https://chrisgross.racing/tags/training/Recent content in Training on chrisgross.was.racingHugoen-usSun, 30 Oct 2011 09:40:49 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/10/10000-radkilometer-geschafft/Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:40:49 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/10/10000-radkilometer-geschafft/Last Wednesday was the day — the 10,000 season-kilometer mark on the bike fell. Somewhere on the Rhine levee, doing 45 km/h — fitting, I think …https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/09/trainingswoche-2-29-08-04-09-2011/Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:15:12 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/09/trainingswoche-2-29-08-04-09-2011/Or: life almost came to an end... I was incredibly lucky on Wednesday. By just a few very, very tight centimeters I narrowly avoided a head-on collision with an oncoming car.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/08/trainingswoche-3-22-28-08-2011/Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:46:10 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/08/trainingswoche-3-22-28-08-2011/...or life and training in Germany on Indian Standard Time... IST +3.5h — that was the offset I spent last week in. Meaning: very early mornings, work done just after lunch, and in bed by 7pm.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/08/trainingswoche-4-15-21-08-2011/Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:31:37 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/08/trainingswoche-4-15-21-08-2011/Monday: early morning shake-out swim to recover from the previous day's effort. Tuesday: 1h run with short pick-ups and an easy 1.5h bike session. Wednesday: climbing at the Königstuhl...https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/08/trainingswoche-5-08-14-08-2011/Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:21:17 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/08/trainingswoche-5-08-14-08-2011/Monday: unplanned rest day — the body was just too wrecked. Tuesday: well recovered, out on the bike for 75 minutes in the morning; a brisk 1.5h run was planned for the evening — ended up a soggy affair thanks to a thunderstorm.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/fakten-fakten-fakten/Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:17:17 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/fakten-fakten-fakten/Or: what did it actually take to show up at the start line on Sunday reasonably prepared? After pulling the numbers together I was genuinely shocked by how much of my life I'd burned through for this — not meant negatively, I did all of it voluntarily and very, very, very, very happily.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/trainingswoche-3-04-10-07-2011-2/Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:15:39 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/trainingswoche-3-04-10-07-2011-2/The week kicked off on Monday with a well-deserved complete rest day, and Tuesday's 75-minute bike ride contributed nicely to recovery too. Wednesday brought one more longer brick session on the schedule.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/trainingswoche-3-04-10-07-2011/Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:08:12 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/trainingswoche-3-04-10-07-2011/The last big training week before the Ironman started as always with a swim session on Monday morning — unfortunately not a great one, so I called it after 25 minutes. I had the body position of a brick, zero power, zero technique; there was no point grinding through it any longer.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/trainingswoche-4-27-06-03-07-2011/Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:04:26 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/07/trainingswoche-4-27-06-03-07-2011/It was supposed to be a rest week — and at least sports-wise, it was. 'Full capacity due to various external influences' is a much more accurate description though...https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/trainingswoche-5-20-26-06-2011/Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:55:01 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/trainingswoche-5-20-26-06-2011/The week started as always with a Monday morning swim. For once it actually went really well — no surprise, since I'd barely trained the day before. A solid week wrapping up a demanding three-week block.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/trainingswoche-6-13-19-06-2011/Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:27:50 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/trainingswoche-6-13-19-06-2011/Last week started Monday morning with a one-hour swim that got harder toward the end than originally planned. Not surprising — I was nowhere near fully recovered from the previous day's efforts.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/trainingswoche-7-06-12-06-2011/Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:00:21 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/trainingswoche-7-06-12-06-2011/The week started Monday with an easy swim — legs and arms were still pretty beat from Challenge Kraichgau. In hindsight I could have skipped it, since I managed to lose my swim cap, goggles, and swim watch at the pool.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/i-am-sailing-i-am-sailing/Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:28:17 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/06/i-am-sailing-i-am-sailing/… Home again 'cross the sea, I am sailing stormy waters … That was the theme of today's bike session. Tons of wind, me, and my TT bike = an absolute blast!!!https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/05/trainingswoche-9-23-29-05-2011/Sun, 29 May 2011 21:11:47 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/05/trainingswoche-9-23-29-05-2011/55 days to Ironman Frankfurt, and training is getting harder. Week 9 was the last in a three-week loading block — lots of race pace and above, which is brutal but also incredibly satisfying.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/05/ungeplante-cross-einlage-mit-dem-zeitfahrrad/Wed, 25 May 2011 20:27:21 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/05/ungeplante-cross-einlage-mit-dem-zeitfahrrad/During today's session I was involuntarily forced to test my new bike's off-road capabilities. A huge construction site on my planned route home from the Kraichgau left me with three options — none of them great.https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/05/trainingswoche-10-16-22-05-2011/Mon, 23 May 2011 19:44:04 +0000https://chrisgross.racing/archives/2011/05/trainingswoche-10-16-22-05-2011/Last week only had 17.5 training hours, but with other obligations and very little sleep it was right at the edge of what's manageable. I really needed today's rest day.