easy christmas time

no swimming, no biking but running (from 21-22pm) every three days for an hour.

Competition

last weekend i made a competition, running 12.5 km. I had an average heart rate of 171 with a finish time of 58 minutes. I think that was very good for me. This would be a 10km time of 46.5min. I'm getting better and better. yeah! :)
but today i woke up with a cold, meaning that i do nothing until wednesday... Not very good as last week i only did 2h of swimming and nothing else. From January on i will put my overall training time here every week - with the expectation of having a nice log to increase the training time continuously: 3 weeks increasing, one week only little for regeneration.

Swimming: my current 400m swimming time is 7:50minutes.

bat2aman-oman

my week

every day getting up between 6:oo and 6:3o. a little bit of breakfast. then dressing the three kids to go to the kindergarden which i leave at 8:15 to take the railway to my office. at ~9am i start work. Occasionally (2x a week) i do 10km of running at lunch time instead of big eating with collegues - i take some bread, bananasm apples with me... at ~18pm i leave my office for my famlily. after ~8:30 the kids are in bed and if i'm motivated i do a fast 5km run (1-2x a week) around our district in town.

actually my weekly training is generally like the following:
SWIM:
-tuesday from 8-9pm
-wednesday from 9-10pm
-saturday from 11-12am
RUNNING:
-2x 10km whenever i feel to do so
-1-2x fast 5km
BIKING:
-actually nothing, maybe 2km a week...

no biking

as i think biking is my favorite - there's no personal biking training since nearly two months. i plan to start with it in january to put power only into running and swimming.

my swimming power seven months before IRONMAN

hi:
today in the morning i had breakfast with my family and from 11 to 12am i did some swimming. 200m to become warm and then 10x50meter. after that i did 500m of crawl with my very best time of 11minutes! my plan is to imrove my technique and become faster than 8minutes. then i will have no fear to do the 1.2 mile swim.

if there's some time when the kids are sleeping, i will go for another 7.5km of running with a heart rate below 160.

i'm so motivated, hehe, i like that! hard is only to do sports after 8.3opm right after work and when the kids are in bed. but i signed in to ironman roth with an expected finishing time of 12hours - actually i hope to do something below 11h.

my body feeling

after swimming on two consecutive days with 10k running in between i feel really very tired right now and will do no sports for two days. i think the current training time is something about 5-7h a week.

Current training status

Actually there's not much time to update my blog but i still continue with training which is mainly running and swimming. I don't think that there will be big problems with the bike, hence i will improve my swimming techniques and my bones while running.

since the last month i went swimming twice or three times a week between 9 and 10pm and saturday from 11-12am. my current speed for 2km of crawl is 45 minutes and for 50m something about 50 seconds. during the last months i was always swimming longer distances. but due to a hint by a professional, it's better to do stuff like: 10x50m with good speed. the reason is, that you improve your techniques because there's always enough power to maintain the stability of your whole body for all of the 50m. on the other hand, during longer distances from a certain point, there your general stability gets worse and your simming style maybe adapts to this quite bad situation. so i actually do 400m to become warm, do 10x50m and after that whatever i want...

running is continuous but actually not the very best. i takes ~22min for 5km and 48min for 10km. once i tried 14km but had big problems with my right knee. but these aches has gone away after a few hours. so i plan to run only 2-3 times of 10km a week.

by the way, i feel good but it's very hard for me to go running after 9pm when the four kids are in bed and i worked the whole day before. but it works - and i have to. at 13.07. there's an IRONMAN. :)))
and i won't do all those crazy sports stuff short before midnight without any date like this...

Fourth child born and started training again

As there was a quite big interruption in posting, here i am again as the very proud father of my fourth son who was born in early september. So there was not really long time for running and that stuff - but i'm doing sport again one hour each day since a week again.

what i did not expect was my phantastic result in freestyle swimming last week. I'm still very slow, but i managed to swim 1000m without any breaks in about 28minutes. So i think i can start improving my swimming technique right now. and that has to be improved! :(

biking is very rare actually, but that doesn't matter much as biking is my very best discipline and i think i should spend more time in swimming techniques and improving the stability of my sinews, bones and joints while running 1h three times a week.

Next post will be my 10000m running time with a heart rate hard below my aerobic sill (is it called this way in english?)...

On holiday

The last two weeks i was on holiday in denmark. Hence i spend only a few hours in triathlon training. No swimmung, 2h of running and 3 1/2h of biking.
On sunday i had a mountainbike-marathon in south-east of germany. 100km and 2700m up and down in 5:50h. My best time. But after 70km i thought of stopping the race as i was so out of power i never was before. But then i thought of the ironman next year with the consequence of not finishing an ironman ever with such an mental attitude. so i did the full race and as every year without any big training in the mountains or on the street.
at the end i got place 250 out of 340. last year place 92 out of 172 (but with another 100 biker not finishing due to cold and rainy weather... all milksops)

As i'm still out of power after the mtb-marathon an the weekend i plan to do nothing this week - only let my body stabilize.

Last week another nice article was in spiegel.de. There is something written about a fat boy in school that could not stand with all the people saying that he's a "Mondgesicht" (moonface). So he worked hard to finish an ironman. He had nine months of time and he finished with nice 14:56h. I think very good with his premises. But i plan to be below 12:00h. and i will. hähä!

And i found another person in the blogspot community that plans to finish an ironman: http://226thomas.blogspot.com/
and
http://www.mh-nbg.de/wordpress/

first two weeks of training

Here are my first two weeks of training.
Resting pulse rate: 59
Weight: 68

Wo:1 Tges | RUN | h:mm,km | BIKE h:mm,km | SWIM h:mm,km
Mo 01:15:00 | ######## | 00:01:05 | 00:10:00
Di 00:30:00 | 00:30:00 | ######## | ########
Mi ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
Do ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
Fr 00:35:00 | ######## | 00:35:00 | ########
Sa 00:50:00 | ######## | ######## | 00:50:00
So ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
SUM 03:10:00 | 00:30:00 | 01:40:00 | 01:00:00

Wo:2 Tges | RUN h:mm,km | BIKE h:mm,km | SWIM h:mm,km
Mo 02:05:00 | 00:45:00 | 01:20:00 | 00:10:00
Di 01:30:00 | ######## | 01:20:00 | 00:10:00
Mi 01:00:00 | ######## | ######## | 01:00:00
Do 01:00:00 | 01:00:00 | ######## | ########
Fr ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
Sa 00:40:00 | ######## | ######## | 00:40:00
So 01:00:00 | 00:50:00 | ######## | ########
SUM 07:15:00 | 02:35:00 | 02:40:00 | 02:00:00


So 3:10h in the first and 7:15h in the second week. But i will try to make 10h in average for the first three month and increase then to 12-15 at maximum times.

rainy weather

rainy weather today, so i did not go by bike to work. but 1h jogging at lunch break.

blogs are strange emotion-self-prostitution areas. see this: "I have hope that there is still something good in this world, hope that I can feel good, hope that I can be happy with myself. Hope that I can do something. Hope that I am not a complete failure..." see: nice.blogspot.com oh my god!!! stupid self-pity!

why such a f****** name for a blog

the blog name is a f****** one. this is beyond doubt. but here comes the very simple reason.

BAT2A is a special salary in civil service for a scientific employee. -1/2 stands for half of the BAT2A salary. and -O means that i only get the eastern germany (former GDR or in german: DDR, this does not mean Dance Dance Revolution) salary.

Altogether i must say that i work full time, have a half-payed job and additionally: i get less than people in same positions west of germany. nice, ha?!
(despite of the last nice point of my special salary reductions - we all don't want to have the DDR back!!!)

yes, i thought my salary is worth using it as a blog name. :)



--bat2ahalf-oman

training time increases to 7:15

The time i spend on training slightly increases. During my first week i did altogether 3:15h of training with 1h swimming, 1:30 biking and 0:45 running. The second week (last week) i did 7:15 with spending nearly 2h on each sport.

During all running units i had little aches in my knees. Hence i will very slowly increase my running time.
Swimming is hard as i try to make more than 100km of freestyle and every time i started i only did something below between 50-100m. i don't have any endurance in freestyle. it is such a big difference to running. but last sunday i was so happy to do exactly 200m of freestyle in around six minutes.

My knowledge of my first two weeks of training is not to do so much hard units on running (aching knees) and invest more time in increasing my endurance in freestyle.
[i think one has to invest the time in freestyle and not in breaststroke as you won't have big power in your legs after 3,8km of breaststroke. Even now i feel the difference between both kinds of swimming in my legs.]

--bat2ahalf-oman

my daily routine

from monday to friday the children start our life at about 6:15, the same time we have to get up and eat something. At 7:30 we take the children to the kindergarden. After that i go by racing bike 14km (since the start of my ironman-career. ;) ) to my work close to the beach. But as you've seen, the last weeks i only did one or two days of biking to my work. This week i plan to expand the 14km to an extended round through little villages with altogether 25km. And i plan to do this before and after work every day from monday to friday. today in the morning i did it and the rest of the week i hope so too. then this would be 50km*5=250km per week - i thing definitely enough for my first months. if nothing comes in-between, i 'only' have to think when to swim and run.
my running units i plan to do every two days for half an hour. on the weekend when the children are (hopefully) sleeping and under the week during my lunch break (every second day no meal together with my co-worker).
and my swimming i do every wednesday from 20:oo to 21:oo and on sunday or saturday again when the children are sleeping

Generally this is my plan, if everything works well:
2h of swimming+2hrunning+~6hbiking=10h
WOW, i really did not expect that i could find so much time!! but this is theory - my second week was 7:15 and we will see, there might be illness of whatever, aching knees ...

--bat2ahalf-oman

best IRONMAN blog ever

hello everybody!
HI! i want to use this blog as a personal motivation for my first ironman in july next year in roth/germany. and as well this could/should perhaps be a motivation for everybody who wants to finish an ironman in his/her life without having much time for excessive training. (another short finisher story)

i found no information on the www about a personal story of an ordinary person having children, both parents having full-time jobs who tries to finish an ironman. hence i think this could be a nice blog on problems during training, amount of training, time-management and other more general information (link). i really thing finishing an ironman is a nice dream to fulfill.

all informations put here might be quite private - but my profile will not lead to any exact informations about where i'm living or what my real name is. everything i will tell about my person are the following facts:
i'm 27 years old, having tree children (soon it will be four) in the age of 1, 3, 4 and i'm living in germany.
my sports background is:
a few weeks of training (~2-3h per week) twice a year to finish two MTB-Marathons south of germany
100km and 2,5km up in 6:45h
my work is:
actually i'm doing my phd and will finish with that in mid of 2009.

finishing an ironman is a dream since nearly four years. i thought about doing such a crazy event every few months but not knowing or planning when to start exactly. with the birth of my sons during my years at the university i did not really had lots of time for sports - in general only the daily trips to the kindergarden and university of only four km each day. running was not more than once a month in average and swimming was very rare too - even worse than running. SO, best qualifications to finish an ironman!!! ;) but nevertheless, I WILL FINISH!

two weeks ago i heard of a man who had a bet with his boss an friends: all of them put 23000Euro together believing that he will not finish IRONMAN GERMANY in frankfurt below 12h. He had nine months of training. He accepted the bed, worked hard and...................finished with 11:56! and he got 23000euro. :)

so i also thought about singing in for the ROTH-CHALLENGE 2008 as this was again a very actual topic with both big german ironman in Frankfurt and Roth at this time. i signed not because of having lots of time at the moment, but believing that my free time (with work and huge amount of children :) ) will not increase withing the next ten years. hence, it doesn't matter if i start now or in for example six or seven years as available time for training is the same now and in future. but there's one advantage of doing it exactly as early as possible: i'm younger in 2008 than in 2018. that's a fact! :)

yes, now i signed in and i think about this ironman every day. everything smells and smecks of ironman. and i like that, it is such a great motivation hanging around in my brain the whole day. and using free time in the evening not for hanging around but for sports is even very very satisfying.

withing the next months i will put here my problems or success during training and how to find as much time as possible for training with having only a little.

--bat2ahalf-oman