18 weeks and counting!

18 weeks and counting! This is more real than unreal! Most marathon training plans are 16-18 weeks long. So now the countdown has truly started.  Last week was a monumental milestone week for me. Where do I even start?

Monday: Swim 4 x 500. Done.

Tuesday: 6 miles Heart Rate Slow Run. Getting inpatient with these heart rate runs since they are so slow.  Strength Training in the evening with Kristi. Done. I am loving Strength Training and Kristi is BA.

Wednesday: 1000 yards steady, then 3x400 [150 easy, 150 moderate, 100 hard], then 300 w/d: Done. OK The 50 fast almost made me throw up and gag. I really pushed myself, but I am realizing that my 150 moderate are not as slow as I thought.

Thursday: Happy Birthday to me!!!! 6 miles slow heart rate run after work with the FW gang.

Friday: Rest Day.

Saturday: REST DAY: A second rest day b/c guess what? I got engaged last night!!!

So I figured I'd walk around Key West with my new fiance and enjoy being a newly engaged fiance!

Sunday: 100 mile bike ride! Monumental milestone! New PR distance. Amazingly, I felt great until mile 80. Then everything was numb, sore and in pain. Chris moved my seat and his small adjustment made my ride so much better. Buy by mile 80 everything was hurting. Kristi told me that the IM race starts at around mile 80-85. I was very sore and couldn't imagine being out there for another 6-7 hours riding and running if it were race day. Thank Goodness for 17 more training weekends! My peanut butter sandwich was delicious and the ride, pace, and group was fantastic!

All in all, a great week! First 100 miler on the bike. I turned 35, but most of all, I got engaged to the most amazing man out there and whom I met via running in the first place!!!!!

First post!

I am not sure I know how to do to this. I want to create a blog or a place where I can write down my thoughts and my progress towards my training.

You see, 2 months ago I had this crazy idea of signing up for a full Ironman. So I took the plunge and signed up for Ironman Cozumel which will take place on November 25th, 2012. www.ironmancozumel.com

I am also going to do my first 70.3 race this year. I have two in mind: 70.3 Haines City in May http://www.ironmanhainescity.com/ on May 20th where I plan to work on nutrition, the distance, the heat, etc. I also want to do http://ironmanaugusta.com/ on September 30th, 2012 as my last race before Im Cozumel.

So this blog will have a lot of my thoughts, training questions, nutrition issues, and just random ideas that come to my mind.

I have officially started my training as of February 6th with my awesome coach Frank.
So this should be week 3 of training, right?

Week of February 6th:  I went to Panama for the long weekend, saw the 70.3 race there and was very close to all the pros including Chris Lieto, Lance Armstrong, Angela Neal, etc. Seeing all the pros is giving me my mojo back to start training and to sign up for a race this Spring/early summer!

Double workout

So this morning I did a 50 min spin class with ironman veteran Steve. The new gym looks awesome!! Tough class today. The floor was soaked with my sweat. Swimming 2100 m tonight after work...