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For the last few weeks, I have been doing a workout that can best be described as a combination 1hr Bike Trainer Tempo Ride & 40min Tempo Run. This workout has taken place on Monday nights and I have grown a weird affinity for the special kind of pain that this workout seems to inflict on my legs…

A quick glance at this combination and you would say that this is an ordinary Brick workout ala your standard triathlon training, and yes that is what this is…But it is much, much more…The run is, in fact, a workout that would fit all of the characteristics of a Marathon training plan tempo workout. I keep my pace steady and fast…10K pace. By the end of the run, my legs start screaming for it to end.

Now the Bike ride…I started this as a typical winter trainer ride where the pace hovered well within the “easy” category, but recently I’ve felt that this is just about useless to me given my desire to time-trial this spring in some official races…So basically, I have turned this bike workout into another tempo workout where I constantly keep my cadence in the 95-100 range. When you put that bike ride up against the tempo run, it makes for a cardiovascular festival of oxygen deprivation and muscle fatigue [read: pain]. I am really hoping that this serve to increase my overall fitness and endurance as I train for the Glass City Marathon, the Maumee Valley Wheelmen Time Trial races, and several Olympic Triathlons and the big race of 2009 for us…SteelHead 1/2 Ironman…

So take an icy cold leg bath in a mountain fed spring on me…As a good friend is fond of saying…“Get into it!”

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