Team #3 - August 4 is More Challenge (Page 11)

ilucy2 - 2009-08-13 8:43 AM

Air conditioner??? Yeah we are gonna need to pull out a heater here today. It is REALLY raining puddy cats and puppy dogs. NO bike today, was going to throw in an extra ride, but not in the rain. I gotta travel today, would rather sit in a bathrobe and stare out the window.

barqhead - 2009-08-13 6:38 AM Ha! I am sitting in a bathrobe and staring out the window! I do not want to run in this humidity. When the atmosphere weighs more than you do, you know it's gonna be a bad run...

owl_girl - 2009-08-13 10:50 AM

My running analysis went good. It was a short session to check out my cadence and foot strike and upper body movement. He just looked at the big picture. Turns out that my running form is right on. No problems with upper body and my cadence is a perfect 90. On hills, he wants me to take baby steps so I can keep my cadence at 90. He also suggested that my shin splints could be due to a muscle imbalance. He gave me a shin exercise. I'm supposed to report back in a few weeks and we'll go over some more things. I'd like to work on speed work. I think that's where my form falls apart. I need to get these shins under control first.

wgraves7582 - 2009-08-13 12:29 PM

Coming up on the midway point - hope your month is going as planned and you are challenging yourself. I will do an update on Monday as to who has the highest team % complete just for fun

Have a great weekend!

barqhead - 2009-08-13 6:40 PM Guess everyone is out training tonight. Go team! Woohoo!!!

zachkoe - 2009-08-13 9:13 PM i wish i was out training tonight. my daughter gave me a head cold.. a bit hard to work out when you can't breathe.

zachkoe - 2009-08-13 9:15 PM thats great that your running form is right on! makes training alot easier when you don't have to focus so much on what your body is doing and can just enjoy the nice torture of running =)

owl_girl - 2009-08-13 11:50 AM

My running analysis went good.  It was a short session to check out my cadence and foot strike and upper body movement.  He just looked at the big picture.  Turns out that my running form is right on.  No problems with upper body and my cadence is a perfect 90.  On hills, he wants me to take baby steps so I can keep my cadence at 90.  He also suggested that my shin splints could be due to a muscle imbalance.  He gave me a shin exercise.  I'm supposed to report back in a few weeks and we'll go over some more things.  I'd like to work on speed work.  I think that's where my form falls apart.  I need to get these shins under control first.

wgraves7582 - 2009-08-13 1:29 PM

Coming up on the midway point - hope your month is going as planned and you are challenging yourself.  I will do an update on Monday as to who has the highest team % complete just for fun

Have a great weekend!

zachkoe - 2009-08-13 10:13 PM i wish i was out training tonight. my daughter gave me a head cold.. a bit hard to work out when you can't breathe.

disturbed275 - 2009-08-13 10:19 PM

Yup, got a nice ride in tonight.

*biking toppage*

Slugger - 2009-08-14 1:36 AM Caught up on the spreadsheet. Not getting in enough runs, but doing WAY more backpacking than planned, and my poor knees can't take any more.

Rode 20 miles today!!! 10.2 to a work meeting, 10.2 home. The ride there, I was holding a good strong pace (for me, somewhere approaching 17 mph) until I had to stop for freakin' construction. At the bottom of the hill, no less! Grrr! Blew myself out trying to get up the hill quickly and had to take a loooooong time to recover. The ride back was pretty painful - slow, several stops, grinding, but it was also nice to just ride.

My eval went...shockingly well! Like totally-out-of-nowhere well. Hey, I'm all for that! The raise is ncely timed, too.

Slugger - 2009-08-14 1:37 AM
Congrats! How's taper treatin' ya? You race this weekend, right?