I wanted to post my times from the sprint tri, so here they are:
Total time: 01:40:30.96
Swim time: 10:48
T1 time: 6:17
Bike time: 40:31
T2 time: 1:31
Run time: 41:24
Overall Place: 417 out of 479
Overall Percentile: 13
Gender Place: 290 out of 321
Gender Percentile: 10
Category Place: 7 out of 8
Category Percentile: 14
Series Points Earned: 81.44754
My training continues this week, with speed workouts in a track on Tuesday and some hills workouts in Vista View Park. The idea is to follow up tomorrow with about 30 minutes on the treadmill and the long run on Saturday. I will try to complement the running next week with some cross training in my bike.
Saludos,
IronFer
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Mi first post
My name is Fernando, and this is my first post ever on a blog, so I'm kind of lost right now. My plan is to write about my trainings, and as I undertake all my athletic objectives. I’m new to the world of marathons, halfs and ironman, so as I learn to manage this blog I will also be learning how to swim / bike / run / eat better as well.
I only started with all these "crazy" ideas to exercise after I found myself quitting smoking about a year ago (November 1st, 2009), when I felt that I would quickly be gaining weight -to compensate the loss of the cigarettes- so I knew I had to do something differently. That's when I started walking -first- and then following the couch to 5k program in facebook. Slowly, but diligently, I accumulated some running distance, started losing some pounds, and around the beginning of February –it took me one extra week to finish the program- I completed it, though I only run my first race early July. At the same time I was training for my first long bike event, the MS150 here is South Florida, where we would ride for 75 miles from Miami to Key Largo on Saturday, and return for another 75 miles on Sunday. My training bike consisted of a hybrid Schwyn –something in between a mountain bike and a road bike-, which worked for me during those months. For the race I actually rented a Giant Defy, and it made all the difference since it was so much easier to ride for long distances. Come April the even finally arrived. We started from the Homestead Speedway –I loved this!- and rode for about 8 hours –making almost all the stops in the event- and finally got to the finish line in Key Largo. Needless to say, after all those hours of pedaling I was dead tired. All I wanted to do was to have a hot shower, something to eat, and then sleep, hoping that tomorrow I would be able to do this all over again on the way back. Thankfully –at least I believed so at that time- rain started pouring down in the middle of the night –continuing throughout the next day- and the second leg of the event was cancelled.
I was so happy that I finished the race –at least the half that was run- that I got more serious about exercising, joined a local tri group, bought my first race bike –a Trek 1.2- and started running in a group with a coach. In July I run my first 5k –all running and no walking- in 35.17 minutes, registered for my first tri ever, a sprint triathlon in Key Biscayne, and started a 6-day a week cross training program –running, biking, swimming and some strength exercising-. I run a second 5k -in September-, this time with a friend, but I completely blew it the night before with a couple of beers, staying late that night –with few hours of sleep- and running / walking the next day doing 35.11 –just 6 seconds less than in the July heat-. The following week I participated in the sprint tri, swimming a respectable 10.40 minutes, biking for 40 minutes –not so good- and running –or rather mostly walking- the 5k in 41 minutes. I was very happy to finish the whole thing, but I knew I needed to shed some minutes on my next events.
A week later I started with my training, focused primarily on running –I registered for 2 more 5k, a 10k in November and a Disney’s half-marathon in January- and continued with my weight loss plan –I’m almost 40 pounds lighter than a year ago- in order to achieve my long term goal of 180. Now that the distances are becoming longer and I’m more serious about the whole training, I need to focus on my nutrition –balancing carbs, proteins and fats-, so I started following a couple of tri podcasts.
That’s all for now. I promise I will get better in my writing, making these blogs more interesting, and sharing with you my training experience.
Here are a couple of pictures, one showing me reaching the finish line at the sprint, and the other my son, running cross country at his school -and being very good at it-.
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I only started with all these "crazy" ideas to exercise after I found myself quitting smoking about a year ago (November 1st, 2009), when I felt that I would quickly be gaining weight -to compensate the loss of the cigarettes- so I knew I had to do something differently. That's when I started walking -first- and then following the couch to 5k program in facebook. Slowly, but diligently, I accumulated some running distance, started losing some pounds, and around the beginning of February –it took me one extra week to finish the program- I completed it, though I only run my first race early July. At the same time I was training for my first long bike event, the MS150 here is South Florida, where we would ride for 75 miles from Miami to Key Largo on Saturday, and return for another 75 miles on Sunday. My training bike consisted of a hybrid Schwyn –something in between a mountain bike and a road bike-, which worked for me during those months. For the race I actually rented a Giant Defy, and it made all the difference since it was so much easier to ride for long distances. Come April the even finally arrived. We started from the Homestead Speedway –I loved this!- and rode for about 8 hours –making almost all the stops in the event- and finally got to the finish line in Key Largo. Needless to say, after all those hours of pedaling I was dead tired. All I wanted to do was to have a hot shower, something to eat, and then sleep, hoping that tomorrow I would be able to do this all over again on the way back. Thankfully –at least I believed so at that time- rain started pouring down in the middle of the night –continuing throughout the next day- and the second leg of the event was cancelled.
I was so happy that I finished the race –at least the half that was run- that I got more serious about exercising, joined a local tri group, bought my first race bike –a Trek 1.2- and started running in a group with a coach. In July I run my first 5k –all running and no walking- in 35.17 minutes, registered for my first tri ever, a sprint triathlon in Key Biscayne, and started a 6-day a week cross training program –running, biking, swimming and some strength exercising-. I run a second 5k -in September-, this time with a friend, but I completely blew it the night before with a couple of beers, staying late that night –with few hours of sleep- and running / walking the next day doing 35.11 –just 6 seconds less than in the July heat-. The following week I participated in the sprint tri, swimming a respectable 10.40 minutes, biking for 40 minutes –not so good- and running –or rather mostly walking- the 5k in 41 minutes. I was very happy to finish the whole thing, but I knew I needed to shed some minutes on my next events.
A week later I started with my training, focused primarily on running –I registered for 2 more 5k, a 10k in November and a Disney’s half-marathon in January- and continued with my weight loss plan –I’m almost 40 pounds lighter than a year ago- in order to achieve my long term goal of 180. Now that the distances are becoming longer and I’m more serious about the whole training, I need to focus on my nutrition –balancing carbs, proteins and fats-, so I started following a couple of tri podcasts.
That’s all for now. I promise I will get better in my writing, making these blogs more interesting, and sharing with you my training experience.
Here are a couple of pictures, one showing me reaching the finish line at the sprint, and the other my son, running cross country at his school -and being very good at it-.
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