Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 107)

Yes...my five week taper.  LOL

All short sharpy workouts went well this week.   I debated training hard straight through, but I'd rather be a little under than over trained for a sprint.

Yes...every time Garmin does anything different the BT sync goes to hell in a handbasket. 

Well done, Gretchen.  That power meter deserved to die. 

Originally posted by Rollergirl

Originally posted by bulfrog And of course try to find some time for some training. - Life with a young family

Enjoy it while you can, they’ll soon leave home and you’ll wonder what to do with all that spare time! So, race day tomorrow. As I wrote before, not my A race so it will be a training session with focus on run and transitions. It’s a new race so that’ll will count as a win for 2024 Nat (unless I DNF) Been practicing transitions yesterday and it felt great. Running went well this week too so I am hopeful. Goal S 390 m 8:19 @ 2:08 min/100 meters (same as last week) T1: 1:30 hard to tell because I don’t know how big the transition area is so hope I can grab a few seconds here B: 18k at 30kph : 36 minutes (if it’s hilly, I may lose time here) T2: 1:00 (see T1) R: 4.2k at 5:30/ km = 23:06 minutes (hoping for flat-ish course) Total 1:09:55. previous years' winning times where about one hour but 2nd and third about 1:08-1:09 so I'll have a shot at it. Although it's not my main goal, as it depends on who turns up or doesn't, it's always fun to be on the podium. Happy Friday!

Good luck tomorrow!

@Gretchen:  I'm tomorrow, Nat is/was today.

Predictions for tomorrow: 

15-ish swim (should be wetsuit-legal so that helps), 14 would be better and well within my reach if I swim straight and don't panic
2:30-ish T1 (long run-out to the transition area included...I'm Nathalie-ing the ankles of my wetsuit to speed that up
sub-44 bike, sub-42 reach, hoping race wheels make some difference
1:15 T2 (pre-laced running shoes)
sub-26 run, sub-25 reach

I'm going to predict 1:29:30, I'd be super happy with Nat's time from last week 1:28.  In theory that should get me into the top third of my AG and into Nationals, but as always it's who shows up.

ETA:  Full-on taper madness going on here, bouncing off the walls and my skin hurts.    I also seem to have lost my "crack pipe" (the thingy you control the CO2 cartridges with) so I had better not flat tomorrow.  LOL

That happened to me today, too.  I should have taken up the offer the way my run was going. 

Mediocre day for me out there - pretty good swim (actually I would say my best ever), meh bike, run went off the rails (again).  I also wasn't looking to fully red line after last month's scare so there was definitely some anxiety that didn't help.  RR tomorrow.  13 minutes from qualifying for nationals and there's no way in hell I left all of that out there so at least no regrets.  I put in a good effort just didn't have it today.

Race report is up:  https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=560007&posts=1#M5288819

I've had better days but still enjoyed it.  And my daughter won her age group, so there's that. 

Taking it easy for a couple of days then putting it all into one more race in six weeks. 

From the hands of a ten-year-old on the side of the road while biking "you just peed in your swim course".

Ouch. 

I don't think I've ever done that much in a month...maybe 50 tops. 

My May was uh, a little underwhelming.  LOL