Flexibility. No, not of my limbs, I've never, for instance, been able to "touch my toes" (you know, with knees not bent, with knees bent I fare somewhat better:), but of my training time management. I have a training schedule. Sorta. It's not finalized, still tweaking it, but it's there in place, for now through 3M in January.

In true DNA HHGTTG ( Read more... )

OK, can we turn off the weather now? This is ridiculous! Damn near 100F during the day, dipping only a degree or so under 80F at the coolest of the early morning, the 8-day unchanging, for two weeks or so already! I'm already getting tired of our summer ... *sigh*

Wednesday evening swim workout ( Read more... )

It's six weeks to my first Ironman. On one hand, that's freaking me out because it's only six weeks. On the other, it's freaking me out because it's still six weeks!

I'm having impure thoughts about the remaining work to be done. It seems less like training and more like verifying that I've done the training. It seems too late to bank more fitness ( Read more... )

Saturday swim; Saturday long ride ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning whine ( Read more... )

Up at 5. Out the door before 6. Parking near downtown shortly thereafter. I park at Town Lake Park (where Riverside dead-ends into a parking lot at Lamar). The run from there to the race Start gives me a pleasant little mile or two warm-up. I parasitically use the Rogue area to stash my back-pack, I remove my warmups, use the Chem-Cans, move around ( Read more... )

Thursday evening Brick (Bike + Run) workout
[whine: it's 96F again! I thought we'd put these temps behind us!]

I bailed on my Thursday morning ride that was really my Monday workout that I didn't want to do on Monday so moved it to Thursday. Well that probably means I just retroactively missed my Monday ride workout -- it's immaterial that I moved ( Read more... )

The swim workout location changed this week and forevermore. Please don't let me be one of those people that gripes, but the previous location was soooo perfect for me! This one is soooo far away! (OK, that was whining, sorry, done now:)
The new facility is pretty good. But just the one 6 lane 25 meter pool. And, like being in a different city ( Read more... )