SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 126)

It's part of the initiation.

I finally had a chance to watch this - that's pretty cool Jason!!   

What is on your knees?

Just watched as well.   First off , Jason well done pacing yourself right behind Hines for maximum tv time     Second, I recognize that look on your face, oh do I recognize it....

Those are patellar straps.  More preventative than anything.  I had a bad bout of patellar tendonitis way back when I first started running and I just kept using them ever since.  I can run without them if need be, and usually pass on them for shorter races and even a HIM...but I figured for a IM, the 10 seconds to put them on wouldn't hurt. 

You guys do know Lulu Lemon sells men's clothing now, right?

Ran a 15k trail run today - one of the largest in the region with about 1500 racers spread across a 5k and 15k. Somehow managed 3rd in my AG, but with a little over a mile to go rolled my left ankle over and took a pretty hard tumble, so I shut it down and limped in. Evidently missed the foot race for 1st & 2nd AG by 2 minutes, so I don't think I lost any paces. I have a little swelling, but nothing a little ice won't fix, hopefully. I really gotta start running more than just in races, or at least sign up for a lot more races....

Heal up Rusty...,,,,,

Need helmet advice?  I use a Uvex plain wrap aero helmet.  Not the most
robust piece of equipment,.   Can get a club deal on a SPecialized Evade (Rapp wore it in IMAZ to the record) or a TT2, basically for the same price

Live in so cal so don't do that many hot races, but am doing SIlverman and NOLA 70.3 next year.

Is this a worthwhile upgrade?  It's not terribly expensive, so money really isn't the question, more about performance. 

I was thinking on this morning's ride about the cumulative effect of marginal gains.   Torhans VR, tri rig omega brake, aero helmet, wheel cover, etc.  It all adds up

I had a great ride today.  Went on my favorite climb...conditions were cool and dry.  I purposely rode really easy throughout the week to give my legs a bit of recovery as I struggled on this ride last week.

2 climbs.  Last week 31:45 and 27:50, at 212 and 241 watts respectively.  This week 27:55 and 25:55 at 251 and 276 watts respectively.  Starting to feel like a cyclist again.  Nowhere near where I want to be 6-8 months from now, but pretty good for this time of year.

General entry for Honu just sold out.  Wow...faster and faster each year.  Amazing because about 3/4 of the athletes are NOT from Hawaii.  Good to see that the race is continuing to thrive.

Nice work Jason!  

Every time I see you do that Tantalus ride on Strava I think of the Michael Crichton' book - Micro.

Wow, that's great!  I hadn't completely discounted that race for next year yet.  I was waiting to see if I could get decently priced flights.  I guess that seals the deal.  

Nice Marc!  So are ya going?  The 15 sec improvement in the 400 is a nice jump.

Originally posted by marcag A while back I posted the qualifying times for the world masters swim camps in Montreal this summer. It turns out they are Long course meters, which is about 2sec/100m slower than a 25m pool I did a swim meet this weekend and qualified in the 100, missed the 200 by 1 sec and the 400 by 18 sec I profiled all these numbers and it looks like I have some speed but no endurance, which I guess is a good problem to have except I need to train a lot The good news is although I was 15sec off in the 400, I was 15 sec faster than my PB from last spring, so there is hope. Lots of work, but hope.

Curious too. Are you looking to go? I'm about the same time off for each of the 100 & 200, so have the reverse profile you do. Can't really sprint, but can hold it for awhile. Drives up the curiosity for the 400 & 800. Though not sure of a meet in the area with an 800. One takes an 800 split out of the 1500, but that seems hard to do. Not sure I could afford to go if I even make qualification times, but have to do that first.

Wow, well if I was 45-50 years old and those were yard times and not meters we could talk ha.

hit 412 TSS on the bike last week and 70+ more today.  I was also in the pool 4 times and seem to be making some great improvements already in just a short period.  Pretty happy so far.

I have another 1650 test in the pool Wednesday and FTP test next week.  The numbers shall speak .

That would have been one long plane ride for you Arend!

I've done it a few times.  It's 18 hours (flying time plus stopovers) at best, usually more like 22.  One time we somehow had flights line up perfectly and it was only 15.  Definitely not a weekend type of trip!

Nice.  I had a nice strong ride into work today.  Legs felt great.  I'm slowly learning though that I can't ride hard everyday and managing my weekly (and day to day) TSS is going to be more and more important for me. 

Does anyone besides Fred use the premium version of Strava?  I currently use WKO+ to manage my power data, but it's a bit limited since all the data is only available on my home PC.  Wondering how any of you like it and would you consider it viable as a power management software.  Pros and cons vs WKO+ or Golden Cheetah?