JFord's Mentor Group-Closed (Page 12)

It was a great weekend here!  Anytime I can get outside, it's a great weekend.  I've probably only been keeping up with about 80% of what I should be doing so... I decided to hire a coach.  More details to come, we're collaborating this week and should hopefully have a schedule rolled out by next week.  So hold on, it's about to get serious. lol.

I have a short brick tomorrow too!  Let's compare tomorrow, just for fun.

In reality, we all probably need two homes.  Because, trust me, in the south in the summer, you'd be miserable.

I don't know about online, but there's a great book called Racing Weight, by Matt Fitzgerald that's all about eating right for endurance athletes.

http://www.amazon.com/Racing-Weight-Lean-Peak-Performance/dp/1934030511

I also read Jillian Michaels (don't laugh, she knows her stuff), Making the Cut, that talked a lot about nutrition.  I really a learned a lot from that one.  Of course, since it's a 30 day program, she encourages cutting ALL the junk out of your diet.  It worked.  But I can't live like that forever.  But a lot of the principles have stuck with me, and I'm pretty lean for a girl.

peterssonb - 2011-02-02 10:15 AM

jessica71980 - 2011-02-01 10:19 PM

I have a short brick tomorrow too!  Let's compare tomorrow, just for fun.

In reality, we all probably need two homes.  Because, trust me, in the south in the summer, you'd be miserable.

Got my 9 miles in on the bike, then 30 minutes on the elliptiacal.  I just thought that would be safer than ice skating down my street (and a better workout)  Worked on keeping HR at 70% on bike and 75% on elliptical - successfully
Now I get to begin another day of having both kids and wife closed up in the house again. 

Ok, I got my 45 min bike and 15m run AND a 35 min circuit right after.  That felt awesome!  And I probably would have skipped something if I didn't have to report back here tonight.

Good luck with the snow!

I'm no nutritionist, but I have taken a lot of time over the past few years reading a lot about it, and trying things out.  My first suggestion would be, if you're not already, start logging all your food.  Yes, it is a total pain in the rear when you start, but once you get your regular foods in there, it goes pretty quickly.  Try it for a month.  The most amazing revelation I've had with regards to nutrition was just seeing what it was I was eating.  Like realizing how many carbohydrates are in fruit and juice.  Yes, as endurance athletes, we need carbs of course, I'm not a anti-carb eater. lol.  I began doing this to try to keep to a particular micro-nutrient ratio (I think it was 40-30-30 at the time), and I learned how to have appropriate ratios in every meal and snack I have.  So, just balanced meals.  Anyway, I believe in order to change your diet for the better permanantly, you have to understand what it is you're eating to begin with.

Are you changing it because you think you know what you need better, or for convenience?  I say if it's for convenience, try to stick to it, but sometimes life gets in the way and you have to do what you have to do.  We're not professional athletes here.  I personally have never just stuck with a plan.  Usually because along the way, I come with other ideas of things that I think I need.  Like an extra bike, or more ST, or more intense runs.  I have major issues following a plan.  Probably why I just decided to hire a coach.  I want to move up in the ranks, and this is the best way I can think to do that.  If you're not contending for a podium spot, do what works for you, I say.  Just my .02.

Oh yea, and keep in mind, unless that plan was made just for you, it will have it's limitations.  Sometimes you will know better than the plan. 

Hi everyone!  My name is Jim and normaly wouldn't "intrude" but James asked if might pop in on occasion and maybe offer up some insight???  I'm a bit knowledgable in the area of Clydes/Athena or the bigger (tall) athlete and recently have been successful in a weight loss program to finally get to my race weight...  I'm thinking about authoring a brief summary on my journy soon with some pics.

As for resume, I have a couple IM's and half dozen HIM's under my belt plus a bunch of other shorter races and odds and ends...  Been doing this for... I don't know 4.5 years officially?  But doing some sort of S/B/R just about my entire life.

2011 will be a lot of shorter races but building up to IMAZ in Nov. and POSSIBLY "Race Accross the Sky", if I get in via the lottery.