A Fat Kid Becomes An Ironman

This afternoon I did my 22mile long run. I am building back up to marathon distance after a couple months of only running shorter runs due to injuries.

My race pace goal is 8:00/miles for my Ironman split, so this pace is my “slower” pace… The first half felt pretty good, and the pace really did feel slow. My splits for the first 11 miles were all sub 8:30… then things got harder. Read more »

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 07/31/2007
• Time: 15:00:00
• Total Time: 3:15:13.00
• Average Heart rate: 150
• Max Heart rate: 163
• Calories: 2520
• Distance: 21.95 miles
• Average Pace: 8:53.33/mile
• Max Pace: 8:01.28/mile

Took a spin on this “Funny Bike” down to Speedy Reedy to ask them about a possible conversion…

Their toungs dropped on the floor when they saw this bike… They strongly advised against touching a thing on this bike. Instead they suggested:

• Add it to your collection as is, you’ll be the coolest kid on the block for sure.
• Or- Put it up on ebay and find the person even more into cool old bikes… they felt strongly that one “could get a lot of money for that bike… look at it man… mint condition… all original… sweet”
• They estimated $1500 to put the parts on it to make it tri bike ready… and for that I could get a new Cervelo. Well, that plus another couple hundred.
• They didn’t like the fixie idea, but I think that’s just because they knew it would be cooler than their fixies. They gave me some BS about akward positions while doing track stands… blah…. these guys don’t know what they’re talking about.

Ok… off for my run.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 07/31/2007
• Time: 14:00:00
• Total Time: 00:20:00.00
• Distance: 3 miles
• Average Speed: 9 mph