One Clydesdale’s Journey

Okay, I know, I’m a week late with these. What can I say, after the race and then getting home to watch the Packer game one thing led to another and before I knew it, it was late and all I wanted to do was crash.

So, without further ado, here are my results;

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Well I thought long and hard about it and after being on IR for most of the season I couldn’t let it end without getting in one more race.

So I broke down this morning and signed up for the indoor Turkey Triathlon down in Racine at the RecPlex. Their slogan is “Eat more pie, do a tri” you got to love that!

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…And Beer

Well, I got the Lakefront Discovery Run done and over with. 15k, that is the longest that I’ve ever run.

And let me tell you, when you run as slow as I do that takes a long time! 1 hour, 45 minutes and 38 seconds to be exact, but who’s counting… oh wait, they are, and that’s why they give us that timing chip.

But I really can’t complain about the time; it was a little longer than I was hoping for, but my pace was right on track.

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Oh yeah and a little biking just to try and mix it up.

Well, I stepped in it with both feet as I mentioned last week and signed up for the Lakefront Discovery run 15k. And now the clock and the calendar seem to be against.

I’m trying to get a run in every other day. Doing a mix of increasing my distance and also doing some recovery / maintenance runs so that I don’t burn out. So I’ve been running a lot, to the point where I’m focusing almost exclusively on that.

But so far I’m only up to 5.6 miles as of today.

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Well, not quite…

We have all the 5k races that we do throughout the winter and now Shelly and I just signed up to do the Lakefront Discovery Run 15k. I’m not sure I’ll be ready for that distance in time for the race, but I’ll give it everything that I got.

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On Friday morning I was really bumming out about the fact that I wasn’t in the race.

By Sunday morning, I was more than okay with it!

On Friday I actually did my own little triathlon of sorts. I got up in the morning and ran the 5k route. Later on in the day Shelly and I walked down to the lake and got in a 1/4 mile swim followed by an 11 mile bike ride.

I still need a little more rehab before I’m race ready when it comes to the swim.
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Well, I’ve gotten a little more biking and running in this past week and the arm is getting very close to being back to 100%. But to be perfectly honest with you, I’m very ready to get back in the water and find out how it does as far as swimming is concerned.

Tomorrow I see the Doc again and hopefully he’ll give me the all clear to start swimming and racing again. If he does, I’ll be back in the pool first thing Tuesday!

I’m also planning on taking the wetsuit with me to Devil’s lake so that I can get an open water swim in over the weekend.

As for racing; we’ll I’m toying with the idea of going for it later this year with one of the indoor Tri’s that we have around the area.

But first and foremost I need to get the go ahead from the Doc tomorrow. I have a good feeling about it, but I’m still keeping my fingers crossed!

Later,
John W.
A Clydesdale in training

I finally got back on the bike today and got a ride in. The first five blocks or so were a bit rough and not just because I was a little rusty. I had to work out the cobwebs and the demons before I got comfortable with it.

It was still just a nice easy ride; 12 miles and we averaged 12mph with a top speed of 27 down the big hill on Swan Blvd. And one small kick during the climb on Center St. to see if the legs could still handle it, but even that was no big deal; just got it up to 20mph and left it at that.

But hey, it’s a start! And overall I have to say that everything went pretty good.

Later,
John W.
A Clydesdale in training

Well, I saw the orthopedic Doc this past week and he gave me the go ahead to start doing some light training; slow jogging (which is how I run, so I figure fast walking to start) and I can do some riding, but no swimming yet.

He also won’t clear me to race until he sees me again which isn’t going to be until September 13th. Our last race of the year is September 19th – The Devil’s Challenge, my other “A” race of the year.

So that means that my racing season is definitely over for this year.

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Okay, I know that I’ve been really bad about posting all summer long and I apologize about that. The weekends just aren’t long enough and I always seem to run out of time. But I promise to try and get better at this.

So my training and racing season were going along quite nicely until the 3rd of this month when everything came to a screeching halt.

I crashed my bike while I was out on a training ride and I took the brunt of all the damage.

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