SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 125)

Nicole hit on it (IMO).  To me, RI gives you an out.  If you are doing 10 x 100 with :15 RI, you can go 2:00/100, 1:20/100, etc... and rest :15.  Just my .02, but even for me - I am a pretty honest guy and will push myself to finish prescribed workouts - I do go easier if it's a RI vs. a hard sendoff. 

Good feedback everyone - good swim fitness this year, not so much swim speed.  Good to know what i need to work towards.

They have posted the entire finish line video for this past Sunday's IM AZ here.   I came in at about 5:11:20 into the video.

Thanks!  I've actually known Jorge from here at BT for many years and recently joined his company as an Associate Coach.  Sounds weird that I hired him as my coach this fall if I'm one of his coaches, but I was at the point in my IM career where I needed an outside, objective observer to provide input.  I think we have a good path outlined for 2014.

I had my first taste of winter running of the season.  Slush, ice and wind made it a shorter than planned run!

I think that's my first real whine of the winter isn't it?

I thought about wearing a long sleeve shirt on my morning run down to the beach.  thought about it.....

0c is as cold as it'a gotten to yet - still in shorts as well.  Keep telling myself I can't wear my tights at work and look like a girly man in front of co-workers...

On Sunday, my car ran out of A/C coolant and I was roasting.

There's a reason people don't like you...

Nicole I like how you just show up like a ninja and say oh yeah, just did a ragnar 

I don't know about that...I went to the beach last weekend and all the pretty girls in bikinis seemed to like me just fine. 

Check out the section between 8:00 and 8:20.  The defining moments when I realized Ward had me.  LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=EjsJsC842Tc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEjsJsC842Tc%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&app=desktop

Yeah, I also thought this was more like #117. 

Are email notifications down for you all? Seems to be for me and it almost caused me to miss the annual migration of Canadians when they all flock inside for a long, dark winter of training.....

Yeah, I too hate tights, but at about -3c I gotta put something else on other than shorts. I actually have a very lightweight pair of man-capri tights that are awesome (I SWEAR they have a "men's" tag on the waist band) but you do have to have a fair amount of confidence to wear such a thing. They are much, much better than tights for fast running down to about -6c ~ -7c maybe.

I wasn't getting emails while the server replacement was going on but I've been fine since.

We did an interesting set in the pool this morning.  10 x 50 with 1-3 and 6-8 being  on :40 (so only a very short rest) and holding the best avg pace we could for those.  Two ez 50s for 4,5 and 9,10.  Next was 3 x 500 with the 1st, 5th and 10th 50 at the same pace as the fast 50s in the from before.  

Not easy at all!!!  We also didn't know about the 500s until after we had finished the 50s.

Nicole - thanks for the write up of the Ragnar - sounds like you guys had a great time and were fairly competitive? How did you finish in the mixed category? We did the Tennesee Ragnar back in 2011 and it is easily one of the most fun events I have participated in. When they announced a few months ago that they were adding a trail race here in Georgia this coming spring we had a team put together inside of about 10 minutes, so very much looking forward to it. I hope they have the little kinks you mentioned worked out by the time they bring the event here, but regardless I know it will be a lot of fun!!

Rusty, I grew up in small town Georgia. Any man down there that wore "man capri's" - regardless of the tag - had better be able to run fast. 

I'm not doing much right now other than easy running. Nothing long but I'm getting out there 6 days a week and it t feels pretty good. 

It's all starting to make sense now.  If I want to get faster on the run, I too need to either wear capris or women's running shorts.  Is this something Shane recommends?