Artemis's Mentor Group - FULL! (Page 13)

m55morris - 2009-07-03 10:19 PM Had a sweet ride tonight.  Averaged 17.66 mph for 24.9 miles.   It took 1 hour 24 minutes, so it is a mid to long ride for me.  A normal ride for me average 16.5 mph, and on a short fast ride I am at 16.9 mph.  I have been working riding in the drops more, so that may be the deference, but really encouraging for me to see some movement in my bike times.

KrisSeer - 2009-07-04 3:19 PM
Thanks everybody! I'll post some pics soon. I'm heading out on my test ride to work, which will also be my first official challenge ride for the month. The body parts that sit on the seat are pretty sore from yesterday's, and I imagine it's not going to improve when I get back on the bike. Is it possible to do an entire ride standing up?!

pole_dancer - 2009-07-04 6:18 PM

Those parts will toughen up in no time with consistant riding.

pole_dancer - 2009-07-04 6:22 PM I had a pretty good 10K today.  I really worked on changing my thought process.  I remember when I ran the Country Music 1/2 Marathon.  Everyone said afterwards that this had been the most fun race they had ever ran.  All I could think at the time was I don't remember a really fun moment in the entire race.  It was all really hard work.  I want to change that.
 
Fourth of July Music City 10K

KrisSeer - 2009-07-04 2:19 PM








Thanks everybody! I'll post some pics soon. I'm heading out on my test ride to work, which will also be my first official challenge ride for the month. The body parts that sit on the seat are pretty sore from yesterday's, and I imagine it's not going to improve when I get back on the bike. Is it possible to do an entire ride standing up?!

m55morris - 2009-07-06 5:20 PM

Need some advice.  I am thinking of doing a 40+ mile ride next week.  I have done a 30 and will do a 30+ this week.  I am wondering if jumping up to 40+ plus next week is too much or just stop talking and do it. I don't plan to push the pace to hard, but just wondering what you all think

m55morris - 2009-07-06 9:59 PM good point on the water, there isn't an easy gas station but I will ride with a pack with extra water in it.

m55morris - 2009-07-07 10:04 PM
I am thinking of stopping and getting a second cage put on my bike which should help out with the water issues.

pole_dancer - 2009-07-08 6:00 PM

Not sure how much water you will eventually need, but a camelback is great for long rides.

Artemis - 2009-07-09 10:37 AM

That's another option.  They drive me crazy because my back gets really warm, but I know a lot of people really like them.  I would start with the second cage - should be a pretty cheap option to carry more water.

m55morris - 2009-07-09 4:51 PMA camelback is great idea.  I will have to start to look for one.  The only thing I wonder is about being able to suck water out of it while riding.  normally  I squeeze the water out of the bottle so it saves effort.   I guess it can't be worse than trying to chew and shallow without running out of air. 

My second tri is coming up this weekend.  Getting excited.  Going to do an easy ride with my little girl tomorrow, do a short easy swim on sat. and rock it out on Sunday.

pole_dancer - 2009-07-12 3:54 PM So now I can say have completed a full Olympic triathlon.  3:44 - no records broken, but I had a great time.

KrisSeer - 2009-07-12 3:52 PM
So here's my new dilemma - if I'm not following a training plan, and am only working on two of the three sports (biking and running), how often do I need to do each one?

In June, I did a running challenge and worked on my running a lot. By the end I felt like I'd improved quite a bit; much more consistent and much less painful. So this month, I signed up for the TdF bike challenge, and bought a new bike. It turns out, I love to ride my bike. The problem is, I just looked at my training log and realized I haven't run since July 1st.

Clearly, that's not often enough, and I need to start doing them both at the same time. I'm pretty sure that doing one sport a month won't get me very far! So how often should I be planning on for each one? Twice a week? Three times a week?

Anybody have thoughts?

m55morris - 2009-07-12 5:10 PM http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/races-edit.as... />
The link to my race is above.  I still don't know how to do that correctly.  I had a great race today.  End up get a PR for sprint distance with an overall time of 1:29:12, even though this course was 2 miles longer on the bike, 150 yards longer on the swim and an extra .1 miles to run over my first race.  I stuck to my plan for the swim and swam my own pace.  The crazy thing is that I passed over half of my wave and finished at the lead of the average slow swimmer group (at least that is what I am calling them.)  My bike was awesome.  Averaged 19.2 mph, and pretty much only got caught by people on tri bikes.  I even managed to hang with a few people on the tri bikes.  Then on the run I averaged sub 9 minute miles, like 8.92 minutes/mile, but it is still below 9.  I am so stoked right now.  That's right I went old school.  This result is probly the best I could do with where I am at in my training, so if you can't tell I am really, really happy.
Thanks for all the support.

Artemis - 2009-07-13 9:38 AM



Congratulations!!!  Sounds like you had a great race!!!  The bike and run pace are pretty awesome!