kenj triathletes in training - IM and HIM focused - Closed (Page 12)

Best wishes to your friends DJ.  The GatorDeb threads here can be interesting at times.  I hope they both heal quickly!

I might steal some of this for my swim this morning! Thanks for sharing Chris!

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Try to negative the second sets from the first (and don't sandbag the first ones haha ) Those are great to get your suffer on! :D

I bet that would be a tough set.  I will try that after the race.

Uuuuugggghhhh...sick.  So frustrating.  I'm finishing a rest week, and it's certainly not the end of the world, but supposed to hit it hard (starting Build 2) tomorrow.  With 2 toddlers and working in the ER I get exposed to a lot, but don't usually get sick for more than a day or so.  On day 3 today, still feel lousy, and working all weekend, boooo!

Now that my whining is out of the way, as a beginning biker I've been following this discussion with interest.  Rita, the only other thing I have to throw out there is I love, love, love the sufferfest videos for biking on the trainer.  Honestly, I didn't know what biking hard was until I got one of those.  Still working on translating that level of effort to the road though.  I find it hard to figure out if I'm really improving or not on the bike because of all the variables with hills, wind, etc.  I'm not really THAT into data but I'm starting to think a power meter might be next year's triathlon purchase.  Any thoughts?

Jaime

Thanks Bill (and the others that posted previously on this topic).  I will try the suggestions and see what happens.  Overall its a minor irritation compared to what Brian is going through, so can't complain much. 

Another cold morning run this morning with frosty eyelashes.  Its May 13th for gosh sake!

This is me!  I tend to back off when the going gets hard - I definitely need to work on it.

Hello All,

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Carla and I along with another friend did a very challenging ride today (especially for early season riding). I tried out my new cassette (11-28). It is great! I really appreciated the 28 on some of the climbs. 73 miles completed today. Elevation gain of 3836 ft.

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Hey Ken and Robin,

Make sure you two take some pics while in Florida.  I know it is a week away but best of luck! We will be cheering your on!

CyborgQueen - 2013-05-12 10:45 PM After a few posts of my cycling advices are "pretty good"...I can have some WTH days, and even now, hours later, I'm still laughing about it. Today was Cake Ride with my cycling group. Told myself to just do a LSD ride, no hammering it. I was riding just fine for a while until we got to the road that takes us out to Red Rock Canyon area. All of sudden I felt like my legs were completely trashed, I'm not pedaling as smoothly, and it was actually pretty difficult to ride. I was mumbling to myself that perhaps my body is finally telling me "ENOUGH!!" after a couple hard rides. I normally go 14-15mph for a good pace, and 12-14 for recovery pace on a steady gradual climb on this part. I was going 10mph...yeah, that slow. I looked at my HR and saw it was hitting the upper Zones. I didn't get it. I tried riding slower, but it only decreased my HR a little bit, and I still felt like my legs weren't turning the cranks as well. Crap! So I told my friend that I'm turning around at the Overlook, as it seems like my body is revolting. He understood (he's a CAT2 racer, and was concerned with my HR and asked if I was feeling sick/dizzy or anything else that's showing signs of overtraining...I wasn't. It just felt like my legs decided to revolt). Got to the Overlook feeling defeated and disappointed because I've put on 100+ miles in a week many times before. As I was holding my bike, I could feel that something wasn't right with how I moved it. Spun the back wheel, no problems. Spun the front...it wouldn't budge. Oops. The brakes was really rubbing against the rims, thus giving me pretty much a hard resistance. The calipers were kind of loosey, and I think when I rode over some jarring areas and it must have moved, so I pretty much was riding with high resistance. Lesson learned! I was able to get the calipers tightened. Good thing I had this done before doing my MS150 ride this weekend! On the plus side, my legs is happy to hear that they're getting a 3 day of full rest, with an C ride on Thursday to help prepare for the long weekend. :D Happy Mother's Day to everyone!!

I guess we all have had those moments DJ!! At least I know I have!! At least you know now that your legs are just fine!!

Enjoy your rest days!

Wow!! Nice ride Kathleen and Carla!!

Happy Monday!!

Ren' - You KILLED that course!!!  That extra tooth worked wonders for you... unfortunately I needed a few more "Teeth"!!!!!   Here are my comments on the ride (See Image)

Saturday morning I ended up running a 5k with a bunch of people from the office. It was kind of on a whim, and given that i had done an 11 mile run the day before, and then spend the night at a brewfest with friends, it was by no means fast. But it was nice to get out and do some type of a race, especially since there were probably 30 or so people from my company there. That afternoon I put about 2k at the pool, seeing as it was pouring outside.

Sunday I did my first 50 miler of the season, or at least my first one outdoors. It felt pretty good, but definitely reminded me that I still have a good bit of work to do. Hills are definitely my weakness, but one that I am definitely working on.

This next week is going to be an interesting one. I'm backpacking on the AT this weekend with my scouts, so fitting all my training in is going to be a challenge.

Thank you DJ and Meulen for sharing your thoughts on power meters.  I train mostly by myself (I work a lot of nights and weekends, so group rides are difficult) and I feel so blind on the bike. On the run, I know my HR and my paces and I'm hitting them or I'm not.  I'm quite accurate at guessing my zone/pace even before I glance at the garmin.  On the bike, there are so many variables.  I am really struggling with pacing in training and in races.  For indoor riding I have found Trainer Road and Sufferfest to be super helpful--I had no idea I could work so hard on the bike.  Still having trouble translating that level of work to the road, though.

Which leads to my follow up question (can you tell I am still sick, and now have time to obsess about training minutiae?)  How do you pace your Oly bike leg?  Which zone are you trying to stay in?  How does that compare to how you pace your HIM bike leg?   

Finally, DJ I had to laugh at your post.  Can't tell you how many times I've pulled over, certain my tire was flat because I was feeling so crappy and suddenly not keeping up, and there was nothing wrong with my bike at all.    Working on nutrition has been helping a bit with this issue! 

CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR HOW EVERYTHING GOES IN FLORIDA!!!!

Jaime