Hip. Hip. Oy-Vey! August 28, 2007
Posted by anton in : Angst , 3 commentsSo training for the double is crazy…Which sort of fits me…I’m just a tad off kilter.
The weekend of the 18th and 19th…was really the first big weekend after IMLP and it’s recovery.
101 on the bike Friday. 2.5 hour run on Saturday and another 65 on the bike Sunday.
Tuesday morning…my left hip is sore to the touch and it’s not the ITB. Deep inside…like bone.
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These two lines are 1/4 inch long. It’s the difference between my right leg and left leg, my right being shorter.
85% of the population has the same thing usually on the same side as the dominate hand.
85% of the population doesn’t do endurance sports, so it isn’t often a problem.
It first popped up for me in the late 70’s running huge ammounts when I lived in Colorado. The Lydard Days with everyone putting in 100 mile weeks. Got hip pain…saw the doctor…got my first pair of orthotics..problem solved…
I’ve gone back and forth with this ever since…for some years when I wasn’t running that much it didn’t matter…when I started racing bikes and riding a lot in the 80’s it came up again and I need to put a lift on my cycling shoes…all was aces after that.
Have had several pairs of othotics and finally settled on just a heel lift per the docs direction…that has been fine through 18 ultras, 3 ironman events a bunch of marathons and other races and all the attendant training.
Here it is again…cycling really makes it pop up and last weekend was obviously too much…
So…several days off, new shoes from If the Shoe Fits in Frederick…some stretching…a short run today…feels ok now.
I’m giving it several more days to see which way the wind is blowing before I pull the plug on doing the Double.
If the pain continues and flares and prevents me from getting in the milage I need to finish a Double ( I already missed running a 50k last weekend and biking another 100) I’m out.
This was probably my only shot.
I’m getting older…Training for and doing this years IMLP took more effort and the recovery was harder than the last one I did three years ago.
Too much other stuff to do…too many fun races,Ultras, trips to the mountains,travel and rides to do to spend SOOOO much time training for a Double. I’m laying off IM’s too until my next age group change (I’ll go 55-59 in 2009.)
Damn …I really wanted that Tat!
Weak One. August 21, 2007
Posted by anton in : Training , 2 commentsNo…I can spell.
As some of you know I’m ramping up for a Double Ironman on the 6th and 7th of October…And right now…all I feel is “Yikes! What have I gotten into.” I trained pretty well for Ironman Lake Placid and finished…using it really as a long training day for the double. Let myself take the usual recovery time…resting well, eating well, and still getting in progressivly longer workouts leading up to the main phase of training for the Double.
That’s where I am now…
Week one totals: Swim 2,000 meters
Bike 200 miles
Run 30 miles
The swimming thing is just not happening right now…My pool is closed for end of season work and the pool at the school where I work is down too. I am hoping that tomorrow will bring back some wetness. Have been doing my pullups ( a hold over from the climbing days that I can’t give up) They help so much with the swim. As long as I get several 5k swims in before hand I’ll do fine.
The bike is good right now…mind you I’m not busting ass for speed…I am working on being consistant at 15 to 17 MPH Average over a distance.
The run is coming up and distance is increasing. I hope to max out at about 50 miles a week prior to the Double.
Double training is not IM training…weekday totals are fairly low with back to back long days on the weekend, with one week focused on biking the next on running and swimming, while still getting a few miles on the bike.
This past weekend included: Bike 101 miles one day. A 16 mile run another day. Another bike of 65 miles on another day…
This week I hope to go 100 or so on the bike, Run 40 including a 50k and swim 10K…it’s also the first week of school….we’ll see what happens.
Right now…I’m feeling weak (Weak One…get it?) and not all all sure the Double was a good idea…no aches or pains, yet, but just a general feeling of apathy about the race…
I better get over that real quick…
Give me a couple day and I’ll post the workout schedule for The Double, that I’ve picked up from some Double and Triple vets.
Shennanigans Hosted by… August 12, 2007
Posted by anton in : Training , add a commentMe. Beads1985 came to town…well, at least nearby so we decided to get together and get some workouts in together this weekend…good fun. It’s great to meet folks from the trifuel community in the flesh and share some face time…or should I say left and right ear time…since Beads talks non-stop. Oh…Beads, whose real name is Scott will tell you where his trifuel name came from…but only during a race longer than half -marathon.
Anyway, we met yesterday here at the house and proceeded to the C&O Canal for two and a half hours of biking fun at a moderate pace…followed up with a thirty minute run on the Greenway trail…A beautiful day after the heat horrors of this past week…actually a cool morning. Saw a number of Great Egrets, a Kingfisher, some Yellow Tanigers…and of course boy scouts…
Today, he came over again and we hit the trails for a two hour run in Seneca Creek State Park and the Middle section of the Greenway Trail, which is sort of out my front door…I felt good about it…my longest run since Ironman and the end of the recovery phase…We ran at a good clip, or it seemed like it as we talked the whole time…even up the hills! Man! That guy has some lungs (and,well,he IS thirteen years younger.) He’s ramping up for Chessie Man and of course I’m getting cranked up for the Double, which I seem to be waffling on, although that is probably only because I was a tad whipped after Lake Placid (see the previous blog) We’ll see how the next few weeks go, but as everyday passes I’m getting more excited about it!
Scott stayed for one of Mary Lou’s breakfasts and a spot of tea…then sped off to family…great fun having him come by.