Stuck in the Middle - May Challenge (Page 12)

Sorry to hear about your ride this morning Emily.  Mechanical problems? 

I'm sorry to admit I've never had an unpleasant bike ride.  Cold.  Yes.  Rainy.  Yes.  Unpleasant.  No.   Nothing feels better than to be out on a bike in nice weather.  I guess you learn to appreciate those things in MN.  We have a shorter than usual bike season here.

Do you have a heart rate monitor?  Try wearing it while you're on your bike.  That will keep your HR more even, and should give you a better experience biking (less panting, unless of course you're trying to keep up with the hot guy that just passed you).  Try to stay in zone 2 or even zone 3 on the uphills.  As a 'general' rule, your HR zones on the bike will be about 10 bpm lower than your run HR zones.

Keep at it.  It gets 'funner.'

Do tired legs count as mechanical problems?  I don't think I've ridden two days in a row in awhile.  Most likely reason for feeling less than stellar.  Word on the street is I need to HTFU! 

Oooh... my specialty!  Bad training days that is.  The trick is to get back out there tomorrow.  Do something.  Get in the pool.  Put on the running shoes.  Maybe even get the bike out again.  Then you take all that frustration out on what's in front of you.  My best training ride to date came after a severely disappointing time trial in the pool.  I said to my bike (yes, I talk to Mooch), "Dude, I'm sorry, but the pool started and I'm ending it with you.  No hard feelings."

Bad days are not an indication of bad training.  They're just bad days, nothing more, nothing less.  You can use them as fuel, or you can let them get to you.

I'm glad I saw a winky smiley face after "stupid bike."  I was gonna go straight to Dee and steal the cattle prod!  We love our bikes on this team

Oh, and I just did my first outdoor ride of the season yesterday - so don't feel bad! 

I thought we loved to run?????????  and, what about swimming?????

I'm so confused! - LOL

Ok, so apparantly, I'm HTML challenged. What did I do wrong? I copied and pasted in my goals section, all I see is the code. I've screwed up somewhere.

Just tell me to "MOVE!" (10 points to whoever names this obscure reference.)

Ya gotta click the html button, then paste it into there.

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You're just travel weary.  We love it all!

Mmmmm, we love bikes!

We love bikes, big gears, hills, headwinds, speed, aero, and all things in between. 

dang! it sounds like a challenge - I know I'll know it, when someone else says it - LOL

oh, and don't worry about being html challenged, in the Jan challenge I messed up an entire thread and had to ask Marma for help {shuffling my feet} not once, but twice 

I always just copy the graphic table and not the code - have you tried that? 

truly I have no idea why it would make a difference, but, somehow it seems to

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Hi Dee! 

Night!

but, seriously - you're going to leave us hanging with the movie quote?????

ARGH!

now there is even less of a chance I'll figure it out!

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

time to call my kids

Night Jenni!

I have no idea.  If it's not the New Orleans Hornets, I haven't seen it lately.

Beating the Spurs by 10 right now! 

Ta DA! Fixed. Thanks again.

Did we ever discuss how to figure in bricks and races? Do you just add the 5% to your workout time?

I just noticed that Gill posted in the overall challenge that she is going to update the spreadsheets

http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=112214&posts=138#M1384006 

Oh thank goodness.  Sunday night I was checking out the logs and doing some updating in case somebody hadn't got around to it when I realized... what if that was a brick.  How do I figure that out?

mmm.... I love spreadsheets.  I played with werked in them all day yesterday

3 more miles for me today.   Now if I can only find the spreadsheet link again!  

 OUCH!   That looks almost as bad as the chafing I got from my singlet on one of my marathons.  Hurt like the dickens!   I forgot the body glide that day!  (Note to teammates --- not only do you NOT forget sunscreen, you do not forget your bodyglide!!!)

Hope it gets better fast, mon capitan!