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Hughes Family is a wiki that enables the far-flung children of Ralph Stephen Hughes to keep up-to-date with their various interests. Friends are welcome to join.
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Plans
July 2006 Denver Colorado
- Dates
- Who's in
- Jana, Sara
- Agenda
- Cousin [Ryan Tedder]'s wedding on July 31st
- Triathlon - make our own course if necessary
- Chillin' with Meg
March 2007 Ironman New Zealand
- Ironmen in the making
- Gavin, Jana, Sara
Triathlon
Three of the Hughes kids are planning to compete in the IRONMAN® New Zealand in March 2007. Meghan is going to start training, but probably won't compete. Here are their training logs:
- Training Log
Date | Jana | Gavin | Sara | Meghan | |
T,1/12 | 6 m run | pm 70min bike | 1 hr. run | ||
Salisbury,NC | |||||
F,1/13 | pm rock climb + 30 min swim | 30 min. swim, 10 min. run | |||
Raleigh,NC (w Sara) | |||||
S,1/14 | am 45 min run | pm 70min swim | 1 hr. 15 min. run | 30 min. bike | |
Raleigh,NC (w Sara) | |||||
S,1/15 | pm 45 min run (Asheville,NC) | 77 mile bike, 5 hrs 2 min; torturous hills along Hwy 1 up to Pt. Reyes Lt House | 7 m. run, 1 hr. | ||
Asheville,NC | |||||
M,1/16 | am 30 min run + 3.5 hr str mtn hike | 1 hr. 15 min. run | |||
JonesGap,SC | |||||
T,1/17 | pm 45 min run | 35 min swim | |||
MountAiry,NC | |||||
W,1/18 | am 30 min bike + 20 min run | 25 min run. ITBS kicked in after 20. Probably because no warm up/stretching. | |||
MountAiry,NC | |||||
T,1/19 | 4m, pm 35 min run | ||||
Greensboro,NC | |||||
F,1/20 | 7m, pm 1:05 hr run | ||||
Raleigh,NC | |||||
S,1/21 |
- Training Tips
- 2005-12-7 Getting on board the Tri TRAIN
Sweet! The only qualification for Ironman NZ is that you have to be stupid enough to pay $485 NZD to abuse yourself for 12 hours! For diet during training I try to go to a higher protein diet to help my muscles repair themselves from training. I won't bother with weight lifting, spend that time, biking, swimming, and running. If you do weight lift, do high reps, you don't want bulky muscles that you will have to drag around the course. For training, gradually increase miles and workout lengths, and try to do "brick" workouts where you put two or more of the event workouts together (swim, bike, and/or run). For instance, you go for an hour swim, and then immediately go bike for 2 hours. Start planning out your events leading up to the Ironman, finding smaller runs, swims, and tris, and then doing longer ones. I would do atleast two half ironmans before going for the full, have run at least two marathons, and have done at least one 200 mile bike ride, and a fair of amount of two mile swims under your belt. The last two weeks before you should only do a few light workouts. That is it in a nutshell. I think you can do it with only working out 3 to 4 times a week. Oh yah, buy a carbon fiber or maybe titanium bike as they absorb the road impacts so you don't feel like crap after riding 112 miles, with Shimano ultregra or higher (dura ace) components.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Brian