I did my 3 month medical stuff at the end of April. The numbers were not great but also not terrible or unexpected, more wait and see. I received a 3 month Lupron shot and an IV of Zometa.
Since returning my main focus of my free time has been spent on the preparation for an attempt at the Lake Placid Ironman triathlon. I have held off on any updates until I made some significant progress in upping my distances. Over the past two weeks I have ramped up some of my training distances. It is now beginning to look to me like I have a shot at getting to the starting line on July 24th 2011. In addition to the shorter workouts I have been able to up my long workouts as follows: swimming 3+ miles (approx 1.5 hours), biking 100 miles (approx 6 hours) and yesterday I did my longest run of almost 10 miles (approx 1 hour 20 mins). On Friday I was able to put together a 100 mile bike ride followed by a 20 min transition run (this run is designed to get your legs to transition from pedaling to running) which for me is quite a milestone. Still a long way to go to get to the starting line but this is certainly encouraging. My goal for the race is to complete the swim in 1.5 hours the bike in 7 hours and then combine run /walk for the marathon and beat the cut off time of 17 hours.
The effects of the medications make the training difficult and is really has become a mind over body struggle for me. It is difficult to keep up the mental energy necessary to force my body to complete these distances, but I am encouraged by this weekend's workload. It will be one day at a time until July 24th.
Since returning my main focus of my free time has been spent on the preparation for an attempt at the Lake Placid Ironman triathlon. I have held off on any updates until I made some significant progress in upping my distances. Over the past two weeks I have ramped up some of my training distances. It is now beginning to look to me like I have a shot at getting to the starting line on July 24th 2011. In addition to the shorter workouts I have been able to up my long workouts as follows: swimming 3+ miles (approx 1.5 hours), biking 100 miles (approx 6 hours) and yesterday I did my longest run of almost 10 miles (approx 1 hour 20 mins). On Friday I was able to put together a 100 mile bike ride followed by a 20 min transition run (this run is designed to get your legs to transition from pedaling to running) which for me is quite a milestone. Still a long way to go to get to the starting line but this is certainly encouraging. My goal for the race is to complete the swim in 1.5 hours the bike in 7 hours and then combine run /walk for the marathon and beat the cut off time of 17 hours.
The effects of the medications make the training difficult and is really has become a mind over body struggle for me. It is difficult to keep up the mental energy necessary to force my body to complete these distances, but I am encouraged by this weekend's workload. It will be one day at a time until July 24th.
Special thanks to Marc, Hope and Tracy for keeping my muscle and joints moving and flexible.
I head out to Montauk for the Montauk Triathlon on June 11 and then up to Lake Placid to train on the course.
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