Beer Drinker Appreciation Society (BDAS)--OPEN (Page 16)

Welcome Dan!!  You've come to the right place.

Gretchen - glad you survived the track situation!  Although I can't help but thing the 'tiny' track is huge compared to the one at my Y.  Ours is 17 laps per mile so, what, 100yd oval?  Even at 8:30 pace the turns are too sharp and I have to cross a lane or two to keep from destroying my ankles!    There's not usually enough people on it to worry so much though.  And if there is, the treadmills are right downstairs.

That's the winner!!!!  I can't think anyone can come up with a shorter track they've trained on.

I was going to recommend the same thing.  I bought a set about six months ago with the intention of using them for races where there's no in-water warmup available.  Of course, they're still sitting on my counter top, untouched!  But if I didn't have access to a pool, I'd actually use them.  I really should bust them out and try them for a race warmup (well, try them out in practice first, and then for a race warmup....maybe that should be one of my weekly goals!).

I got the new bike today!  No pics yet....I drove it home from the shop (a little over an hour away), and by the time I got home, it was getting dark out and I needed to knock out a run, so I did that.  I'll be riding it tomorrow (later in the day, after it has time to warm up a bit....I'm a baby if I have to ride in sub-55F weather), so hoping to get some pics while I'm out.

I'm very excited about it!  The little bit of riding I did on the trainer and the parking lot makes me think I'm going to like it a lot.  Not sure if anyone has seen the info released on Argon's "smart bike" (http://www.slowtwitch.com/Tech/Argon_s_Smart_Bike_6039.html), but my coach is the developer of the technology and I'll be doing some testing for him.  So my bike came equipped with the aero testing device and I'll be trying to gather as much data for him, while preparing for my races this season!  I'm very excited to be part of this super cool project!

It's tough to mimic the movements in the pool on dry land, but some good exercises are push ups, pull ups (or seated pull downs), dips, and press downs (basically you push a bar down with your arms fully extended).  Stability core work helps, too.

Originally posted by firebert I'm a bit behind this week in that I've missed my Friday maintenance run and I haven't gotten the bike on the trainer - yet. That will happen tonight. I did get my first swim in since August though! Felt mostly good except I have a twinge in my left shoulder (which used to be my good shoulder- lol). Have to see how that goes. It might be a light tri season if it stays this way. It's been messed up since I fell off a skateboard in October. And the answer to the question 'what was a 42 year old doing on a kids skateboard?' Is simple - 'beer'.

As long as it was preceeded by the phrase "Hey, guys!  Watch this!!"  

Nice job on the training milestone!

Hey don't feel bad, I was in bed by 8:30 last night.  LOL

Quick update:  incisions still hurt but not terrible.  Back to work (in my home office) today and I have a couple of errands to run so hopefully driving won't be too bad.  I start walking on the treadmill today - going to start with a mile @ 2.0 mph and we'll see how that goes.

Go get em Mike!

Checking in from last week's goals - I fell a bit short in that I missed a maintenance run (work) and never got the bike set up on the trainer (family time).  My goals are still arbitrary in that the only workout schedule I have right now is the run for a potential HM in March that I haven't registered for yet...

At the pool where Nicole and I used to swim, it was outdoors, and sometimes in May we would get some wicked wind storms and there would actually be a current in the water that you could see.