kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 108)

Lets just say they were on Albuterol, like clen but has a shorter half life so instead of one dose daily you take 3, it has a short half life and should be undetectable under a week or so in a urine test and 2 max in a blood test.  So you've already reaped the cardio and weight loss benefits and it's gone. Roids are longer due to the fact you have to go on something like Clomid (yes that clomid) to bring your natural testosterone production back.  You're looking at a month to month and a half after a steroid cycle.  And then there are masking agents and the scientists who help the cheaters are always ahead of the tests.  

Clomid (fertility enhancer) and Nolvadex (cancer drug) both are used to bring a steroid users HTPA (natural testosterone production) back up to par after it shuts down due to having synthetic testosterone in the body. 

Lord I know way too much about this stuff.

I took Clomid to get pregnant with Madge.  That stuff is the devil.  I was a royal PITA (more than usual, that is).  

x2!  

You should see 250 lbs body builders on the stuff.

The other issue is that the tests have to be "looking" for the substance.  Dopers (and doping manufacturers) are way ahead of testers -- that's one reason cycling teams went to biological passports, which are better but not perfect.

Play the race by ear.  If you need more rest, REST!

Glad the rest helped! Maybe take another!!!!LOL

Congrats on your bike mileage! I have just about doubled my 2010 bike mileage - my biking has come a long way this year!

Pardon my ignorance - whats a biological passport?

Joined a new gym last night. It's the only one open at 5 a.m.  Gym has a 25 yard pool.  My old gym was 25m.  It feels like a mini pool after swimming at Lifetime for the last 2 years.  I'll have to get used to that.  I was pulling 1:28/100s for TT times this morning.  Felt great swimming & now all nice and stretched out.  Swimming is the best stretching exercise for me.  I always feel so relaxed and long when I hop out of the water.  

Taking the kids over to Cleveland Heights today to wrap up some stuff.  It's quite a project going over there - 45 minutes each way. 

Olympic track cycling begins today!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/video-guides-olympic-track-cycling-disciplines

That's interesting Kelly.  I had never seen that before.  Just to finish up because this stuff doesn't interest anyone quite as much as it does me.  I had followed a workout log of a TT cyclist at a forum much like this that was hosted on a supplement dealer's website.  I'll qualify this with it's much like the logs here in that someone could easily fib, but really you have no reason to think so.  He ran 2 oral/over the counter steroids concurrently for 6 weeks followed by 4 weeks of clomid.  Synthetic steroids all aim to mimic natural testosterone but each one has it's own properties when it comes to benefits.  Some give you a ton of strength and not a ton of size, some give a ton of mass that isn't necessarily lean mass, some give lean mass but not a ton in the way of weight, etc.  He chose a strength builder and a lean mass builder.  So his goal was to gain maybe 5-8 lbs but a ton of power along the way.  Over the course of the 10 weeks he added 15-18% on his average wattage over given rides. 

Anyway moving on, I went out to happy hour with a bunch of my closest tri friends last night.  Hadn't done that in a while and I felt it in the pool this morning.  Had 4 x 600 this morning.  The first 2.5 of them were good and then I just wasn't feeling it.  Pushed through, but ugh.  Have a trainer and run workout after lunch. 

Once you understand the tactics track cycling is really fun to watch.  The legs on these guys are HUGE.  Its really incredible how fast they go. 

Here's the live times, if anyone is interested. Pulled from the iPad App.

All times Mountain:

9am team sprint

9am tomorrow W Keirin, M team pursuit

Sat 3am Sprint qualify and Omnium Finals?
9am M Sprint and W Team Pursuit

Sun 3am Omnium 4km and W Pursuit Qualify
9am W&M Sprint M Omnium

Mon 9am M Sprint, W Omnium

Tues 9am W Sprint & Omnium, M Keirin Final


I think that's it. Kind of hard to decipher on the ipad, but there ya go.

That's funny I passed mine on 7/30. I cannot wait until after my race to take a break.

I feel the same way, Scott.

Generally speaking, I take at least a full week off after an A race and two to three weeks off at the end of the season.  Last year I did absolutely nothing for the week after IMLP, then took two full weeks off after IMFL.

I think its really hard to keep pushing through after an A race.  During the course of traing you do tons of micro damage to your body and you need some complete down time to recover.  What's tough is a lot of people pick a random A race and then sign up for all kinds of races around it making it difficult to find time to get complete recovery in. 

In other news I have cankles! My poor ankles are retaining so much water it's not funny. My husband freaked out when I told him to look at them, and asked what the hell they were. ?

We are just out of St. Louis and I want to be home soooooo bad. Miss my puppies who apparently missed us too. My son flew back home and picked them up yesterday and he said they are very thin. This car ride is getting old. Thank god for Siris radio.

Did you look at your schedule?  There are two weeks of rest days.

Joking aside, you are a good example of someone who has kept continually working and needs a little down time.

I did sign up for my A race and then filled my calendar with whatever races I wanted to do, so I felt you were speaking to me, too, Kelly.  Only blessing was that I knew how I felt toward the end of last season, so I only signed up for 5 triathlons/1 HM.  My season last summer was ridiculous for a beginner.  2 races too many, and I ended up not touching my bike for 2 months and not swimming for 3 after my last race in Sept.  I'll be asking for help planning my next season

I want to take 2 weeks off after Cedar Point.....just walking with my kiddies, cycling with my oldest for fun, etc.  Like Karen, I really want to get into strength training and yoga in the fall.  I feel like my cardiovascular system is strong, but the strength of my leg muscles fails me sometimes.   

So Saturday is my last triathlon race of the season. However, it is not my last 'race'. I have Spartan race(August), Army Ten Miler(October), and the MCM(October). After MCM I will take some time off from running at least for a couple of weeks. So in the mean time until next years season what is the best thing for me to do for bike and swim? I saw BT has some maintenance workouts, would those be good in the mean time. I am still undecided about next years HIM or HIMs. I am now leaning towards Augusta but I would love some help planning my season next year once I decide.

Kelly, you will be proud of me. I started to learn fly last night after my small swim workout  The coach was great about breaking the stroke down into a few different drills. He was good enough to say that is enough for today and told me go home and rest and get ready for Saturday haha. It was cool to be doing something besides free and back(which I use rarely).

You won't.  Your body really needs the rest at the end of a long season.  And even if you gain a little weight, you'll be back training soon enough (and your training will benefit from the rest).

I would take a little time (a week or so) off after Satruday's race before starting to ramp up for MCM.  When trinaing for MCM I would keep swimming at least once a week (more if you have time).  Swimming is a great recovery activity and is low impact.  This is a really good time to work on form.  With regard to biking, biking helps the run.  I would use biking as a cross trianing activity and would look to do 2-3 rides per week.  More biking will only help your run.