IM lake placid pics

I usually don't like race pics, but these came out pretty good... I put them in order of occurance, notice the downward spiral on the marathon!!

Swim start:

The washing machine:

Arial swim:

Bike:

Run, feeling good out of transition:

Mile 6 or so...

Mile 13.5, starting to not feel so good Mile 18. Hurts.
Mile 26. OMFG, no more HTFU
Finish!!!!

Old colony team

Doug (swim), Me (bike), and Chris (run) did the old colony oly tri as a team today. One week out from lake placid. Should be a perfect short hard effort. Ended up taking second all male team. Cool beans. Doug swam the mile in 24:12, I rode the 24M in 1:02:23, and Chris ran the 6M in 46:09.

Taking a break

Ok ok... too much stuff going on. Work, training, blah blah blah. Taking a break from the blog. Hopefully will get race reports on as they happen.

Run

8.5 mile run to the HS and back.

8.5 miles, 1:16, Average HR 157

5.5 mile loop

Ran the 5.5 mile loop, HR monitor was screwing up at the beginning. Felt nice and strong.

49 minutes.

Uh Oh.... may have bitten off more than I can chew...

Fresh back from Florida. Jill, Myself, Mary, and Doug signed up for the St. Croix 70.3. Non wet suit swim, and an 21% grade climb. Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger (at least on paper). Something to train for, and a good tune up for Lake Placid.

Rode up route 202 with 4 fast pedals.

20 miles, 1260 feet of ascent. Average HR 142, average MPH 16.3

2 hour masters swim

2 hour masters swim in Monson. Really wanted to ride as well but too much stuff to do around the house....

Run and masters swim

Ran to the Y (4:30 AM this time) in Spokane for a swim and met up with a masters session. It was great! Warm up then 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M, 500M, 400M, 300M, 200M, 100M with 20 seconds rest between intervals. Ran back to the hotel, showered and off to work.

Run and a spin class

Working in Spokane this week. Ran to the Y and took a spin class; then ran back to the hotel.

Run 2, 45 minute spin, run 2. 1:43 total time, average HR 151. Run 1 average HR 158, spin average 159, run 2 average 162.

Swim and a run

Ran down to the water with a steady state. 45 minute pool workout in the AM

Run: 4 miles, 32:52, Average HR 163

Pressed for time....

Quick run part way up the tower with 4 fast pedals.

Average HR 146 48 minutes 13 miles average speed 16.1 635 feet of ascent

Minneapolis

Attended training in MN for 2 days. Crappy workouts.

Rip on the Cervelo

The last week or so had me in a funk... traveling to Richmond with basically no workouts. I took my tri bike out for a hard effort to redfire farm and back (19.7 miles). I hammered on the way out, and backed off a little on the way back. Legs were a little sore from yesterday's run.

19.7 miles 1:05 Average HR 155 18.3 MPH average

7.25 mile run

Unseasonably warm today in the mid 80s. Did a 7.25 mile roun out of my parents house; then we celebrated Heather's 3rd birthday.

Heart rate was pretty high on the run. I need to figure out pretty quickly whether I'm going to do the Wrentham Halloween duathlon...

7.25 miles 1:07 Average HR 174

Richmond...All work and no play

Traveled to Richmond for a BPS excercise. Ended up working late, and literally every piece of excercise equipment in the hotel fitness room was broken. 1 treadmill slipped so bad that I could not run on it, the other one would not go above 4.5 mph, the recumbent bike did not work, and the elliptical machine would cycle super hard then drop into pause for 5 seconds, then release, repeat. I got in 1 40 minute workout cycling through all the machines to thier point of failure.

Florida trip

The 2 olders, Jill and myself went to FL for a long weekend to take advantage of the package that I bought last year. We stayed at the Residence Inn and went to Sea World, Universal, and The Magic Kingdom. Good time!!! We got several runs in but the emphasis was definitely not on training! At the end of the day we ended up joining the Marriott Vacation Club. We're looking forward to is since we travel for vacation a couple times per year and the rooms are really sweet.

Morristown

Conference in Morristown, I was able to get up early and run every morning which was awesome. 2 days ran down through Madison, the 3rd I ran to the fitness center from the hotel, took a spin class, and then ran back to the hotel. Left to head back home crazy early in the AM on the 27th since we are heading down to FL for a long weekend.

Big quabbin

Dave, Deb, Scott, Jim, and Jim (with Sara for the first 40) 102 mile ride around Quabbin (the BIG Quabbin loop). 6000 feet of climbing. Not sure I was really ready for this, after the ride my left knee was a little tweaked from all the up. Awesome ride though.

102.3 miles, 6 hours 18 minutes, average HR 149 average speed 16.5.

Ride with Dave

Did a 40 mile Ride with Dave. HR monitor was hosed for the whole ride....

Light run

4 mile run to the water, low HR.

4 miles, 32 minutes, average HR 160

Back from Thailand

Got back from Thailand this morning. This trip was nowhere near as fun as the last with pretty much 12-14 hour days spent trying to bring the xMII functionality live. Excercise opportunities were slim but I did swim every morning which was good. Glad to be home. Rode 37 and a bit miles today with Dan, Dave, and Shaki to get the plane out of my legs. Felt good!! Shaki forgot his helmet so we cruised back to my house and I lent him a spare.

37.4 miles, 2:27:00 average speed 16.o average HR 146

Granby cafe ride

Granby cafe ride.... 60 or so people showed up to ride from the Granby cafe up to the top of skinner mountain and back followed by grinders, frosty beverages, and the annual voting in of club officers. A good time!!

19 miles, 1500 ft of ascent, average HR of 151.

1 mile swim and 6 x 2 min fartleks

1 mile swim in the morning at Haviland pond, then a 40 minute run with 6 fartlek intervals in the afternoon. Run felt VERY good today.

Average HR for run 165. Mid 180s for the fartleks.

Ride to the track for 400M intervals

Rode the bike to the track and did 400M running intervals. The running felt really, really bad.

Quick ride

I just had a quick ride today up to the Quabbin gate.

9 miles, average speed 17 mph, time 31:46, average HR 140

5 mile run

5 miles. 45:41 Didn't start to feel good until about mile 3 then felt better and better and was able to run my HR up and finish strong. Originally intented to run 7 but turned back at 2.5 out. Now I wish I went the extra mile...

Average HR 152

50 mile group ride out of Northampton

50 mile group ride out of Northampton up through Greenfield with Jim, George, Dan, and myself along with a couple others. Awesome ride, with George, Dan, and myself alternating pulls literally as hard as we could to catch Jim. He smelled blood at 2/3 the way up a chopper and took off and it took us going 45 mph to start to reel him in!!

49.5 miles, average speed 18.1 mph. Average HR 137

Swim and run

3 mile recovery run and an easy 1 mile swim at Haviland, Run 27 min average HR 155

Swim and a ride

1 mile swim at haviland pond and an easy ride. Legs are still pretty sore from Timberman.

12.2 mile ride, 46 minutes, average HR 140

Recovery run

3 mile recovery run. 27 minutes, average HR 141