Monthly Archives: November 2011

Ironman Florida Race Report 2011: Part 3: the run

…if you haven’t read the first 2 posts in this series you may want to start there…click on the links below, or just scroll down this Home page: Part 1: Swim now seemed long ago https://irondaughterirondad.com/ironman-florida-race-report-2011-part-1-the-swim/ Part 2: Solid bike … Continue reading

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Ironman Florida Race Report 2011: Part 2: the bike

Always sooo happy to be out of the water and on the bike 🙂 If you haven’t read the swim details, you may want to start there: https://irondaughterirondad.com/ironman-florida-race-report-2011-part-1-the-swim/ Rolling out of transition, I was in good shape…the swim went well…the transition … Continue reading

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Ironman Florida Race Report 2011: Part 1: the swim

I had a great race 🙂 12:33:54…new PR by 24 minutes, at age 57, in my 5th Ironman…what’s not to like 🙂 https://irondaughterirondad.com/ironman-5-123354-new-pr-by-24-minutes/ I’m going to break out my race report into a number of sections to keep them into palatable reading … Continue reading

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Happy 1st Anniversary for irondaughterirondad.com :)

On November 10, 2010, I added our first post to this blog: https://irondaughterirondad.com/hello-world/ …and with my 5th Ironman completed, I find myself circling back to those posts last November, as I adjusted my focus away from training, and onto the relentless … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday IronDaughter!

Today is IronDaughter’s birthday 🙂 Happy Birthday Sweetie! Love you tons, Proud Pops

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Training and recovery after Ironman

Soooo…what to do now 🙂 The Endurance Nation folks have a good summary that represents much of what I’ve read http://www.trifuel.com/training/triathlon-training/your-ironman-is-over-what-about-life-as-you-know-it I’ll be shifting to a BIG focus on nutrition and calories, since my exercise calorie burn will be gone for … Continue reading

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Ironman #5: 12:33:54…new PR by 24 minutes :)

Ironman #5 is in the books…12:33:54 🙂 New PR (Personal Record), improving on my 12:57:44 from 3 years ago. …my race execution was tight, the numbers turned out in my goal range in each of the ‘disciplines’…nice I’ll write a … Continue reading

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Race day morning!

It’s 4am…first thing that we both did on getting up was go out to the balcony to look at the surf…still too dark to see anything…except the gentle swells onto the beach…they always _sound_ loud 🙂 …I’m still hopeful that … Continue reading

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Track Your Athlete(s) …final pre-race notes

For anyone interested in tracking our progress online during the race tomorrow, you can visit IronmanLive at http://ironmanlive.com/updates.php?type=U&race=florida&year=2011. There’s a search bar on the top right that allows you to enter a race bib number, or a last name. Other tracking options: … Continue reading

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Last training workout…done…Ironman next!

It’s fitting that my last training workout would be a sunrise swim with IronDaughter at 7am this morning 🙂 So that’s it…the training completed…all in…done Next up is Ironman on Saturday morning 🙂 The weather still looks great at this … Continue reading

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Ironman!

After a few quiet and relaxed days here in Panama City Beach – it’s now starting to feel a lot more like Ironman! A few more specks out there in the Gulf polishing off their strokes.. Spandex out on the roads … Continue reading

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Ironman Florida forecast links

Right now, conditions for race day look great…here are a few links for easy reference over the next few days …I’ll update them to more detail as it becomes available…still a few days out of course…so _could_ change as we get … Continue reading

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time going fast

Well here it is Tuesday already, time rolling by quickly, as the schedule is going to start to get busy tomorrow (Wednesday) with registration, Iron Daughter picking up her bike that was transported down, a 45 min bike / 20 … Continue reading

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