10 Feb 2019 - Rock and Roll New Orleans half marathon
Enjoying the sights in the Big Easy The latest stop on my half marathon tour of the USA was in New Orleans Louisiana. This was our first visit to the Big Easy. New Orleans is an interesting place with lots of opportunities to indulge and experience just about anything you desire. We experienced many things including my successful finish in the Rock and Roll half marathon. This was my 21st state that I have completed a half marathon in. Leading up to this race, I've been training with an online stats based program called TriDot. About once a month I take an assessment in swimming, biking and running and they use that assessment to design a training program for me. One of the toughest things for me was they had me train most of my running miles in HR zone two. In the beginning I had to walk/slow jog in order to stay in this zone. In fact my runs during the first month were as much as 4-5 minutes slower than my normal 9 minute per mile pace. Interestingly enough I can