting, but I have a lot to be happy about here even though it was a DNF overall.
We got to the race site on Friday after driving in from Barstow... first thing there we drove down and then back up the "Nasty Grade" on the bike course. I had previously been confident about getting up this beast after my practice run on Snowbowl road, but now driving up it I was once again peeing my pants... and it turns out, rightly so :). After this little bit of checking out the course, we just went into the park to pick up my race numbers and stuff, and pretty much that was about it. We had a nice hotel down in Pismo Beach to get to :).
We drove back up to the course nice and early on Saturday, bringing only some Nilla Wafers, Brown Sugar Pop-Tarts, and a Nutri-Grain bar for breakfast. In the end, I believe this was my downfall. I got my transition area all set up (quite early), and started my usual nervous pacing / bathroom trips / etc to wait for the race to start.
I was in the 7th group to start I believe, which made me happy that I would have quite a bit of time to finish (cut-offs are a certain time after the last wave, so I had a lot of waves behind me for a head start). I hadn't been swimming that much in the last few weeks, but as usual I felt pretty good about my swim. When my wave started, I don't know if there were just a lot of people in it, or if I stayed with the leaders longer, but it seemed like much more of a dragged out washing machine than usual. Somebody hit my leg (not uncommon at all) and almost swiped off my timing chip, which was irritating. Also right now I don't have any goggles that I'm happy with... I decided to try the mask-type that I used for Alcatraz, but I didn't think to put any anti-fog stuff in them... they fit fairly well but kept fogging up on me. At the half-way turnaround I checked my watch, feeling like I was actually making pretty good time... and I was... made it there after 22 minutes. With the crazy start and the fidgeting with my chip and goggles, I figured I was actually well faster than my best pace for this distance (at least for the straight swimming time). I decided I would go for a new swim PR to at least have that to hang onto if I didn't manage to finish the race... self fulfilling prophecy maybe, but I'm glad I at least got that. I tried to keep up and improve the pace on the way back in. I ended up finishing the swim in 43:49, which is a new record for me, beating out my Boise time by around :30. Not a bad T1 of 7:56 (except that I didn't reapply sunscreen, which I'm still paying for now), and I was off on the bike.
I knew that the bike would have a big hill in it around mile 40, but I seriously underestimated how bad it would be just to make it out to the main road. This first big hill was a killer, and I nearly needed to stop and walk a bit after only a mile or two on the way out of the park. After the first bunch of hills there, the northern part of the course was not too bad, pretty flat, smooth sailing. I had 4 packs of ClifBlocks, intending to eat one an hour, did fairly well on that leading up to the big hill at mile 40. But, by this time I was already pretty tired out even though I was trying to save up some energy. I made my way up the hill, but I had to stop and rest a number of times. I got a good amount of encouragement from other riders, and I just figured I would make it up the hill a bit at a time. And I knew there was a big downhill section after the hill that I was looking forward to. So, I made it up to the very top eventually, down the crazy fast curvy hill... but then there were some more smaller hills (but not nothing) that basically just broke me. I think it was at mile 47 when I started stopping on almost flat ground... which is really not good. I'll have to go back and look at my garmin data, but I was still in pretty good shape at this point, but I just had a very hard time mustering up anything to get up this hills after the big one. I tried eating more blocks, but I just felt like I was completely out of gas. I struggled to finish the last 9 miles of the bike, but had already pretty much resigned to stopping after that. I ended up finishing the bike in 4:52:30, an 11.4 mph pace... which is not much worse than my Boise bike split, but way off what I was intending to do (thinking around 4:00). I got back in transition, and racked my bike... but didn't put on my running shoes. I walked around a minute debating whether to try to finish but I had decided that it wasn't worth it. I packed up my stuff and turned in my chip.
I think some of the push that made me finish the half in Boise and the Ironman in Tempe is gone now that I did finish those races... I'm not sure. I think the last DNF at the Mountain Man last year was about the same... I just felt exhausted at the end of the bike and didn't want to go on to the run... I think I probably could have muddled through it, but just decided not to each time.
Anyway, I am still signed up for the Mountain Man half this August... and I intent to do it and to finish it. I am going to spend more focus on losing weight between now and then (while still training)... I think that will be a great help. Lately I've been just training and not working on my diet, and that is obviously not getting it done. We'll see if Weight Watchers helps with that.
We got to the race site on Friday after driving in from Barstow... first thing there we drove down and then back up the "Nasty Grade" on the bike course. I had previously been confident about getting up this beast after my practice run on Snowbowl road, but now driving up it I was once again peeing my pants... and it turns out, rightly so :). After this little bit of checking out the course, we just went into the park to pick up my race numbers and stuff, and pretty much that was about it. We had a nice hotel down in Pismo Beach to get to :).
We drove back up to the course nice and early on Saturday, bringing only some Nilla Wafers, Brown Sugar Pop-Tarts, and a Nutri-Grain bar for breakfast. In the end, I believe this was my downfall. I got my transition area all set up (quite early), and started my usual nervous pacing / bathroom trips / etc to wait for the race to start.
I was in the 7th group to start I believe, which made me happy that I would have quite a bit of time to finish (cut-offs are a certain time after the last wave, so I had a lot of waves behind me for a head start). I hadn't been swimming that much in the last few weeks, but as usual I felt pretty good about my swim. When my wave started, I don't know if there were just a lot of people in it, or if I stayed with the leaders longer, but it seemed like much more of a dragged out washing machine than usual. Somebody hit my leg (not uncommon at all) and almost swiped off my timing chip, which was irritating. Also right now I don't have any goggles that I'm happy with... I decided to try the mask-type that I used for Alcatraz, but I didn't think to put any anti-fog stuff in them... they fit fairly well but kept fogging up on me. At the half-way turnaround I checked my watch, feeling like I was actually making pretty good time... and I was... made it there after 22 minutes. With the crazy start and the fidgeting with my chip and goggles, I figured I was actually well faster than my best pace for this distance (at least for the straight swimming time). I decided I would go for a new swim PR to at least have that to hang onto if I didn't manage to finish the race... self fulfilling prophecy maybe, but I'm glad I at least got that. I tried to keep up and improve the pace on the way back in. I ended up finishing the swim in 43:49, which is a new record for me, beating out my Boise time by around :30. Not a bad T1 of 7:56 (except that I didn't reapply sunscreen, which I'm still paying for now), and I was off on the bike.
I knew that the bike would have a big hill in it around mile 40, but I seriously underestimated how bad it would be just to make it out to the main road. This first big hill was a killer, and I nearly needed to stop and walk a bit after only a mile or two on the way out of the park. After the first bunch of hills there, the northern part of the course was not too bad, pretty flat, smooth sailing. I had 4 packs of ClifBlocks, intending to eat one an hour, did fairly well on that leading up to the big hill at mile 40. But, by this time I was already pretty tired out even though I was trying to save up some energy. I made my way up the hill, but I had to stop and rest a number of times. I got a good amount of encouragement from other riders, and I just figured I would make it up the hill a bit at a time. And I knew there was a big downhill section after the hill that I was looking forward to. So, I made it up to the very top eventually, down the crazy fast curvy hill... but then there were some more smaller hills (but not nothing) that basically just broke me. I think it was at mile 47 when I started stopping on almost flat ground... which is really not good. I'll have to go back and look at my garmin data, but I was still in pretty good shape at this point, but I just had a very hard time mustering up anything to get up this hills after the big one. I tried eating more blocks, but I just felt like I was completely out of gas. I struggled to finish the last 9 miles of the bike, but had already pretty much resigned to stopping after that. I ended up finishing the bike in 4:52:30, an 11.4 mph pace... which is not much worse than my Boise bike split, but way off what I was intending to do (thinking around 4:00). I got back in transition, and racked my bike... but didn't put on my running shoes. I walked around a minute debating whether to try to finish but I had decided that it wasn't worth it. I packed up my stuff and turned in my chip.
I think some of the push that made me finish the half in Boise and the Ironman in Tempe is gone now that I did finish those races... I'm not sure. I think the last DNF at the Mountain Man last year was about the same... I just felt exhausted at the end of the bike and didn't want to go on to the run... I think I probably could have muddled through it, but just decided not to each time.
Anyway, I am still signed up for the Mountain Man half this August... and I intent to do it and to finish it. I am going to spend more focus on losing weight between now and then (while still training)... I think that will be a great help. Lately I've been just training and not working on my diet, and that is obviously not getting it done. We'll see if Weight Watchers helps with that.
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