Author: davecriswell

Fall is my favorite season. Even though the official start of fall is over a month away it felt like a preview of it on my ride this morning. The temp was in the low 50’s and after weeks of mostly rain there were no clouds in the sky which made for a beautiful sunrise. I actually had to dig out the armwarmers this morning.

The training plan for the day was an easy one hour ride which allowed me to enjoy the crisp weather and sunrise.

The cell phone photo doesn’t nearly do it justice but I thought this shot over the old greenhouses in Madbury was worth stopping for mid-ride.

I can’t wait for more early morning fall rides once the foliage starts to turn.

I thought doing an Ironman was a big event to prepare for. Check out this guy who is going for the record to complete the Appalachian Trail which means an average of 46 miles per day!

News story is here

And the racer’s website is here. This link has his current location – and he is in my home state of NH!

As much as I enjoy swimming, biking and running, it was really nice to have a day off yesterday. With Connor home from camp it was nice to be able to see Connor for as much as possible last night. We watched the Olympics for a while and saw the US Men win the 4 x 100 relay by 8 1/100th of a second! It was great to see him so excited about it. How could anyone not be excited after watching that race!

Masters swimming tonight and an easy one hour ride tomorrow morning make the beginning of this week pretty low key.

I’m 99% committed to doing a fall marathon. I thought it would be a good challenge to the end of the season and set me up nicely to starti Ironman training this fall. There is a small one in mid-October called the Green Mountain Marathon, in where elses…Vermont. All I need to do is sign up, and it is only $22! I’ve paid more than that for a 5K.

I’m glad this is a recovery week. I’m not sure if it is allergies or an actual cold but the last few days I’ve had a tickle in my throat and today my nose is really stuff.

I’m a little concerned that I haven’t been eating like I should. The type of calories I’ve been taking in has been good overall but I’ve been at a net daily deficit of about 1,000 calories for the past week. I would like to drop a few pounds to improve my power to weight ratio to improve my bike and run times, but I probably need to make a concerted effort to be more like 200 – 300 down a day, net, instead of 1,000.

I’ve been out of the blogging loop for a while now, but for good reasons. I’ve had a great stretch of training for the past three weeks. I’ve done 12, 10 and 13 hours for the past three weeks so needless to say I haven’t had enough time to do much other than work and train.

What has helped significantly with fitting all the trainings in is that my son has been at camp for the past two weeks leaving me a little extra time. Though I’m really glad to have him home!

This week is a recovery week with two full days off and only 8 hours scheduled.

I’ve exchanged e-mails with the Executive Director for Bretton Woods Adaptive and I’m planning on heading up there in September to coordinate plans for fundraising for the Janus Charity Challenge. She seemed really willing to work with me so I’m looking forward to meeting up with her.