kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 106)

I thought some of them had tinted lenses by the pictures. Maybe you can buy just the lens and swap them in and out. I like the idea of quiet. I ride near a lot of beaches and on windy days it can be so loud.

Please tell me you don't plan on using an aero helmet as training helmet. 

This is kinda where I'm heading.  I'd much rather just do the big A race and pass on all the little guys. 

I'm dealing with what Todd is dealing with - DOMS - and now I most likely won't be able to do my run repeats tomorrow due to the muscle soreness.  Now I'm thinking my HM should have been just another training run even though it came after a recovery week, and then I'd be refreshed going into this new block instead of feeling like an enormous disaster area.  LOL  

LOL. I'm not sure why I wouldn't so if you could expand on why not........

Couple of reasons:

1.  Aero helmets are large and cumbersome, restrict your perepheral vision as they wrap around the side of your head and are difficult to wear when not in the aero position.  Using it for everyday riding where there are stops, turns, other riders and motorists and a decent amount of time not in the aero bars is both uncomfortable and dangerous.  Notice even in pro bike racing, the riders only wear aero helmets in TTs, they never wear them in road stages.

2.  Aero helmets are expensive.  If you crash once and hit the helmet its done.  Its kind of like race wheels, they're expensive so you don't use them on a day-to-day basis so they don't get beaten up and destroyed.

3.  Aero helmets are hot.  Even the best aero helmets don't have the venting of a road helmet and its fairly easy to get over heated. 

4.  Turning your head in an aero helmet can create instability (aero helmets are aero when facing forward but if you turn your head, you create a sail).  Not safe for road riding. 

5.  Most importantly you'll look like a total tool. 

5.  Most importantly you'll look like a total tool. 

Well reasoned post, but this is really the only pertinent reason.  It's just one of those race day only types of things.  You would get mocked, and mocked mercilessly by most I know if you were caught training in an aero helmet.

Yeah... for what it is worth I decided to do NO other races when I did the IM.  I am injury prone though.  boy was I praying daily to the stay-injury-free-gods.  

Couple of reasons:

1.  Aero helmets are large and cumbersome, restrict your perepheral vision as they wrap around the side of your head and are difficult to wear when not in the aero position.  Using it for everyday riding where there are stops, turns, other riders and motorists and a decent amount of time not in the aero bars is both uncomfortable and dangerous.  Notice even in pro bike racing, the riders only wear aero helmets in TTs, they never wear them in road stages.

2.  Aero helmets are expensive.  If you crash once and hit the helmet its done.  Its kind of like race wheels, they're expensive so you don't use them on a day-to-day basis so they don't get beaten up and destroyed.

3.  Aero helmets are hot.  Even the best aero helmets don't have the venting of a road helmet and its fairly easy to get over heated. 

4.  Turning your head in an aero helmet can create instability (aero helmets are aero when facing forward but if you turn your head, you create a sail).  Not safe for road riding. 

5.  Most importantly you'll look like a total tool. 

So eat.  You're a tiny little thing a sammich or two ain't gonna hurt ya. 

Z3 interval ride done w/ a little T run.  Over/Unders in the pool and OLP cycling tomorrow.  Going to hit the course on Saturday and see if I can find any of the folks picketing.

bwhahahaha.  Didn't expect #5 from you.  Spit out my coffee.  Too funny    

HAHA!! I thought the same thing and had to check twice to see who had written the post. I thought it had been Scott based on #5! (No offense Scott!LOL)

I guess for me I always thinking train as you would race. So if I'm using the same sports drink, gels, etc I'd be more apt to use the same helmet. But I guess just using it periodically would do the same thing.

Thanks for the rec's. Anyone know anything of the Lazer (sp?)

Did a mini tri tonight (not by choice)...2000 yd swim, 1:15 trainer, 25 minn z1 run (brick). Run was cut a bit short because I think I saw a fisher cat run out of the woods a bit ahead of me. It's kind of spooky running at night where I live. If you don't know what a fisher cat is, google it. They are mean suckers. I must be getting fit because my HR didn't even spike as I made my way home.

x2 on the "Like" Katie.

OMG.  I googled Fisher Cats.  Those are horrifying.  That would be enough to send me to the treadmill forever.  I'm serious.  I'm super girly when it comes to creatures of the night and slimy things.  No thank you.    

Rest day for me and I'm thankful.  The outside of my left foot is bugging me, so I really need to rest and ice it.  I still have some residual soreness in the outside of my right quad too.  I'm going to try to stay off my feet this afternoon and watch a movie or something with the younger boys.  

I lost 2.5 lbs. this week (Easter candy weight gain...LOL).  I followed Kelly's advice and moved more of my calories toward the front half of my day.  I've been eating before my training, during my training, and after my training (I mean.....A LOT of food), and then I shift to lean protein and vegetables for the second half of the day.  Seems to be making my training sessions stronger and I'm not quite as hungry in the evenings.  Yesterday was a different story, but I occasionally have those random days.  I'm really hoping I can drop another 7 lbs. for IMMT.  Good stuff!

I think a lot of time we think we're saving or banking calories by forgoing nutrition around workouts when in reality by fueling before, during and after workouts, we have better workouts and are able to eat more and still loose weight.  I think this concept of nutrition periodization is really important to athletes. 

Fisher cats are scary.  We live adjacent to a river and from time to time a fisher cat will take up residence for a while.  In 2009 we lost two of our cats to a fisher cat.  Plus if you think they look scary you should hear them scream.