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Monday, August 19, 2013

Summer Review

I've been lazy! Training has been ramped up since the Rev3 race, so I haven't had much time for anything else. My last monthly update was for April, so here is how the last three months of training has been.

May
Swim: 7 activities, 10350 meters, 4 hours 15 minutes. Average activity: 1478 meters.
Bike: 12 activities, 377 miles, 23 hours 13 minutes. Average activity: 31 miles.
Run: 8 activities, 52 miles, 8 hours 36 minutes. Average activity: 6.5 miles.
Lifting: none
Total: 27 activities, 36 hours 4 minutes, 27838 calories burned

I had the Monticelloman Olympic Tri on May 5, but aside from that I was able to devote the rest of the month to unimpeded training. I crushed my previous best cycling month (266 miles in April), as well as overall training duration (34 hours 50 minutes in February) and calories burned (26615 in July 2012).

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June
Swim: 5 activities, 10125 meters, 4 hours 20 minutes. Average activity: 2025 meters.
Bike: 11 activities, 285 miles, 17 hours 39 minutes. Average activity: 26 miles.
Run: 9 activities, 50 miles, 8 hours 29 minutes. Average activity: 5.6 miles.
Lifting: none
Total: 25 activities, 30 hours 28 minutes, 23859 calories burned

June had two notable events: the Jamestown Olympic Tri on June 8 and the Rev3 Half Ironman Tri on June 23. This meant every week was either a race week, taper week or recovery week. Despite that I still managed the second-highest biking month, and set a new PR for longest bike ride (70 miles).

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July
Swim: 7 activities, 19000 meters, 7 hours 23 minutes. Average activity: 2714 meters.
Bike: 9 activities, 408 miles, 28 hours 39 minutes. Average activity: 45 miles.
Run: 5 activities, 23 miles, 3 hours 49 minutes. Average activity: 4.6 miles.
Lifting: 6 activities, 6 hours 0 minutes
Total: 27 activities, 46 hours 1 minute, 26538 calories burned

July was a huge cycling month. I started off the month biking from Columbus to Cincinnati, 170 miles round-trip on bikes with 50 lbs of camping gear. I also had two long rides of 76 and 80 miles on my tri bike. My swimming is back up to where it needs to be, and I completed the Ironman distance of 3800 meters twice this month (in 1:18:13 and 1:22:10). My running has dropped off quite a bit while I focused on cycling/swimming, so I will need to start ramping it back up for the final three months of training. Not easy to do in the heat and humidity of summer!

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I've also focused on losing a bit of weight before Ironman Florida. My goal is to get down to 178 by race day, 15 lbs lighter than I was in May. Removing 15 lbs of weight would go a long way towards increasing my bike and run speed! Here's what my average weight has been over the last three months:

May: 193.33
June: 190.55
July: 187.55

The beautiful thing about training 12+ hours per week is that all I need to do to lose weight is change my eating habits from "eat until I'm in pain" to "eat until I'm full."

My goals for August are pretty simple: ramp up everything! More running, more cycling, more swimming. It has been tough waking up to swim before work lately, but I'm going to try to be better about that. August and September are the final critical months in my training, and it's time to buckle down. 

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