No training

Posted on 11. februar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Biking | Leave a comment

Sorry guys and girls – no update this week. I am spending the week in Vermont, rocking my ski moves.

Threshold test

Posted on 8. februar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Biking | Leave a comment

January is over and its time to get back in the saddle after a few months of non-stop strength training and swimming.

To get started I headed to Coach Draper’s 7am Saturday CompuTrainer class with my trusted old BMC Timemachine for a threshold test. I hadn’t really been on a bike since October, so I was pretty interested in seeing where I was from a fitness perspective.

The test was simple:

30 min warm up building power so I would end up close to threshold effort
40 min functional threshold test as 4×10 min (8 min full power with 2 min easy)

Determination

Posted on 28. januar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Running | Leave a comment

determination

Most days, I look forward to my training sessions. Sometimes it’s what is immediately in front of me that motivates me: A nice warm summer day when I can’t wait getting on my bike, cruising around the beautiful areas of New Jersey (yes – they are there). It can be the feeling in my body the day after a rest day, when every nerve and fiber of the body is ready fire again. Or it can be the expectation that lies in competing with a good friend on that last mile of the weekly endurance run.
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Who beat you with the ugly stick?

Posted on 24. januar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Running | Leave a comment

reebok

I’m all for trying out new things in my training. When new gadgets, shoes, clothes etc emerge from the deep dark caves of the marketing departments I’m game, but this time Reebok took it too far.

Reebok paired up with UFC fighter Rampage Jackson to create the “first all-terrain athletic shoe”. The result is… AWFUL!
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Training log Jan 13-20.

Posted on 21. januar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Triathlon | 1 Comment

Going Up

I am too lazy today to write up a separate training log for my website, so you will have to live with the report log that I sent to my coach
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I still feel good. No pain or illness.

My swim sessions are improving. Still need some more time in the pool, but rests are getting fewer and pace is on schedule.
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Main B-race of 2013 is in the book…

Posted on 14. januar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Triathlon | Leave a comment

Today I signed up for my main B-race of the season: The 2013 NJ State Triathlon!

I haven’t had a thorough look at the 2013 season yet, but when the New Jersey state triathlon announced that it was going to be the Mid-Atlantic regional championship for 2013 I just had to sign up. A regional championship will draw more/harder competition and I like to compete against the best, even though I get my butt kicked
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2013 has started

Posted on 11. januar 2013 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Swimming | Leave a comment

Finis

My December was pretty terrible from a training perspective. I couldn’t shake the flu I had and going a week to Spain didn’t exactly help. I brought running clothes, cycling kit and swim trunks to Spain. After 7 days they hadn’t been taken out of the bag yet…
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See you next week

Posted on 11. december 2012 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Biking | Leave a comment

I’m off to Spain and the Team Novo Nordisk training camp in Valencia – I know life is hard…

I’ll be back net week. Until then – get out and train…

Swim evaluation – updated Jan 2013!

Posted on 7. december 2012 by Laurits Fischer-Hansen Posted in Swimming | Leave a comment

I ended the 2012 season with a fair swim condition but still far away from where I want to be in 2013. After a full November without any swim sessions, I met up with Coach Draper for a swim evaluation, that would set the structure for my winter swim training.
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