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Thoughts from a father, husband, son, Boulder native pro triathlete, coach, and optimist.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Weekly Training Log: Week of June 23rd, 2014: Countdown to IM Boulder and final training build.

In Training:  I started the week out on Monday with a really sore and non-functioning right groin area.  I tried to go out on Monday to run a few miles after my Sunday crash and was completely unsuccessful.  I got 2 miles of a walk jog in, stopped, then walked over to my car and thought it might be worse than I thought.  I am still sore, but it seems to be getting better.  As long as it gets a bit better week to week, I will be fine.  Running milage was way down, but this was planned.

In place of some runs, I threw in some extra work on the bike and had a rather high milage week with that.  This was the second time that I have hit a training stress score @ or above 700 ever.



I have five weeks (as of the 29th of June) until IM Boulder, then eight till IM Louisville.

My plan is to:
- Have a pretty high volume build over the next three weeks - Try not to get hurt
- Have a two week gradual taper for Boulder
- Race Ironman Boulder
- recover for a week and add just carry over as much fitness as I can to Louisville.

I did the 3 week turnaround two years ago (Kona/Florida) and Florida ended up being the fastest and best race of my life.  I hope that it can work again - I have some high hopes for IM Louisville.  Kona is just going to be what it will be this year - we will see what happens with the next two races and go from there.


In Life:  Pretty low key/uneventful (but good) week.  Beth is finally on her summer break.  Over the past few years, she has been working on a contract that gives her about a month off every summer - I can't wait for her to have the whole summer off next year with her new job.

Aiden continued his baseball/teeball practices with the YMCA mini sliders on Thursday, then I was going to race Loveland Lake to Lake on Saturday.  That didn't happen.



Swim: 2.7k yards
Bike: 251 miles/700 TSS
Run: 26.4 miles 





They got their shirts/jerseys - Dude man is #12

Mom with Aiden

Short on pictures from the past week.  Yeah sure, here is my car and bike.

Naked slip and slide with cousin Lyla