The long road

So entering into my third season, still strapped for time and tired (that will never change) with a strong support system put into place things are still trucking along!

I'm not one to usually miss a workout but this week I missed a couple, I've been tired and worn out and having a rest week, or just a little less week is still ok in my books !

I also had my third infusion of remicade a drug I'm taking in place of humira, the one that didnt work last season. This drug is $8700.00 per infusion and luckily I have good health care that take care of it. This drug has completely taken away my psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, I still have some pain in my ankle but I'm sure that's from running.

I'm going to see how it feels Sunday and I might do my long run inside on the elliptical and my running next week on it as well, but ill check after my long ride tomorrow with some good stretching and a hot tub if it feels ok ill run outside.

I'm going to take my 2nd brick away and do a 40 km ride Thursday instead of a 30 km and 8 km brick for the rest of my training then ill through a hour Lon elliptical Friday morning with a swim Friday evening.

We have our second club ride tomorrow morning, and hope another huge turnout. 

We are already at record numbers this year and hope to break 100 members !! That would be great!!!!!!

Better get to sleep big ride tomorrow

Just remember its ok to miss a workout if your sick and tired !!! 

You will get stronger !

Thoughts about my full Ironman

So I've talked to lots of Ironman athletes, and yes I'm a tiny bit nervous, Ironman training is very demanding as is race day, but I'm thinking the whole year leading up to it might be the overwhelming part.

 I'm working on my training plan for next year and I'd like to have it completed, at least the outer shell by next month.

I'm going to use a 38 week plan for my full ironman training, I know some people use 20 some 13, but for me I'm going to use 36. Why 38 you ask? Well I'm having 2 weeks of easy work back into it training followed by 22 weeks of winter off season training, capped off with 12 weeks of competitive training, then 2 weeks of taper.

From my tiny bit of experience, listening to ironman friends and being coached for two years along with attending my coaches clinic for two days I know I can pull this one off. 

I'm using my Syracuse 70.3 Ironman race as my "A" race in June then train for my bike race in July, then follow it up with a fun Muskoka 70.3 Ironman with my sister-in-law. After that I'm taking two weeks off then hitting the gym for cardio and weight training with no running till November to save my joints.

Then we have weight loss !!! What the heck am I going to do about that? Food to me is like a drug, very hard to isolate the issue but I'm close! More organization and planning is required to have food available at the right times to avoid snacking on junk.

Have a great day !! More excitement to come 

Skip a work-out

Today I had to skip a workout because I'm just too tired ! I feel it's better to take a break than have a crappy workout !

I get real upset when I have a bad workout !

I also have some honking big blisters on my feet but that happens !!!

I have my remicade infusion tomorrow I hope it goes well, I usually feel crappy after that!

Off to bed have to train early tomorrow before the infusion !

Welcome back

I have decided to post again, why did I stop? I felt there was enough people on the planet blogging about there ironman journey, but I really lost touch with why I was doing it ..... for me ! myself --- it kept my motivation up and helped keep me on track. So here we go again the next break I will take is after my ironman in 2014. 

Things are progressing well for my Syracuse 70.3 Ironman in 6 weeks my body is holding up, I have all good equipment, all the support in the world, I belong to an amazing club and my arthritis is 88% under control.

My races this summer are the Syracuse 70.3 ironman, 100km granfondo Ottawa my wife myself and my friend Liz are going to volunteer at this summers full Ironman Mont Tremblant so we can sign up for next years events.

To finish up my summer I'm going to try Ironman muskoka 70.3 again just to try for a better time that 8:10 minutes, although its just a fun race I'd like to do well!

Our club is growing with leaps and bounds with new routes and swim locations things are looking up although its lots of work it's very rewarding up carry on such a great club!

You can bet I'm training hard

I don't have a good excuse for not posting lately but I'm planning on keeping things up to speed !

Good bye snow

Finally snow is gone ! 7 more days and the Oshawa contract is over ! By April 7 all the snow contracts will be over !
Had a great ride tonight, I was going to do 1.5 hours on the bike but with the lack of sleep this week I wanted to be careful.

I'm going to hopefully get back on track now with Syracuse only 13 short weeks away I have a lot of work to do ! I'm going to go real hard for a month with cardio in the morning and my triathlon training in the evening and my bricks are going to start in April.

My winter training has been spotty at best with all the snow and work it's been difficult ! Last weekend I finished my lifeguard training and now I'm a certified lifeguard ! A great edition to my already impressive turn around in life ! Yes I just patted myself on the back lol !

I don't know where to begin

I guess I'll begin by saying "wow what a ride"
I haven't posted in such a long time there is no way I can make that up ! The winter this far has been brutal for me, running the snow camps is a difficult job but with a good team it seems to work out fine, just many hours away from home and days without sleep!

Syracuse 70.3 is 13 and a bit weeks away which is in the back of my mind and although I'm not where is like to be I'm still in a good position to finish without having a complete meltdown on race day !

Once again team Drinkle has played an important role in keeping my big dreams rolling forward ! They have already spent lots of energy keeping me on track and I love them to the moon for that !

I've been away from my blog for so long because I did some google searches and found thousands of blogs about people doing the same thing, lots of great stories of people beating the odds and losing lots of weight and becoming ironman athletes and I felt like I was just another big guy trying to loose weight ! But my blog (as I found out) is like my training journal that I use to keep track of things and plan my life so I think it's imperative that I keep up on it !

I have a very intense race schedule this summer leading into a very important winter ! The beginning of my ironman training starts now ! This summer I'm registering for Ironman Mont Tremblant !
I'm very excited and eager to get this all set up !

Over the next few days I will try and update on my crazy life, it's been different!