Hey #SnapNation!
Landon Cassill right here with a sneak peak into what I have been as much as currently!
After the loopy weekend with the Quaker State 400 in Kentucky and Muncie 70.3, I went straight from Kentucky to Houston to do a 3 day swim “camp” with my swim coach Tim Floyd and the Magnolia Masters swim crew. Tim is a well-respected coach within the triathlon world who’s chargeable for teaching a few of the quickest swimmers within the Professional Ironman ranks.
From that busy weekend to the three days in Houston (with two swim exercises a day), I used to be formally drained by the point I bought again house to Charlotte. I had a pair days to spend at house and prepare to move to New Hampshire for an additional NASCAR race. Between the New Hampshire and Indianapolis races, I centered on recovering, not placing lots of strain on understanding, and planning my preparations for Austria. At that time, Austria was about six weeks away,and I felt like my physique might deal with about three or 4 weeks of mega quantity and intense exercises, so I set my mark on going straightforward till about July 27 to get began on a four-week block of rebuilding my health for the World Championships, together with per week of taper/relaxation main into the occasion.
With the brand new child in the home, I’m additionally looking for our new day by day routine and when the most effective time is for me to slot in my exercises whereas nonetheless giving my spouse a break in the course of the day! I’m discovering that the early mornings within the pool have gotten an increasing number of vital, with the remainder of my exercises being executed within the mid-to-late afternoon. Belief me, it hasn’t been a straightforward course of. I’ve blown by a number of 5 a.m. get up calls to this point and have regretted skipping a exercise right here and there.
Now that we’ve made it to July 31, I’ve put in a reasonably respectable week of exercises. Sturdy, however nothing near what I’ll be doing over the course of the following three weeks. I’ve ran nearly 20 miles this week, 10 of these miles coming from one run, however I’ve put in nearly 125 miles on the bike, and 10k meters within the pool. That’s about 13 hours of coaching.
Over the following three weeks, I’ll hopefully double that run mileage with my longest run being round 16 miles. One of many greatest issues I’m centered on is power on the bike for the climbs by the mountains in Austria. For that, I’m doing lots of low cadence/excessive resistance muscle pressure work on the bike and leg power workouts like squats and lunges at Snap Health.
So far as my operating is worried, I’ve felt like run power has additionally been a weak spot of mine, so these exercises within the fitness center are going to assist me, together with some higher-intensity runs in the course of the week to construct leg pace. As a result of my run pace simply hasn’t been there the previous few weeks (perhaps due to the new climate or lingering fatigue from the previous couple months), these run exercises might be good to get my leg pace again up. Generally, a treadmill session on the Snap Health membership is even higher than a run outdoors for me as a result of I can management the tempo on the treadmill and actually dial in my aim for the exercise.
It has been a wild trip! Keep tuned for much more insider coaching blogs as I put together for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.
– LC
