And just like that, the biggest race of 2017 is behind me. It has been an AWESOME year of racing and I am content to enter into the next phase of my training but more on that later. Let’s talk training stats. July Training Distance Covered: 1194 KM Training Hours: 63 Swimming – 17.5 KM Running –… Read More…
June Polar Performance Report – 2017
This is the last report before the Ironman. Crossing my fingers I will be doing some good running on race day! Thankfully, my training has gone well, despite a few hiccups and I am going into the taper feeling confident. June Training Distance Covered: 1169 KM Training Hours: 62 Swimming – 32 KM Running – 220… Read More…
May Polar Performance Report
We are getting a little deep into June but I wanted to revisit May’s training. May Training Distance covered: 1132 KM Training hours: 59 SWIMMING: 8 hrs. RUNNING: May was a fantastic month of running. I felt strong and consistent. CYCLING I added some longer cycles into the training in May which will translate into greater… Read More…
Ticking Boxes – February 2017 Polar Performance Report
This is one of those “better late than never” scenarios, I am afraid. I wanted to pause this month to talk a bit about last month’s training. February Training Distance covered: 737 KM Training hours: 45 SWIMMING: 4.5 hrs. VERY low month for swim volume. Oops. This has a lot to do with pool accessibility in the… Read More…
Polar Performance Project and Goal Wrap Up – December 2016
In the spirit of efficiency, we are looking at two things today so I am going to try not to be long-winded. I wanted to take a quick look back at my training and racing in December and how I did on my goals before jumping into what I am aiming for in 2017 (coming… Read More…
Polar Performance Report – September 2016
As I mentioned in my last report, I took a break from coaching this month because it literally consisted of racing and recovering. It is crazy to know that the biggest races of my 2016 year are behind me, but it was a fantastic month. Distance covered: 1,018 KM Running: 265 km Cycling: 753 km… Read More…
Polar Performance Report: July 2016
SPORTS TRACKED: Cycling, Running, Swimming, Strength, Mountain biking RUN STATS: 182 KM Run Elevation: 1,864 M Run Hours: 14.5 Rest Days: 5 Longest Run: 21 km on Muskoka half marathon Shortest Run: 2.2 KM TT with Health and Performance Most enjoyable training run: I had a lot of really fun training runs this past month. I think maybe the best one was the… Read More…
Polar Performance Report: January 2016
New features EVERYWHERE on this blog! I am rolling out a few new ones as the month progresses, but one thing I wanted to start doing is a Performance Report at the end of the month. I’m a little late to the game because January totally and completely got away on me but without further ado…… Read More…
