Tentative 2010 Race Schedule-right column

*anyone coming here from Dr. Cramer’s blog, sorry if this wastes your time, but possible I'll cover some interesting endurance sports/physiology stuff in the future.  I plan to take this pseudo-sports science in the coming days*

So, last year when i tried this, i think i might have raced four of the 9 races that I originally said i would.  Granted, I added two other races, but id say race/training structure were nearly absent last year.  Twice I decided to race with less than a week ahead of time.  Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun, but it is my goal this year to race these races listed, and anything else will be a cherry on top.  Raleigh Rocks will be my first legitimate 13.1 and I’m really excited to go and tear it up.  A few sprints and an international distance later, the clear A race for this year, again, will be the Beach2Battleship half.  I originally wanted to do the full this year, but realistically i can’t commit 20 hours a week to training.  However, I feel i can break 6 with even a moderate training plan, and quite possibly, id like to go :25 2:40 2:00.  The run will be the determinant.  The swim is totally with the current, and I swam :30ish last year with pretty awful swim training.  I know I'm making excuses, but hey, we’ll go with it.

There, I put it in writing, it is going to happen now, right?

It’s going to be a lot of fun, doing my hometown race *Mission Man* which should be a lot of fun!

On a side note, I am currently working with the Chapel Hill YMCA and the Chapel Hill Parks & Rec to organize a sprint TRI here in Chapel Hill sometime soon( read: realistically next season, hopefully).  If anyone in this area has any interest, or has some inside sway with either SetUp Events or Finish Strong, please let me know!!!  I’d appreciate it greatly!

I always have to leave with a picture, and this one could quite possibly hurt some feelings, but I can’t help it.

These were taken at a Wendy’s in western NC…

wow?

Ouch…

So, I haven’t posted anything of significance in a long time, and this won’t really change that.

I’ve been busy: “doing” school, work, family, friends, and the occasional, unnecessary, supply of drama..but welcome to college.

I haven’t really had anything that I truly cared to post about, but i think i might decide to change some of that.  I think I'm going to incorporate some real life into my posts on triathlon, most likely solely for my own purposes.  Anyways, we’ll see if Windows Live Writer helps the cause, and if I can manage to find more than 6 people to read what I have to say.  However, I guess that means I need to have something to say that is worth reading.

On the plate for upcoming *soon* posts:

-Tyler the “race director”- yes, I am currently attempting to plan a triathlon in the Chapel Hill Area.  Let me know if you have any interest

-Starting a triathlon club/training group at our local YMCA *where I also happen to work*-I have talked to an upwards of 15 people at the Y about tri’s, and even, for some reason, have handed out some really, really, basic training plans

-How to replace a Garmin Forerunner 305 in the most economically efficient way- debating re-buying it from Amazon, or possibly purchasing the FR60 and buying an Edge 705 at a later date…we shall see

-The recovery of “The Toe”

 

for explanation of the last one, I'll just leave you with this picture….

I apologize for the grotesqueness of this pictures… such is the life of runners feet, and trying to play Intramural basketball…hmm

$50 Rebate on Garmin Edge 605 and 705

If you bought/buy a Garmin Edge 605 or 705 between 1/01/10 and 3/31/10, garmin is offering a $50 rebate. This offer is good if bought from Garmin or 3rd party retailers (amazon and the like)

Click Here for the Garmin link

***If you navigate back to their rebates offers, there is also $50 off of the Forerunner 405

Tyler Ross, you’re a “half” Ironman…

I made it!  Wow.  Didn’t really have any expectations going in to today other than to finish, and i crossed the line in 6:33ish.  I’ll take a 30 minutes swim, a 3:15 bike, and a 2:40 something half.  The. Run. Sucked.  But NBD.  HTFU, actually RUN, and cross the line.  

Race Report to follow soon, with pictures :-)

Doctor tested, father approved

So this is a totally, 100% random update, but i figured id put some thoughts down before this weekend.  In about 36 hours, I will be running on the beach and plunging into the cold waters of the North Carolina inlet Waterway.  Why you may ask? Well, i guess I'm going to try to finish the Beach2Battleship half-iron race this Saturday. 

It may sound as if I'm being callous about this race, and I am.  I am approaching this race as more or less a pure test of testosterone.  I am not going to race, I am going to finish.  I haven’t legitimately “trained” in just about a month.  A little over a month ago, I started having some funny heart issues.  They have sense been cleared up (as of earlier this morning), and i am good to go.  I am no longer RACING, but just want to pride my way safely across the finish line.  I feel grossly unprepared for this race, both in preparation and in simple knowledge base of how these bigger races are run.  I’ma just hope that i get all of my transition bags packed correctly, and hopefully this time Saturday night, I'll be putting a 70.3 sticker on the back of my jeep.

If i don’t update this, well, I either died, or have once again become content to simply read DC Rainmaker's Blog and train as possible

Today I leave you with the damage done to my kitchen by my roommates dog….FAIL?

I’m on a boat!

Okay, I'm not on a boat, but i cant get the song out of my head.  If you haven't seen the SNL skit with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and T-Pain, you should watch it.  *PARENTAL ADVISORY, it might be offensive* 

Anyways, boats float on water, which must be a nice characteristic.  I don’t float, thought i really wish i did.  The past week has been fairly swimming intensive.  I've ridden semi-consistently for the past month, and running is a fairly regular activity.  However, my swimming has severely dipped off.  With my first tri of the season coming up may 10th, i figure its about time to take a crash course in reestablishing my stroke.  The first two or three days in the pool were a FAIL, as to be expected.  My breathing was way out of rhythm, arms weak and inefficient, and my could not keep my head low in the water.  Long story short, these few days SUCKED.  When swimming is work, it isn’t any fun, for me.  I tried my best to not fight the water, but i knew that's all i was really doing.  Anyways, after 6 swim workouts, i think my learning curve is finally going up.  I am no where NEAR where i need to be, but I'm not struggling to swim the whole workout, which is a plus.  Fortunately, i work at the YMCA, so swim instruction, as least at a basic level, is readily accessible. 

So that’s a quick summation of my last week..two 30+mile rides, and about 3,500 yards in the pool.  Today calls for a 60 minute run, which i will knock out once i get out of class, and i plan on going back to the pool tonight, not to exert myself, but simply to try to log as much quality time in the water as possible in the next two weeks.

Hope all of you out there…(all 5 of you :-D) are doing well.  Its full training season, as least for me, as classes are winding down, with only exams standing between me and a summer full of, summer school.  dang.

much love,

peace, love, chick-fil-a

T

In case you were wondering

NBC is showing coverage (not live) of the Ford Ironman World Championships 70.3   This show covering the half ironman, should be sick.  It comes on today at 4:30 on NBC.

just thought id share, DVR rocks