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- Happy 1st Anniversary for irondaughterirondad.com :)
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- Training and recovery after Ironman
- Ironman #5: 12:33:54…new PR by 24 minutes :)
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- Track Your Athlete(s) …final pre-race notes
- Last training workout…done…Ironman next!
- It’s beginning to look a lot like Ironman!
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- Post Ironman: getting fat and rusty on 15th December'11
- Dad's workout metrics on 7th December'11
- Ironman Florida Race Report 2011: Part 3: the run on 27th November'11
- Ironman Florida Race Report 2011: Part 2: the bike on 26th November'11
- Ironman Florida Race Report 2011: Part 1: the swim on 26th November'11
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Tag Archives: ironman blog
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
Off-season: Long and slow, or Short and fast?
For the off-season Long and Slow seems to be fading out…Short and Fast seems to be fading in. Used to be that all you read about was that the off season was for recovery and building a base with long and slow … Continue reading
Body fat percentage
So what is my body fat percentage inquiring minds would like to know?…including myself…well sort of…the idea that the tests are all inaccurate…just to what degree…doesn’t really excite me very much, so I haven’t bothered. I also have the opposite problem of … Continue reading
Posted in Dad's Blog Posts, Exercise, Nutrition
Tagged body fat calculations, DEXA, DXA, ironman blog, skin fold caliper test
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How fast to go to Hawaii / Dad’s 12 Hour Goal
So how fast do you need to be, to be one of the fastest Ironman triathlete’s in the world…that is to say, good enough to qualify for the World Championships in Hawaii? Well, in my age category this year at … Continue reading
Endurance Nation says: OutSeason Key #3 Stop Swimming
I was reading a series put out by Endurance Nation, called Rethinking the Off Season…they call it the OutSeason…click on the Free Resources link to sign up for the free seminar series…a worthy read The first thing that caught my … Continue reading
Posted in Achieving Goals, Dad's Blog Posts, Ironman, Swimming, Training
Tagged drills, ironman, ironman blog, offseason swim training, Swimming
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Thanksgiving Day…things for me to remember today
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m sure that Lib, Libby and the rest of the family are very happy to hear that I’m not going to bring my food scale to Thanksgiving Day dinner today, to weigh my food portions, and offer help … Continue reading
What’s with gramma?
Iron Buddy Anne Boone sends this along today. Anne races Ironman in the 60-64 age category 🙂 Funny cartoon, so I won’t spoil it by commenting on the dramatic rise in childhood obesity…dang…couldn’t help myself…okay, here it is…the CDC (Centers … Continue reading
Posted in Achieving Goals, Dad's Blog Posts, Exercise, Nutrition
Tagged child obesity, ironman blog, Louie's Kids
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Losing fat not muscle
When restricting calories to lose a few pounds, much is made of losing ‘fat’ and not ‘muscle’. Of course, the general idea is to lose excess fat that isn’t contributing anything to swimming, biking and runnning…and in fact gets in the … Continue reading
Posted in Dad's Blog Posts, Nutrition, Racing
Tagged caloric intake timing, ironman blog, ironman nutrition, Nutrition
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Fat burning by ‘fasting’ during exercise
Much has been made of importance of carbohydrates immediately before and during exercise, particularly when it goes over 1 hour in length. Our page https://irondaughterirondad.com/nutrition/carbs-protein-fat/ summarizes a few of the expert opinions on this. A ‘new study’ seems to contradict … Continue reading
Posted in Dad's Blog Posts, Nutrition, Training
Tagged exercise and diet, ironman blog, Nutrition, when to eat during the day
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Lose weight / race faster
If you’re already very lean…good for you…this post doesn’t apply to you 🙂 I’m not…never have been ‘lean’…well, maybe in high school, getting down for a wrestling weight category…I remember it as being the 185 pound category, and in the … Continue reading
Posted in Dad's Blog Posts, Ironman, Racing
Tagged bike faster, Exercise, ironman blog, lose weight, run faster
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Balancing calories without exercise
I _need_ those exercise calories each day to keep from going crazy trying to get the numbers to come out right and enjoy what I eat each day. I begin the day with a fruit smoothie to begin carbohydrate centric: … Continue reading
Posted in Dad's Blog Posts, Exercise, Nutrition, Recovery
Tagged caloric intake timing, ironman blog, ironman nutrition
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First run after Ironman
Glad that I waited until a couple of days ago to get that first run in after the Ironman. Could almost ‘feel’ recently repaired running muscles being called upon for the first time in a while…I think that they were glad for … Continue reading
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Tagged ironman blog, ironman recovery
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Laura Scott, You Are an Ironman!
At the finish line of every Ironman, an enthusiastic announcer, calls out each finisher by name, and loudly proclaims in a voice worthy of town criers of old, that ‘You are an Ironman!’. At the end of a long day, … Continue reading
Posted in Achieving Goals, Dad's Blog Posts
Tagged achieving goals, ironman, ironman blog, Joy Behar, Laura Scott
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How many hours per week training needed for Ironman?
I was listening to a Webinar by Joe Friel (long-time triathlon coaching guru), where he was walking through setting up an Annual Training Plan (ATP) for a 32-year-old, age-group athlete that was hoping to use Ironman Coeur d’Alene 2011 to qualify … Continue reading
Posted in Dad's Blog Posts, Exercise, Ironman, Racing, Training
Tagged Annual Training Plan, exercise levels, ironman blog, ironman training, joe friel
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End of season immunity system strain
I was reminded this morning by Iron Buddy Anne Boone, that during heavy training, and at the end of the season, and particularly after an Ironman outing, that the immune system has been strained, and can open the body to … Continue reading
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Tagged immunity system, ironman, ironman blog, Recovery
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