USAT Rankings
Finally looked at my 2010 USAT Rankings today. For females 30-34 (despite the fact that I was 29 for all but 17 days of 2010) I ranked 618 out of 1900, putting me in the top-33%. Not bad if this Read more…
Finally looked at my 2010 USAT Rankings today. For females 30-34 (despite the fact that I was 29 for all but 17 days of 2010) I ranked 618 out of 1900, putting me in the top-33%. Not bad if this Read more…
As I have mentioned, at the moment, my biggest limiter is my body composition. I have somewhere between 25-40 pounds to loose in order to be at “race weight” — that is the weight at which I will race the Read more…
So with Sunday’s 5K, I finished my first chunk of base work for the 2011 season. The way my plan is set up, I had 12 weeks of base that spanned from October through the beginning of January, 4 weeks Read more…
I forgot how much 5Ks can hurt. Today was the Snow Dash 5K and I haven’t “run” a 5K in almost two years and I use the word “run” in the loosest possible way. The last time I crossed the Read more…
My biggest limiter is my body composition. As Coach Doug says I have the body of a swimmer and not of a triathlete. The goal is to get closer to the body of a triathlete without cutting calories so much Read more…
All in all 2010 was pretty good year both triathlon and life wise. For the first time ever in my less than illustrious triathlon career, I started to train consistently. I biked 305 hours, for a total of 5215 miles. Read more…
On January 1, 2011, for the first time in over 2 months, it was warm enough to ride outside. I had a four hour ride on the schedule and split it up — 2 hours outside and 2 hours inside Read more…
On the last day of 2010, Shaun and I ventured to Vermont to get 2011 started off right with a bike fit. We headed up to FitWerx in Waitsfield Vermont (about a three and half hour drive from Connecticut) to Read more…
As well as FIRMman went, HalfMax totally fizzled. Restrospectively doing a race 6 days after getting married was not the best idea. The week in Las Vegas and then the hurried trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina left me pretty Read more…
As part of my training for HalfMax I raced at the FIRMman Half in Narragansett Rhode Island. My goal pre-race was to go 5:40:XX and qualify as an age grouper for HalfMax (as an aside I had already qualified as Read more…