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The Road Less Traveled: IM 2012
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Didn't train this morning, I was feeling a bit off and wrecked tired. So I listened to the body which was easy when it meant staying in bed. I ran after work though, I had hoped to do about 1hr 45 but I felt really rough during it and got progressively worse so I plodded to just over 17k in 96 minutes. Have felt ill since. Bloody delicate tum.
I'm cold and shivering and tired now, and hoping this is just a temporary blip and not a proper dose coming on. Am I going in the sea this week? Am I fk. Even the shower felt cold tonight! 0 -
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Not losing heart, I know this is the hardest push of the whole game. But right now, 4 weeks is loooong!Wells Delicious Gazelle wrote: »We are both at similar stages of our A IM races. Stick with it, think about it you have 4 more weeks of work and then into taper phase. Almost there!!
My mother keeps nagging me that Im killing myself. My husband wont even mention the subject of IM. My brothers think Im mad. My friends never see me. My kids keep saying 'mammy, why are you always going out to train?'. My house is falling down from lack of housekeeping and we are all running out of clean socks. And through it all Im getting up at 6am to turbo.
Sometimes I just need a hug.
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Virtual hug going your way
CATCH!
Sad fact - I love sorting laundry and especially pairing socks. It relaxes me. My wife thinks I'm v weird but I get a few brownie points too from it so win/win 0 -
Virtual hug going your way CATCH!
Sad fact - I love sorting laundry and especially pairing socks. It relaxes me. My wife thinks I'm v weird but I get a few brownie points too from it so win/win
She's not the only one
Hey Oryx hang in there, not long to go now. Irrespective of how much you train or how seriously you take IM I think the first year's training is the hardest for others around you to take / understand. After year 1 you either slack off the training and do it off minimal hours (like me) or get deeper into it but with a family that is at that stage used to it (like JB
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My mother keeps nagging me that Im killing myself. My husband wont even mention the subject of IM. My brothers think Im mad. My friends never see me. My kids keep saying 'mammy, why are you always going out to train?'. My house is falling down from lack of housekeeping and we are all running out of clean socks. And through it all Im getting up at 6am to turbo.
Sometimes I just need a hug.
So everything is normal in an IM kind of way:)0 -
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What???? Of COURSE its worth it. I havent even got to race day yet and I wouldnt change a minute of the last 23 weeks. Even now when I want to curl up and sleep instead of finishing work and going out for a run, this is still all I want to do. Its an obsession that takes over your life. Without this, I wouldnt now know I can do a 4k swim and survive. I wouldnt have even tried.elvis jones wrote: »The question is.............
Is it all worth it ?
I never saw my children being born, I was at an awkward angle.well apart from watching your children being born. 0 -
What???? Of COURSE its worth it. I havent even got to race day yet and I wouldnt change a minute of the last 23 weeks. Even now when I want to curl up and sleep instead of finishing work and going out for a run, this is still all I want to do. Its an obsession that takes over your life. Without this, I wouldnt now know I can do a 4k swim and survive. I wouldnt have even tried.
I never saw my children being born, I was at an awkward angle.
You need to say it every so often:)0 -
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Wells Delicious Gazelle wrote: »
Oryx has it all ahead of her....just make sure you saviour the last few moments before you cross that finish line.
Don't savor them for too long....tick tock, tick tock....you've got a time to post!! 0 -
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My goal time is on post one but its too optimistic based on where I am now. My bike just isn't good enough. Rough splits? 95 min swim. Seven and a half hour bike. Four and a half mara. Which will bring me closer to 14 hrs. But I'll do my best on the day and the closer I am to 13 the happier I'll be.
Of course I've done the math and broken all the times and distances down. I think you're good! 0 -
And I have seven weeks to get better!Of course I've done the math and broken all the times and distances down. I think you're good!
Swam this morning. As usual, I started out feeling tired and like I would quit after 250m, but I kept going and finished stronger and better at 2k. Makes this my longest swim week, 3 hours 40 minutes and 8.1k. But Ive GOT to get into open water on Monday, when all my nice technique and practice will go out the window. I wonder if my wetsuit still fits?
Nothing more today, which feels like a day off!0 -
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Well whoop di do. I did a sea swim tonight. It didn't disappoint. It felt brutally cold going in, which mellowed a bit to just brain freeze cold once you got going. I did get kinda used to it but the 30 mins I did was enough, any more and I would have been uncomfortably chilled. How anyone did that HIM at the weekend is beyond me. I had done a short run beforehand to warm up but thats it for today. I've been tired all day from the bike yesterday and a week where I inadvertently went 2 hours over plan. So a slightly easier one is called for this week, I think! 0
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Woke up this morning feeling full of beans. It seems that sea air and salt water is good for the constitution.
Turboed for an hour. Nothing spectacular, just putting in some spintime. I would call this a handy enough Z2 session for legs that are still carrying Sunday, and an ass that is still sulking with my saddle.
And I've been stressing about my house and how Im not getting it as clean as I would like, and that we live in a pigsty and all that. Then I turn the page in the calendar, and this is the thought for the day:
A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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Yawn. Another day, another turbo session. It was bright and sunny out, and still there I was spinning away and going nowhere for an hour. I'm at the stage now where I'm kinda used to doing the higher hours, and the funny thing is, they don't seem enough. The intensity I'm putting in doesn't seem high enough. 6 more weeks certainly doesn't seem enough.
This, apparently, is perfectly normal. 0 -
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Boy, do I feel all self righteous this morning. Out the door at 5.55 am for my LSR. (Someday, when I'm old, fat, and unfit, I will read back on this to remind myself that I once got out of bed at 5am to run for two hours). Even though I knew I had to do this, reading RedB's log where he did this same session meant I really had to do it. Peer pressure, like! I have a tooth extraction tomorrow which puts the kibosh on running for a few days, I reckon, so this had to be it.
Started off a bit too conservatively, but that meant I did enjoy the whole run from start to end. It was a very hilly route, but to be honest, I didnt notice them that much, and they didnt show in the splits, really, which is good. 21.8k in 125 minutes. A very pleasant way to start the day. 0 -
Out the door at 5.55 am for my LSR...got out of bed at 5am
55 mins to get ready for a run? I suppose you need to make sure all the running gear co-ordinates well with your runners
Training looks like it is going well. You are defintely one of the most consistent for completing planned training sessions on here.0 -
The alarm went off at 5. It took fifteen minutes to get both eyes pointing in the same direction. Then breakfast, make packed lunches, yadda yadda yadda. I was, however, incredibly well colour-coordinated this morning. Pity noone else was up to see it.couerdelion wrote: »55 mins to get ready for a run? I suppose you need to make sure all the running gear co-ordinates well with your runners
Training looks like it is going well. You are defintely one of the most consistent for completing planned training sessions on here. 0 -
I am writing this with my head resting on the desk and my eyes closed. I'm tired.
Club swim this morning. I just got in and knuckled down to a straight swim, the only break was to do some kicking drills. I had planned to do other drills but the lane was crowded and it was an excuse not to. I had a new super duper posh swim hat that I won, (my lucky vitruvian one has finally ripped) and jesus that thing was tight. I looked like I had a bad facelift and it gave me a murderous headache. Its horrible, the fast swimmers can keep their fancy hats! 2150 today.
Now Im off to the dentist. At least it means Ill get to lie down for a bit.0 -
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I can feel water moving in the arms and torso, and the whole groin area is definitely too loose! (I have been steadily shrinking this last few months) I plan to go up to b2r to try a tyr one in their pool but cant get up till mid June, for financial as well as other reasons.shotgunmcos wrote: »If the suit is loose Oryx I'd suggest changing it. Excess water in there will just be a drag and sap more energy from you. The IM is a long day so this is significant.
I had been looking online but I think theres no point, I need to fit it this time if Im spending a few bob. One store I phoned, when I said I was changing my suit, the guy whistled and said 'that'll be expensive...'
Training wise, today was early turbo again. Now, I know I'm not getting my moneys worth out of these sessions, I'm finding it hard to get my head into 'suffer' mode. I mean, I did grind it out through the gears, but with no real plan going on. That's got to change over the next 3 weeks, or I'm wasting my time.0 -
One store I phoned, when I said I was changing my suit, the guy whistled and said 'that'll be expensive...'
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You could probably get a few yoyos back if you sell you own suit too. I sold my BS Sprint suit which lighhtened the load on the new suit a bit.
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Thanks. (its always nice to be given justification to spend moneyshotgunmcos wrote: »= muppeteering :mad:
You could probably get a few yoyos back if you sell you own suit too. I sold my BS Sprint suit which lighhtened the load on the new suit a bit.
Definitely sounds like the suit is too big) I'll only get about 50 quid for my own, its just a 3 year old entry level orca.
Funny thing is, the shoulders are now too tight. God, I must be doing something right in the swim if Im getting bigger shoulders!0 -
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