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I Can’t. I’m Busy Training For My Ironman.

Monday, April 5th, 2010

I said it for the first time ever on Friday.

I can’t. I’m busy training for my ironman.

I hated it.

One of my main goals this year is to get as strong as I can while taking my training seriously as I ramp up to the FullRev at Cedar Point, but also let it have as little of an impact on my social life as possible. I’m hoping this isn’t the beginning of some downward spiral. I’ve still got five more months to go!

Granted I spoke that puke-inducing phrase while spanking one of my college friends in poker and doing some 12 oz curls late Friday night, but it still hurt a little bit saying that I couldn’t go hiking on Saturday and blaming it on ironman training.

I’m thinking that early morning workouts are the name of the game this year. Pound out the miles before the world is awake and then be the normal social Jamie at night. Let’s hope that plan runs as smoothly in real life as it does in my head.

In other news, my 2010 Team Trakkers race kit came in the mail last week. I love it.

Let the flexing party commence.

Thanks Saucony!

Tags: cedar point, ironman training, rev3 | Posted in Triathlon | 5 Comments »

New Sponsor! TRAKKERS

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Awesome news today triathlon people.

I am a member of Team Trakkers 2009! Trakkers is a relatively new company that is getting ready to launch a new gadget specifically for endurance athletes and sends their GPS data to the web in real time. Not only can your family and friends follow your progress on race day, but all the data is stored so you can compare performances and course data.

It all started when I saw that they put out a call for sponsorship applications on SlowTwitch back in November. I laid on my best charm and filled out the application, but wasn’t expecting it to go too far. Thankfully my writing skills and internet street cred came through and I made the team! I’m sure that also already planning to race at Rev3, the new HIM where Trakkers is making their official launch, probably helped a little too. I’m totally looking forward to playing around and testing Trakkers before it is available to the public.

I’ll be on the team along with some other kick-ass pro triathletes like Bree Wee, Amanda Lovato, Heather Gollnick and fellow age grouper and tri blogger Carol.

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Tags: rev3, rev3 triathlon, trakkers, trakkers gps | Posted in Triathlon | No Comments »

Rest is a beautiful thing

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

After hella stretching and taking some time off of running last week, I’m back in the game this week and am feeling great. I’m not quite 100%, but close enough to hit the treadmill/sidewalk and start adding up those base hours again and challenging myself. One spot on my left calf is still a little sore (but not tight anymore) but hopefully that will heal up very soon.

And by challenging myself I mean trying crazy new stuff like figuring out how long I can do a headstand in my living room.

Headstand Day 1

I was only able to keep my feet off of the wall for about 3 seconds, but I was pretty proud of myself. So in case you were wondering if I was taking myself and my training too seriously now that I’m being coached and am putting in WAY more off season training hours than last year, I think you have your answer. There is still plenty of time for messing around and having some fun. Tomorrow morning I’ll also be heading downtown to the Lululemon store for a free yoga class. Since getting laid off, the yoga budget had to get cut, but I’m glad there are still free classes around that I can check out.

And tonight I finally registered for my second 70.3 ever, and first (of two) in the 2009 season. Rev3 Here I Come Baby! I grew up only about 20 minutes from the race start, so this will be a really great homecoming for me. I never thought I’d be able to get myself in HIM shape so early in the season, but the way everything is coming together already, I have a really good feeling that I’ll be tearing it up come June.

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And despite hating ranting on the blog, I feel the need to say that I hate Active.com. A piece of my soul dies every time that I have to use them to register for a race. Charging $15 registration fee? WTF. Seriously? Just because a race is more expensive, you decide to up the registration fee. And every time a race forces me to use your site you have the balls to try to sell me on stupid discount clubs and anything else out there? They do have a somewhat interesting new search tool, but it is only in beta and would only really be interesting or groundbreaking 5 years ago. I may never understand why even some of my favorite race directors stil use them year after year. At least a quick google search for “active.com sucks” proves that I’m at least not the only one. There you go. My rant is over. All appologies, except to Active.com. Bikereg.com is way better.

Tags: active.com, active.com eats babies, active.com sucks, half ironman, rev3, rev3 half ironman, rev3tri, Triathlon | Posted in Running, Training Log, Triathlon | No Comments »