Sorry if I offend

Yesterday I had a 3 hr ride planned and it was 15 outside, so on the trainer...... again. I have come to like the trainer, I almost feel some times you can get a better workout in. Anyways I was watching the Tour of California that Courtney had taped for me, the taped stopped with 1.5 miles to go, just as they were attacking each other after they caught the guy who was making a crazy break for like 28 miles. I still don't know who won. Today was a 3k swim, when I got to the pool no one was there so I came back home for my 95 min run. A few things happened during that run which I found funny. First there was a dad waiting at the bus stop with his daughter. He looked like the dad from "Honey I shrunk the Kids" the funny part was he had a long coat and the hat with the flap that comes down and covers your ears and gloves on, but he was wearing shorts and shivering. He got all dressed up and didn't put pants on?? The second thing and the reason for my subject, I ran through the college and 2 girls were walking towards me and they commented on me being skinny, by commented I mean making fun of me. Of course they were "overweight" p/c for FAT!!! but that is the norm at BSC, with two DD and a starbucks on campus and less then 1 mile from each other what do you expect? I wanted to say something but I didn't have the balls, mostly because they were in my stomach, I should have bought the wind block craft shorts to wear under my running pants. My view on fat people is just laziness, I hear girls at school talking about their weight and all this diet stuff they are on, while drinking their large coffee with extra cream and 200 sugars while chewing a bagel. That's enough on Fat for the day. Off to the bike shop.....boring.... On tap for tomorrow is 5hr 40mins on the bike..........

Did I mention fat people really piss me off? More later

Junk

Today was a 90 min run. About half way through (45mins for the math impaired) my legs pretty much said FU. They are toast from Sunday and yesterdays Z1 ride. I did get the whole run in, I can't afford to skip out on workouts especially running. Later tonight after work is 3k swimming at school.
Yesterday while swimming I was thinking about training and what different people do and why they do it. After 5 mins of research on the 'net I found atlest 15 different ways coaches train their athletes for IM. I think it all breaks down to 2 methods You have the FPT intervals now and longer stuff later (when the weather is nice.....wimps) and the longer stuff and intervals later people. I am a long now intervals later kinda guy. I can see where both ways make sense. I think 1 way (Jesse's way) is better. Side note, I have never done IM I am only 10 weeks into training for one. Why you might ask is our way better...well..... Look at the avg IM finisher, overweight, older,work,kids....all that life stuff. Avg finish time is 12hrs, why would it matter if this person can hold 285 watts for 1hr? does it sound cool in the middle of Feb? what about the ONE day all year when it MATTERS and they have a 7 hr bike split, do you hear those people say I wish I had done more FPT stuff?? They then go back and do more short hard stuff, without looking in the mirror.
What do I know though, I am just 22 and only a hack.
I guess it comes down to believing. Believing that no matter what protocol you use, that its right.

Stuff

This post will be in two parts because I have to run for 35 mins @ ZR on the ol treadmill before dinner. Courtney is making her insane chili. Today started with a 3.5k swim at school. On the way I almost got hit by a mom dropping her kids off at school, she blew through a stop sign while on the cell phone and yelling at her kids. The only way it could have been better was if she was fat and eating a bagel!!......After the swim I went to class, while in class I got an email saying my other class was canceled. I bombed home and got on the bike for 2:20 @ Z1. Z1 pace is getting very hard to stay in, over 21mph on the flats 8 weeks ago I was going 14mph, that will lead me to my next post tonight after some home work.
Training protocols and intervals.

1:20:25

That is my Hyannis Half-marathon time. I know what you're thinking.....Did I get lost? Since it's a PR by over 4 minutes, and considering the time of the year and the phase of training I am in, I am happy for now. It was a solid training day 25 min warm up and a 35 min cool down, so 2:20 total and about 19 miles. Once we finished the cool down I got about 4 bagels and a bag of chips once that was in my belly, I changed and them Tim, Cait and Jesse and I went for a 3:20 ride around Hyannis. We then went to Ihop, and hit it HARD. I waited for Jesse to order and then got the same thing he did, Hearty Pancakes, a must next time you go to Ihop. On tap for toady is a easy 30 mins Swim and then a 60min ZR ride on the trainer. I need my running durability to get up to par or there is NO way my ass will be on a plane come OCT.

Pre- Gaming

Aka....carbo loading. This is the pancake I ate this morning while pre-
gaming, along with 4 pieces of toast, 2 eggs and homefries. I look
forward to long races just so I can eat this breakfast.
Today was supposed to be a 3k swim and an easy 50 min spin. I went to
the pool at the local Y which I hate cuz its 87 degrees. Of course its
full so I wait for 25min then leave all pissed off. This was not a
good week for swimming even though I got it all in except for this 1
which I'll make up Thursday.
To be continued....

Beat

Today started promptly a 5:17 when Kona, woke up and decide she has to pee right then, and of course once Kona does the dog shaking thing, Chole wakes up and she also has to pee. I put collars on both and out we go. 35 mins later I am in my car driving to the pool. 3500 yards awaits, no alot to the swimmers out there, but to my land loving ass its a good swim. 65 mins later I am out and on my way home because I have 25 mins to eat ( 3 eggs on an English muffin) and be on the bike, so I can get my 2 hours in before class. I have been banished to the basement to ride the trainer because of grease stains on the rug.OOPS. No worries its only 100 degrees down there with the furnace going full steam. I did have a fan from 1962, but it finally died on me 2 days ago. RIP fan RIP. To pass the time I watched Wedding Crashers again, and it was even better. I missed some parts the first time around, I got them this time. I was off the bike with 20 mins to stretch, shower, eat and drive to class. Phew made it only 1 min late, but its a beginner Spanish class so its all freshman, who still like college and get to class early and are ready to go with books open way before its time. Senior classes may be harder but no one looks at you like an ass when you walk in late. Anyways then it was home with 90mins before work and a 35 min run to go. All done and at work for 2. That was my day, a day in the life of a college student trying to race Ironman.

I am sitting at school waiting for my next class to start. Intro to
computers. Fun stuff, I use the class to catch up on all Internet
things, such as training research and other peoples blogs. Mostly
other athletes so I can see where they are training wise.
Training for me today was supposed to be a 3,000 swim of various
tempos and sets but because people are bad drivers it took me over an
hour to get to the pool. I only had 17mins to swim,so I just swam a
steady 17 mins. I'll make up he rest on Saturday morning. After class
is a 95 min Z1 run. Tonight is 100mins (1:40) Z1 on the trainer. Not a
bad day.
I am racing Hyannis half marathon on Sunday and I am looking foward to
it. Last year I went 1:24. I want to go under 1:20 this year but we
will see.....

Weights

Today was a 60 min R (recovery) ride and a lifting session. I hear many triathletes talking crap about weight lifting because "it will not make me fast" I call BS to that statement, true it may not raise my VO2 max, LT or lower 400 yard swim pace, but it will help me from getting injured over the course of a long season, which will raise the above mentioned. I also hear them say " I don't want to put on muscle because that will slow me down. Again BS, the vast majority of athletes do not know enough about the sheer volume of weights and the correct nutrition that is needed in order to put on weight from strength training. A reoccurring theme of this blog will be nutrition, only because I take my personal nutrition extremely serious, mostly because in the words of a famous hockey coach, Herb Brooks ," I do not have enough talent to win on talent alone"

This started about a year ago when I met Jesse, qt2systems.com He changed my outlook on Day to day and Race nutrition.

First Post

This is my first post to a blog of any kind. My girlfriend just started and she was on me to start one......so here I am, blogging. This is a big step for me as I do not even have a myspace, shocking I know. Who under 25 does not have a myspace?
I plan on writing down my training / thoughts on training and life in general.