Welcome to TRI-CHOTOMY.



I'm just an averge age grouper blogging about Triathlon Training and this complex puzzle of juggling life, having fun and the Tri(als) and Tri(bulations) of "My Reality Show". With the Miami Ironman 70.3 race now in the books I've set a new goal, competing and completing Ironman Louisville 2011 in August. Twice the distance, twice the pain, twice the fun. As a warm up race and I never would have believed hearing myself say this, I'll be doing Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island in July. Once again I'll be sharing these experiences with my great friends Chris and Justin and look forward to the next several months of training and racing with them.

I'll share my training, race and gear experiences and hope you'll comment and even offer advice from your experiences.

Remember,

"Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever".

"Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cliff bar in one hand, Gatorade in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

"You can sleep when you're dead!"




Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Not feeling it tonight

Not sure if it was the heat, my change in training schedule or if I'm rundown a bit but I just wasn't feeling it tonight. The threat of thunderstorms kept me inside on the trainer tonight and bottom line is I really don't like riding the trainer. I figured I'd try and keep it a little different so I rode my road bike instead of the tri bike. Big mistake. First of all the geometry is way different which I know but wow what a difference it makes. My seat position is way behind the pedals and it's a whole different pedaling motion. Secondly I'm way stretched out and was reaching for the handlebars the whole time. Thirdly I kept wanting to get down into an aero position but of course the aerobars weren't there. I only spent an hour spinning, I couldn't handle it any longer. It didn't look like rain any more so I decided to head outdoors for a run and it was just as "unfeeling". I'd forgotten to turn on the GPS on my Garmin so I had no pace or distance information and I was running a new route so I couldn't even estimate a pace or distance based on a familiar route. So I just ran a pace to a perceived effort. When I finished it took a bit longer than normal to recover and I hadn't thought that I'd pushed myself like I had last night but after I got on google earth and calculated the distance I'd run (6.5 kilometres) and figured out my pace it was 4:51. Surprise surprise.

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