And so it goes 07/30/2008
 

I'm starting to ramp up the training again in preparation for Kona and things have been a little rocky.  Work and fun summer stuff have been getting in the way, or distracting me and the weather has turned on us.  I think all those SoCal transplants are pretty worried that summer was exactly 3 weeks long this year in Seattle.   

I will say I have had some really good swim workouts of late which has been great for my confidence in the water. My bike rides have been strong but nothing really long yet, those will come.  I'm headed out on vacation the week after next to Oregon and I expect to put in some big miles on the bike. 

My run has been the toughest part of late.  My hip and lower back have been acting up again, it's not a hip or lower back problem that's just where the problem manifests itself.  I'm doing all of my stretches and exercises and I'm hoping it all gets better over the next couple of weeks.  Running consistently will help as well, I frankly haven't been runnin much.  The worst part is that I'm just not feeling all that fast.  I did weekly negative split tempo last night (in the pouring rain) and it was good but not steller.  10 minute warm-up, 25 minutes out (7:05/mile pace), then back over the same distance I had just done the 25 minutes in.  I came back in 23:50 (6:45/mile pace).  Not steller when you consider I raced a half marathon in May with lots of hills and averaged 6:32/mile and have done this workout with negative tempo sub 6:20.

My coach though it would be a good idea to jump in a shorter running race so Saturday I'm going to be racing in the Snoqualmie Railroad Days 10K.  Oh my god.....I haven't raced in a 10K in years.  This might just be the thing I need to shake the legs out and get my run back on the right track....or.....blow up at mile 1 after posting a 5:30 mile.

Anyhow I'm off to ride out the foothills this evening with a buddy from the office.  I think I'll be doing all the pulling today.

Here's a little video for any of you who are thinking about doing an Ironman and are worried about the swim  There apparently is a training program to get you ready for the Ironman swim -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_6tOzt-nfM

Enjoy and train hard.

 


Comments

Paul

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:09:04

Hey Michael,

Take care of the back/hip. I was battling the same thing right before Hawaii! It's no fun. Definitely keep up on the stretching, and use a TP ball or golf ball to get in there and work out those knots.

Bummer about the weather, I'm sure Mykl is freaking out right now. :) I'm just getting tired of it being gray every day here in SD. It's like May gray and June gloom are going to last through September!!

Good luck with your 10K, Put up a report on it when you're done and enjoy Oregon!

 



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