Wednesday, April 24, 2013

April 24th - It's starting to seem real

When I opened up my email this morning this was in the first email that I saw, with the subject: Hi Justin, Welcome to the 2013 IRONMAN Lake Placid.

This is a portion of the bike course through the Adirondack Mountains, and I can't wait to be there riding that course.

Things went pretty well today, but I am noticing some soreness from my PT session yesterday.  Dr. Karyn worked me over pretty good I guess.  I was only able to get one training session in today, a walk in the morning with Hank.  We were out for an hour and covered 4.3 miles.  We were moving pretty quickly this morning.  I wasn't able to do anything during planning because of a scheduled meeting and this afternoon was a wash because of the Grade Repair Program I am leading at school for kids that are in danger of failing for the year.  It will be a busy couple of weeks as this program ramps up and track season winds down.  I will have to work to squeeze in my training workouts.  Things should loosen up in a couple of weeks and I still have 3 full months before the event.

Yesterday, Dr. Karyn gave me some new things to work on in the pool.  I will need to start treading water and doing some modified pool running, along with some side steps to utilize the resistance of the water.  I plan to swim tomorrow morning and figure out how to work that in to the limited amount of time I have to swim.  I will also try to work in a ride, even if it is just a short one after the track meet tomorrow.

I also did a combined core and upper body workout today:
Core 8x25
Push-ups 4x25
Pull-ups 4x18

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