Todde's Tri Blog

This past week was my first bit of exercise since Ironstar 2 weeks ago. I told myself to take a 2 week break before transitioning back into training, but I ended up at the gym this past wed (I made it 10 days). This past wed i rode the exercise bike for 20 mins and followed that up with 5 mins on the eliptical machine. This was my first time to use the eliptical. It made me feel like I was taking baby steps, however it seems like it would help with increasing my running cadence. I will definitely try it again. Thurs i didn some light weights at the gym to get some feel back in the body. I then relaxed the next 2 days and squeezed in an easy run today at town lake. I put in a 28min 3 mile run. Damn it felt good to do that!!!! I will continue to ease back into working out this next week and hopefully things will become more structured the following week. After thanksgiving I will get into about 3 months of base training and follow it with another month of base or a month of build work prior to my taper for IMAZ. I am really excited about the next 5 months leading up to IMAZ. I want to have a strong plan laid out for myself and then commit myself 100% to that plan. The end goal is 10 hours at IMAZ. As Rutgers would say, "its time to chop wood!"