The countdown begins… now.
Via firstoffthebike: THE Ironwar.
Not an ideal situation 5-and-a-bit weeks out from a marathon.
At 17-odd minutes, it’s long, but definitely worth a watch: An Inside Look at Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas 2012. And I’ve just added IM Texas to the bucket list of races I want to do… that course looks pretty awesome.
If it wasn’t fun I wouldn’t be here. I don’t need a job, so I need a challenge in my life. I need some stuff to do. I like to train, I like to suffer a bit.
Don’t you just love the smell of new running shoes?
One Hundred
I don’t usually log my training miles (although it’s a habit I should probably get into), but thought I would this time because it’s the first time I’ve cracked 100 run kilometres in a week.
- Monday: Port Melb-St Kilda Return - 8.1km
- Tuesday: Port Melb-Elwood LSC Return - 15.1km
- Wednesday: Port Melb-St Kilda Marina Return - 10.1km
- Thursday: Port Melb-Anderson St (x3) Return - 12.6km
- Friday: Rest day!
- Saturday (AM): Tan (x2) + Two Bridges - 10.3km
- Saturday (PM): Port Melb-St Kilda Marina Return - 10.1km
- Sunday (AM): Long Run, Part 1 - 25.1km
- Sunday (PM): Long Run, Part 2 - 10.1km
- Weekly Total: 101.5km
After having a couple of slack(ish) weeks (weddings, man!), and with eight weeks to go before Gold Coast, putting a few miles in the bank was probably a good thing, but I’m going to have to start working some time in the pool and on the bike back into the mix, so I don’t know how many more 100km weeks there are going to be.
I’m a Rocket Scientist! (Well, kind of, anyway…)
I’ve been lucky enough to be selected to be a part of the Team Rocket-XOSIZE Ambassador Program for the 2012/2013 season. If you haven’t heard about it yet, the program is an initiative by Scott from XOSIZE to extend some of the benefits of sponsorship to everyday athletes. Like any sponsored athlete, the ambassadors will be expected to help spread the word about Rocket Science Sports and XOSIZE. In return, we get a whole heap of really good stuff, really cheap. I’ve had an XOSIZE running shirt since back in December of 2010 (which Scott gave me at IMWA) and it’s been one of my favourites, so I’m really looking forward to trying out some more gear.
(If you’re a trithlete and you haven’t submitted an application yet, you need to lift your game and get one in ASAP!)
Last year’s Ironman World Championships was probably one of the best of all time; Crowie setting a new course record and Chrissie coming back from a pretty nasty spill off the bike a couple of weeks before the race to win her fourth consecutive title (and seriously, watching her go up the road on the bike is insane… she blows past the other pro women like they’re standing still).
My shoe and my heel: a cautionary tale for those considering running in not-quite-broken-in running shoes. Ouch.
About this site
Half-fast (say it out loud: “half-arsed” — pretty funny, right?) is the almost-semi-freqently updated training/racing blog of Cam Pegg, a thirtysomething try-hard triathlete who hates talking about himself in the third person.
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Upcoming Races
- Gold Coast Marathon - 01 Jul 2012
- Melbourne Half Marathon - 14 Oct 2012
- Ironman 70.3 Shepparton - 18 Nov 2012
- Ironman Melbourne - 24 Mar 2013
My Current PBs
- Triathlon
- Sprint - 1:08:32
- Olympic - 2:27:17
- Half iron/70.3 - 4:59:27
- Ironman - 11:14:55
- Running
- 10km - 0:43:16
- 14km - 1:03:55
- Half marathon - 1:33:42
- Marathon - 3:25:25
