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Hal Higdon Training: 5 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Just checked my workout logs and I'm up to 101.62 miles running for November. Still have three days left with 9 miles, 5 miles, and 14 miles scheduled. That is a lot of mile ... Read on »

Programming Notes & Rest Day by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training First, the day after my long run I still feel great. I am ready for the 50k run. I'd like to clarify what my future training plans are for the foreseable future. It is always ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 18 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training 18 Miles - 3 Hrs 8 Mins 44 secs - 10:29 pace/mile - 2251 Total Calories Burned - Avg Heart Rate 136 Them there are me stats for this mornings run. The weather was cold and it ... Read on »

Rest Day - 18 Mile Run Tomorrow by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training I am resting up right now for the 18 miler tomorrow morning. It is 9:30 on a Friday night and I am getting ready to go to bed ... the life of a Triathlete! Will report back ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 5 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training The alarm clock went off at 5am today and Annie and I looked at each other and decided to run in the evening! Neither of us slept good and it didn't take much convincing to st ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 9 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Did 9 miles on this cool, crisp Texas morning! It is amazing how some days the run is hard and other days the run is easy. Today was one of the easy days! Getting ready to ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 4 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Here is a little something I picked up for my upcoming Trail run - a First Aid Kit! I got this little sucker at REI and it has everything in it that a injury prone person lik ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 12 Mile Run + Time to HTFU! by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Today was the hardest, most exhausting run I have had in my life. It was harder than any of the Triathlons. It was harder than the 10K I ran at a 7:20/mile pace. It was har ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 5.1 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Run Miles this week: 32.1 Tomorrow is an off day and then we have a 12 mile run as our long run scheduled for Sunday. In Higdon's plan he had us do 16 miles last weekend an ... Read on »

7 Mile Trail Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Text message to Annie from me at 3:00PM: "Call me if you want to go on an adventure!" That is how the trail run idea came about. I was over in West Houston this m ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 4 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Higdon's plan called for an easy 4 mile run today and that was exactly what I did!Actually slept in to about 7am! Since the Steelers were on late last night I didn't get to be ... Read on »

Rest Day by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Some updates: I received, " The Essential Triathlon Swimming DVD" in the mail today. A big Thank You to Kevin Koskella from TriSwimCoach.com for sending it out to me ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 16 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training 16 miles in 2 hours and 42 minutes. This is a 10min/mile pace, which is exactly what we were trying to run. Pacing is made simple by the Garmin 305! Annie and I got out of ... Read on »

That didn't take long .... by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training I let it marinate for about 12 hours and I have decided to .... do the 50k Texas Trail Race! Just signed up 10 minutes ago. Already paid so no turning back now! It is amazi ... Read on »

Should I do this? Am I Crazy? by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training After you read what I am about to write you will understand the title of this post. Ok, over that last year I have been doing a lot of running. When I first started all this ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 4 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training The Hal Higdon plan is pretty easy to follow. Basically, the miles you run during the week add up to what your long run is on the weekend. Example: We ran 4 miles, 8 miles ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 8 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Annie and I got up in the wee-wee hours of the morning and did an 8 mile run. The alarm clock went off at 5am and I really didn't want to get up. I told Annie I wanted to sl ... Read on »

The Essential Triathlon Swimming DVD by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Ok, so if you have been reading my blog for any length of time you know that I struggle with swimming. More specifically I struggle with the Open Water Swim. I can pound out l ... Read on »

Hal Higdon Training: 4 Mile Run by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training Today was an easy 5am run. It was pretty crisp outside so both Annie and I enjoyed our run. We did an easy aerobic pace like Higdon recommends and did the 4 miles in a littl ... Read on »

Sunday Rest Day by Jeff Irvin Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Strength Training I was unable to do the 15 mile run today. My legs just did not have it in them this morning. Yesterday's race took more out of me than I guessed it would and my ambitious p ... Read on »

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