The "Eureka" that helped (in part) to start this

So, to begin this thing....

I am Jack. I have run a handful of marathons and, maybe like you, have a shoebox of various finisher medals and other stuff. Big deal, right? I agree! Recently, I got to the point where I asked myself "what the hell am I doing this for?" Then a couple things happened.

I stumbled on this post a couple days ago and something just went off in my head.
http://www.ffh.us/cn/hadd.htm

What? The best way for me to get faster may be to run slower? Sounds crazy, no? Well, I am going to chronicle this experiment for you. One thing I have spent very little time doing is running really slow. So we may see some really cool improvements. I will do his little 2400 meter tests and post the results every few weeks, promise!

My original plan for 2005 was to do a half ironman in June as a fun interim goal on the way to a really good marathon in the Fall. So this blog picks up about halfway through the tri training. It has has been a cool diversion that I will have to talk about from time to time. What swimming and biking has done is to make me much more in tune with my heart rate. If you read the link above, you will see that it is all about the heart.

Some things you should know:
I ran a 3:26 about 18 months ago
I am a very disciplined trainer, diligence is my watch word.
I like training more than racing.
I am competitive to a fault.
I want to run a 3:10 this Fall.

Jack