- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: Rest Day
- Comments: Today was a programmed rest day, since I did a long ride on Saturday (my normal rest day) and ran the RnR San Jose Half yesterday. I actually set out my cycling kit and prepped my bike last night…just in case, but decided to honor the program this morning! I’m sure my body will appreciate it.
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I knocked out my eighteenth half marathon this morning, extending my race-a-month streak to 24!
Today’s run was the Rock ‘n’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon. I’ll post a race report this coming week; but, ahead of that, my time was 1:56:38 @ a 8:55 avg pace. Not an “A” race (I knew it wouldn’t be going in); but, it still was a respectable time (sub-2 hour) and run (given my focus on cycling right now and having ridden 52 miles yesterday.)
GIDDY-UP!
Training Journal – 10/6/13:
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: Rock ‘n’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon
- Comments: See above, more to follow
- Weekly mileage: Running: 27.5 / Bicycling: 134.1 – Total: 161.6
It’s not the best picture, but here is a view of this morning’s RuBi* session set-up:
- Dual use of my bike repair stand and
- practice transitioning in a small space!
- Weeeeeee!
Have a wonderful weekend!
*pronounced “ruby” – Run-Bike. Yeah, my own creation. It just seemed weird calling it a BRick when I ran first.
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: 4/10 RuBi and day one of carb loading for a half marathon on Sunday
- Comments:
September 2013 was all about training for Foxy’s Fall Century on October 19th… What had been an occasional, Monday-morning alternative to running, became pretty much the sole focus of training this past month: namely bicycling. I have missed running as much as I was, but the shift was necessary to finish well on Foxy’s.
I have noticed that my running has somewhat improved (speed and economy), though I have lost the base that I had when I was running 30 to 45 miles per week. That said, I have realized improvement in my cycling skills, speed, cadence, and endurance. I guess that what is gained through targeted training – DUH.
One thing that has resulted this month as been an increasing interest in moving toward multisport: duathlon and triathlon. Swimming is still a ways off, but I’m working toward duathlon. More on that in future posts, but I have added BRicks and sprint distance duathlon sessions (SprintDu) to my Friday sessions.
I had one business trip this past month and took advantage of being in the Philadelphia area and ran the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philly Half Marathon. It was a great event and added a different element to my trip.
HIGH/LOW:
- HIGH: I was selected as the weekly winner of competitor.com’s “Share Your RUNNOVATION” contest, which was really cool!
- LOW: Still no trail runs, but they will return. Not technically a “low”, but I ran 3.25 miles on a treadmill while on my business trip. I avoid treadmills (even while on travel) and this was the first treadmill run in over 18 months or 2,808 miles…
As far as new equipment:
Continue Reading…
This multisport thing is starting to grow on me. The aqua part of triathlon is still looming ominous though; so I’ve been looking at duathlons of late. I think know triathlon will come, just need to figure out how and when…and then make it happen.
Anyway, back to duathlon… Instead of doing my usual, Friday BRick this morning, I did a home version/distance of a sprint duathlon that I’m looking at for early 2014: run 2 miles, bike 10 miles, run 2 miles. I’m actually leaning toward the international distance (10k run, 40k bike, 5k run); but, with only about 1:20 max in the morning for my workout, the shorter distance worked better.
It was fun and, for my first “Du”, went great:
- RUN 1: 2.0 miles @ 7:48 avg pace, avg cadence 96. TIME: 15:45 [Strava]
- TRANSITION: 2:35 min
- BIKE: 10.6 miles @ 18.6 mph avg, avg cadence 88. TIME: 34:09 [Strava]
- TRANSITION: 1:40 min
- RUN 2: 2.0 miles @ 7:31 avg pace, avg cadence 99. TIME: 15:12 [Strava]
- TOTALS: Distance: 14.6 miles, Time: 1:09:24
I’ve programmed Friday’s as BRick workouts on my training plans, but I think I may weave SprintDus in the schedule…just to break things up.
Have a great weekend – I know I plan to!
Training Journal – 9/27/13:
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session:
10/4 BRick2/10/2 Short Du
- Comments: See above…
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: 10/4 BRick
- Comments:
- BIKE: 10.54 miles @ 17.9 mph avg, avg cadence 88. TIME: 33:23
- TRANSITION: 3:32 min
- RUN: 4.08 miles @ 7:42 avg pace, avg cadence 98. TIME: 31:28
- TOTALS: Distance: 14.62 miles, Time: 1:08:23
Great one…
Training Journal – 9/18/13:
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: Rest day…traveling home!
- Comments: Rest
So identify with this Tweet I saw today:
https://twitter.com/thetracknation/status/378928669911044096
Training Journal – 9/14/13:
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: Rest and day two of carb loading for a half marathon on Sunday.
- Comments: Rest
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: 10/4 BRick and day one of carb loading for a half marathon on Sunday.
- Comments:
- BIKE: 10.96 miles @ 18.0 mph avg, avg cadence 89. TIME: 36:32
- TRANSITION: 3:22 min
- RUN: 4.02 miles @ 7:42 avg pace, avg cadence 97. TIME: 31:00
- TOTALS: Distance: 14.98 miles, Time: 1:10:54
Last Thursday, I posted about a cool email I got. Here are the details!
A few weeks ago, I posted a “before” picture I found while looking for a few pictures for my wife. On a lark, I entered the before and after pictures in a contest I happened to see on Competitor.com called “Share Your RUNNOVATION” [link]. It’s a contest, co-sponsored by New Balance, where people submit before and after photos and share about how running has changed their life. Winners receive a pair of New Balance shoes and apparel (valued at $500) – Woohoo!
It turns out, I was selected as the winner for this week! Pretty cool and humbling, especially when I look at the first two winners…
Anyway, click on the photo to check out my Runnovation page…
Training Journal – 9/9/13:
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: 20-mile ride
- Comments: I rode for 1:18:13 for 21.79 miles @ 16.7 mph avg & avg cadence of 84.
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