Plan 7 greeted us this morning with seven (yes 7) sustained hill climbs that are 4:00 minute in duration each. As always, the first couple hills aren’t that bad. In fact they are kind of fun. I saw some pressing email come through on my phone so, fo...
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Received this text from Triathlon Coach Marci last night. For your run tomorrow I want you to go 7 miles. After you get warmed up then increase your speed to 8:20 min mile. At mile 4 Do 4 one min pushes with a 2 min recovery! Then go back to the 8:20 pa...
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My alarm rings at 5:45 and and I roll over realizing that I’m not in my own bed. I’m in California at the Loews Hotel in Coronado (just south of San Diego) My friend and coworker who is accompanying me on this business trip told me last night...
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Last night I got another wild hair. Coach Marci wanted me to bike and swim yesterday. Because of the CLOXchange conference and the running group was counting on me I decided to run and swim yesterday and save the biking for today. So, I decided to switch ...
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What an amazing month of training. Here is the summary so far: Swimming This has been the craziest adventure of all. It is what terrified me the most yet it is what I have made the most progress in. It is hard to believe that Coach Marci has me swimming l...
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Today was a Swim and Run day. It started with time in the endless pool at Elevate Fitness. Yesterday was such a great day for progress. Today, not so much. Coach Marci was there, as always, and like usual we started by just practicing swimming for several...
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4:30 a.m. the alarm goes of on my phone. I jump up, throw my clothes on and put my bike in the back of the suburban. I head down to Elevate Fitness on another snowy morning. I carry my bike across the parking lot so the tires won’t get wet. Everyo...
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Another night rolls beneath me as I lay in bed next to Nicole. My phone starts beeping at 4:40 a.m. I quickly grab it to prevent my beautiful wife from waking. Even though I only closed my eyes for 5+ hours I am ready and excited to see if I can duplicat...
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Recreation Outlet had a few people in it last night as I went looking for some inexpensive safety line. The employees were very helpful and I walked out with 100’ paracord for $5.99. Enough for three lengths of 33’ each. This is a safe length of rop...
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I woke up this morning to really cold weather and decided to wait until the sun warms Utah up a little before I stretch my legs. I took my clothes to the office and asked around who brought their clothes. Luckily Todd brought some. Stoker was supposed to...
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