Manatee Mentors 2015.2 CLOSED (Poptarts? Pet pics?) (Page 104)

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

I had to cut my brick short yesterday because of time constraints.  Planned to do 40 mile ride/ 6 mile run but had to cut the bike to 21 miles but I road my CX bike with knobby tires to make it a bit tougher.  Got my full run in and with weekly bricks I'm really starting to run well off the bike.  I am beginning to see that the big four or five hour workouts are going to be very difficult to get in.  I just can't take that amount of time out of the day with everything else in my life.  Same reason I quit golfing years ago.  An hour or two I usually manage to squeeze in sometime during the day but not these long sessions.   I feel I can get the swimming and running workload in for what I want to accomplish but am going to have to temper my expectations on the bike.  I should be doing some 50-60 mile rides in prep for my HIM and that has not happened.  Oh well, I guess we do what we can do.

Great job fitting in what you could. Glad the bricks are working well for you.

I absolutely agree with you on fitting in what we can.  I've been having the discussion with myself  and DH. Trying to decide what I would like to do goal wise, and comparing that to what I can/am willing to train for. I looked at Janyne's logs to see what kind of volume it takes to be a super marathoner/triathlete at "our" age.  I'm not sure I can commit even the S/B/R time she does, let alone the cross training!

An update on life.

Jason is back in AZ permanently. A few days after starting in Cali, the job he had waited for 6 months to hear anything concrete finally made its offer. Geez. Although he felt bad, it really was a no-brainer. The people were very understanding and told him to hurry back if this doesn't work out. So he started his new new job this morning.

On another note, we had snow this weekend at the Overland Expo. Crazy weather!

Happy Monday

An update on life.

Jason is back in AZ permanently. A few days after starting in Cali, the job he had waited for 6 months to hear anything concrete finally made its offer. Geez. Although he felt bad, it really was a no-brainer. The people were very understanding and told him to hurry back if this doesn't work out. So he started his new new job this morning.

On another note, we had snow this weekend at the Overland Expo. Crazy weather!

Happy Monday

Thanks TJ and I think you are right that you need to look at what you can realistically train for and consider that in your goal setting.  I feel like with substituting in a little speed work I'd be doing great for Oly prep but with an HIM I think one needs 10-12 hours and that is a stretch for me.

My brick probably wouldn't have happened except my son wanted to go for a bike ride.  I was so glad we got to do this together other than he would zip ahead every few minutes and yell back, "HURRY UP DAD!!"  This was all I could think about during those moments.

An update on life.

Jason is back in AZ permanently. A few days after starting in Cali, the job he had waited for 6 months to hear anything concrete finally made its offer. Geez. Although he felt bad, it really was a no-brainer. The people were very understanding and told him to hurry back if this doesn't work out. So he started his new new job this morning.

On another note, we had snow this weekend at the Overland Expo. Crazy weather!

Happy Monday

An update on life.

Jason is back in AZ permanently. A few days after starting in Cali, the job he had waited for 6 months to hear anything concrete finally made its offer. Geez. Although he felt bad, it really was a no-brainer. The people were very understanding and told him to hurry back if this doesn't work out. So he started his new new job this morning.

On another note, we had snow this weekend at the Overland Expo. Crazy weather!

Happy Monday

An update on life.

Jason is back in AZ permanently. A few days after starting in Cali, the job he had waited for 6 months to hear anything concrete finally made its offer. Geez. Although he felt bad, it really was a no-brainer. The people were very understanding and told him to hurry back if this doesn't work out. So he started his new new job this morning.

On another note, we had snow this weekend at the Overland Expo. Crazy weather!

Happy Monday

I got an 80+ mile week in as a good start to my PPA training. What I am most proud of is that there was some serious hill work going on.

I did the hardest hill repeats of my life.

Also, picked up the bike from the powder coat place and dropped it off to be reassembled! It looked GREAT!

Thanks TJ and I think you are right that you need to look at what you can realistically train for and consider that in your goal setting.  I feel like with substituting in a little speed work I'd be doing great for Oly prep but with an HIM I think one needs 10-12 hours and that is a stretch for me.

My brick probably wouldn't have happened except my son wanted to go for a bike ride.  I was so glad we got to do this together other than he would zip ahead every few minutes and yell back, "HURRY UP DAD!!"  This was all I could think about during those moments.

Jeebus.  80+ miles is something I will never do, never mind 18% grade hills...  Great work!

Interestingly enough those weren't the hills I was referring to when I said hardest of my life.

The 45" hills I did on Saturday after a tempo were. I was doing them with a teammate who is much faster and stronger than me. They were all out (in the context that I needed to do 6 of them)

45 seconds is a long time for a hard effort like that. I am so glad there were no cameras because I could just feel the ugly face I was making while straining 

Interestingly enough those weren't the hills I was referring to when I said hardest of my life.

The 45" hills I did on Saturday after a tempo were. I was doing them with a teammate who is much faster and stronger than me. They were all out (in the context that I needed to do 6 of them)

45 seconds is a long time for a hard effort like that. I am so glad there were no cameras because I could just feel the ugly face I was making while straining 

I haven't started woking with Coach Lisa yet but she did ask me if I have a mile long hill I can use for repeats. *gulp*

Speaking of coaches... Coach Scott DNFed IMTX on Saturday. I haven't spoken with him. His wife posted on FB that he didn't make the bike cutoff and that he was feeling sick on the bike. IMTX would have been his 10th IM. Sux. Hope he's handling it well.  His T1 was nearly 25 minutes so I wonder if that was due to being sick as well.

Great Job!!

Do you have a plan to get started in the interim before you work with Lisa?

I'll be talking with her this week so I'm just starting back slowly in the mean time.

An update on life.

Jason is back in AZ permanently. A few days after starting in Cali, the job he had waited for 6 months to hear anything concrete finally made its offer. Geez. Although he felt bad, it really was a no-brainer. The people were very understanding and told him to hurry back if this doesn't work out. So he started his new new job this morning.

On another note, we had snow this weekend at the Overland Expo. Crazy weather!

Happy Monday

Oh btw I had sent them a request to change my projected finish time so that I didn't look like such an idiot and they e-mailed back, "The good news is that you are no longer on the hook to set a new course record. :-)"

HAHAHAHA! Glad that monkey is off my back

Oh btw I had sent them a request to change my projected finish time so that I didn't look like such an idiot and they e-mailed back, "The good news is that you are no longer on the hook to set a new course record. :-)"

HAHAHAHA! Glad that monkey is off my back

TJ, the new challenges sound great!  Trails, hills, hard times but all good and they'll pay off in the end.

Steve, good job with doing what you can do while juggling parenting and work and life in general.  Sometimes tri training can become so all-consuming and it sounds like you're handling it in as balanced a way as possible.  As for using the CX bike to the ride extra hard, that probably slowed you down and you probably would have gotten more miles in if you'd be riding your road bike, right?  In any case, keep up the good work.

Erin, what a relief to be able to have J back and to be able to stay put instead of uprooting and spending time apart.  Congrats to J on the 2nd new gig.  Bet they figured out that if they were going to get him, they'd better get on the stick or he'd be gone for good.

I had a good but really tiring weekend.  Saturday, I had choir rehearsal, weeded and rode on the trainer.  Sunday, I spent 3 hours dancing around like a fool cheering on Colfax HM participants, then rode to and from the rec center, and swam a little (not a lot; I was pretty tired by then).  Got a quick hug from Robin at the race.  Hope I didn't slow her down too much!  I now need a weekend to recover from my weekend.