fitness

🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️ 2024 Milton Sprint Triathlon

My third year in a row for this one and, despite pouring rain for the entire race, it was still fun and well organized. My times across the three have been within minutes of each other. Although this one was slowest of the three, given the conditions, I’m happy with the overall results and ended up 12th in my age group. At least in the swim, it didn’t matter that it was raining.

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Auto-generated description: A GPS-tracked map showcases a 109.4 km cycling route completed in 4 hours and 6 minutes with an elevation gain of 605 meters, passing through areas near Vaughan, Newmarket, and close to Rouge National Urban Park.

🚴‍♂️ Nice to get out of the basement for a proper ride outside. First one of the season!

The coffe and pastries halfway through were very helpful.

🏃‍♂️ Dynamic run training in Training Today

I’ve been using Training Today for a while now to track my readiness to train (RTT). They’ve recently released a new feature that provides dynamic training for running based on RTT which takes into account your current recovery and health to make sure you don’t overtrain. Generating the workouts is easy. In the iPhone app, you choose the type of run (speed, endurance, recovery, etc) and then the app shows you the structured workout, targeting your current RTT.

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🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️ Fitness in 2023

I kept busy in 2023 with triathlon training. As a reference point for next year, here’s a comparison of 2023 with 2022. My running was surprisingly consistent. Although the totals are almost identical, I do think that my structured workouts were much better in 2023. Each run had a purpose and all were part of a bigger plan. There was a trade off for cycling between indoors and outdoors. In 2023, I couldn’t quite get aligned with most of the outdoor group rides.

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