trail race

New PR, even with some extra steps.  The trail was pretty hard packed, so that helped.

This was a train-thru race.  Two days before was a 4.3hr bike+run.  Good to see that recovery is ok.  Feel fine day-after, so will probably swim this afternoon.  Looking forward to seeing Rich rock the silverman in a few more weeks.  He’s turning in faster splits than this run on a 16 miler!  Go man Go!

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October 11, 2010. by dave Run. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 2 Comments.

striders

Have been trying some different shoes lately.  Got out the digital scale because I was curious about the actual comparative weights of some shoes.  Obviously, it would be better to compare these shoes dry and new because you shave off the soles with the miles.

All shoes are size 13D unless noted

SHOE COND OZ.
Brooks Addiction 9 brand new 16.15
Brooks Beast 300+mi 17.74
Brooks Addiction (7?) sz 13E
 450mi 15.98
Asics Kayano 15 10mi but wet post-run 15.57
Asics Foundation 7 280mi 15.06



I had perceived the Brooks shoes to be heavy, but perhaps that was just my plodding stride that was heavy.  The Asics foundation was lighter, but I was not satisfied with the support.  Hopefully the Kayano motion control will be better.  I plan to rotate them with the new Brooks Addiction 9 and compare them.

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June 27, 2010. by dave Run. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. No Comments.

2-man tt loop

EDIT: apologies to some of you who may have clicked on my comment earlier and got misdirected.  I fixed the linking issue with respect to all new comments, so it should link back here.

What’s scary about this ride is the other guy was NOT on a tt bike & he wasn’t hiding in the back, he actually pulled a good bit.  I guess if I used to be a pro bike racer and weighed 135, I might be a little faster too!  :)

Doing this ride the day after the interval workout below makes me happy - back to back hard workouts with decent performance.  Getting back some of that fitness & the training stress chart is starting to go back toward where it was before oceanside - up almost 50 points from the nadir.

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June 13, 2010. by dave Cycle. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 1 Comment.

hill repeats

Using a garmin 305 edge and the data is quite a bit better than that from the older 301 model.  This was a 5-star workout: HR in most intervals topping out in zone 5b.

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June 12, 2010. by dave Cycle, intervals. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. No Comments.

TdCA Stage 6 photos

Took a few shots of riders climbing the last uphill before the finish at Big Bear, CA.  Fun day!

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May 21, 2010. by dave Cycle. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 1 Comment.

Cycle - 0.9 hours - 05/19/2010

this is my 19 mile tt loop just to benchmark fitness.  I’ve completed my "detraining" phase of loafing about and eating too much.  This is really sad to go from fit to not, but it might be necessary to avoid overtraining and mental burnout.  Would be cool to do something fun but still physically active during those 2 weeks.  Of course, It’d be cool to be the King of Monaco too…

Now, back to work - haha.

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May 19, 2010. by dave Cycle. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 3 Comments.

Oceanside 70.3

Beautiful day for this.  Little wind, temperatures cool in the morning transitioning to warmer by noon.  The event was HUGE with 2500 participants.  Ironman did a good job organizing it.  Very impressive for 20 swim waves to go off 3 minutes apart like clockwork.  I was in wave 10, which meant there were 8 waves of age groupers ahead of us.  Ended up dodging a lot of people and had people swimming crazy angles.  Wish I was just a bit better in the water so these things wouldn’t affect me.  Got a little frustrated with the leftover people from prior waves treading water in the traffic lanes.  Overall, my first ocean swim was just fine.  Saltwater tastes nasty, but the wind was calm so I didn’t try to breathe any.  Just an average swim time for me.

T1 was ok.  Got my gear off without the benefit of strippers & got on the bike.

Bike was like pac man - chomp chomp chomp.  One benefit of having 8 waves in front is there’s a lot of draft-pass-draft-pass.  Course was beautiful and the wind wasn’t a factor like it apparently can be some years.  Had a great bike split and dosed the effort to leave some energy for the run.  Used a HRM to this end.

T2 was good.  Run was reasonably good, but could certainly have been better.  It was set up as 2 loops.  First loop was good, running low 8s and high 7s.  Planned to get faster, but that didn’t happen and, in fact, the run turned slower the last 5 miles.  I never got mentally down (negative thoughts) during this run. I just continued to try to push the pace as I was able to and kept drinking and eating.

I was glad to finish & enjoyed the best post-race massage ever after crossing the line!  I might need another one tomorrow though!

Hope pushback had a good race & anyone else from here that ran it!  Look forward to reading all.  Keep on truckin!

edit: photos to right in flickr

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March 27, 2010. by dave Race, Uncategorized, triathlon. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 4 Comments.

last hard week

Just looked at last year’s results for the upcoming oceanside 70.3 race and !wow! there are pages of people running 6:xx-pace half marathons after posting fast swims and bike splits well north of 20mph.  Ah, well, at the risk of looking foolish in a field like that, I’m very much looking forward to this one.  My goal is to have a good run at the end of this race.

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March 10, 2010. by dave Run. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 1 Comment.

6 weeks out

So all’s coming along in getting ready for the oceanside event.  I’ve been tracking my training with the “gigantic spread sheet” method, which works for me because I can put in my plans, make notes, add fields, monkey with formulas, and most of all, track workout intensity.

We’ll see if that method works for me this year.  So far, it seems promising.  Today I rode in a local criterium.  I’ve always avoided these because they highlight and require power, which has never been my strong suit (plus, these races periodically result in crashes and injuries).  Well, it’s important to ferret out those weaknesses and work on them, so I’ll keep at it.  Anyway, hi to all and hope everyone’s training is going well!

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February 13, 2010. by dave Cycle. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. No Comments.

hip check

Not wanting to jinx anything, but the hip seems to be slowly getting better.  The post race rest (~6wks) didn’t seem to help.  10 days of rest + 3×800mg ibu didn’t seem to make it better.  But, returning to regular run training with higher frequency, shorter and moderate length runs, and different (lighter) shoes seems to be starting to make a difference — it’s still irritated, but it seems to be retreating to a smaller part of the muscle (if that makes any sense).   knock wood.

I was afraid to try other-branded shoes, but so far so good.

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January 19, 2010. by dave Cycle, Uncategorized. Digg! this story! Digg! this story. 2 Comments.

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