ASPHALT JUNKIES Summer Bronzing Crew - CLOSED (Page 11)

I tried to go on a bike ride today.  The inevitable has come to fruition.  I need to change out my cassette.  My chain kept jumping ship!  Apparently, it was acting as my bike coach because it thought I needed to ride a hell of a lot harder!   Anyway, I took it into my friendly bike shop.  They are going to hook me up with a new cassette that will help me climb our steep hills.  I'm getting a 12/28 put on!!!!  I'm so excited!!!!

I tried to go on a bike ride today.  The inevitable has come to fruition.  I need to change out my cassette.  My chain kept jumping ship!  Apparently, it was acting as my bike coach because it thought I needed to ride a hell of a lot harder!   Anyway, I took it into my friendly bike shop.  They are going to hook me up with a new cassette that will help me climb our steep hills.  I'm getting a 12/28 put on!!!!  I'm so excited!!!!

Dirk, if you want to try some new beer, come over to our house for dinner.  Ryan makes his own!  Seriously, you and Brenda and your spouses should come over sometime.

Tony, I generally plan to wear my shoes for about 500 miles, but I try to be very aware of when things start feeling off.  I have one pair that I could tell had worn out its lifespan at just under 500 miles, but another pair made it to a solid 700 miles until that point.  I am trying to break in one pair of shoes while I still have some mileage left in another pair so that I don’t have to do all of my runs in new shoes.

Does anyone know what the latest is on the mobile site or the BT app?  I haven’t been able to log any of my workouts from my phone like I used to be able to. 

It’s been raining here all day, and the Y is closed.  I’m trying to figure out how to get in a decent workout without being miserable. 

Ryan is a brew-master huh?  I am by no means a connoisseur but I like to try things occasionally.  I think it would be great to for all of us to get together sometime.

And you brought up Tony's question about shoe mileage and I don't remember anyone answering that right now, so here it is.  With the knee surgeries I've had my body tells me when it's time to get the shoes replaced.  That said, I have pretty much learned that 350 miles in them is about all I can take.  I can stretch them out to 400 but the joint pain begins to develop enough that I sometimes will alter my gait.....BAD idea!  I was pushing my Brooks Adrenalines out to 400 miles and I seemed to be relatively successful but I have switched back to Mizuno Wave Inspires for my normal training shoes.  I will probably try to push them out to 400 and see what happens.

But more directly the shoe manufacturers seem to design them for 500 miles +/-.  But Just as Allison points out, allow your body to determine just how far you can go.

BT app?  I have never logged any workouts using it, so I cannot answer that one.

I also missed my ride and run yesterday and my pool was not opened at all.  It was killing me to ride but it was raining most of the day with periodic downpours so I skipped out and hoped to get a run in.  There was never an opportunity to get the run in either.  Lis and I did head to the gym together and I was able to get 25 minutes on the elliptical and some light weight training too, so the day wasn't a total loss.

As I was swimming this afternoon, with my face in the water, I began considering another possibility from last weekend.  Have you been checked for a concussion?  The concussion would not necessarily cause the low BP but if there were something else going on it could include that condition (low BP).

I have also been trying to remember what went on last season.  I know you had something going on a while ago that seemed to indicate other issues as well.  I believe they were checking you for some over training issues and maybe something to do with thyroid?  I know how hard core you are into your training and you've come off some heavy miles with Jordan as she was getting ready for the mary, could this be part of the issue?

Ha!  Maybe I'll think about that.  But it wouldn't be right for me to help you that much.  I think it's against the rules to provide assistance to athletes.  so, I'll just stand next to you when you bonk and scream at you for not taking your nutrition when you should have.

I've never heard of using vinegar to remove the stench.  I use Tide Sport.  It seems to do a decent ob most of the time.  the only issue I've had is that on some of the garments it doesn't seem to remove it completely or something.  Sometimes once I've begun to sweat the smell returns pretty quickly, but this only occurs with a couple of the items.  The rest of my clothes are fine.  I have one shirt that I like to wear that I really can't plan to wear it all day (not workouts) that will develop odor.  Maybe I should try to use the vinegar for a load that includes that shirt and see if it removes the remaining bacteria.  How much vinegar do you add?