Brickfest Day 3
I started Brickfest 2007 this past Monday. Annually, to help folks kick start the training year, the Hammerhead Triathlon Club sponsors a brickfest. The rules are:
1. You must do seven days of seven bricks.
2. They must be running (could be done on treadmill), swimming and/or biking (can be a spin class or done on a trainer).
3. You must do a minimum of 30 minutes each event, for a minimum of one hour per day.
4. Events do NOT need to be done right after the other.
5. Events must be two different types (you can't run on the treadmill for 30 mins then run on the road for 30 mins).
6. If you miss a workout, you must start over.
Here is the summary of my Brickfest so far:
Monday
Swim 1700 at the Yates YMCA
Run 4 miles at lunch
Tuesday
Run 9.5 miles
Spin for 45 minutes on the trainer doing Isolated Leg Training
Wednesday
Ride bike to the Yates YMCA
Swim 1650
Ride bike home (total distance on the bike was about 10 miles)
Tomorrow is a track work-out and a bike ride later on in the day. It might end up being a spin on the trainer in front of the TV if the weather doesn't cooperate. Friday will be a swim work-out and strides at the track. Saturday is a 50 mile bike ride and a run sometime later in the day. Sunday is a run and a bike ride, not sure when or where.
All of this for a t-shirt. . .although it is a very special t-shirt.
James is also campaigning for an Epic Weekend the first weekend of February. He got the idea from Gordo's Epic Camps . The idea here is you get 4 points for each running mile, 1 point for each biking mile, and 1 point for every 100 meters in the pool. We set an arbitrary goal to accumulate 100 points per day for a weekend. Of course, we would start the weekend on Friday.
Epic Weekend is shorter than Brickfest, but definitely more intense. And no t-shirt!