Daffodil and JuniperJen’s New Parents Tri’ing Group - OPEN (Page 10)

Originally posted by RachelLee85

NAME: Rachel

FOCUS: Complete my first triathlon in 2014!

STORY: I’m 29 years old and looking to up my fitness plan. I have been married for 3 years, moved to a new city right after getting married and learned that making friends is hard the older you get! I’d love to join this group because the thought of women mentors who have so much experience is comforting. I do not have any children yet, but hope that doesn’t keep me from the group!

I was a basketball player, swimmer and golfer throughout high school and continued golfing in college. Since getting married my fitness level has decreased significantly. I began practicing hot yoga last year and have absolutely fallen in love, but I have hit a plateau and am looking for a more challenging and fun activity. I figured why not train for a triathlon and try to learn a new discipline, if possible. I’m a bit overwhelmed right now b/c I’m trying to read all I can and it is a lot of information to take in at first. I thought a mentor group could help me focus and stay accountable.

FAMILY STATUS: Married, 2 dogs & a cat.

CURRENT TRAINING: I am new to tri training, but I am eager to learn all I can and get started! I’m not sure where exactly to start, but I think I’m just going to pick one and go. I’m the most worried about the biking and running. I’ve always loathed running and that is one hurdle I’m working to overcome.

THIS YEAR'S RACES: None scheduled yet, but I’d like to complete my first triathlon by the fall.

Originally posted by sethjk

Originally posted by juniperjen

So, how's everyone doing? It's kind of quiet around here.

I have a distracting home project: painting our bedroom and getting it prepped for the new bed frame my husband built. I did have an excellent run this morning - the longest for half marathon training at 20k. It was really cold this morning and it snowed the whole time. Then it's been sunny the rest of the day. Anyway, i feel in good shape to run somewhere close to 2 hours on race day!!

Originally posted by smithat05 Been busy around here so quiet on the boards yes, Trying to get a book read before Friday, Our Cleveland Tri Club spring meeting is thursday and the guy who wrote this book called "The Secret Race" is going to be there and talk about it. all about Lance and the postal team when they were winning. It is told by Tyler Hamilton and a few other of Lance's teammates. I am only 1/3 done so I have a bunch more reading to do. 13 mile run yesterday 1000 in the pool today, did 10 x 100 a guy next to me was doing :55 100's uhgg then 1hr on the trainer tonight. Great weekend with the family toook the lil guy to the Cleveland Aquarium, Was really cute him looking at all the fish.

Originally posted by juniperjen

Good morning! 

So, i've been keeping busy and quite productive, i think. The house is a mess but my textured wall paper and painting looks quite good

So, for the ladies with babies and breastfeeding I put the question out to my swim coach who is a pro triathlete and new mom - the question about keeping energy up while training and breastfeeding.  I've been feeling a little sluggish since ramping up my training a bit.  She didn't have a ton of info but a woman in one of her other swim sessions has been writing a book about athletes and pregnancy and the months after baby with someone else so she connected us.

She confirmed that there isn't a ton of research out there so here are the highlights of what she told me:

• the common advice is 400-500 calories per day and that seems to hold
• energy will first go to milk production and then to the mom
• so calorie consumption is quite important - try to balance off additional need from exercise
• some evidence that additional protein will assist (mostly anecdotal)
• should take some care to keep calcium and iron up

Other than that she stressed that rest is also important especially if sleep is impacted - so basically take care of yourself and back off training if you're feelling overly fatigued. 

Also that your baby will be a great cue as to how things are going - 

• is your baby pulling or acting frustrated when breastfeeding? 
• is your baby continuing to gain weight and grow? 

These are general milk supply cues but are things to monitor. 

* i am not a doctor or a lactation consultant but most of these are common knowledge - if you are concerned you should check with your doctor, lactation consultant, etc.  

Originally posted by rydergal

What type of running shoes do you guys use??

I'm a Saucony Kinvara 3 lover and then they made the 4's....that fit totally different!!!! Not impressed, I think it's so important as a runner we should be able to find a shoe and keep buying it!!!
So I was fitted at a store and made the switch to the Cortana to only find after 2 months of wearing it that I was fitted wrong and given the wrong info about the shoe which was causing me pain.....So I went back to my old Kinvara's and had no pain....Unable to return the $175 shoe which have only about 75km on them & Without getting into the bad customer service I received from Saucony, I went out to try and find a new shoe....only to resort back to Saucony but now the Virratta ..... So now it's a love/hate relationship with them, my feet love them but I don't....but what can ya do.....


On the old garmin topic- I found this new gps that's coming out called the Bia http://www.bia-sport.com/it seems to be a new up and coming watch that isn't released just yet.... YOu can buy it at an introductory price as it helps back the product....but with that comes countless upgrades to it and softwear as it's still in the semi-trial phase which seems like could be a pain....it seems pretty nice but i'm hesistant to go with something totally new....has anyone heard about them before??

I also heard Polar has the RS800 which the shoe shop I was at recommended....The coaches I did my IM training camp through used the Polar RCX5 triathlete watch and seemed to really like it and said they have better battery time then Garmin....So the search is still on, gotta find some time to read reviews on each to see which I might like better!

Originally posted by RachelLee85

NAME: Rachel

FOCUS: Complete my first triathlon in 2014!

STORY: I’m 29 years old and looking to up my fitness plan. I have been married for 3 years, moved to a new city right after getting married and learned that making friends is hard the older you get! I’d love to join this group because the thought of women mentors who have so much experience is comforting. I do not have any children yet, but hope that doesn’t keep me from the group!

I was a basketball player, swimmer and golfer throughout high school and continued golfing in college. Since getting married my fitness level has decreased significantly. I began practicing hot yoga last year and have absolutely fallen in love, but I have hit a plateau and am looking for a more challenging and fun activity. I figured why not train for a triathlon and try to learn a new discipline, if possible. I’m a bit overwhelmed right now b/c I’m trying to read all I can and it is a lot of information to take in at first. I thought a mentor group could help me focus and stay accountable.

FAMILY STATUS: Married, 2 dogs & a cat.

CURRENT TRAINING: I am new to tri training, but I am eager to learn all I can and get started! I’m not sure where exactly to start, but I think I’m just going to pick one and go. I’m the most worried about the biking and running. I’ve always loathed running and that is one hurdle I’m working to overcome.

THIS YEAR'S RACES: None scheduled yet, but I’d like to complete my first triathlon by the fall.

Originally posted by sethjk

I don't really know anybody else who does Tris, at least not locally. Eventually I think I'll join a tri club, but for now I'm training on my own.

Got in 45 minutes on the trainer this morning, felt like a great workout. Included a 16K time trial.

Yesterday I was poking around online and found a really cool tri I'm going to shoot for next year. It's called Escape the Cape and it seems like a ripoff of Escape from Alcatraz. You jump off a ferry 1 mile out off Cape May and swim to shore, then a 20 mile bike followed by a 5 mile run (part beach run). Sounds really cool and definitely something to shoot for next year.

Originally posted by sethjk

I don't really know anybody else who does Tris, at least not locally. Eventually I think I'll join a tri club, but for now I'm training on my own.

Got in 45 minutes on the trainer this morning, felt like a great workout. Included a 16K time trial.

Yesterday I was poking around online and found a really cool tri I'm going to shoot for next year. It's called Escape the Cape and it seems like a ripoff of Escape from Alcatraz. You jump off a ferry 1 mile out off Cape May and swim to shore, then a 20 mile bike followed by a 5 mile run (part beach run). Sounds really cool and definitely something to shoot for next year.

Originally posted by Daffodil

To up the cuteness factor of our mentoring group, this picture is from yesterday's swim class. J is almost 6.5 months old, and LOVES swimming lessons

Originally posted by smithat05



too cute, guess I didnt know you could start swim lessons that early.

Originally posted by smithat05

Long week at work 65 hrs in 5 days No workouts since Sunday, Finally got a nice 35 mile ride in saturday and bricked a 3 mile run with the dog. Was in the low 40's so I decided to ride outside, Sun was shining, had a strong tailwind in the begining, which made it fun on the way back. Then ran a 5k at 23 mins with my one dog.

Had our Triathlon meeting Friday night, Daniel Coyle was our guest speaker who wrote the Secret Race , Was a very good presentation, I was impressed with how much Daniel knew about the sport of Cycling, He was not a cyclist at all. We got new Swim caps with our logo on them, spent the rest of the night talking with friends and catching up how their seasons ended and how it has begun, Walked to the bar next door and had a few drinks. The meeting was at one of our sponsors, which is the nicest bike shop in Cleveland, I purchased my new bike there, I got a Cervelo S2 at the beginning of the season last year.
My wife and I went to bed at 8 last night, right after we put our DS down. lol I feel so old going to bed so early. Our DS is not sleeping any better,

hoping to swim and run today.

Originally posted by Daffodil To up the cuteness factor of our mentoring group, this picture is from yesterday's swim class. J is almost 6.5 months old, and LOVES swimming lessons

Originally posted by juniperjen

That is SUPER cute!  I've been looking for swim classes around here with Felicity but it seems the city doesn't offer it unless its private - the group classes seem to be for toddlers and older.  We may just go to family time - several pools around us have it.  But i'll have to look into some other facilities too.  She really loves the bath so i assume she won't mind the pool either.

 

Originally posted by juniperjen

Anyone have any topics they wish to discuss? 

I am interested in Laura's experience with heart rate testing.  What did you do to have your zones set? How do you use your zones? 

Do others use HR training? What do you know about it? 

Originally posted by sethjk

This board has been super quiet lately!
Actually gotten in some good training this week, including a more than 7 mile run on Saturday. It was finally a nice enough day to be outside for more than an hour, though black ice was a problem. Thsi week, I've been on the bike and running; unfortunately, swimming isn't happening this week.

I'm particularly interested in having various forms of testing done, VO2 Max, and LT testing specifically; though I don't know where to start looking around me to have it done. Ideally I'd love to have insurance cover it, but I don't know if that's possible. Anybody have thoughts?