Wow. All I can say, is this was not a good introduction to bike racing. Sunday morning I woke up early and drove down to Silverton, Oregon for a 35-mile road race. It was overcas, a little drizzly, and in the 50s (typical oregon fair). First the cat 4/5 men went off, then the cat 1-There [...][...]
Archive for May, 2007
Track Running
I’m back from a 2 week break; I went for a run yesterday at the track. I haven’t run on a track in like 2 years, it was a bit strange. Nice and squishy. Overall I ran about a mile and a half in quarter/half-mile chunks. I felt really good, really strong, I think having [...][...]
Training Shift
The past few weeks have seen a dramatic shift in the way I train; I’m getting a bit looser with my schedule (adapting for rest breaks and so on), and I’m really focusing on shorter, more intense workouts. I’ve noticed a vast improvement on my swimming in both strength and form (fin[...]
A bit of everything
Swimming Strength So I’ve started focusing my swims more by buying some pool toys (pull buoy, fins, and paddles), and it really seems to be helping with my form, and with my strength. Using the paddles really feels like a strength training session! I also bought a book of swim workouts, which[...]
May 12th, 2007 - 2:55 pm § in Ride Reports, Workouts
Ride Report: Core central
In the wee hours of the morn on Friday I was up and in NE Portland taking a core conditioning class with the portland tri club. Truth be told, I abandoned all those russian twists I was doing long ago. So this was PAINFUL. We did a some basic ab stuff, but mostly we did [...][...]
Portland Tri Club TT
Wednesday night I participated in one of pdxtriclub’s time trials, put on at the Athelete’s Lounge in Hillsboro. There were about 16 people in the “race” which was essentially the exact bike course of the Hawthorne Farms tri. It was interesting to reride the course soley as a[...]
The return to training
After the race I let myself rest for a day (ok, I broke down and did an hour of power yoga, but yoga doesn’t really count, right?), and I tried to take it easy on Monday. And easy meaning a 40 minute morning swim, and a 20 mile ride after work. But I did try [...][...]
May 6th, 2007 - 7:07 pm § in Race Reports
RACE REPORT! – Hawthorne Farms Sprint Tri
The Results are in: Overall Place Name Race # Age Sex Overall Time Division Place 88 / 216 Kristin W 156 23 F 1:24:05 1 Swim Time Swim Place T1 time Bike Time Bike Place 0:10:35 149 2:49 0:42:52 68 T2 Overall Place after Bike Run Time Run Place City & State 2:33 143 0:25:16 93 Portla[...]
Trip to PT
Last Friday I went in to see my new PT about ye old knee; and guess what? Same prognosis as last time. Apparently my hips suck. When I run, my right hip isn’t strong enough to do it’s job, so it juts out, pulling my IT Band with it. So I have yet another set [...][...]
