Fred D Mentor Group - Part II (Page 13)

LOL...I meant what were you riding before your defective slice?  Or was the slice your first tri bike?  I'm guessing it wasn't since it couldn't have been more than a couple years old.

Fred's steed, in the carbon flesh! Glad you have it back.

LOL on the "basket." There were a few things about my first tri that kept me coming back, and one was that there were people who did it on bikes with baskets.

Oh, man. Sad. Sucks to lose those things ... an old tree and a great car have sentimental value, too.

Wow - I've a few days off, and can't keep up with you guys.

Fred - glad to see that you got your frame back, and should have plenty of time to get your position tweaked.  I think you're going to have a great ride at Tremblant.

Rusty - sorry to hear about the car and tree.  Hope everything gets resolved the way you want, assuming you keep your design concepts to a minimum...

Finally finished my RR.  It managed to crash on me three times while trying to write it.  Likely the system knew that no-one wanted to read it.  Anyhow, here it is:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=453979

Solid ride today.  Decided to go hard on my second long climb and held 300 watts for 20 minutes without really killing myself.  Didn't even mean to do a 20 minute effort as I poured it on the last 8 minutes averaging 315.

I'm scheduled to do an all out test next Thursday...I'm thinking of shooting for 310-315.

Fred, so glad you got the new frameset!!  The bike looks great, i hope it provides many miles!!

James, that is a great swim workout!!!

Jason, Awesome ride dood!!!

I have been struggling with motivation the last 2 weeks, i need to regroup this weekend and get my butt in gear!!!

I finally fixed my bike, it also had a broken derailleur pulley, took it for a test spin last night, all's good.

Gonna try and get some decent miles tomorrow on the bike, and i will try to run again starting next Monday.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!!!

45 mins in the pool this morning.  I tried to take things a bit easy as my right shoulder was a wee bit angry after I swam on Wednesday.

Sunday is our 12th wedding anniversary and I surprised my wife with a night at an Inn that she has always wanted to stay at (anyone ever seen the show "The Inn Chef", "Chef at home" etc?).  Anyway, it includes a 5 course menu with each course created by one of the previous chefs that worked there over the years and that have gone on to run other successful restaurants.  I told her about it last night and she's pretty excited!  The weather is supposed to be really nice too so we should be able to make a nice day out of it.  It's no Hawaii mind you.  

SLURP. Have a lovely annie then! Hope your shoulder loosens up.

Easy day for me as long bike and a short run were yesterday. Recovery/pacing swim SCM (below) and a short run.

WU: 300 IM, 100 IM kick, 100 IM pull

MS: All on 2:00/100m interval

4 x (200, 150, 100, 50)

1 - @1:50, 2 - @1:45, 3 - @1:40, 4 - @1:35

100 easy

CD: 4x75 (25 IM stroke, 50 free), 100 pull

It's weird. I noticed this week that I sweat more now than ever. I think it's because I adjusted to the dryness, then the humidity snuck in. I was crusted in salt after my 7 mile run earlier this week - and that's a rarity for me.

Little swim victory this morning!

I swam in the 1:30 lane (LCM, ~1:20 SCY) - and I actually executed the entire workout properly and made every single interval. Usually in the 1:30 lane, I'm just hanging on. Maybe I've tapped into the swimmer that's been hiding out somewhere in my body for over 5 years

That's awesome Coach!  Always fun to swim with the "big kids".

Not so little, Laney Day!

Super result of your rededication to swimming and hard work.

I was pretty happy with a 225w hour ride yesterday... almost back to my normal output for when I'm healthy.

Fred: nice bike, glad you were able to get it set up relatively quickly!

I finally got around to writing a race report for a sprint that I did in early July.  It's the first race that I've ever been on the OA podium!  It's a small race with only 56 racers but most races around here don't get many more than 100 so it was as least a half decent sized field.

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