To most anyone with any type of experience in the pool (including my 12 year old son Isaac) today’s Victory will seem simplistic and mundane but, for me – TODAY ROCKED! Today was another swim day in my triathlon training. Last night I had told Iss...
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The holidays are known for Caroling, Family, Lights, Christmas Cheer, and FOOD. Delicious food that is so easy to have seconds. But if you are training for anything then you cannot let yourself add an extra 3 pounds to your waist every time you get togeth...
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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 amazing. We are back in the endless pool at Elevate doing some drills. Marci has me focusing on all different functions of the stroke. Marci dials in the current between 600-800. I’m feeling stronger than ever and more importantly I’...
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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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I’m learning that I definitely have the strength for biking but need the endurance. Pit me against anyone and I will keep up or beat them the first five minutes of any workout but by the end I am wearing down at a faster pace. Today was a great wor...
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Today was a swim and Gym day. It was awesome. Coach Marci had me doing some really fun drills in the endless pool and then Coach Shelby had me work on core with some other fun drills especially the Sledge Hammer (See Picture above) The best part about tod...
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Plan7 was really fun today because instead of just riding the same as always I spent a little time pushing my limits. My original FTP is 178. Today I decided that needed to be a little higher so I pushed the “+” button on my control pad while ...
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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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