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The one thing I have going for me at Ironman Coeur D’Alene

So, currently, it is 44 degrees cooler in Idaho.
Thank you weather Gods. I, as you know, suck at running when it is too hot or humid. So I figure dropping 40+ degrees out of the equation can only help me.
I just might survive this thing.
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I seemed to have leveled off

I got into the pool again this morning, for my .5 mile swim. This makes my 5th time in the pool. Which now means I have actually covered the distance I need to cover in the Ironman, it just took my 5 workouts to do it.While I technically was faster this time, it […]

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I’m so doomed

I finally started looking into what the course is going to be like in Coeur d’Alene in three weeks. Well, the bike course looks like this:

Which is both good and bad. It’s bad for having to go up those monster hills, which will probably drop my speed into the single digits but […]

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Slow but steady

I’ve now finished 4 workouts in the pool (I doubled my mileage last week. hahaha, yes I know that means I swam one mile last week which equaled the rest of the swimming I had done in 2008).All four workouts have been .5 mile in length. My first two were: 22:08 and 19:40. […]

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Another brick in the wall…

This weekend I placed another brick in the wall of my training for Ironman Coeur d’Alene, which for those keeping track is in 26 days. Wait, what?!? 26 days? As in barely 3 more weeks? Holy crap. In the back of my mind I have been thinking I still have at least 40 […]

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