Week 1 down, 31 more to go :)

Well 1 week down and 31 to go. Oh man saying that makes me nervous! :) I trained for 7 hours and 36 minutes this week for a total of 56 miles in 11 workouts.  Oh and the fun part, I burned 3327 calories! My lesson learned this week...EAT MORE! Seriously, I was hungry all week, and it was the first week. Training just gets longer from here on out, how am I going to feed myself?! :)
 Saturday I ran for 60 minutes, and then went to swim for 40 minutes right after. I made a huge mistake though, I didn't eat breakfast before my run. I'm in a habit of not eating before a run of 6 miles or less, and that's always been fine since my workout ended there. When I went to swim right after though, not ok. I sputtered out on my swim. I had no energy, and was tired halfway through. I need the most help in the swim portion. I'm not great, and this area leaves me with the most anxiety, but I know with my great Coach Dee, and the Memphis in May Coach, Jan,  I'll be prepared.

We had our first group spin at Coach Dee's house. We are going to be meeting at her house every Sunday to spin on our bike trainers until it's warm enough to bike the Ironman course every Sunday.  It's great to have a coach there while we're spinning to provide feed back and instruction. I really want to improve my bike skills. The bike portion of the race to me s the most important. It will make or break your Ironman race.  If you finish the bike section quickly, you can relax a little bit on the run portion.  On the flip side if you have a bad bike,  you gotta move it on the run so you finish by midnight.

Coach Dee and I decided that I'm going to switch to 4 swim sessions each week for a month, and reduce my run workouts form 3 to 2. I need more time in the pool to improve my stroke. We'll see how week 2 goes this way. Bring it on!

Don't forget to visit my fundraising page!  http://pages.teamintraining.org/ky/louisir13/bpitcock

And take a few minutes to visit Ava's page documenting her struggle!  http://avalucille.tumblr.com/

Thanks so much for taking time to read! 

Training has begun!!!!

Early morning spin before work

Training officially kicked off on January 19th, with a Team IN Training kickoff event. I met most of my fellow TNT, LLS teammates and coaches. We listened to two survivors of Cancer that are our fellow TNT teammates in other events. 1 was a 7 year old girl named Vivian. She survived ALL, a form of Leukemia. A very energetic, sweet child. Then I headed off on a 5 mile run, and an hour spin on my trainer on Sunday. Each week I'll update the blog with pictures of a few workouts, and the total miles and hours I trained that week. Follow if you'd like, but remember, I'm not a writer so take it easy on me :)  Please visit my fundraising page, and the blog of dear Ava Lucille. Thanks so much!!!



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http://pages.teamintraining.org/ky/louisir13/bpitcock

IT"S OFFICIAL!!!

Well it's official as of 12/8/12 I am registered for the 2013 Ironman Louisville!!!!! Geez,  I get chills simply thinking about it. I told Meg last night that I haven't wanted to do something this bad in a very long time. I think about it non stop. You might even call it an obsession. I want to cross that finish line! I'm one step closer now :) I'm also thinking of signing up with Team in Training for the IM. They are organizing a group. I can commit to raising $4,500 for Leukemia, and Lymphoma research, and they will provide coaches, organize training sessions, and assist with fundraising. I've heard such amazing things about TNT. I'm going to think about it a bit more, but right now I'm 75% sure I'm going to work with them. I love using my races as a means to fund-raise for a bigger cause. Makes my selfish addiction a little less selfish.

My first blog.

I'm blogging about my experiences while training for the Louisville Ironman 2013. I think more for me, than anyone else so I am able to look back a day, a week, a month or even years after I finish my first IM. I hope after IM Louisville, I am able to say I am an IronwoMAN, but I know from others experiences,  that it can take more than one try to obtain that amazing title.  It began today.  My journey, adventure, road to the Louisville Ironman on August 25. 2013. Technically it's not time to train, that won't happen officially until Janurary 28th, but I need to do some maintenance training.  I haven't ran since I run the Chicago Marathon on Oct 7.  I over-trained for that race and had a couple of injuries so,  I wanted to make sure I was injury free and not burnt out before doing maintenance training.   Not really working out for 4 weeks was surprisingly hard for me.   The first week didn't bother me at all, but then I started getting really restless that 2nd week.  But I had a soleus strain, my IT band was inflamed, and I had shoulder tendonitis from an incorrect swim stroke so I had to take the time off to heal. I saw an amazing Chiropractor that specialized in Active Release Therapy (ART) Dr. Bee at Occupational Kinetics twice a week for those 4 weeks, and prior to Chicago. Thanks to him I feel so much better and ready to workout again. I did my first run post Chicago today. I felt great. I'm starting to train via heart rate monitor this time around. I keep hearing that this is the way to train for a 70.3 an Ironman.   I also got in a 15 minute swim. Right now I'm really focusing on correct swim stroke, and ended with a 30 minute strength training session. Whew...what am I thinking :) J/k I'm so excited.