This has been a great weekend. I had two great workouts yesterday. Neither was all that intense, but I'm base building. First, I had a nice ride on my trainer. Only 30 minutes, but with a pyramid of resistance and cadence for the middle ten minutes, I worked up a solid sweat.
Then, at lunch I swam. I'm just back in the water this week, but I did a long warm-up set with a mix of swim, pull (paddles and buoy--love that!), kick, and drill. (1000m). Then a set of 10x50 on 1:00 descending 1-5. My fast ones were :32. Pretty good for 4th day in the water.
But what made the weekend had nothing to do with triathlon. My church (full disclosure, I'm a pastor) had a teaching weekend: a media ecologist, Dr Read Schuchardt, from Wheaton College--my alma mater, spoke. Unbelievably good!
He was a PhD student of Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death, and Technopoly). It was great.
Well, gotta run. Literally. 4 miles, easy.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Let's get it started...
This is my first post. My maiden voyage into the world of blogging.
Two confessions are in order: First, I am basically lazy. The biggest challenge to my training, and to achieving my goals, has been simply not doing the workouts. (I really need a team, like TriDadofFive has. That sounds great).
Second, I am really starting this blog so that I can plug the Timex Ironman Race Trainer Kit give-away that my new hero, TriDadofFive, is giving away in about a week and a half.
I probably am not anywhere near Type-A enough to be a dedicated recorder of heart-rate and power-wattage, and all the things you have to track to be a successful gadget triathlete. But the thing looks cool, I want it, and would probably never lay down the cash ($220 on the Timex web site) to buy it myself. So I am trying to win the one TriDadofFive is giving away.
That's it for now. Off to ride the bike. On the trainer. It's raining here.
Two confessions are in order: First, I am basically lazy. The biggest challenge to my training, and to achieving my goals, has been simply not doing the workouts. (I really need a team, like TriDadofFive has. That sounds great).
Second, I am really starting this blog so that I can plug the Timex Ironman Race Trainer Kit give-away that my new hero, TriDadofFive, is giving away in about a week and a half.
I probably am not anywhere near Type-A enough to be a dedicated recorder of heart-rate and power-wattage, and all the things you have to track to be a successful gadget triathlete. But the thing looks cool, I want it, and would probably never lay down the cash ($220 on the Timex web site) to buy it myself. So I am trying to win the one TriDadofFive is giving away.
That's it for now. Off to ride the bike. On the trainer. It's raining here.
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