Fred D's triathlon training group CLOSED (Page 101)

Go Rusty!

Sweet. Nice job Rusty.

NICE!!!

40 Minutes better than last year. Impressive !

Congratulations.

And it was a hot day.

Nice job Rusty!  I completely lost track of time ... didn't even realize it was the 22nd already, otherwise I would've written something sooner.

I saw the note on TT someone wrote about how they miss the old watching threads.  I think part of the problem is there are many more BTers doing IM distance these days.  It's really hard for one person to keep a spreadsheet updated.

If I can find the time, I'm going to work on a new program to automate this.  It'll grab info from the athlete tracker on a regular interval and post the info to a webpage or send it out to people following it.  It seems a shame that racedaytracker.com gave up but I think it is still possible, with or without support from the race officials.

Good job!!! Any time you can walk away from a tough course happy with your results is a great race

I can't imagine riding and running in a skinsuit...

AWESOME!!!!!

Solid week, dude!

I topped off my week with a weekend in Vegas - back to the grind today!

I'm betting it is not.  I find that the older we get the more likely we have to look to outside help to deal with all the physical stress we put on our body.  Doesn't always bounce back the way it use to.

Darn it, which thread?

Never mind, found it. 

Actually, he's treating me with a bit of respect.   Which is surprising.  When he gets called out on facts, he usually gets a bit more reasonable.  He does make good points but his hard on for TnT and "preparation" get in the way

Had a good weekend.  Some friends and I drove up to a train station in Chatsworth, about 60 miles north, then rode to Santa Barbara via 4 passes, 91 miles, 6800 feet of elevation.  Great riding, great climbing (and racked up my only rapha rising challenge climbing feet, almost 30% in one ride  ).  

One canyon we climbed was Balcom Canyon, from the easy side with short wall about 1/4 mile long at almost 20%.  Coming down the otehr side on the "real" Balcom wall, however, was scary as sh%%..  Regular pitches of 20+, The Tour of California came up this a couple years back, friend there said a guy attacked and then suddenly just stopped on a steep pitch.  Google Tour of California and Balcom and you'll see vids and photos.

My hands were literally shaking at the bottom..... Can't tell how bad it is from the pic

One of my best moments as a cyclist, one of the guys is a very good cyclist and climber.  Always rides away from me (weighs a good 40 pounds less too).  On the fourth climb, we were together for a bit in front of everyone else, he started pulling away, I thought he was gone, but I put in a couple hard efforts and rode back up to him, he dragged me to the top.  He said he was nearly at his limit without going into full pain mode and was surprised I bridged that gap

My rabbit

Took the train home from Santa Barbara in our smelly clothes

Yesterday swam 4 miles without a westuit.  Interesting having the Garmin now, I can see the time difference.  Was about 7 seconds slower per hundred than with the wetsuit.  On that topic, interesting post by Tim Andrus on ST.  http://www.timandrusonline.com/blue-seventy-wetsuit-test/wetsuit-results/   Anyone that says a wetsuit does not make them faster is doing something seriously wrong.

Finished up with a hilly 6 mile run in the afternoon, which I could have done without.....

Great Work Rusty - Congratulations!

Chris - That sounds like an awesome weekend.  The thread on ST was well played.

I was pretty much useless this weekend - very long weekend traveling with most of it spent inside the car.  I was able to fit a short run in and that was it.  Back to business tomorrow.

Chris - I envy (can't stand) you every time you post your ride pics.  I figure it would be the same if Jason posted pics.  Don't get me wrong, I love where I live and have some great places to ride, but I wish I had proper hills to climb and train on.  Just think it would be so much fun.

Question for the group - what have you learned lately that you probably should have known a long time ago?  For me, it was taking 20lbs of pressure out of my tires form the max psi down to about 100 per wheel based on my weight.  What a difference that made on some rougher roads.  After 5 years and all the time I've spent reading and learning, I'm not sure how I missed out on proper tire pressure.  I may go even slightly less than that for my Sprint race this weekend since some of the roads are quite bad.