kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2011 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 12)

Clearly BT does not like you today.

as long as you still like me, that is all that matters

well and Jeff-y too

I SWAM MONDAY!!!!!

from my log:

now if you are reading this, do not fall off your chair...yes i did swim, i needed to swim, i had been struggling mentally about not swimming. I did this set

warm up
50 back balance
50 kick
50 free easy peasy

i did a set alternating between kick drills and 100m freestyle

4x100 free
4x50 kickdrill

cooldown
50 back balance
100 kick
100 really easy free

the g ood part about this workout is i timed my 2nd and 4th hundreds, i am still swimming 1:30-1:35 100m, but i can only do 1 before my form starts falling apart. that will come with swim endurance. I was also taking 10-15 secs rest between sets.

My 4 kids and I just had pink eye a couple weeks ago.  Not fun.  Trying to keep a 13 month old from scratching his eyes and touching everything is pretty much impossible.  Hope your wife feels better soon!

I know so little about biking yet......I don't have a dream bike.  I have some dream skills I'd like to acquire

I got a Giant Defy 1 this past Feb., and so far it's treating me well.  Unfortunately the lake effect winds and hills in Cleveland Heights are not.  LOL

(Almost) all bikes have the potential to go fast -- as Lance said "its not about the bike"

see the second part of my sig line

"Carbon is Cool, Aero is slick, Engine trumps all"

the bike is only as good as the rider

Very true on the engine.  I love blowing by guys on P3s while I'm trucking along on my POS.

Rude that bike is sick.  Very envious.

I have s sweet Orbea Ordu and it looks awesome and hopefully I will do it justice one day, however it still hurts my crotch . . . so dream bike is one that doesn't!!!

On the postive side, it is super light and fast and comfortable (other than the crotch stuff)

Rudy - My wife's yoga teacher called and wants her gong back.  I owe you a ton of money for the bike, please, dear god, let me by you a more masculine disc wheel . 

Seriously - Rudy is a perfect example of what dedication to training, particularly single sport focused training can do for you.  You will be hard pressed to find many AGers who have developed as stong a bike in as short period of time as rudy.  More importantly, he cooks great ribs. 

played hookey after court this afternoon and went for a run: in shorts and a t-shirt.  no long sleeve, no sweatshirt, no gloves, hat, etc.  It was even humid. not sunny today, but i'll take what i can get.

My fastest run pace to date this evening:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82029136

Just remember there's no such thing as a good bike followed by a bad run! (or as Shaun says unfortunately they don't give out medals at the end of the bike leg).

Seriously -- triathlon is one that involves three disciplines and you need to able to execute efficiently on all three.  Why do you think Lance is so scared of Kona?

30 minutes for 1 mile is very good, top 50%, top 30% in some olys.

but rudy doesnt really care about the run, he is the Chris Lieto of the Connecticut clydes.

Wore my HR strap to bed...just for the heck of it.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82082807

AVG HR was 55bpm

No idea how to "log" this as workout, though

Your this week is my last week, keep grinding it get better i promise!!!

other than my half where i was injured and under trained for the distance of the run, my fastest bikes are usually followed by a pretty decent run for what i can do (when in mid-season form). Kelly you have seen my logs, we have talked about them and my training. Keep in mind i did nothing longer than a sprint last year, and am in much better overall shape and much lighter than 2009 when i did my Oly's and half.

It is hard to determine if my runs are really all that bad in the Tri's that i have done, as i have only been at it for 3 years, and my runs improve every race as my base run mileage and run speed increases, i am still at the point that extra distance relates to extra speed. I guess this will be a better conversation for Martha's Vineyard, after I go sub 60 on the bike and we will see what i have left for the run and Patriot is in the books.

seriously.