Ironman Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 104)

Understood.  Just as studies are not gospel, neither is one piece of anecdotal evidence, as I can point to references indicating that high intensity training of shorter workbouts resulted in better performance of certain athletes.  We also need to decide whether to qualify our positions based on results obtained by elite athletes or not - as everyone knows they are in a whole other league of conditioning than us AGers

I agree with some of that.  Structurally, the strengthening of connective tissue, increase in bone density - this is absolutely true.  However, when you talk about improvements in things like capillarization and mitochonrial creation, higher intensity work-bouts can improve those factors more than LSD work-bouts can - simply because the higher intensity demands more from those systems, so your body adjusts to meet those demands.

I do think this is probably the crux of the issue.  When you say interval, you are talking anaerobic - when I say interval, I am talking typically of workbouts ranging from 3-20 minutes, which are minimally anaerobic (if at all) and still mostly aerobic, just heavily stressing the aerobic components (ie, threshold).  And I may be guilty of using incorrect terminology - when I have said 'higher intensity' in previous posts, I mean higher intensity than conversational Z2 stuff, whereas you may have been thinking I meant anaerobic intensity.

So in the end, I think that we are mostly in agreement - except that our respective definitions may differ somewhat.   Deal?

Ok, the above statements have left me confused because it doesn't seem like were talking about the same thing. What do you mean by Zone 4? 

I'm totally pissed. Just found out there isn't one Mother F**king McDonalds on the bike course. Tomorrow is going to be a long ride.

Happy Fathers Day to all you Dads.

I went back and more-carefully read your and rmillers posts, and for whatever reason I didn't see the word 'threshold'.  I just focsued on the words 'VO2Max' and 'interval'.  By Zone 4 I am referring to maximal all-out 'high-intensity' effort.  Everything I've posted was bearing this in mind.

As far as 'Lactate Threshold' work, which is not neccesarily Zone 4 (which is Zone 3 or upper Zone 2, from my experience) that's an entirely other issue.  Lactate Threshold, from my experience and from the literature I've read, is safer and more beneficial for increasing aerobic fitness.      

Great job!! You are blessed by your thoughtfull family.  Happy Fathers Day!

Wow I'm 1669, I'm not sure how they assigned the numbers but you can't get any closer than that,  that's pretty cool that we find out so early.

I'm 2067, go figure that's my current weight too.

go to this site, hover over athletes and then scroll dow to bibs

http://ironmanlakeplacid.com

I am 678!  Cool!

I can't believe they are out so early.  It's getting real now

1136. Dang, was hoping for 1, but some dude named Potts got it

2388...pretty close to where I think I'll finish

Did anybody count to see how many people are registered. 

I did a quick dump into Excel and got 2826 total racers.

I'm athlete #1318!

http://ironmanlakeplacid.com/files/2011/08/IM-LP-BibList.pdf

At the top click 'Edit" then 'Find" and type in "Pro".  And keep hitting the arrow key.  It will show you all the Pro's.  I only recognized Andy Potts, Maik Tweksiek, Katya Meyers and Hillary Biscay.  Looks like ben Hoffman who has been there the last few years will not be there. 

Wysock, Annie: #456

Numerical order, that has to be good luck, right?

Finished 103 miles riding, 15 miles of running this weekend and finally felt relatively good! And finally no lower GI issues on my run, thank goodness! Switched away from Gu Roctane gels (trying Clif and they are GOOD; you have to try the vanilla flavor if you haven't). Also didn't eat a boat load after my long ride yesterday even though I wanted to...but I think it saved my stomach on the run this morning. Time to eat up now!

Awww man you are in my age group what the %#@!$ ,  There goes my first place finish in my age group.  My last name is Kuder so it's a little ways away from yours.   It's all good as long as I get a number I'm happy,  that means it wasn't just a dream that I signed up.