what is rundetroit up to…

 

Damn…what has rundetroit been up to?  We’ve seen some great music.  Ben Harper at Saint Andrews Hall, a sick show, the guy rocks.  We’ve been to the Tiger’s game, Eastern Market, planting flowers, we even went fishing, oh yeah…and we’ve been training our asses of off…or at least I have.  Pregnancy is only lending itself to about 3 mile runs, which as far as I’m concerned is pretty f*cking impressive, especially at 17 weeks.

I’ve been doing a masters swim class which is both awesome and humbling.  Out of pool full of people, I’m by far the slowest.  The class mostly consists of previous high school and college swimmers.  They kick ass.  I’m the guy who gets lapped and can’t even do a kick-turn…but I love it.  The “master’s” swim class is a great tool to improve on your fitness, swim technique and endurance.  You don’t just get in the pool and swim.  There are drills involved, for example:

200 meter warm up (there and back is usually 50 meters)

300 kick set (doing 50’s with a kickboard, with 10 seconds rest between each 50)

Main set- 4 x’s 100 (10 sec rest between), 4 x’s 50 (15 sec rest between), 4 x’s 25 (20 sec rest between).  The shorter the distance the faster you should go.  Do this whole set 2 times.  A solid workout in the pool.

Racing season is upon us.  rundetroit will be doing the Ann Arbor triathlon on June 7.  This is great race we do yearly, if you’re remotely ready, you should give it a shot.  We’re also figuring out if we’re going to do the Motor City Tri on Belle Isle on June 14 (it’s always interesting swimming in the Detroit River), or Big Fish near Ortonville on June 21.  These races and more info are on the rundetroit.com calendar.

Coming soon, I’ll be blogging about the bike portion of my triathlon training and how much I HATE THE BIKE!  I’ll be looking for anyone who can help change my mind.

We’d love to hear about where you’re racing this summer, comment on the blog or email us.

So what are we up to?  We’re always up to something.  What are you up to?