How it started. We Where in Las Vegas for Amanda and Oli's wedding, and for some crazy reason, some crazy person decided that we should do the Half iron man in Austin, 1.2 mile swim, 56 miles on the bike, and 13 mile run.
Here we are day after and feeling good, little knee pain, but overall pretty good. So everyone trained a little different. My training started with me getting ready for the USAW/CrossFit comp in Colorado Springs. So all I did was olympic lifting up in till 2 weeks ago. While on vacation we went and did some CrossFit WOD's at some local Box's. So that gave me 1 week and 2 days before the race. My luck I got sick and had to take 2 days off from the world to get over it. So that gave me all together about 6 days of training. My training was running 6 miles, ran that twice, biked 2 days at about 15 per, then swimming 2 days right under a mile both times. Besides that it was all CrossFit WOD's.
For me this backs up my theory about how CrossFit allows you to jump into anything and complete it. Now I don't recommend just jumping into a half with out a few Long bike rides over 30 miles and few laps around Lake 288.
Congrats to Oli for being a bad a@@, Nathan doing his first one and doing great, Chad first one and killed the swim and bike and fought through the run, David who needed a wet suite for the swim needed a tissue on the bike but killed the run, and help me on the last 2 miles.
Awesome work, Vic! Great inspiration and truly does help provide that "ready for anything" approach that CF promotes.
ReplyDeleteHad you ever done any Sprint Triathlons before jumping into this?
Great Job Vic. I believe Amanda was the one that came up with this crazy idea, and then never signed up. Guess we will forgive her.
ReplyDeleteGreat job though, mad respect.
Brian, I did a sprint race in Amarillo about 3 years ago, and some adventure racing. I truly believe CrossFit helps you survive in everthing
ReplyDelete