Unfortunately it has been sometime since I last wrote. Good news is that my training has been going better as I got just over ten hours in last week before going ice fishing this past weekend. One of the guys I went fishing with did both IM Wisconsin and Kona last year so we had several discussions about training. Justin was also training to do the Birkie coming up soon. Since it was a guy weekend we all worked hard at strength training by curling with the help of Leinenkugel’s, mental toughness playing euchre, and getting significant rest in between. Oh yea we fished too.
One of the nice gems I got from Justin was to take ibuprofen either before or immediately after hard training. Yesterday I did three hours of cycling in addition to a half hour of running. As you might imagine my legs were cooked by last night, I took three ibuprofen and to my amazement I was pain free this morning. Very cool! We started base two training yesterday which means training in zones 3 and 4 form most of the ride. I handled this well for the first two rides but on the last ride my legs pretty much gave out and started cramping a little. I am changing my training a little this week by adding more swimming and spending more time working my upper body focusing on shoulders and abs.
I will be writing about this soon but I am also beginning to focus more on nutrition again. While I think that I am doing well, I believe that there is room for improvement. Last week I did a DXA scan (another discussion topic soon) I learned a lot about the composition of my body and where I need to make improvements my intention is to focus more on nutrition and strength training to address these areas.
More soon… stay tuned.
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