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Monday, January 02, 2012

2012 Training and Fitness Goals

I also want to keep all of my daily calories around 2500 during the week and Sunday to eat whatever I want. If I do that according to my calculations, I'll lose close to 75 pounds and get closer to my goal weight this year.

2012 Training Goals
Total HRS	550
Swim	75	hours	135,000	yards
Bike	260	hours	3640	miles
Run	165	hours	740	miles
Strength	50	hours

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

2011 Training Numbers

Training Totals
2011				2010
	Dist	Hours	Avg Pace	Dist	Hours	Avg Pace
Swim	81311	30	2:11/100 yd	96773	34	2:05/100 yd
Bike	2426	169	14.3 mph	1791	136	13.19 mph
Run	617	138	13:27 per mile	462	114	14:51 per mile
Strength		11	13 min/week		20	22 min/week

353 hours total for 2011.

So I'm pleased with most of my year. My swim mileage was down and it looks like I got slower but I really think I made up for that in my bike and run improvement. Almost 80 seconds per mile faster is awesome. I was run/walking this time last year. Now I'm running no problem.

Improving over 1 mph on the bike is great too. That means so much over the course of a race. Plus its on the same old school bike frame so that's just me and my fitness gains. Mileage for the run and bike are up big time. That's great. I'm so happy!

Over 350 hours for the year. 40 more hours then last year. Considering that I only did two races on Sundays and then took the rest of them off through the year, I'm so happy that I'm averaging over an hour of exercise per day. For me that is consistency. And that is the key.

Next year will see me going over 400 hours for the year. A lot more strength for the year. I'm doing more Olympic lifts along with prehab and endurance strength exercises to keep me pain free.

This means over 2 years of consistent training for me. I have proven to myself that I can keep my weight off. It also has shown me that I can continue to lose weight and get back down to a healthy weight and keep improving. Getting faster and fitter everyday.

Here's to a successful 2011 and to a even better 2012!

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Hot and Humid

It's so freaking hot now. I'm a big and I've never done well in extreme heat even when I was in good shape. But now carrying 75 extra pounds its a suffer feast when the humidity levels get above 70%. Tonight was case in point. 4 mile easy run after an hour easy on the bike this morning. Took salt pill and kept my HR down but my perceived effort was through the roof. I walked for the first time during a run in several months. See the lovely pic for a demo of the humidity around these parts. Oh and tomorrow is a balmy 97!

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Saturday, February 05, 2011

Jan Training

Swimming: 3.9 mi on track for 46.8 miles swimming, very short of my 113 mile goal

Biking: 90.5 mi on track for 1080 miles biking, also very short of my 2750 goal

Running: 73.3 mi on track for 880 miles running, which would smash my goal of 600 miles by almost 300 miles.

So why the disparity? Baby Cece. Having a baby throws a big kink in your schedule plus its harder to swim and ride the bike with shorter days and more pressure at work to sign accounts to big contracts.

But I'm doubling down and will get this done. We have a nice bonus and tax return coming which means a few things, most notably, paying race entry fees!

So basically I need average 240 miles a month on the bike, 17600 yards in the pool, and stay with my running at 75 a month. That breaks down to 4500 yards a week swim, 60 miles a week on the bike, and 15 miles run or so.

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Hello!

Ray over at dcrainmaker.com is having a Garmin 310xt giveaway! Go check it out! http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/01/garmin-forerunner-310xt-giveawayjanuary.html