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Great time Jeff! Must of been peaceful out there

Steve,

Oy, the Padres...they're back to sucking as we always expect them to. Good for your Sox for getting one of our better players. I'm not surprised he left. I probably would too in his position.

In all honesty, I probably could use a wake up, but not at 5 am. The main reason I went for a run today was to tire myself out enough so I would be able to fall asleep. Yes, the motivation is lacking these days. BUT, it's amazing what a little sea level and breeze at my back does for my pace. I was able to stay under 10' per mile the entire time, which I haven't been able to do for a while. Maybe I should come down to San Diego more often for some confidence boosts.

And the HIIT sessions are timed intervals alternating between sprints and rest (either walking or jogging, your choice). Sprints should be at 95% VO2 max, or 175% if you're super intense, even though I'm not sure that's even possible. The ones I did yesterday were the beginning of a 12-week conditioning program for the bigger, stronger members of the rugby team. The workhorses and not the points scorers.

Here's the workout:

10/50 x 2

10/30 x 4

10/15 x 4

30/30 x 2

In English, that means sprint 10 seconds, rest 50 seconds, repeat 2 times, etc. Do that 2 times a week for 4 weeks and then the quantity of intervals increases every 4 weeks. Same intervals, just more of them.

Kasia

I have a hydration question for all y'all. At least I assume it's a hydration question, but it could also be a nutrition question. Or none of the above.

In general, like George, I'm always thirsty, even when I'm not doing anything physical. If I exercise, I wake up the next morning with a super dry mouth and sometimes even with hangover symptoms. Yeah, lame. I drink bottles upon bottles of water during the day and for the most part feel hydrated. But when I exercise, I almost always wake up feeling super dehydrated even if I drink during and after exercise. It's like I can't get enough water in me.

Anywhos, for the past couple of days I've noticed that when I get home after a run I crave pickled things, like sauerkraut and pickles. Can't get enough of them. Same thing happened when I got to California. I don't know if it's the dehydration and I just want something that's not water (I'm so sick of drinking water at this point!) or what.

My mom's a firm believer in the fact that cravings are usually indicative of something your body's lacking. So that's why I'm thinking that I have an electrolyte imbalance or something like that, since usually I just drink pure water to hydrate and nothing else.

I can't handle Gatorade or Powerade on a regular basis, even if it's watered down, so what else would you guys suggest for hydration? Both in daily life as well as exercising? And is my pickled craving due to the electrolytes I suspect, or could it be something else?

Kasia

P.S. I am most definitely not preggers, which was my friend's first suggestion. So we can rule that one out.

Thanks everyone on the water bottle questions.  Thanks Johanne on the link, I might try one of those.  I like the bottles with the strap so Im not having to grip and hold a bottle.  Ive just heard a lot of negative things about fuel belts and one being when you have water in them the weight with all the sloshing around can get to you.  Again thanks to everyone.

Kasia - Craving pickles?? Hummm are you also craving Ice Cream??? Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with Steve, I love the heed.. Its not that sweet drink that you get with gatorade and the flavor is very very mild. 

Johanna,

Did you get to go to the ToC yesterday? I watched the recap last night... Sierra rd WOW that looks like some kind of climb.

No, I didn't make it up there but I heard there was quite a crowd! Sierra is a mega climb. We've had rain the last few days and yesterday was finally dry so they had a good day.

Kasia,

I agree, it sounds with your salty food cravings that you're missing something in your diet. I'm a HEED fan too. I mix it with CarboPro for bike nutrition and it's easy to get down.

This year I'm trying something new. My niece is being sponsored by this company, Recovery e21. She gave me a sample pack to try and I was sold. It's an algae based electrolyte supplement that you take 2 a day and an additional 2 after every hour of big workouts or races. I take the additional ones only on long runs and long bikes. I'm not usually one to get on a bandwagon for stuff but I'm sold on this. It's totally helped with recovery and I seldom get crampy on long workouts. If you are interested, their website is http://blog.recoverye21.com/ You can get a 20% discount using this code: mollymc

Steve,

Those Sharks are killing me!

Johanne

Thanks George!

I am a big fan of the Amphipod products (use a small handheld for medium runs and the larger one for long runs):

http://www.amphipod.com/products/hydration/bottles-handhelds/handhelds

The bottles are shaped to fit your hand.  The strap is adjustable.  I also have the thermal cover which eliminates gripping and slipping!  The pocket version is great for holding gels, keys, money, salt tabs, etc.

I tried a fuel belt and didn't like having something around my waist. 

Nice run Jeff!  I am sure it was a lot warmer for you than it was for my long run.

I have another 1 hour and 50 min run on the schedule for this weekend.  Also have a 2 hour 30 min bike followed by a 30 min brick run.  Hopefully the taper starts on Monday!

The Madison half marathon is mostly a training/pace practice run.  My "A" half marathon race isn't until the end of October.  I hope to break 2 hours in October!

I have been rated, not by the motion picture association but by the USAT: 1267th of 1520 age group. They listed one race twice-I don't know why or if that effects the rating.

I don't know what this all means

I'm not sure what it means either? My ranking was 843/970 and my score was 57.98509

Steve will know, right Steve?

Will be leaving here, near Wichita, around noon. Rainy T storms

ok..question for those with tri bike -

If you rode a road bike prior to a tri bike, did it take you a while to get used to the gear/brake set up? And at least for me, it all has messed up my balance or center of gravity. It is frustrating and scary!

And if you had aero bars on a road bike, did the tri bike set up ache a bit in the shoulders like you never experienced?

Ok...a couple of questions instead of one.

I went out today for like 2 miles and drove way out of town so I would not have to deal with sharper turns...but there were no shoulders to ride on and I just felt too unwieldy in aero. I am waiting on a stem that will make my fit better but dang... figured I could last longer. 

Steve and Johanne,

It sounds like it is a salt thing because both pickles and sauerkraut are super salty. I guess that's the Polish in me telling me to eat more sodium. Btw, I always crave pretzels and chips, that's just the fatty me that I always have to tell to shut up.

STEVE, I still do dislike gels and supplements but have taken to eating Shot Bloks on bike rides. My runs are not long enough to require nutrition during them so I now have to remember to drink something special after I get back. I don't think you mentioned HEED last year, although I remember your saying something about Hammer products because I've definitely tried their gels.

Anywhos, I picked up a packet of HEED at the bike shop here in California. A side point, I really am spoiled in Boulder. I have 3 bike shops within walking distance of me, but here in San Diego I had to drive 10 miles to the closest one. Unacceptable!

I have yet to try it because I haven't run since Wednesday and thus not needed it, but today I'm going out again so I'll give it a shot then. The guy at the LBS said the lemon-lime and melon flavors were the mildest so we'll see how that goes. I also picked up one of their recovery packets since it has the same amount of sodium and potassium as HEED but also has 10 g of protein. And since for running I'll be drinking this after I'm done, I may as well get the recovery aspect of it as well. If I like it of course.

JOHANNE, I'm going to try the mix you suggested of CarboPro for the bike ride. And also the Recovery e21. I think I need the electrolyte supplements on a daily basis too so this sounds like my kind of thing. Thanks for the coupon code!

Kasia

Things work out in the most wonderful of ways. The sprint tri I was planning on running tomorrow (the one I didn't sign up for because I didn't have time to train during rugby season) essentially got rained out and has now become a duathlon.

And by rained out I mean that it's been raining for 2+ weeks straight in Boulder and the E. Coli levels in the reservoir they were going to use were at quadruple the safe levels so no go on the swim. And if I haven't said it enough, I hate running. So good thing I decided not to sign up and went home to hang out with my parents instead.

Kasia

Steve, great job on the race.

Jeff Good luck on your race, so is it this weekend or next?

Well it's official.  I signed up with Team In Training to raise money and race in the Nations Tri on Sept 11th.  Here is my fundraising link.  Please Please forward this link to as many family and friends that you can.  Thank you so so much.   http://pages.teamintraining.org/al/nattri11/gmiller7iv

Went and did a 42.4 mile bike ride this morning.  Time of ride was 2hrs 38min and avg speed was 16.7.  Had a real good ride.

Question on training. I found a 20 week oly training on BT.  Im starting in on like week 3 since the Nations is less than 20 weeks, but what it has me doing in week 3 or 4 is a little less than what I have been doing, so I feel I should be ok.  Question is my long bike ride is on Sat and if it says to bike 120 minutes, an I do more like 180 minutes or do I need to stick to the schedule.