Off to Kona on Saturday: Plans for the trip

The whole family is off to Kona early Saturday morning.  I am planning on doing a daily write up this year so I can remember this one a little better...  I really wish I had done that last year, but didn't start this blog until after I raced Ironman Florida in November.

Saturday can't come soon enough.  Aloha!

A picture from last year

Training Log: Week of September 23rd 2013

So overall, my cycling milage has been VERY low and I am not the happiest about that.  I kept the milage above 200/week for almost all of the summer, so I'll keep that in the back of my mind as I go into Hawaii.

Running on the other hand has come back very quickly.  I had 3 amazingly great runs this week that leave me thinking that I have about 90-95% of the run back.  Had 7 total runs, so consistency is there too.

Other things that happened this week:

- Lyla's birthday was on Monday - we went to chuck-e-chesse for a nice little celebration.  Monday night football followed with another Broncos victory.
- I got a Job working as a special education para in the same district as Beth is in.
- We went to see Thomas the Train and get a little ride.
- Then finished with another football sunday with friends and a nice little blowout by the Broncos

It was a pretty awesome week indeed

Bike: 140 miles
Run: 51.1 miles
Swim: 8,500 yds


The week in pictures:  Not in chronological order

Football Sunday:  JD, Mary, Cam, Natalie, and Liam came over to watch.

Beth bought tickets for Thomas the train on Saturday - Aiden loved it.  Things like this are great.

We found  a new friend

Run workout Monday am - a 10k build, under 39 on the tm from an easy start gave me some confidence on the run again.

Monday - Chuck e Cheese.  Lyla turned two!  (middle)

Aiden

Training Log: Week of September 16th 2013

The total milage is nowhere near what I have been wanting this close to Kona.  I took this past week a bit easier than I anticipated but was able to start feeling much stronger in the pool and had a solid long ride on Saturday.  I had some workouts planned for Sunday, but cut those out in favor of ripping a few thousand pounds of wet carpet out of our basement.  It needed to be done.

All in all, it was a great week with less overall volume than I wanted but I'll mark what training I did get down as a success.

Can't believe that Kona time is just a few short weeks away.  Im pretty excited to get back there!



Bike: 160 miles
Run: 27 miles
Swim: 8,000 yds

This was Sunday - froyo with my little buddy

Lynn - my mother in law helping with the basement cleanup Sunday

I was able to throw the carpet/baseboards out of the window well instead of taking that crap through the house.  This made my back very sore on Monday.

Went to dinner with JD and Mary on Saturday evening.  Awesome people.

Thanks Beth!

As I said on my fb page.  This is quite possibly the greatest picture in the history of pictures.  Aiden and his cousin Lyla.

Weekly Training Log: Week of September 9th: Who Needs a Pool?

This will be a week that I will absolutely NEVER forget.  My hometown was absolutely slammed with the wildest rain storms that I have ever seen.  We got something like 18+ inches of rain from Monday through Thursday night and experienced some horrible flooding along the way.

Our basement was our only casualty and I will be dealing with it after Hawaii.  We had about 3 inches of water in there at the worst point and had a drain and pump working non stop to keep it at 3 inches.  Without that drain and pump I would guess that the water would have gotten up to 4-5 feet deep.

It was really, really, really bad.

The roads around Boulder have also been closed/destroyed from erosion and I foresee it taking quite a few months to get back to where we were.

The light of the week came in that my run continues to come back and my foot keeps feeling better.  Thank you Hoka's!


Bike: 120 miles
Run: 45.63 miles
Swim: 4100 yds

This was Thursday morning.  I woke up to hear some of Aiden's toys "talking" in the basement.  They were shorting out   - making random noises so I went to see a few of his toy boats doing a good job.

All of the schools were closed for the few days after.  I took buddy down to see some of the flooding at Boulder High School on Friday.  I am glad we got out to see it.  I just hope to never see it again.

This lawn is the greenest that I have ever seen it.  I guess that's another small plus.