A little behind: Wednesday

I had no workout on Wednesday because I worked late and then had to make it home to watch lost with elise.

Training Log

Great day today. It was the first day I have had a really great feeling swim in a long time. By that I mean that when I finished I felt like I was just finished warming up and still could have swam at a good pace for another 15 minutes. It was also the first good run I have put down in awhile since I had shin splints and knee problems for the last 7 or 8 months.

I swam 800m in 14 minutes at the gym and then drove to Coyote Hills in Fullerton and put in a little under 4 miles in 30 minutes. I have ran the Fullerton Loop many times but I have never ventured over to the trails in Coyote Hills. They don't call it Coyote HILLS for no reason. Hitting the trail head off of Euclid, I immediately started climbing a pretty steep hill and didn't stop ascending for a good 1/2 mile. Felt good on my legs and my previous injuries didn't bother me at all. Good day.

Tomorrow I am going to go to the gym in Los Angeles after work to get in another swim and some stationery cycling.

Training Log

I might as well retro in a couple of older training days to motivate myself. Thursday (4 days ago), I had the day off from work and school so I drove down to the Newport Back Bay and swam laps across the Newport Dunes Cove, I really enjoy open water swimming because I hate turning around in a pool. I don't have a swimming background and am not good with flip-turns. So I enjoy the dunes a lot, the only draw back was that I was alone, there was no one around and I was in the ocean, well, the back bay but anything that lives in the ocean could easily make its way back there for a snack. Call me a wuss but I don't think I am going to swim by myself in the ocean anymore. Too much time looking down into the dark abyss letting my mind create creatures. Its funny too because I have surfed by myself countless times, and even in some exotic locations and it never bothers me. I guess its the idea of having my body fully exposed and nothing else to think about.

Anyways, After that I got on my bike and rode it to the Santa Ana River Trail and rode back to to Elise's (wife) work about 18 miles away. It was a good ride, I rode fast and felt good.

I have been on this kick lately of driving somewhere far to swim and then riding my road bike home from there. A way of forcing myself to do 2/3 of a sprint race for training.

Today, I am going to the gym to swim 800m and then I am going for a trail run, before I get started on some serious school work. I graduate in May so i need to step it up. I have a serious case of senioritis.

Training Log

The following day, I surfed for 3 hours at 46th street in Newps and then Elise and rode our bikes back home, 22 miles in a little over an hour.

Oceanside Ironman 70.3

Over this last weekend, my wife Elise and I went down to O-Side to spectate at the Ironman 70.3 event. It was the first pro race we had ever been to, we have both entered races in which pros were present but not like this. It was exciting to see. The defending champ from last year, Luke Bell was in attendance to defend his title from the previous year.
I had two main reasons for attending this race. 1- to watch how the pros transition and 2- to see what a sub-four hour performance in a half ironman race looked like. It was extremely impressive and a real inspiration. The winner ended up being Andy Potts who finished in 3:59:58 , just barely breaking the four hour mark.

Welcome To My Tri Training Blog

Just moments ago I read an article in the May 2007 issue of Runner's World that listed 101 Kicks in the Butt to get you in gear to train. The number one Kick in the Butt was to create a blog...So here I am, ten minutes later, creating a blog. Being that I write case studies for a blog all day at work and develop a website for my University's Advertising Club. I should burn out on this pretty quickly as I typically associate this kind of activity with work and school...not fun. Although both are fun...you know what I mean.

In the article it said to give out the address to this blog to friends and family, asking the question "do you really want Aunt Ellen to ask you why you skipped your four-miler on wednesday?" I don't have an Aunt Ellen but I have a couple of other auunts who will give me a hard time for slackin. Hopefully having my family read my blog will help to keep my training in check. We shall see.