If you haven’t seen me on the road it’s because I am was told to stay off the bike until my fingers heal. Lesson #1: Do not place your fingers on the mower exhaust when you are done mowing - ouch! Stupid, I know. This pain was much worse than when I weed wacked my toes earlier this year! Lesson #2: Don't wear sandals while weed wacking. I burned the fingers, luckily on my left hand, on July 4th, so I think the ER people only half believed my story and probably thought I was playing with fireworks.
I have, however, been ramping up my training for the Bellefaire JCB Biathlon (3 mile run, 12.9 mile bike) by running and riding the trainer. I’ve also been hitting the gym much more and working on my core (beer gut). Since I haven’t run competitively in 17 years, I’m not expecting much out of the run, but I hope to get a decent bike time.
I slacked off July 4th weekend, by sitting around, eating, and drinking, eating, and drinking, repeat again for 4 days. I even joked that I was erasing an entire month’s fitness level in one weekend. Which may have actually happened!!! Ugh! The extent of my cycling was watching Ray zoom past me and my family as we walked around Shaker Lakes.
Anyway, this week I’m taking it serious and have settled into a running and biking training routine that should bring me back to previous levels.
Monday Evening: 22 minute run - 30 minutes on trainer - Race Pace (if you could call it that)
Tuesday Lunch: Gym: legs - 5k Run - 28:24 an 8:49 pace - Route: Through Malls, left on Lakeshore, right on W.3rd around Browns Stadium, Out to end of Pier, N. Marginal to the bend, Up E. 9th, right on Lakeshore, Malls. HOT, humid and SLOW - Couldn’t extend.
Tuesday Evening: 60 minute trainer bike 3 x 1:30 powerclimbs
Wednesday Lunch: Gym: Chest/Bis/Tris/Abs (hi reps low weight) - 1.5 mile treadmill run with 1 mile @ 7:30 pace
Wednesday Evening: 27:40 run - approx. 5k - followed by 15 minutes of sprint drills/hill sprints. Instructed two kids to not ride their bikes against traffic. They argued with me, I told them to Google it. Yeah, that’s my comeback “Google it!”-I’m a real tough guy. Anyway, I did see Dave cruise by near GESU. Nice Kazahk Railways shorts.
Thursday Lunch: Gym: Abs/Legs - 10 minutes on Elliptical
Thursday Evening: 60 minute trainer 3 x 1 minute Sprints, 3 x 5 minute Fast Pedals
So it looks like I’m back on track. I’ll be out on the road next week to get some real miles in.
JC
Race Report: Ironman Wisconsin, 2016
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go." --T.S. Eliot
This is a tale of two races, a decade apart.
I always knew...
8 years ago
2 comments:
Hey, JC! Thanks for the comment on my blog. Yeah...I think it was the 2005 P2P. Wow, time flies.
Good luck with all your training. My fiance and I are also planning on doing the JCB, so I'll make sure to look for you!
JC, I'd like to offer a few more helpful tips:
1) Do not stick your hands into spinning mower blades.
2) Do not hang on to anything that you put into a chipper.
3) Avoid placing your lips on either the mower exhaust or the weed whacker.
4) Do not juggle with knives.
5) If you see exposed, sparking high-tension power lines on the ground, do not grab them.
6) Avoid parking your car on railroad tracks and taking a nap.
7) Point the skinny end of the gun away from yourself when you pull the trigger.
8) At airports, do not walk into propellers or step behind jet engines.
9) Try hard not to shove your fingers into your spokes when riding.
10) Avoid placing fingers in front of a spinning circular-saw blade.
Hope these help.
- JN
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