Trick or Treat
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Boo!
Oh what a very spooky Halloween it's been - complete with all the little neighborhood ghouls and goblins searching for candy after night fall. Good children, take the candy, and keep it away from me! Actually, this is pretty funny: I follow a good number of blogs from day to day, all rooted in endurance athletics. Some are blogs of pure runners, some of pure cyclists and many of them, of course, are of other triathletes. Yet in each and every one today, there was mention of candy, and of how difficult it is to say "no" to it the day after Halloween - as if the holiday itself is geared towards throwing our diets off track just as we start to enter the beginnings of off-season training. As for me? Well, seriously, there's a whole bowl of candy left, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in it. Mmmm... Chocolate Fuel.
In other news, it's game-on for 2006. This morning I registered for the Timberman Triathlon in New Hampshire. The Timberman is part of the newly launched 70.3 Half Ironman Series, and serves as an official 70.3 World's Qualifier this year. That's right, a World's Qualifier. I've also planned to do a practice Half Ironman earlier this coming season in Tupper Lake, NY; The Tinman. With things locked in now, with two Half IMs this season, it should be a jam-packed off-season of training with plenty of incentive to get out the door on the coldest of days for the essential workouts. And as you no doubt may have guessed, or if you've heard me alluding to it in previous posts, this is all part of a grand build up to race IM Lake Placid in 2007.So, there it is. Written in stone, so to speak - blogged for every one to see, and for every one to hold me to it. Ironman Lake Placid, 2007. But, before we get too far ahead of ourselves, there are more immediate goals to focus on. Specifically, there's a lot of work to be done in all three disciplines this winter. Volume and stride work for the run, Volume and power work for the bike, and Volume and stroke refinement for the swim. Notice a common thread?
Now it's off to the candy bowl.
5 Comments:
So you're saying there'll be a lot of volume? LOL.... Whenever I mumble about going out into the rain this "off-season", I'll think of you, heading out into the SNOWWWWWW....
Of course, I'll be spending most of December in San Diego, so I won't be complaining much then. :)
Caio.
Just found your blog (thanks Tammy!) and I like it. I too am racing 2 halfs in 2006 (Pacific Crest & Black Diamond) and also doing an Ironman (my 2nd) in 2007 (IM Canada).
I'll keep up with your training and progess via your blog. I keep a similar one that you may want to check out from time to time.
Later.
the public announcement, i like it.
ps so dog likes to run? am looking for running partner as well. hounds run? she looks so little! cute.
Thanks Partyrunner, and thanks for stopping by!
Make no mistake, my hound (okay, she's not really a "hound") is no small dog! She's a 90 lb chocolate lab/weimaraner mix, which basically translates to a whole lot of energy!
But... she loves nothing more than the open trail.
musta been the angle. she looked so little. ;-)
i was thinking weimarunner but i hear they're hyper and high maintenance. one high maitenance person per household, please! and i wonder if i should get a dog i cant even spell the name of
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