Monday, March 3, 2014
Ironman Louisville Training begins again
So, as of today there are 174 days and 25 weeks until the big day. So originally I was planning to do Beach 2 Battleship in late October. There was always a part of me that wanted to give Louisville a shot, but I do have a tremendous fear of the heat and humidity. I wanted to give this race a shot to see how I could handle it, considering my dream is to race Hawaii, which is just as bad, if not worse considering the challenging course as well. Well, life got in the way, things came up that forced me to change races, so as fate would have it, Louisville became this years race. I'm excited about it. Ironman puts on an amazing show, and I realize they have their critics, from my experience, they earn the extra money. It's an amazing environment out there and the passion and enthusiasm of the crowd is well worth the extra cost. I know I can suck it up and deal with the heat, and like I read somewhere once "Of course it's hard, if f-n Ironman!"
So, i don't know if this makes me a quitter or impatient, but I've decided to scrap my first Half IM of the year and get into my Ironman planning early. I'm already feeling the symptoms of mild burnout but I think a lot of that is due to the misery of waking up in the cold. The early stages of Ironman training are a lot easier than these mid stages of Half IM training, so I'm changing tactics. I dont' think I can manage to keep up with 3+ hour bike rides for the next 6 months non stop. For instance, this weekend I jumped in and had a 1 hour run and a 1:45 ride, compared to what I had planned would've been a 90 minute run and a 3 hour ride.
And the intensity is far less than what would've been anyway. I can deal with the gradual increase rather than pretty intense training for the next six months.
So this weekend began my training with about a 5.5 mile run and a 35 mile ride.
The other thing I'm doing this time is that I"m not just doing this race for me. I will be dedicating my effort to the Wounded Warrior Foundation. I will be trying to raise awareness and money for this foundation, that, frankly in my opinion, shouldn't exist. If we cared as much about our soldiers as we claim these brave men and women who were wounded in the line of duty should want for nothing for the rest of their lives. There shouldn't be a non-profit doing what our government should be doing. But this is our world, and I would love for everyone who reads this to contribute what you can.
Im eventually going to have a personal fund raising page, so if you choose to donate I'll put the link up on these pages.
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Well, 174 posts to go!!! HA...who am I kidding, as if i'll remember to write this thing every day. Here's to trying!
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