1. January iron distance 140.6 challenge

    December 26, 2012



    imageMy workouts lately have been a mish-mash and disorganized.  I’ve been just focusing on the holidays and some other things.

    I’d like to get back on track with my schedule and diet in January, so I’m challenging myself to an Iron Distance challenge.  

    My main goal is to get back into a consistent schedule.

    Over the course of the month, I’ll do the equivalent of a full Ironman distance triathlon.  It’s actually quite achievable for people of all abilities.

    The total distances are 2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles biking, 26.2 miles running.

    If you break that up over 4 weeks that’s:  

    • 1050 yards swimming 
    • 28 miles biking
    • 6.5 miles running each week.  

    Depending on your speeds, you can swim that in 1/2 30-minute sessions, 2 1-hour biking sessions and 2 40-60 minute run/walk sessions.  

    If you walk/run and are a beginner swimmer, that’s around 4-5 hours per week max! Probably less.

    Anybody want to join me for accountability?  It will be fun and a great way to start off the new year.

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    Updated:

    Join this group here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/386219808138100/

    We have a few experienced triathletes so if you have any questions there are a lot of people here to help you out.  I want to see everyone succeed. 

    If you positively, absolutely can’t swim, we can add the 2.4 miles to the run portion and turn it into a duathlon for you.  

  2. Carnitine research paper done!

    October 25, 2012



    Just finished up my research paper about carnitine supplementation for endurance athletes.  I have about 20-25 hours of work into it.  Glad to get it done, but now have to start working on my in-class presentation on muscle recovery & aging due mid-November.

    If I get an A, I’ll share it here.  Really interesting information!

  3.  High Res

  4. How not to kill a cyclist

  5. 4:30 am: time for coffee, oatmeal, and a trainer ride #cycling #triathlon (Taken with instagram)
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    4:30 am: time for coffee, oatmeal, and a trainer ride #cycling #triathlon (Taken with instagram)

  6. Faster hill climbing on the bike

  7. The Dirty Dozen is a bike race in Pittsburgh where you race up the 13 steepest hills in the city. One of them is Canton Ave with a grade of 37%, unofficially the steepest hill in the world. Try to hang in there through the artsy, waste-of-time shots at the beginning of the video. 

    Here’s a news article about last weekend’s race:
    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11331/1192933-53-0.stm