Ironman Kentucky Training- Month 5 of 8

[Tri Girl]

Wow- May was a great month! June and July will be even better! Thanks for the update. I'm just beginning my IM training (I'm 25 weeks out), and you always get me pumped!
Congrats on your smokin' century. 6 hours is a fabulous time- your IM time won't be too far off.
My dining room table looks just like the first picture (as does the trunk of my car). Oh well- some things can wait while IM training.
Keep it coming, girl. We're cheering you on all the way!

[KSH]

Hee-hee... I KNOW you two ladies can understand! Being Ironmen and all.

Glad to get you pumped Tri Girl. I hope your training goes OK with your injury. Please keep us updated.

I know that people think that because we do all this training, we must be in perfect physical shape. A lot of people don't realize that we train through injuries and pain at times.

Yea, I hope to finish my bike in 7 hours in Kentucky. I think I can do it. I hope I can do it. 6 hours is hard! Adding another hour on race day will be tough.

[colby]

Reading your training logs is great - you've still got a lot of improvement ahead, so you'll be in a great position come your day. Getting past those nasty days is such an accomplishment - even if I have had to call it a day and give up, I feel stronger for facing it in the first place. We had a couple of unseasonably warm 80+ degree days in the wake of 50 degree days and it was absolutely brutal... walking on my long run, crawling that last 15 miles on the bike. It was so frustrating, but I got up the next day anyway.

I have a rack in my bathroom with all of my training clothes on it... I gave up going to the closet. My refrigerator has random bottles of water and orange stuff in it, along with "quick protein" "oh my god I must eat" and "mmm, snacks". My husband's dishes duty on Mondays is always full of water bottles used to mix, water bottles used to carry, and water bottles used during the middle of the week. I SWEAR I do laundry, but our hampers are full - training clothes are clean.

Cheers to Iron Families and Iron Friends!

Keep up the good work, KSH. You'll be in great shape.

[HillSlugger]

Great report!

Can we see the picture of you with Flat Kate? Pleeese!

[KSH]

Colby... I'll write more later in your thread about IM training!

Here is a picture of Flat Kate and I... as requested...

[HillSlugger]

That's really cute. How many places has Flat Kate been?

[Veronica]

You have great legs.

V.