I won!

..the lottery. It seems that I have won one of the lottery slots for Ironman Hawaii 2006.

Doh!

Now the question is what to do about the fact that I'm already registered for Ironman Wisconsin just 5 weeks earlier.

This news came as a bit of a shock to me, as I'd actually forgotten I entered last fall. This really throws a wrench in my plans for the season. Oh well, there are far worse things than finding out you get to go to Hawaii. :) WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Mmmmmm, Power!

Time for the obligatory 2 week post. ( That's supposed to be a joke about how much I neglect my blog... )

Been pretty busy with work and training. That's pretty much been my M.O. Though I do have a social life outside of those too. Blog comes last.

Training with power data is interesting. I can really see now what I'm doing when I blast up a hill and then am a soggy noodle at the top. Well duh, I just pushed 450 watts to climb it! Better to back off, climb at 300 watts, and have something left at the top. Huge impact on the ability to pace effort. I can definitely see why so many people swear by it. Here's a fun little example of one of my rides this week:










Fun stuff. :)

In other news, my first race ( triathlon ) for 2006 is coming up April 30th! Only 2 weeks to go! I'm so excited for this race. I'm training to peak for it, so I'm hoping that correlates to a kick ass race. Based on what I'm doing in training at the moment, I should be able to blow away last years race. However it plays out, it's going to kick ass.

Involuntary Napping

March is in the books. Another big month. I'm wondering what's in store for me as I actually get closer to IMWI. My running is coming along at an amazing rate. It seems that the adage of "run lots" has some truth to it. Here's the tally for March:

• Bike: 14h 51m - 90 Mi
• Run: 15h 5m - 98.54 Mi
• Swim: 8h 39m - 24839.52 M
  

Not too shabby considering the first week of March I spent skiing in Colorado. I don't count bike trainer mileage, so that's why that looks low. Here's the year to date for me:

• Bike: 33h 53m - 166.19 Mi
• Run: 44h 33m - 289.03 Mi
• Swim: 25h 59m - 73600.84 M

Now it's making sense why my running is going so well. I'm on track to break 1,000 miles of running in 2006 at this rate! Oi!

All that training has had the effect of bringing on involuntary napping. After some really fun training sessions this weekend, I could not bring myself to stay awake. My body just shut down. I barely made it into bed before I was out. A few hours or so later, woke up feeling much better. And I still got to bed on time and hit 8 hours a night.