Last year I remember my first year of real training under the Mark Allen program and every morning I'd wake up stiff and slowly shuffle to the bathroom. I'd also find myself getting tired and burnt on the duration and frequency of the training. What a difference a year and an Ironman under your belt makes. I feel great when I wake up, no shuffle and no mental dragging. It actually feels much easier this year. I was looking at my schedule from last year and I'm currently doing 400 plus miles for February and last year I was just over 500 and I feel great and my running and swim times are much faster.
Today was an easy day, just a 50 minute run and although my blister looked bad it didn't bother me today. It is also the first week that I'm not being coached by Mark Allen Online, so I'm trying to use past experience to figure out my workouts. I was thinking on my run that it's got to be stepped up for 3 weeks then one week not so hard and I figured putting in the miles is most important. It will be interesting to see how I race this year. I also considering not doing the UK Ironman, but I'm still working on budget numbers and how much of the trip I can put on bonus points. John Barclay is now referring to me as "budget boy".
Tomorrow morning I'm heading to Orlando for a work conference until Saturday. I'm looking forward to doing my long run in warm weather.
Tempo Run - 50:00 / 6.41 miles / 7:47 pace (138 - 140 bpm - Max 144 bpm).
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First week without us! Well, hopefully you have some good experience and it will help out. Best of luck with the training,
Mark Allen
How did Mark Allen know, does he read your blog?
Also if you don't go to the UK you can join me at the 70.3 in Rhode Island
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