The big day is getting closer every day now! I know that’s kinda obvious but it is beginning to feel much more serious now, humbling and a bit scary. It has been a wild ride so far. I clocked another maximum effort week, collecting more than 700 TSS and as many as the week before. Just like I planned and I feel like that is also close to the maximum of what I can realistically recover with work and family…
Here I am a day after my latest half ironman distance. I had to bail out of 70.3 St. Pölten the week before due to some hip issues and family commitments and decided to do the „Training Half“ here instead. Cheap local event, well organized with a good course and great vibes. The race went okay as far as prep races go. I got a better feel for my pacing, realized that I need to adjust my nutrition plan slightly…
Here I am with my first ever full distance triathlon only 12 weeks out. How am I doing so far? Well, apart from the setback in February it is all going rather well. I am sticking to my plan, more or less, and feel like am progressing well. How well exactly? Let’s start this week with the swim. It is okay. I am swimming significantly less than my plan prescribes, which is usually one endurance swim, 3500 – 4000m, and a…
How often do you hear people talk about marginal gains? People claim shaving their legs brings marginal gains. Or wearing lighter shoes. Or getting the top of the line $600 wetsuit. While all these things can be considered marginal I am not whether the concept of marginal gains ends there. I am new to this whole long distance stuff. I never done an Ironman or trained for one. But now after about 10 weeks into well structured training I have…
I´m gonna post early this week. Up ahead lie the Easter holidays and we’ll be visiting the grandmas with our daughter. She just started to walk. She just did it, it happened so fast! About a week between stumbling two steps into daddy’s arm to walking on her own. Crazy. But you are not here for daddy stories and neither am I, so here comes the triathlon. The week so far went okay. I can feel the fatigue mounting and…
Another week in the bag. This should have been my biggest week yet, but due to work commitments I missed a swim and so eventually came in at almost exactly the same TSS as last week. The weekend however was my biggest and best yet. I did a full 2 hour trainer session yesterday, alternating between high power intervals and endurance riding in aero position. After tweaking my position a bit bit I can now hold aero again and accumulated…
Back in my mountainbike downhill days, Bruce Lee was a big inspiration for many riders. You all know the famous quote about how water become the cup it gets poured into. Translated to MTB DHI racing it meant to go with the terrain, not trying to force anything but rather playing off the trail. You can´t make the mountain do anything, but you can make the most off what the mountain is offering. The past weeks have been pretty brutal…
I haven´t been posting much over tha past weeks simply because I didn´t do shit. Our daughter is now in day care and she brought home a cold on her first day. When I thought I had recovered I caught another virus and now two weeks have past with almost zero workouts. And to make things worse I´ve just had one of the busiest work weeks in a long time, with wine fueled business dinners and „networking parties“ and all…
2018 Week 3 – It is not about being hard, it is about being effective and determined to reach your goal. When your body tells you to slow down for a few days, listen. Total TSS: 94 Total Time: 1 hr 12 min TSS/Hour: 78,3 Last week was all about listening to my body. My daughter had her first day in daycare and promptly brought a runny nose home with her. Now and then she sleeps in our bed with…
The final week of 2017 was a painful one. I retested my FTP and came out at 312 W, which is a massive improvement. It was painful as shit though. For most of the past 6 weeks sweet spot base I had my road bike on the turbo and swapped it for the TT only very recently. Until then I haven´t ridden the TT hard at all and I realized quickly even during warm up that it makes a hell…