Triathlon training

After many months of preparation the day has come and I did my first Ironman race. It took 11 hours and 16 minutes to cross the finish line…

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I’ve covered my general goals for 2015 already, so here is time for triathlon specific info. And yes, one of the goals is to beat the time…

If you have seen this blog before then you are probably familiar with my list. While it is still a big source of motivation / progress…

I’ve kept myself busy. My racing goal for this year was to run marathon in preparation for Ironman New Zealand in March 2015. I run two…

After weeks of preparation and anticipation, the day has come to wake up at 4 am with big grin on my face. Not every day one can enter…

I’ve been keeping myself quite busy over the last few weeks. First of all I’m back on training after I recovered from North Shore Marathon…

Few weeks ago, after months of preparation I’ve finished my first marathon distance race. My plan was to get to the finish line in 3:45. It…

I’ve never felt more fit in my life. Yes, there is still some weight to be dropped and I definitely want to go faster, but last couple of heavy weeks start to pay off. After the whole house move thingy I’m back on the track, hitting 10 hours per week mark with no problems. My performance chart never looked better ;)

Over the last couple of months I’ve been focusing on getting into habit of increased training duration and distance. I’ve build program that is going to carry me through marathons and Taupo Challenge in few months. I wouldn’t be me if I did not collect data from that period. Below you can find few charts documenting progress together with some info about Training Peaks software. Post from http://50bpm.com

2014 is my second year of regular running. Recently I checked some summary data (me being geek and stats freak) and it turned out I ran about 1000 km so far. Not too much, but from zero to that in a year — I’m happy with that. Now, when I have set goals for this year, there is time to focus on running much more. So — how to get most of my training plan? By having smart goals and proper training PLAN ☺.

After finishing 70.3 Auckland (and sucking at it!) I knew that it’s time to step up and tackle that 3 headed beast they call Ironman. In the begining I was thinking of doing one in the end of 2014, but in the end I decided to wait till March 2015 and go with Ironman New Zealand. This is how I’m going to prepare for it.

I’m sure many of you heard about the 10,000 hour rule at some point. In short, it states that in becoming a world-class in something requires 10,000 hours of practice. There are many articles disputing that claim, but for the sake of this entry, I will assume that the 10,000 hours rule is correct. Where does it put me then?

Ironman 70.3 Auckland race report.

What can you do to stay focused?