Well as I mentioned in my previous post I was looking forward to a rest week. I took Monday off and Tuesday off to rest and shake the feeling of a chest cold. Today I had a nice session of 10 minute w/u; then 5x5 minutes at Lactate Threshold then with a 2:30 recovery between sets followed by a long cool down after the 5x5's. Since I worked up in Ames this afternoon I was late getting home, and spent a bit with the boys before they were off to bed. As a result I went to the club to get the session in. With two days of recovery on the legs I felt great during the w/u with my heart rate barely scraping the 106-110 range. As I got closer to the first set I kicked up the pace and felt pretty good. I finally finished the first set of 5 minutes at a pace of 7:29/mile-which for me is awesome. Did this four more times and felt great! Rest is a good thing...Average HR 131 max(this is skewed a little as my hr dropped quickly during the 2:30 recovery) Max HR 163(never to painful which is new for me at this HR) 700+ calories(per HRm).
I am pretty certain in a previous post I mentioned that I would be heading down to Columbia to do the Sprint Tri in Columbia, Mo. called Race for Sight(http://ultramaxtri.com/races/rfs/race_info.php) on May 6th. I am lucky enough to be heading down there with a couple of Tri-buddies Reed Rinderknect and Jason Halfpap(some of you may recoginze Jason's name as his family provided us with our housing in Tempe for IronMan Arizona). These are two absolute studs athletes and all around great guys, I really look forward to heading down with them and racing in Columbia. Today we were working on coordinating our travel plans and I get an email from Jason that asks if it is ok if we get a room with one king-size bed with the caveat to protect our athletic manliness by stipulating that we could build "man walls". Hmmm...Jason is in Managment with Wells Fargo and clearly successful, Reed is a partner in a highly successful wealth managment firm, and I am doing ok professionally as well-and the best the three of us can do is a kind size bed that we freakin' share?! I replied that I suppose that was "ok" but I wouldn't object to broadening the scope of our search to include a room with two beds and a rollaway. Reed questioned my committment to the "tri" lifestyle, and Jason encouraged me to be more "sporting". But the absolutley priceless part was Carmen laughing regularly this eve, and muttering under her breath "good grief man walls who builds man walls, what are man walls, are you kidding me, man walls, man walls..." This should be a great weekend,it sounds like my Dad is coming up from Lake of The Ozarks to cheer me-which is cool as he hasn't seen me race in nearly two seasons. It will be fun to have Dad there, I always enjoy having family at races.
On a much sadder note, I have been overwhelmed with the horror at Virginia Tech. For whatever Carmen and I have been fixed on this story, and has lead us into deep conversations about parenting, our children, and what we would do if... We are sad and grieve for/with the parents that have lost their children. This includes the pain, grief, and shame that the shooters family is weighed down with. We are also probably odd in our sense of pain for a human(Cho) to be so ill mentally that he is lead to such darkness, pain, and silence that the outcome of his life is mass murder. We pray for the families, the victims, and Cho-and those that missed the signs.
Well my post workout high is fading into sleepiness, and it is after midnight so enjoy the rest of the week and be safe.
Jeff
I am pretty certain in a previous post I mentioned that I would be heading down to Columbia to do the Sprint Tri in Columbia, Mo. called Race for Sight(http://ultramaxtri.com/races/rfs/race_info.php) on May 6th. I am lucky enough to be heading down there with a couple of Tri-buddies Reed Rinderknect and Jason Halfpap(some of you may recoginze Jason's name as his family provided us with our housing in Tempe for IronMan Arizona). These are two absolute studs athletes and all around great guys, I really look forward to heading down with them and racing in Columbia. Today we were working on coordinating our travel plans and I get an email from Jason that asks if it is ok if we get a room with one king-size bed with the caveat to protect our athletic manliness by stipulating that we could build "man walls". Hmmm...Jason is in Managment with Wells Fargo and clearly successful, Reed is a partner in a highly successful wealth managment firm, and I am doing ok professionally as well-and the best the three of us can do is a kind size bed that we freakin' share?! I replied that I suppose that was "ok" but I wouldn't object to broadening the scope of our search to include a room with two beds and a rollaway. Reed questioned my committment to the "tri" lifestyle, and Jason encouraged me to be more "sporting". But the absolutley priceless part was Carmen laughing regularly this eve, and muttering under her breath "good grief man walls who builds man walls, what are man walls, are you kidding me, man walls, man walls..." This should be a great weekend,it sounds like my Dad is coming up from Lake of The Ozarks to cheer me-which is cool as he hasn't seen me race in nearly two seasons. It will be fun to have Dad there, I always enjoy having family at races.
On a much sadder note, I have been overwhelmed with the horror at Virginia Tech. For whatever Carmen and I have been fixed on this story, and has lead us into deep conversations about parenting, our children, and what we would do if... We are sad and grieve for/with the parents that have lost their children. This includes the pain, grief, and shame that the shooters family is weighed down with. We are also probably odd in our sense of pain for a human(Cho) to be so ill mentally that he is lead to such darkness, pain, and silence that the outcome of his life is mass murder. We pray for the families, the victims, and Cho-and those that missed the signs.
Well my post workout high is fading into sleepiness, and it is after midnight so enjoy the rest of the week and be safe.
Jeff
