Mucho Mental Manatee Mentors--CLOSED (Pop Tarts?) (Page 11)

Fever or no? Fatigue? Cough? any achiness?

I'm not a doctor, but I do think I know everything! :P

Rest up and run easy the next few days. I'm thinking it can only help by keeping the next few days light. There's no reason you can't still have a killer race ... especially in spike heels. Errr, spikes. What was I thinking?!

There's no GOOD evidence that stuff like echinacea, zinc, Emergen-C blah blah blah etc. will help, but they won't hurt, and they might help.

ETA: orgasms. Lots of orgasms. No, I'm not kidding.

Also, as a proud Asian, I believe a crapton of spice can only help, too. Not jalapenos, and definitely not the day before, though.

ETA2: forkload of garlic. I realize that may contradict ETA1, but ... hey.

Fever or no? Fatigue? Cough? any achiness?

I'm not a doctor, but I do think I know everything! :P

Rest up and run easy the next few days. I'm thinking it can only help by keeping the next few days light. There's no reason you can't still have a killer race ... especially in spike heels. Errr, spikes. What was I thinking?!

There's no GOOD evidence that stuff like echinacea, zinc, Emergen-C blah blah blah etc. will help, but they won't hurt, and they might help.

ETA: orgasms. Lots of orgasms. No, I'm not kidding.

Also, as a proud Asian, I believe a crapton of spice can only help, too. Not jalapenos, and definitely not the day before, though.

ETA2: forkload of garlic. I realize that may contradict ETA1, but ... hey.

Originally posted by StaceyK I had a bit of a swimming breakthrough today! YAY! Who knew that a slight change in hand entry angle could make so much difference. My shoulders are sore again today but it isn't that stabbing can't lift my hands above my head pain, it is you have used different muscles than before and the are achey but feel great sore. After 10 months of working on my stroke it finally feels like it is all coming together, God bless the swim Smooth boys. Watch out speed here I come

Nice going! So much fun when something comes together.

Originally posted by StaceyK Switch here's a swim set for you (brought to you by swim smooth) Warmup - 400 steady Kick - 8x 50 with fins no more than 75% effort. Rotating each 50 between left side, right side, front and back NO BOARD Main - 4x (4x 100 at CCS pace) first set + 30s recovery, second set +20s recovery, third set + 10s recovery, forth set + 5s recovery. NO EXTRA RECOVERY BETWEEN SETS. Cool down - 300 very easy Have fun

Hey Stacey, I may have missed  you as I think it's after midnight your time, but, as promised, I'm going to try this set today, and I have no idea how to do the kick set. Front and Back I've got, but are left and right like a side stroke or more of a sweet spot kinda thing?  What are my arms doing for these? by my side? overhead but shoulder width apart? stream line?

If  you're going to keep riding 2-3 times a week, all of them. Well, as many of those as you're willing to push it, taking an easy one every few weeks for mental sanity. Just to enjoy being out on the bike. There isn't so much of a ratio of hard to easy, but an amount of hard that can be handled.

Biking doesn't have the impact loading like the run does, so things flip around. Schedule in the hard parts and then ride easier around that to get more in. Also take a look at the composition of the hard. As in how hard and for how long. Metrics like HR and power are good to help with that. Basically any riding harder than easy will help more than just going easy, but different levels of hard have different levels of effectiveness. As seen in Table 2 here. Note that Z6 & Z7 do little to nothing towards Z5 and under (which is aerobic development that we really want to target), though one would be a stronger cyclist in some sense by improving there. Thinking like full out sprints on those two.

Cool beans!  I have that race tucked away as a maybe for my first HIM effort.