Ernesto's group (third season) - CLOSED (Page 14)

The challenge. I will have to pass this one... I have no bike, no access to any water here and I am not prepared to run every day. Oh, and travelling again at the end of the month for 3 days... sorry.

Going for another 10k run around the park today.

Today, I'll spend all day doing computer based training modules at work. They are due by the 31st and I have eighteen.

So, if you have any questions shoot, I will be here checking the thread every now and then. Weird to spend a whole day indoors, I can already feel the headache...

Ernesto that sounds good. I will  PM you my cell and we can make arrangements.

Ok, so far in the challenge we have:

- Ernesto

- Jackie

- Chris

- James

- Elizabeth K

- Joe D

- Todd TX

- Samy

- Gabe

- Jennie (Jen)

- Matt

- Barry

- Scott

- John

- Rachel  

Repost with your name on it if you're in.

During the November challenge nine people participated, we already have fifteen entrants and I feel some more will join in. Things will be fun and interesting!

Chris, you are so right, what can I say... we all have our challenges.

Ernesto, you asked us noobs  to post a question no matter how "stupid", so here it goes:

I am in the market for my first tri-shorts/tops combo. According to feedback, it seems DeSoto makes jerseys long enough to cover my 6'3" frame. I just found a super deal on the desoto forza rivera shorts, but they are black/blue. Not my favorite, but cannot pass on the deal. So looking for a top to match and found black, white, or blue.

So, does a black tri-jersey gets too hot in the FL sun? White too translucent? I need a fashion consultant!

Took advantage of my son is napping to  sneak out for a quick bike ride. Worked on keeping my cadence high as suggested by Ernesto and Joe.

Very happy with the results. Rode 7.16 miles. Was able to keep an avg. cadence of 94, with a max. of 113 (that was at the beginning...could not keep that up for long). Was also able to maintain speed while working on an easier gear (increased slightly to 16.3 mph). Now I need to work on maintaining that cadence for longer rides and getting my body used to it.

BTW, any Garmin 305 forerunner owners? Is there a way to see your cadence while riding?

About the forerunner 305, only about 90% of us own one (hehe). The cadence sensor is a separate accesory that you can easily mount and pair to your unit. I suggest you and everybody that doesn't have one to get it, it will help your training a lot. Taller individuals with long legs find it harder to get used to a faster cadence because if the long muscles, and find easier to push bigger gears. But if being a tall person you can learn a high turnover, and you add to this the naturally easy gear mashing power that comes with the long limbs you can be an exceptional cyclilst.

The very best triathletes on a bike (Juhansenn, Lieto, Staddler, Potts) have long legs, fast turnover and an incredible power output. 

It shouldn't be a problem but please make sure that the Ortho agrees, injuries are hard to get rid off...

Ernesto:

I have the cadence sensor up and running. My question is if there is a screen in the Garmin 305 that actually shows cadence while riding the bike. I know there are a couple of screens that can be viewed while exercising, but could not find one with cadence on it. Did I miss it?

When you're about to start a bike workout select bike and then scroll one time with the up arrow, it will display the things I told you about.

What I do to keep a high cadence is look at it periodically, if I'm going up a hill every time I fall below 95RPM I shift up until I run out of gears (if I do).

I just got the garmin 310xt for Christmas.  I also got the quick mount kit.

Where is a good place to mount it my bike?  I looked a little online and saw it mounted on the aero bar, but I feel that it may be harder to view.

Any reccomendations?

Completed my first Hill Training Session today.  One thing Scott and I have here are hills.  We read several plans for training unsure of how to start.  We ran to a steep section of road(1 mile away) and down the opposite side.  The spot I marked should have taken my 90 seconds to make it to the top and the plan was to do 6 repeats.  My plan was to run at race pace for the 10k which would be 8:30.  Figured my lack of fitness was the reason why I was only able to hold a pace for 60 sec.  When I uploaded the workout I saw that I was running at a sub 8 min pace most of the hill and that was why I felt like I was beaten up by the time I got to the top.  Didn't think to use the lap for each run until Scott came out and I mentioned it to him but at that point I only had 2 more repeats.  

Here it the link to show.  You can see the pace as well the incline (7%).  One thing the garmin doesn't show is the wind the knock you back as you reach the top!

http://connect.garmin.com/player/137098540

Today was our first hill training run today.  We started with 6 hill repeats for this week.  My hill was about 0.17-0.19 miles long (according to the garmin) and about 6.8% avg grade.  Split times were 68, 71, 71, 70, 74, and 71 seconds.  Definitely felt tough after nothing but aerobic running for the last 4 months but it was overall a good workout.  Unfortunately I forgot to change my garmin to running, so if you check out the link to my garmin data in my log don't be suprised to see the speed in mph.  I hate it when that happens.

Oh dear.  It really is annoying isn't it?  I have a policy of only using my Garmin during races to record, rather than to pace myself.  I always land up using feel on the day anyway.  But I like looking at the data afterwards and using it to inform my future training.