Tango Training Plan

I am behind schedule with my run training and with the Tango a little more than 4 weeks away I’m getting nervous about it. So on the way to work today I pulled out the Half Marathon Training plan and put it onto the calendar. That should help me, I seem to do much better if I have a schedule. I feel compelled to “complete” it.

For the Swim Training, I guess I’m going to have to hope we have great weather while we are in NH. I need to spend a ton of time at the lake. Shawn and family will also be up there the first half of the week. I’m guessing I’m going to be able to see how I compare once we have fins and hand paddles. I should probably consider trying a snorkel, I think I’m going to need all the help I can get.
Here is some good news regarding the swim. Last night’s swim class was the first swim since May 3 (Brooklyn Half) that I didn’t have to lay off the kick. I didn’t even think about that until this morning.
Some of the race times: 50m in 44sec. 25m in 19sec. I thought my relay 50 was probably a bit faster but I don’t know for sure. I just hit the wall and needed to breathe so I didn't see the clock. I did get the high 5 from Joe on that one, so I know it was better than he was expecting from me as of late. It would seem that even as weak as my kick is, it does help me for sprints.

I digress, this is a post about Tango Training.

Orienteering: Craig has the map aspect of this covered. I will just do my best to help spot the points once we are close. My main concern on this stage is nutrition and cramping. I don’t typically cramp during the run but I can’t say that I’ve done much running following a long swim, which was preceded by a half marathon.
We do plan on scouting the rim rock area this weekend. We never touched the trail going up the front of the hill last year. We need to find out what that is all about for this year.

4.5 Mile run: This is not my leg of the race, I’m mentioning it because last year I was an anchor in the canoe with Shawn. My legs were cramping so badly, I was standing in the canoe trying to work them out.
So I feel that I should offer to Craig that if I’m not dead at the end the orienteering. I’ll trade him for this run if he will allow me to simply lie in the bottom of the canoe while he paddles us to victory. Ha ha.

Canoe: I expect Shawn will be taking his kettlebell to NH. I’m not sure I can even pick the thing up but the time has come to add some weight training to my schedule. (Insert Ad for totally ripped Abs in just 30 days).
Fortunately the gym Genine goes to just ran a special. For about $200 I am now a member for the next 2 years. I have use of the facility Wed-Sun. They have much better weight machines than what I have available at the Y which I’ve gone to about 3 or 4 times in the last 18 months.

There you have it. It’s all very simple. Just stick to the schedule.

Oh one last thing, if you need competition as inspiration. There is a very good chance that we will see Genine teamed up with Maija splitting the events the same way Craig and I intend to split them.
Once again, I will let Craig do the math to determine exactly what we need to do in order to win this thing. Ha ha.

For those that are going to be in Warren this weekend:
I have a 5 mile run Scheduled Friday and a 10 mile run scheduled on Saturday.
Genine plans on checking out the bike route, hiking Rim Rock and would like to canoe. I don’t see the canoe happening unless they drop the river considerably for the holiday weekend.