1:29:15 Half Marathon!!!

10th week in: 117 hours and 886 miles of training. This week was a taper week (only 7 workouts) into the Tom King Half Marathon where I ran a PR of 1:29:15 (6:49 pace). FINALLY, I broke 1:30… and not to mention in the middle of Ironman Training. Only 24 weeks left (21 weeks of training and 3 week taper).

Swim: Again, not much to mention this week. Only one 1,000 meter swim. Hopefully I can make myself get back into it soon. I did order an Xtera speedsuit for the Ironman Swim though… I’ll post some pics when it come in.

Bike: Laid off the bike workouts this week since last weekend was training camp and my legs were still heavy. I wanted to be fresh for the Tom King Half. We did end up riding 32 miles in the rain though on Sunday. Checkout how nasty the back of my jacket got.

Run: Tuesday speedwork, Thursday easy, and Saturday RACE. Gotta say it again… 1:29:15!!!! Never thought I could do that. The 5 weeks of speedwork really helped out. Let’s hope the next 24 weeks will really payoff for Ironman.

Lift: This was the last week regular base building lifting. We only lifted two days on account of my race, but going forward, it will be maintenance once per week as my weekend training is going to get long. Feel really good about the base we’ve built and I’m going to miss the gym.

Race season is definitely on now and I’ll be racing (or riding centuries) all but one weekend between this past one and the middle of May. A lot of them are simply key hard workouts with only a couple true all out race efforts (Tom King included), but still it’s going to be busy.