I'm happy to report that this ride was VERY DIFFERENT from our ride in 2010. Much less dramatic. Less crying. Yay!

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Ironman #8! Hopefully the last one!


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This race was our Half Ironman Before The Ironman race. A chance to get in a long supported workout and practice transitions. Try out anything new. Test things.

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I think this might be the first time I've done the Texas 4000 ride! Maybe. Not sure. Can't remember. I think it used to be elsewhere, but this year it was in Lampasas. Karen was out of town doing swimrun with Trista, and CC was in Houston, so I asked Matt to come out with me and do the 50 miler, and he consented. I told Karen I could try to add ( Read more... )

Since we're doing such a late-season (November) race, we really just started formally tri training, which means we missed all of the early season rides. (Well, Cecilia didn't, since she did the MS150, but Karen and I did). Our first opportunity was Real Ale, which is a hell of a ride to start with. Especially when the longest outdoor ride you've ( Read more... )

Last year I did the Rookie shortly after doing Ironman Texas. Having just done an Ironman, my body was a little beat up, but in great shape. This year was the exact opposite. This is basically the beginning of my Ironman training. I have a great run and swim base, but no speedwork for a really, really, REALLY long time, and no real work on the bike ( Read more... )

My next big thing after Ironman Texas was (after a bit of recovery and downtime) to train for the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile trail race. That's almost 50 miles further than I've ever run at one time, and would require some intense and focused run training.

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This week started with a 2:50am wakeup call. I really wanted to do Monday morning masters, but when the schedule came out, Monday's practice started at 5am. Which means getting up at 3am in order to ride my bike there. But since my body is incapable of sleeping until my alarm goes off, I got up at 2:50. Which I'm fairly surely most of the world ( Read more... )

A solid week, and the end of my first 3 week block. I mentioned this training was different from training I'd done in the past ( Read more... )

We're the kind of people who plan vacations 6 months to a year in advance (thanks in large part to the races we sign up for, which require registering 6 months to a year in advance). We're also the kind of people who mostly just travel to go to races. So when facebook kept taunting me with pictures of our previous trips to Breckenridge, and I asked ( Read more... )