How does it feel to finish your first Ironman? Well, for me: I felt the excitement of the challenge, the enjoyment of a solid workout, the sense of being alive, while running in a thunder storm in a foot of water, the dismay of knee surgery, the exhaustion of a category one bike climb leading to a sense of awe at the cyclists in the Tour de France that can only come from completing such a climb, the fear of failure ... Read more
Ironman Is A Life-Style - I Love It! Your First Ironman Involves The Whole Family Ironman Saved My Life In 2010, Thus This blog! I had coaches, but I needed an Ironman Mentor Sign up to FitOldDog's First Ironman Over 50 Newsletter at this link To Receive FitOldDog's 10 Favorite Ironman Training Tips If I'd had a mentor, 20 years ago, when I started triathlon training, I would have avoided plenty of ... Read more
Ironman Conditioning Can Benefit From Coaching And Mentoring Conditioning: "Bringing (something) into the desired state for use." As you ramp up your training, you will encounter issues that need to be fixed along the way. Types Of Ironman conditioning (recommended assistance in brackets): Physical conditioning, especially your butt (coaching) Pain resistance conditioning Persistence ... Read more
There are two types of Ironman Event Rush to the finish to win your age-group (Racers) versus just try to finish (Climbers) When you're just trying to finish, it's more like climbing a mountain than racing! But you meet the nicest people at the back of the pack! My new Ironman Over 50 mentoring service is designed for the latter, first timers over 50! When it comes to race or climb, for an ironman ... Read more
Sports massage reveals muscle tightness. Muscle tightness is a symptom of weakness! Advice to First Time Ironman Over 50 Athletes: Fix it before it becomes an injury!. There are at least two kinds of massage, sports massage and 'fluff and buff!' Sports massage to fix potential training damage, fluff and buff to relax. Both are good. My recent sports massage, from Tara, revealed an important issue. ... Read more
King James Version Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." [Except my babe, see below, is in his early 40s] I recently visited Hawaii, to watch my youngest son, Nigel, in the Ironman (his eighth). During the trip, Nigel said, "Dad, I don't think you're suffering enough pain on the bike. Why don't you ... Read more
Comment from Walter, fellow mature athlete, in response to watching my recent video, linked above: "I appreciate that anyone who cycles and/or runs and/or swims long distance can eat stuff (actually need to eat stuff) that would usually not be seen as part of a healthy diet - e.g. honey stingers or waffles as we tend to call them over here. However, in keeping with your new plant-based diet and in line with ... Read more
Pauline and I had a very enjoyable, though hot, race at the 2015 Eagleman Half Ironman event, in Cambridge, Maryland, last weekend. Pauline left me far behind, but we both finished unhurt, unlike a number of people carried away in ambulances with heat stress or dehydration. Rupert (my Cook Zenith Stent Graft) and I were really looking forward to this race, not expecting a fast time, and not really competing with ... Read more
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