HILDEBEAST'S Magnificently Motivational Mentor Group - CLOSED!!!! (Page 12)

Hilde...I like the "Slut" recommendation...I'll have to give that some thought!!!  Any others have a crude name that would fit..haha

Melanie, I've done it both ways and have been successful both ways.  I do like having a plan for half marathon training, takes all the thinking out of it... but for tri?  The swims are always much shorter than I normally do, I usually like to run more days, and I bike when I can.  So I just kind of stick double workouts in for most of the week... I try to take one day a week totally off, or if I'm really feeling tired, I"ll take off a day and not worry about it.  I think you want to basically start with low distances and easy effort for week 1, build up a bit for week 2, a bit more for week 3, then back off and recover (still doing stuff, just a little less distance and effort than week 3), then start over for week 4, but maybe start with week 2's distances... that means month by month you are adding volume and still have one week of easy/recovery stuff.  It gets kind of weird for me during the summer since I'll have races in there too, so I usually do a quickie taper for each one, even if it's only a day or two off.  This has worked for me for Sprints, but I will probably follow an Oly plan and just tweak to meet my needs.... because I intend to do an Oly the end of April.

I usually combine plans.  Right now I'm mixing a sprint plan from here with a SmartCoach running plan from Runners World.  The sprint plan's runs are just too short for me but the swim and bike are just about right.  I have to have some kind of plan or I won't do the workouts.

Sorry I haven't been around lately - been trying to get some things done around the house while I've been off work.  I'll try to get caught up tomorrow/Monday before I have to go back to work on Tuesday.

Have a Happy New Year!  Be safe if you're going out tonight.

Melanie, I do usually follow a "loose" training plan.  Otherwise, I tend to slack off.  I plan to use the BT running-focused schedule for OLY. Right now, I'm using the Hal Higdon's novice 1/2 marathon training schedule and do either swim or bike during my "cross training" or "rest" days.

Thanks for suggesting that Wilson - I'm using the swim stuff from that to build up my endurance again. Just have to find out when the pool opens again

Ok I've added a new plan to my frankenplan,lol.

Run = conservative c25k with a little tweaking in month 1 to get some running in

Bike = Beginner Exercise program

Swim = Micheal Pates 22 week sprint plan.

ST = Whatever I can do. Sort of just winging that with some help from a few people over on RW and sort of following the BEP plan when I can - don't have all the equipment they say I should have since I'm not a gym member but I usually find something to substitute that works the same muscle group.

Only issue now is back because they have me using a fitness ball for extensions - can they be done normally on a floor/mat or something?

wsilverthorne - 2011-12-31 7:40 PM

 

Happy New Year Friends - May your New Year be filled with some KICK A$$ training and great RACES!!!!  and a few other things too 

Happpy new year Wilson - and  everyone else. Looks good so far - just waiting for the washing to dry so I can get some running in later.

Up until this point I have loved following a training plan.  I like numbers/charts/grafts and am a little OCD, so training plans fall nicely into that.  I also didn't know what I was doing, so a training plan helped feel like having training wheels or arm floaties.  But, as much as I love them, I'm thinking a lot about just winging it in the months before my first tri of the season.  It just sounds fun right now.  Who knows!

After all those reasons you like plans...you've now decided to ditch them and go willy nilly????  Are you drunk??? hahah  LMAO  I think a plan is what you need....based on all those reasons......PUT DOWN THE BOTTLE GIRL......ENOUGH!!! 

First, the GOOOOD NEWS!! For all my BT peeps from last season....I RAN SEVEN MILES TODAY!! Wooot!! There was some shuffling going on in there up some of these BLASTED freakin hills, but I made it!! :-))  Am now icing my foot and thinking tomorrow will be a REST day regardless of the plan to make sure that I don't over-use/over "do" it and cause new injuries...

To all the ladies contemplating plans......I tend to be a bit OCD - everything has to be logged AND I like to KNOW what I am going to do in advance so I know how much time to plan. With a large family, school etc it just works better for me to have an idea. In addition to that, when one has a plan and sticks pretty much to it one has a higher expectation of SUCCESS on the day of competition rather than no idea how well they may do....Just my opinion...

I just said I was THINKING about ditching a plan.  As much as I have loved my plans, I thought it might be a nice break to try and go without.  I'll still have all my logs, etc to help my OCD.  But, now I know if I only make it a week without a plan I can count on some good laughs from everyone.

Congrats on the 7 miler Tammy!!  For you noobs, Tammy has been fighting nerve pain in her feet for years!  She tried drs., orthotics, steroid shots between the toes, drinking till she passed out and even having another kid, but all was for naught... she ended up having surgery to kill the nerve back in October and is just now getting her mileage back up.  So for her to be able to run pain-free for 7 miles is STUPENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I will try the MARSHMALLOW plan.... soft and cushy, never too hard!

Sorry if this is a double post - my internet is being silly.

Does Tammy really need an excuse to have another kid,lol.

Don't worry Tammy - just teasing - my mun is 1 of 7.

Oh and here's my tweaked month 1 of the running program:

Take same approach to continuation of c25k program:

Session 1 – ½ total mins x 2

Session 2 – ¾ total mins x1 ¼ total min x2

Session 3 – total mins run in middle of 2 walk intervals of ½ total mins.  - This is the approach I intend taking for the rest of the program - Haven't quite figured out what to do with session 4 yet (probalby do run/walk with the previous week's intervals or something) but I will be keeping it for the entire program.

Oh and if you're looking at my logs when I start the official program (around Jan 23) and the sport (aka walking) mins don't match with the plan it's because I log the whole thing under run to work out the full mileage rather than separately.

Marshmallow plan still sounds better than the couch plan Hilde,lol.

Awesome 7 miler today, Tammy!  Way to start the new year off RIGHT!  Glad your foot is cooperating so far...

P.S. I was going put this in an inspire, but I'm not added to your friends list yet.