Master of my own Domain.
I took the plunge.
www.RunningJayhawk.com is all mine.
I've formally stamped my corner of this crazy thing we call the world wide web. I feel so...official or something. (Not like I have any grounds to really be official and what not. 'Cause I don't. But hey...it's all good.)
This weekend in Half IM training brought us to a little place I call "Heart Rate Land." Also known as, the most challenging place I've visited in a long time.
Saturday called for a 90 minute long run...keeping in zones 1 and 2. It sounded easy enough, so Mike and I laced up our shoes and headed for the lake. Now. For me to stay within the 1-2 HRZ, I need to be between 92 and 136 beats per minute. And when this home girl got anything above a brisk walk, the HR shot up into the 160's. Not exactly the easiest "run" I've ever done (if by "run" you mean I had to do a cross between a great-grandma-esque quasi-jog and power walk). I don't think I even worked up a sweat and covered a little over 6 miles (wtf?). But I was told to stay within HRZ 1-2 and I tried my damnedest to keep there (though I routinely managed to go over once I'd pick up the pace). It's odd though, because given 90 minutes to run on any other day I'd easily cover 7.5-8.5 miles depending on how I was feeling.
Now today's long ride on the bike was no big deal at all. Coach Mo called for an hour "long ride" in HRZ 1-2. After tossing on latest Harry Potter flick, I hopped in the saddle and got to work. I managed to keep an average HR of 124 while spinning at a decent tempo. Not too shabby, eh? It felt good overall and I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that my bike really isn't so bad afterall (although that may change once I'm outside braving the elements). I need to hook up the bike pod portion of my Suunto T3 so I can get a read on my distance, speed and cadence when I'm training indoors. I also need to do some seat adjustments to keep the numb toes at bay. Then I should be all good!
So here's how week 1 of HIM training went down...
M: 80 minutes of yoga
T: 54 minutes of speed drills on the bike
W: Sick. Took a day of rest (had a 45 minute tempo run and an hour of yoga on the schedule though)
Th: 1000 yards in the pool
F: Rest
Sa: 90 minute long run
Su: 60 minute long ride
Total Duration: 5:29
I'm pretty pleased with how things have gone. Now if June 15th would just get here already!
Have a great week, everyone!
www.RunningJayhawk.com is all mine.
I've formally stamped my corner of this crazy thing we call the world wide web. I feel so...official or something. (Not like I have any grounds to really be official and what not. 'Cause I don't. But hey...it's all good.)
This weekend in Half IM training brought us to a little place I call "Heart Rate Land." Also known as, the most challenging place I've visited in a long time.
Saturday called for a 90 minute long run...keeping in zones 1 and 2. It sounded easy enough, so Mike and I laced up our shoes and headed for the lake. Now. For me to stay within the 1-2 HRZ, I need to be between 92 and 136 beats per minute. And when this home girl got anything above a brisk walk, the HR shot up into the 160's. Not exactly the easiest "run" I've ever done (if by "run" you mean I had to do a cross between a great-grandma-esque quasi-jog and power walk). I don't think I even worked up a sweat and covered a little over 6 miles (wtf?). But I was told to stay within HRZ 1-2 and I tried my damnedest to keep there (though I routinely managed to go over once I'd pick up the pace). It's odd though, because given 90 minutes to run on any other day I'd easily cover 7.5-8.5 miles depending on how I was feeling.
Now today's long ride on the bike was no big deal at all. Coach Mo called for an hour "long ride" in HRZ 1-2. After tossing on latest Harry Potter flick, I hopped in the saddle and got to work. I managed to keep an average HR of 124 while spinning at a decent tempo. Not too shabby, eh? It felt good overall and I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that my bike really isn't so bad afterall (although that may change once I'm outside braving the elements). I need to hook up the bike pod portion of my Suunto T3 so I can get a read on my distance, speed and cadence when I'm training indoors. I also need to do some seat adjustments to keep the numb toes at bay. Then I should be all good!
So here's how week 1 of HIM training went down...
M: 80 minutes of yoga
T: 54 minutes of speed drills on the bike
W: Sick. Took a day of rest (had a 45 minute tempo run and an hour of yoga on the schedule though)
Th: 1000 yards in the pool
F: Rest
Sa: 90 minute long run
Su: 60 minute long ride
Total Duration: 5:29
I'm pretty pleased with how things have gone. Now if June 15th would just get here already!
Have a great week, everyone!
Labels: Half Iron Training
posted by Iron Jayhawk at 10:03 PM
11 Camper Comments:
Congrats on the domain! And what an awesome first week you had in 2008! You're on your way!
you are official. cool and the gang. later.
Enjoy the journey RJ, enjoy the journey. And congrats on being my first Seinfeldism of the day. "Master of my own Domain"
Thanks for the link love in the sidebar. :)
Your heart rate zones seem low to me. There are different zones for running and biking, you may want to make sure you're using appropriate training zones. Just my two cents!
Congrats on the domain takeover. It must feel nice to be official. And yay to your first week of '08.
What did you do to make your URL official btw?
Nice job on all the training.
Congrads on being official.
Congrats on the domain. You now have a corner of the dot com world!
Too cool!
Pretty sweet you own your own domain. I think I am quite jealous.
Okay, let's not rush things. June is a long ways off and I like it that way. But in regards to the domain, congratulations!
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