When I started this blog, I was updating it after every race or good training session, expressing my feelings of how it went, how my training was proceeding, and how my first race season went. As I got more involved in triathlons and training and such, one would think that I would be blogging more often? But alas no, it is so hard to think of what to write when there isn't much new to write. "woke up, swam/biked/ran (pick 1 or 2 or 3) repeated". But really, the last few years have been pretty big in terms of my athletic development, and my involvement in the sport of triathlon.
My initial goal, as I stated in my first post, and re-posted last June, was to complete an Ironman in 2012. I'm well on my way to doing so. I know my physical disadvantages, and I'm working on improving them/making them strengths. The swim, I'm basically just going to survive. It's all I can do. All the time, energy, effort I've put into fixing my form and getting faster times hasn't paid off at all. I've tried different strategies, improved/modified my form, FELT like I'm faster, but the times ended up being the same this past year as they have been the two seasons prior. So basically, I'm just going to work on form and volume, get my endurance so that I can comfortably do the 3.8km swim and crack the bike/run.
This past year, I didn't work on my bike AT ALL. That being said, I was still a pretty darn strong cyclist. This winter I'm going to be spending hours on the bike. Not necessarily pounding out the Watts, but essentially working on comfortability and heart rate training for long periods in the saddle. Does that mean I plan on being slow? HELL NO! If you thought I was good before...look out. My bike is not my swim. The time and effort I put into it WILL pay off, and my fellow competitors better have toothpicks in their bento boxes so they can pick the asphalt out of their teeth when I go roaring past them after I "give" them their headstart in the water!
The reason I didn't bike so much is because a) it bored the hell out of me, and b) I was working on my swimming and running. I found out that I am a fast runner, and I plan on getting even faster. By the end of 2011, I was able to run under 4:00 for quality intervals at KevOs speed sessions. Next year, my goal is to continue that, and try to get my race pace intervals under 4:. I feel that I have it in me to break 20:00 for 5KM, and I plan on doing it! Will I do that in Tremblant? Hell no, that marathon will just be survival! But I do plan on putting the foundation on my 2017 goal: qualify for Boston! (hopefully I achieve this before 2017, but my goal is to make it to Boston by the time I turn 40!)
So some big things coming up! I plan on modifying how I post on this blog, so that it's not one long dialogue of my training/racing. I listen to a marathon podcast that has some fun little sections that I plan on "borrowing" for this blog, so make sure you bookmark it and keep coming back for my training Rant/Rave, Motivation Station, and I'll also be posting some specific workouts that I found effective, as well as some of my favorite recipes!
Cheers!
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