tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74001491243188242172012-01-27T10:36:06.340-06:00Chad Beertnoreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400149124318824217.post-50964796829492703132012-01-06T09:27:00.001-06:002012-01-06T09:27:20.285-06:00

After being off work for quite some time over the holidays this week it was back to the normal grind for the family, everyone back to the regular routine and it was a bit tough to adjust. Having time off is awesome especially with the weather we have been having, no snow but cool weather that makes for great CX riding and running conditions. Now that the new year is hear everyone is going to

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Like anyone I suppose there are times I need to play some mental games in order to do some of the workouts that I set out to do. Now I won't reveal all my tricks as I think there may be some questions raised or should I say more questions raised about my sanity but nonetheless here are a couple of things that just seem to work for me. First is with regards to the long run, the hardest part for

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Alright I have been slacking a bit lately on the posts so here is a bit of a catch up, not sure how this has worked out but we have been swamped lately at work. Almost every year things pretty much die around this time of the year which is usually a nice change of pace as the holidays approach but this year not so much, I suppose that is good for business? Anyways we managed to finish the

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As I mentioned last week we had our first threshold test at Endure It for this off season as well as Masters swimming starting up. I think Sunday morning the week caught up to me as my legs were beat, tired and pretty sore. I am sure a lot had to do with Saturday's class and doing the workout with new numbers as well as my longest BRICK run of the off season at a good pace but was a little

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This morning was our first CT threshold test for the year, this is our baseline for the rest of the winter sessions (until we test again in say Feb\March). This is very important as this number is what all of our workouts are based on. For example this amount time at 90% of your threshold. Last year after IMAZ I decided to take a little downtime causing me to miss the majority of the winter

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When people find out you do Ironman's or are pretty active in general the single most question you get is "When do you have time to do that?". The simple answer is you make time, it is always not easy but it is important to me so I make time. I personally try and plan out my week and have a general idea going into the week as it just makes it easier for all involved. This usually includes what I

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Since Heavy D died yesterday I decided to tie this post in to my favorite song of his, "Now that we found love" what are we going to do with it. Well I have found a new love for the training sessions in the basement, the rollers. I have had rollers for quite some time but I have never really rode them that much as I mostly used the CompuTrainer that I have, hell had to justify buying it someway

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Well this morning started the third week of being back on the horse doing CT classes at Endure It. Not sure if it was the small amount of Halloween candy or this cold still lingering or what but I could totally feel my legs this morning. Honestly I think yesterdays run and just the last couple of weeks of reintroducing the volume to my legs started to catch up, not bad but I just had to really

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Well Amy and I are back from the Big Island. It was great, thankfully my mom came and watched the kids allowing us to take a nice vacation with just the two of us. I will say we were both kind of conflicted with this as it was nice to have time to ourselves but on the other hand I think it would have been fun to have them there as I know especially that Landon would have really enjoyed some of

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This past weekend was the first Cyclocross (CX) race of the year for me. The goal was to keep the rubber side down and have a good time. My description of CX is it is just like running a 5K on a bike, except maybe that 5K is ran on a twisty trail that is some combination of dry or wet grass, dirt, tree roots and the occasional path. Either way you are max effort for the duration of the race and

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From time to time Lapinski and I like to take part in some friendly challenges. These can server a couple of different purposes; one it holds us accountable to each other and second it is fun and usually forces us to train differently then we would typically. For the month of September Rick threw out a swim challenge, the goals were based entirely on yardage for the month. We each set our

Chad Beertnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400149124318824217.post-75516266405488256782011-09-21T11:13:00.000-05:002011-09-21T11:13:13.327-05:00

It has been quite some time since I have consistently been blogging but here we go again.. Well I decided to take on the challenge, enjoyment and year long journey of doing another Ironman next September in the lovely city of Madison, WI. Yes this is fun to me. So why do another IM? Don't you have enough going on with two kids, work and all other things that seem to stretch even the average

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Ok I have not been keeping up on the blog. The three people that actually read it have gained back their ten minutes a week the last couple of months but I am back so here we go...Turns out that my poor Cyclocross skills led to a small tear in my MCL back in December and after running a bit back in early January afterwards I was ending up with what seemed like a knee that had been hit with a

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I ended 2010 with a bang, did nothing for about three weeks except eat like crap and enjoy a lot of down time with friends and family and I enjoyed every minute of it. Why that was fun and all I want to get back at it as honestly I am happier and much more relaxed when I have something to train for. I am a bit out of shape this year compared to this time last year but things come back around.As

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A couple more days and vacation begins, to say I am counting down the time is an understatement. I need a break from the craziness and looking forward to getting away and spending some time with the family. We haven't been back to Iowa in quite awhile it seems. I think I like Christmas even more now that we have kids as watching your kids on Christmas morning hopefully never gets old.I have not

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This past weekend I decided to get back on a bike for the first time post IMAZ, seemed like a good idea at the time. Come on cyclocross racing in December, in Chicago shouldn't be that bad right? It was bad, snow, ice and sand made for almost single track like conditions and I have not done enough of these to feel that comfortable yet. I started towards the back as I was not quite sure what to

Chad Beertnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400149124318824217.post-34673341344043411592010-11-30T09:56:00.002-06:002010-11-30T10:22:02.639-06:00

So it has been over a week since IMAZ and I have done nothing but eat for the last week and watch sports, I think I have ate like on the hour every hour and really nothing all that healthy at that, I have not gained that much weight but I am sure if I kept this pace up I could quite quickly. I am now past that phase and ready to ease back in to some easy workouts.I finally signed up for masters

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I am sitting here on the plane reflecting on the race, I have thought a lot about it the last day and the only conclusion I can come to is that I think I just winged an Ironman. I have trained very little over the last four months and the consistency was not there at all. The truth is with everything that was going on the last year between work, a new kid and a little bit of burnout from

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I will admit doing Ironman's in back to back years is a bit tough, you know what you need to do but you just don't want to repeat the same training plan as last year. If you can more power to you but not this guy. With Ironman Arizona not until mid November I think it is particularly hard to keep things in perspective as you set your training plan and try not to compare it to what everyone else

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The one thing I have learned over the last couple of years is that with me I do not do well without staying consistent when it comes to training. If I take a couple of weeks off from swimming it does more harm than good and I have known that for quite some time. Up until this year I have never realized how much this applies to my running. For July I have have started to build up my mileage as we

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I haven't been updating the blog much, I sit down to do it and something else takes over. For instance listening to how crazy and pathetic Mel Gibson is. It fascinates me that someone hasn't beat the living shit out of him yet.So anyways I have picked things up quite a bit since Buffalo Springs and have found a good balance in my training, family time and work. I have been putting in quality time

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Today was great, it started with Lapinski, the Keatings and I running the Warrenville Firecracker 5K. It hurt 5K's always do. A week after Buffalo Springs I didn't know what to expect. I wanted to run a sub 20 but that didn't happen, I ended up at 20:20 still faster than last year so overall pretty happy about that. Amy and Landon came out to watch and once we were done we headed downtown

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