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!"




Thursday, October 21, 2010

More doctors

Today was my stress test and my only objective was to have the technician look at me like "Why are you having this test?". I got to the clinic and they wired me up and got the test going. They started at a walking pace with a slight incline and increased the incline and speed every 3 minutes. I went through 4 increases and was at a good running pace and fairly steep incline and my heart rate had reached 150 but with my max at 163 I wanted to go 1 more increase before stopping. Just then the technician said that I had to stop, that they had more than enough data. Oh well, I did the test and my doctor will be happy. I'd also made an appointment with Dr. De Finney for today to work on my groin that had gotten sore after Tuesday's treadmill run. It was still sore yesterday but felt great today but I figured a couple of sessions before the race wouldn't hurt. So I got hooked up to the muscle stimulator, got laser therapy, active release massage and stretching done and I'm hoping it won't be an issue during the race. So after all these doctor visits it was time to train. I needed to get on the bike but with the weather pretty cool it would have to be inside on the trainer ... Yuck. And to make things worse I haven't unpacked the P3 so I'd be on my road bike. No aerobars, a stem that's too long so I'd be way stretched out and a geometry that would fatigue my legs. Time to stop whining and start riding. I only got an hour in but it was good for my legs to be spinning again. One week from today we'll be winging our way to Miami.

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