As the days get longer and we get closer to May I’m adjusting my training to prepare myself for The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 mile ultra marathon at Bear Mountain NY. My training and workouts up until this point have included 2 runs, 2 bikes, and 2 swims per week (plus Crossfit main site […]
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CrossFit Endurance & Trusting the Workouts
As I’m looking at my workout for the day on the CrossFit Endurance website I’m feeling a little uncertain about my readiness for my upcoming 50 mile ultra marathon. When you’ve trained the conventional way for a long distance races you constantly feel like you’re body is getting pushed to new levels of readiness. With […]
CrossFit Ironman Training Journal: New Longest CrossFit Workout Ever!
I was intending on writing this post yesterday because I wanted to be right in the moment of completing my longest CrossFit workout thus far (this is the closest to and Ironman that I’ve been :-)), but when I grabbed my computer to write about the workout slaughtering that took place, I couldn’t get my […]
CrossFit Ironman Training and Getting Back in the Groove!
In case you didn’t know I’m signed up for the 2011 Ironman Canada this August, and I will be almost exclusively doing CrossFit Ironman Training, by doing CrossFit and CrossFit Endurance training to get ready for the Ironman. The reason that I decided to do this is because over the last 8 or 9 months […]
Awesome Trail Run at Saint Edwards!
I just finished a great two hour prescribed CrossFit Endurance run though the trails near Saint Edwards! This was one of my first training runs of my North Face Endurance Challenge 50 mile trail ultra marathon in May! The training will also include biking and swimming because I’m doing the Canada Ironman in August. Most […]
Leadville Trail Running Lightening Storm Adventure!
We drove though Leadville Colorado on our cross country road trip and thought that it was a great idea to run part of the Leadville 100 race trail. Because we didn’t know where we were going we stopped and talked to some of the locals, and they pointed us in the right direction. When the […]