ultrahip_00's Mentor Group - CLOSED - Let's hit the road/water! (Page 11)

Well... my knee is feeling better.  I'm pretty perplexed about the situation though.  My ITBS pain has always been in my hip.  This is the first time that I experienced pain in the lateral side of my knee and to such degree.  Then, after just four days, I have full range of motion back in my knee and without pain.  I'm confused at how I could have such severe pain that dissipated so rapidly.  I even went on a ride today and was pain free except for a little tightness in the hip.

I have a race on Saturday, but not going to make the decision until after I see the DC on Friday morning.  If it rains, I might cancel as well.

Sorry for the babbling post, I was kind of thinking out loud   Things have been kind of quiet around here; I hope everyone is getting in some quality, fun training!

Out on the road this week for the first time in a few weeks. Workouts have been tough to sneak in the first few days. Got spoiled with almost two months of not traveling. Not a single swim yet this week.Going to have to work hard next week when I am home. Good to see everyone is having some good workouts.

Mike, Lake Stevens may have been taken over by a family event the same weekend in another part of the country. So I am a bit bummed. Looking for my new "A" race around the same time frame. May revisit doing Calgary.Hope everyone has a great week.

Got in a bike this morning and then a swim over lunch.  I learned an important lesson about packing enough food for my lunch at work after the lunch time swim.  Since I was still starving after my pbj, fresh mango and veggie wheat thins, I wandered into the kitchen and, after some foraging, found an unclaimed single serving size popcorn. I then managed to burn said popcorn in the ghetto microwave, causing the entire office to smell like popcorn.  Not only was I still hungry, but had to spend the entire afternoon tormented by the smell of delicious buttery popcorn.

Just couldn't make myself get back on the trainer yesterday, but I did get a nice 1.5 mile swim in today at lunch and I actually got the distance done in the time that my training plan listed that I should get it done by......tonight I will be back on the trainer for 90 minutes....man I can't wait for nicer weather and longer days so I can get outside to do this.

Lance -  I know what you mean, things have been pretty dry this winter and I keep getting my hopes up that I'll be able to ride outside over the weekend and then a storm hits!

I had pretty worthless workouts yesterday, I definitely over did it this weekend.  And now I think I might be coming down with an upper respiratory/sinus thing that's been making it's way through my office.  Hopefully I can fight it off quickly!!

But where’s the fun in not jumping off things??

Got in a long swim over lunch yesterday, probably the longest continuous swim I’ve ever done and I was able to stay focused enough to count through the whole thing, a big deal for someone who regularly screws up counting a 200! Anyway, I’ve never been worried about the distance for my HIM, but yesterday made me realize I could actually make my swim time goal, pretty exciting!

Quick question for everybody.  If a training program gives both a time and a distance for a workout and you consistently finish the distance in less time, would you adjust the distance up to hit the workout times?  Granted the distances are still far under the race distance.