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in one of those oxygen deprived post ride moments i had a thought.... Sujith do you know if any Sri Lankan has quailfed for the olyimpic triathlon? if not GO FOR IT!!!!

then we can see you in London 2012

Did a 57 mile ride yesterday & felt great. No problems with my knee. I'm glad I took a few days off.

I did a 1.5 mile bike ride with my kids today. My oldest (5) rode along side me while I pulled my younger two (3 &1) in a trailer on my mountain bike. Can't wait until they are a little older & we can do some longer ride together. Our average speed was probably 3 mph because I let my son beat me to every corner

Looking to do a 60 min run & a swim later today. 

Wow, nice ride!

I like working out with my daughter as well. The jogging stroller is great fun for her and a good workout for me. She also likes to participate as I do some basic ab and upper body work. I hang onto her and do weighted V-Ups, and she loves to come over and push on my head when I do pushups. Kids are so much fun. How long did it take you to get used to the trailer? Right now I think I would feel completely unsafe pulling my daughter around while I was on a bike, but I know plenty of people that do it.

Johnny- This was my first time out with the trailer. A friend of mine gave it to me last week (her kids are older now). It felt fine, but as you can see, we only went a short distance super slow. Also I had it hooked up to my moutain bike. Don't know how I would feel hooking it up to my road bike and going full speed.

But when I did my long ride this weekend, I saw a couple riding the Red Rock loop (which is a pretty tough route- lots of climbing & some fast descends) with their kid in a trailer. I might try a longer ride with my 3 year old this week. He loved it. My one year old was less enthusiastic.

i want to do an "ironman" as well ive found myself saying that the IM brand is know and ppl expect that and seing as im only ever going to do one tri at 140.6 distance is it woth the extra cash or do a 140.6 with a smaller company for less money??

Distance is a factor as is location. IMUK is in Bolton, well boltons a bit grim, might do IMWales tho that has caught my eye as its nice round there.

Hello everybody,

I missed 10 days of training at a stretch due to the eye infection I had, which came with a slight fever. In the mean time, I got the bike at last. (It had not been a smooth flight for the Trek. Gulf Air had not picked up 4 luggage bags from Bahrain, that my Sis and the family were bringing in, which included my bike. So after coming to Sri Lanka, they had to go back to the Air Port again the following day to collect those bags.  So the bike came one day late, and was about to be taxed, though it was a used one. It was a narrow escape.

Got the bike fixed.... and it is a perfect fit so far!.. and it's a beauty... I really enjoyed the couple of rides I had so far. So no issue with the frame size!.

I had the chance to train with the Air Force cycling team last Sunday in the new bike. In fact we get help from their cycling coach. ( SL is a very small country, so it's no big deal here!). There were 12 cyclists altogether in the bunch most of them are at National level. It was to be a 180 km ride on the main roads, leading towards the up country. The group were riding in pairs in two lines and every 5 minutes or so they change positions, sharing the air resistance ( What ever you call it!). i was asked to stay away from this rotation and was riding from behind,keeping a comfortable distance. The first 20 mints was a WU at around 25-28 Kmph. This was done in the inner cog- wheel. Then the main session went around 30- 40 kmph, on the outer Cog wheel. I had to quit after about one and half hours ( 50 kms). It was on the mid of a huge hill that I was asked to stop. I was really tired and fully exhausted. It was a good experience though. I was also told to practice balancing the bike. He felt that, i was not really comfortable on the bike, when taking the water bottle out....etc.

The above session, and some other additional office stuff, called for a break of two more days, and i did another bike session this morning and planning to go to the gym in the evening. I want to get slowly in to swimming and running, due to the long break I had.

OOPS! Blinddave  and Jonah,  Thanks for your encouraging comments on London Olympics in 2012!!!... in fact that made me think......We can train a team from the country and send. We do not have many areas that we have been good in Olympics. With the experience we are getting and with the help of BT and the teams, I feel we could start training a team to represent the country... We are seriously thinking of writing to our Olympic Committee.....I  do not know whether we have time for 2012, but we are going to find out the deadlines...etc, and work on it (Training some youngsters...)...Thanks for the tip.

Btw, Jonah, could you please explain some of the terms below? ( LT ?- It has been there throughout, but did not bother to find out. Must be an obvious one that I know of. Zone - 2? - is it RPE - 2?)

Raise Bike LT
LT
75
WU: 10'
MS: 6' hard (at RPE 8.5/9), 2' easy (zone 2). Do this 7x.
CD: 10'

Cheers!

Sujith

140.6 miles is 140.6 miles. Sure the M-dot events might have more hype, more organization, more energy, and more swag, but the accomplishment is the same. If someone told me they did an Ironman my first question would not be, "was it a real Ironman or an off brand race?" My reaction is going to be one of awe and respect.

Now, that being said, I don't have my eyes set on doing a full Ironman for a long time. I'm in no hurry to cross that off my list, and when the time comes I want to rock it. Also, since I won't be doing a ton of IM races, I will probably want one that is really nicely done. I can see why people would want to do the M-dot races over off brand, especially if it's their first. I say if you just want the glory of going 140.6 do whatever race you can, but if you want to do a "real" Ironman for the full effect, well there's nothing wrong with that. Unless I break 5 hours on a HIM I plan on doing Vineman in 2031 as my first Ironman, and it just happens to be an M-dot event. (That wasn't a typo, I meant 2031, not 2013.)

Sujith- I love reading your posts. Great job on the bike. I would have been totally intimdated to ride with them.

Jonah- Good luck in your upcoming race.

I have a race this Sat in St. George, UT. I was originally supposed to race with my friend Jen (who I met on BT & now cycle with) but she broke her wrist a few weeks ago & is unable to race. I'm still racing since I paid the registration (BTW Jen is doing fine and is now able to run again. She should be back on a bike in a few weeks). I don't really care too much about this race, just looking to have fun & get in a good workout. Def don't want to put the pressure on myself that I did for my last race. And, yes, I will be pushing a harder gear this time around  I know I might fall apart on the run with this strategy, but I won't know until I try.

Jackie, JhoneyFT,

Appreciate your comments......

Jonah, that's quite an explanation on LT and Zone - 2. Thanks for all your support! I will be throwing a lot more questions in your way...

Cheers!

Sujith

Well done Jackie! You are a  fast rider!!!..... and if you are good on the hills, hats off from me....that's an area I am struggling with.....

Sujith

Thanks guys. Wrote some details about the bike leg of my tri in my blog (had a fun time competing with another cyclist). You can click on the link in my signature if you are interested.

Jonah- Hope your race went well.

Jackie, you are really fast.  All of the hills you typically work on have really helped you on the flats.  I'd be happy with sustaining 15mph on the bike, nevermind 22mph. 

Jonah, congrats on your improvement in the Gold Coast Tri.  It sounds like you don't like this race so much (and I see what you mean about the bike course issues-and that bad accident with the guy that had to be taken away in an ambulance), but it's really popular, more so than other local races.  Why do you think that is? 

That was my first OWS tri, and I've learned that I'm going to need to get more time in the open water if I want to improve and not feel intimidated by the current and waves in my face.  Being a BOP, there isn't much in the way of bottlenecks and passing issues on the bike course, but the road was in horrible shape.  The run was okay.  Of course by the time I got to the boardwalk everyone else was on their way out, so it was tough to run through everyone, even with my own bike escort. Not sure if I'll do that one again, but I'm still glad I did it.  Looking foward to my next tri in August (Smith Point), primarily because it's only a 500m swim .

-Kelly