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, September 1, 2010

Pretty satisfied today

I got back in the pool today hoping to get a long swim in without any shoulder or hip flexor/groin issues. My shoulder still isn't 100% but with Miami just 2 months away I need to make sure that my swim doesn't deteriorate. I mean really, it's pretty bad as it is I can't let it get any worse. I tried to focus mostly on technique but there were so many things going through my head that I found it difficult to execute everything I was trying to do. Keep my head down, chin close to chest, don't cross the "centre line" with my hand entry, upper and lower arm at a right angle to maximize surface area on my pull, kick from the hip. It's just not natural to me yet and I feel like I'm jumping from one thing to another and not able to put it all together. I think I did make some good progress though because I reduced the number of strokes to cross the pool by 1. I think that's a good thing. Anyway I did 2000 m and was happy that I didn't have any groin issues and my shoulder ended up no worse for the wear. I also got in a run tonight, just 10 km but I pushed myself pretty good. I often go out thinking "easy run" but I've yet been able to stick to that thought. Tonight was like that again. I wanted to just get in an easy run between 10-12 km but my pace started out pretty good and my mentality became "let's see how quick I can go". I opted for 10 km rather then 12 and ended up with a 4:48 pace. I swear, one of these days I'm going to go out for an "easy run" and do it.

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