Given I'm still in my "offseason" I'm really not doing much of a workout plan right now. I know that I shouldn't just be sitting around but I also know that the training season is long and hard and doing regimented workouts at this point in the year will lead to burnout later in the year. Today I really wanted to get my workout in at noon time so I didn't have to do it tonight after family game night. The original plan was to head over to the gym at 12:00 and workout until 1:30 but I got a call from my boss at 9:00 am and he told me that he wanted to do a working lunch. I had a meeting scheduled from 2-4 and I had another meeting at 11-12 which left me with the dilemma, do I work out at 9:30am or wait until tonight after the kids go to bed. I was worried if I waited until tonight that I may end up skipping the workout so I headed over to the gym at nearly 10am for a quick 40 minute run on the treadmill. Ended up getting in 5 miles and had a good solid run. Now tonight I'm going to try and sneak in some weight training and call it a day.
Weekly Totals:
Swim: 0 meters
Bike: 60 minutes (Did FTP test on Wednesday night)
Run: 5 miles
Friday, September 30, 2011
Hello Again!
After talking big and bad in my opening blog entry, about how I don't want this blog to become one of the many triathlon blogs that only does a couple entries and then stops, I ended up doing exactly that. After some thought I think I'm going to take a different approach to this blog. I've come to realize that I just don't know that much about this sport and certainly not enough to update a blog on a regular basis with new and exciting content. I've decided that I'm going to turn this into my blog about my triathlon journey and experiences with the sport. The plan is to update it regularly with my workouts, injury’s, race reports and other things that I'm currently doing in the sport. To some extent it will be a training journal that the whole world can see. With my upcoming season including two Ironman races and a number of other races that I haven't decided on yet it should be pretty interesting to follow.
Like I said in one of my opening posts I'm just your average middle of the pack triathlete and haven't dedicated my entire life to the sport of triathlon. That isn't to say that that I don't train hard, you pretty much have to for Ironman races, it’s just to say that I don't do as much as most coaches would tell you that you should. As a family man with 2 kids, a full time job, and volunteer efforts around town it is hard to navigate the fine balance of spending enough time at each responsibility and still get my training in. This blog is intended to capture this so others can see that it is possible to do this race while still maintaining a somewhat normal existence.
Like I said in one of my opening posts I'm just your average middle of the pack triathlete and haven't dedicated my entire life to the sport of triathlon. That isn't to say that that I don't train hard, you pretty much have to for Ironman races, it’s just to say that I don't do as much as most coaches would tell you that you should. As a family man with 2 kids, a full time job, and volunteer efforts around town it is hard to navigate the fine balance of spending enough time at each responsibility and still get my training in. This blog is intended to capture this so others can see that it is possible to do this race while still maintaining a somewhat normal existence.
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