Older&Wiser Group - FULL

Older&Wiser Group
User name - Name	Age	Home	Goal	Plan
patricia7 - Patricia	46	Canada	Cdn tri championships	personalized
1 jbwcpa   - Jeff	48	N Virginia	weight	winter maintenance
2 womoha  - Wolf	50	Israel	sprint tri	Eric Harr's
3 iswimslo - Lynne	47	San Luis Obispo, CA	Vineman 70.3	Personal trainer
4 JHellwarth - Jennifer	45	Meadville, PA	Oly tri	sprint winter maintenance
5 playfulplatypus - Malinda	48	Owasso, OK	weight, sprint tri	3x sprint balanced-> 2x balanced bike focused
6 rblahuta - Rose	46	Canada	weight, 5K	Couch to 5K
7 acfutures - Angelo	50	Long Island, NY	weight, Oly tri	Couch to Oly

So what do you think?  I know we’re all older, hope we’re wiser too.  I’d love to see everyone come up with a wise saying after your signature.  One thing I really like about moving up an age group is that with attrition, your placing always looks more respectable - I could never be 3 / 30 but 3 / 6, that’s quite doable.  Let me know how to fill in the blanks or if I’ve made any mistakes. 

Just a reminder I’m not a coach.  We’re here to help each other achieve our goals.  I’m relatively new to the site, I can’t believe the amount of resources here and how powerful the training log is. The training log is a great tool to monitor our progress and hold ourselves accountable.  Let’s all use this feature to:
1.      put down our goals,
2.      log our workouts,
3.      list everybody as friends,  Or just copy the table on mine and paste it on to yours.
4.      check on each other’s progress and encourage each other (there’s a spot to leave comments to inspire each other). 

I encourage everyone to ask questions, share ideas, suggestions, and experiences so we can learn from each other.   I hope to answer all your questions and respond to emails within 72 hours.

Jeff – Didn’t realize you were a competitive swimmer and runner.  You’re way too modest in your intro, to the point I was mislead into believing you’re a beginner.  Hope the elliptical trainer works for you.  Did you have any knee problems running before? How much do you weigh then?  Did your knees give you any problem when you’re walking in the fall? If your knees are already conditioned with walking, I just can’t understand what brought the tendinitis on. My understanding is that treadmill is generally less impact than pavements.  Stretching may help.  Icing after workout may help (definitely prevented a lot of my rotator cuff tendinitis). You may also want to try deep water running, i.e. strap floatation device around waist and run in deep water.  This simulates running except without the impact.   Does anybody have any other suggestions?

On your carbonated drink thing, just thought you’d like to know that a friend of mine reduced his intake of pop from 4 to 1.5-2 cans a day and lost 10 pounds last month just from this one change.  Hope you’ll get similar success. 

Wolf – You may want to pick out a sprint training plan on this site.  Given the issue with pool access, whenever the plan says swim, just switch it to walk / run or bike, preferably bike because it’s non impact like the swim.  The important thing is to get in a few workouts each week consistently, even if short, and train up to the endurance level of the sprint tri.  Once you’ve the endurance, and you don’t drown during the swim, the rest is a cinch.  BOP swimmers, like me, mean we can’t do any worse the rest of the race.
 
Lynne – Ms Overachiever.  Sometimes, I wonder if all triathletes are overachievers.  I actually think your training plan is not bad.  Working out with your friend, who is trying to go pro, not only provides structure and camaraderie, but she probably raises the bar; and that’s positive.  Besides, I don’t think she skips workouts like normal people, which force you to be disciplined too.   It’s hard to tell whether the workout schedule provided by your PT follows some sort of periodization (i.e. base building, intensity, peak, race, recovery) building up to your ‘A’ races.  If not, you’ll need to make some modifications.  I assume Vineman is your ‘A’ race, any others?  I do notice your race season is rather long, which may detract from a more focused plan.  Since weather here in southern Ontario is not like California, all tris are held in Jun – Aug, which makes it easy, from a scheduling standpoint, to build a base in the winter, peak for races and recover after the race season.  I like my schedule on a giant excel spreadsheet so I can see the big picture at a glance.  Have you looked at the half-ironman schedule on this site - http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=... There’s also Sleamaker’s from Serious Training for Endurance Athletes.  If you don’t have this, I can email it to you.  I suggest you use these plans, focus on the ‘A’ races and work backwards to see what you come up with so you can compare to the PT schedule.     

Jennifer – For some reason, I can’t access you log.  Could be your settings, please check.  If you haven’t already done so, put down your goals and start logging your workouts.  What training plan are you using, there are some great ones on this site.   

Playfulplatypus – BTW, still don’t know your name.  If you don’t have a training plan, take a look at the ones on the site and pick one. 

Cheers, Patricia
YOU’RE ONLY AS YOUNG AS YOUR HEART