Ironman Lake Placid Photos

Yesterday kicked off 16 weeks to IM Arizona

Yesterday we started back on the training plan for IM Arizona with an easy 2 hour ride...we thought. We took a new route which you can see below and ended up having to really work. It took us two and a half hours to finish.



Today we meet at 4:15am at gym for our Monday morning swim and 40 minutes of abs and lifting. I think I already pulled a glut on the squat machine.

8/1/08 - We signed up for SOMA!!! - Chris

What's SOMA? Well this is our warm up race for IM Arizona. The race in a 1/2 IM distance race in Tempe one month before IM Arizona. The swim is 1.2 miles in the same lake, the ride is 56 miles on the opposite side of the lake but with a similar profile and the run is 13.1 miles that are close to the IM course.

This will give us a chance to gauge where we are in the training. I am hoping I can put together a sub 6 hour race.

7/31/08 Update from Chris

Once again my alarm went off at 5am this morning and I couldn't bring myself to jump out of bed. I laid there thinking that I can't believe it has been over a week and I am still so tried. I am wondering how I will get back into the routine of 3:30am wakeups in just four days.

I eventually rolled out at 5:30am and went down stairs for 3 sets of 12 pushups...still struggling with my strength and 125 reps of crunches and leg raises. After that I headed down to the community pool for my first swim since the race. I immediately noticed how tired I was with just a 500 yard warm up. I knocked out another 500 yard set and then ten 50 yard sprints...if I can call them sprints. So 1500 yards was it for the day, I was toast.

Here is a chart of my calories burned so far this week:

7/30/08 Update from Chris

I am definitely not recovered from the race yet. With 8 hours of sleep last night I still struggled to get out of bed this morning. I did make it up at 5:30am and went out for a 50 minute run around the neighborhood that actually ended up being a 65 minute run. I also did 150 reps of different core exercises.

Another goal for the next 16 weeks is to get in a core workout four times a week and at least two 30 minute sessions of lifting.

7/29/08 Update from Chris

I was up at 5:45am this morning for a bike ride on the trainer. This was my first ride since the race and it lasted for 45 minutes before I couldn’t take it anymore. Mentally I just couldn’t handle being on the trainer any longer.

I weighed in this morning at 204lbs. So only 19lbs to go!!!

Here is my food summary from the day:

Meal	Calories	Fat	Carbs	Protein
Breakfast	376	6.4g	64.2g	29.4g
Snack #1	400	9.0g	38.0g	43.0g
Lunch	349	4.6g	42.7g	35.6g
Snack #2	385	9.0g	46.0g	32.5g
Dinner	523	16.6g	51.9g	48.0g
Total Percentage of Calories 1	2033	45.6g 19%	242.8g 45%	188.5g 35%

7/28/08 Update from Chris

We made it back from IM Lake Placid last night. My mom, Christina and I spent the week after the race in Vermont visiting family and friends. I spent the week doing a lot of stretching as well as some light weight lifting, sit-ups and pushups. On Saturday I went for my first run. I returned our rental car and then ran back to the house. It was a hard 3.5 miles but my Achilles felt good.

We had a really long day of travel yesterday. We boarded a plane in Vermont for a 6am flight that didn't end up leaving until about 7:45am. This caused us to miss our next flight out of New York. So we had lunch and boarded our next flight at noon which was supposed to arrive in California at 2:50pm. As we taxied out to the runway a thunderstorm rolled in which stopped all out going flights. We sat in the plane on the runway for over five hours. The flight finally took off around 5:30pm. We landed in Long beach around 8pm and made it home around 10pm.

This morning I woke up at 6am still very tired from yesterdays travel, but wanted to get a small workout in. So I did some stretching and spent 30 minutes doing sit-ups and pushups.

I now have my sights set on Ironman Arizona which takes place in Tempe the weekend before Thanksgiving. I have an ambushes goal of breaking 12 hours this time. I went into Lake Placid much heavy than I hoped. I really struggled with my diet this time around. I just couldn't eat enough food. So I ended up on race day at 205 lbs. I have 16 weeks until Arizona to reach my goal weigh of 185lbs.