Posts from ‘April, 2010’

5 Weeks to IRONMAN BRAZIL

Just finished the 1st week of the peak period. The weeks with the highest training volumes of my trainig plan. The week started with my first ocean swim of the season. Puting on my wetsuit I was thinking how all the winter leg weights workouts paid off, “this is so tight”, till i realized i [...]

Hotel Dory in Riccione Italy, what a great ridding holiday!

Who would have thought, just a week before our arrival there was still some snow on the ground and cold wind in the air. Once we arrived all that was gone and we were left with some cold temperatures (not to cold) yet beautiful skies. We are so caught up on our training that no [...]

7 weeks to Ironman Brazil, Iron weekend and build 2 month summary

The four weeks of the 2nd build month are behind me. Ah… recovery week… This weekend, ending this training block was an “Iron weekend”. Doing an Ironman distance in 48hours. Friday 4k swim+11k run Saturday 200kride+5krun Sunday 32k run. The main reason for this Iron weekend was of course low self-confidence. It worked! As stupid [...]