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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Back at IT!

Ironman Lake Placid is fast approaching.    I feel like I can still have a great time and race well even with the shoulder injury coming at a terrible time.  I will focus completely on bike and run until the arm feels good enough to push the swim.  I ill not sacrifice a set back in my arm just to try and swim slowly.  I had a good couple days.

Monday I only did the stationary bike.  Tuesday I was able to get in 10 miler in 1:17.  Not my slowest 10 mile run.  Not bad considering I was fighting the pain in my ribs, and having virtually no right arm swing.  I'll take it.  Wednesday was better.  I still don't want to risk a setback in the shoulder, so I rode the trainer bike pretty hard, HR at 135.  After the ride I went right out for a BRICK run of 6 miles.  The run felt better today than yesterday.  Faster and less pain.  Hopefully I have turned the corner.

Below are pictures of my helmet from the crash and my 2010 Philadelphia Triathlon Jersey that the ER had to cut off me when I arrived there after the crash.  Make sure you always wear a helmet.


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2 comments:

  1. Bryan June 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    Good work, I remember being kicked in the ribs during a swim and they were bruised, it was painful for weeks to run. Can't imagine what your doing. Wow.

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  2. I Tri 4 DownsJune 17, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    Suffering through it now....was just hitting my stride with the training for IMLP when CRASH...won't be the fastest swimmer there but still think I can do 1:30 to swim and exit T1. Aiming for 11:30 total. Figure I can do the bike at 6hrs and run in 4 hrs....But thats what I hope is the worst case scenario. I was hoping for 10:45-11 before this crap.

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