Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Some new sponsor swag showed up at at my front door this week. I love getting surprises in the mail!
So, how do I look? Meredith thinks that I could have some “smashing” some finishing photos. I’m not sure about that, but time will tell. Drop your thoughts below.
Pink is punk. Right? Maybe?
Thankfully some green and black ones came with it, so if I’m not in the mood to look “cute” I can just rock the traditional Trakkers colors.
More fun team news coming soon too. Hold tight.
And on a separate note, I think I may have kicked my winter training slump! A workout every day of the week so far. Nothing major, but I’m giving myself credit for at least suiting up and breaking a good sweat every day.
Next up: snowboarding weekend up in New Hampshire! WooHoo! Can I count that as cross training in Training Peaks?
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
I promised myself that when documenting this whole ironman journey thing, that I wouldn’t just blog about the good stuff.
Right now, I’m stuck in one of those “other” parts.
It is only January! I feel like I’m in a slump before I even started! My training has been struggling to take off. Between the freezing cold, and being dark when I leave for work and when I get home, I’m in a funk. F-U-N-K. Funk.
I have even been having trouble sleeping lately. Normally, I’m a sleeping champion. Like the kind of sleeper whose head hits the pillow and immediately dozes off into dream land? Now, not so much. Waking up in the middle of the night to stress about random things that don’t deserve losing sleep over is NOT something that I’m used to.
But the thing is that when I do get myself out and training, I feel great. I’m hitting my zones, feeling strong and just cruising. I even had fun during a 1:30 trainer session and 1 mile brick run this weekend. I have no idea why, but it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had on the trainer. Now If I can just figure out how to keep it up, I’ll be SOLID come spring.
So I guess my main problem is just getting off my lazy rump and getting my shoes on and working up a sweat. Once I am there, I’m golden. At least The days are getting warmer and longer from here on out. (or at least that is what the calendar tells me…)
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Last night I was in the tri cave doing an easy trainer ride and Sam decided to come in and join me. It was nice having some company instead of just staring blankly at whatever I find on Hulu or just staring down the wall while I blast my iPod.
Even though my training was pretty light in December, with the craziness of the holidays I feel like Sam and I have had barely time to just sit and talk and figure out how each other is doing. We talked about how I got addicted to triathlons (a story I will share here once I have the corresponding embarrassing pics from high school to truly tell it well), career plans, speedos vs jammers vs trishorts, vacation ideas… all the good stuff.
On a separate note, Sam and I threw a killer New Year’s Eve bash at our apartment this weekend. This picture pretty much sums up my night.
We also figured out that we have a magic refrigerator. We somehow woke up the next morning with a ton of empty bottles of champagne, but the refrigerator had even more beer than when the party started the night before. MAGIC!
Who can say “Another Party At Jamie’s House?!”
Gotta enjoy that off season while it lasts…
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
It is official. I’m making the transition from just “working out” to actually training for Rev3 Cedar Point.
The last month or so has been pretty lame workout wise. I’ve only been doing about 3 hours of workouts per week, but with the holidays and wanting to make sure that I don’t burn out before I get to the ironman. I was a little burnt out for Timberman this August when I started hard-core training in November. Looking back at my training log from the same time last year, I was a lot fitter and was putting in a lot more hours, but I don’t think that that is a bad thing that I’m already compared to my 2009 fitness.
I want to make sure that the burnout doesn’t happen again, so I’m hoping a January instead of November start does the trick.
Day 1 started off with a 90 minute trainer ride, with some short 2-3 minute all out efforts towards the end to fatigue the legs a little for a 20 minute brick run. Another snow storm was rolling through Boston, so I had the chance to lay some fresh tracks out in a few inches of fluffy snow. Tons ‘o fun! I’ve got a strength training session planned for later tonight too.
To keep me motivated during what will inevitably become a ton of trainer riding this season, I’ve decided to take after Bree Wee and take some company with me on my rides. She has her hula girl…
… and now I have my moose!
Happy training everyone.
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