HILDEBEAST'S Mentor Group, CLOSED! (Page 14)

Good job holding your pace, Shad.

The master's practice went well.  One generally fit man maybe 50 years old.  One generally fit young woman around 25.  One overweight man approx 27 years old.  Me, 43 years old, obese.  The coach was not there but will be there on Wed night.  There will be 2 more Saturdays that he will probably miss due to age group swim team meets. 

We created our own workout and generally did the same things.  The first 2 people were faster than me over a 100 meter distance and did 7x100M on 2 minutes.  I did the same for 4 100s, but then changed the interval to 2:10 and ended up doing 6 with the last one Backstroke.  We did a few sprints and nobody was excessively speedy.  Then we did some 50s alternating kick and swim of strokes other than free.  I held my own just fine on these.  Finished up independently.

I'm looking forward to a coached workout, but did enjoy swimming with others again. 

BT training log does not really allow you to track some workouts as yards and others as meters.  Since this pool is meters, I have switched my default to meters.  It makes my previous swims look odd, but the current ones looks normal.

Second this!

Rode today.  Felt fine.  Craziness in the schedule for the next month or so.

Keep up the good work everyone.

Hey there!  First swim lesson tonight.  Not sure what to expect but I'm looking forward to it.  I want to be one of those people I swim with in the morning who look they could go all day long and never get tired or need to stop and take a breather.  I'm hoping she can give me some tips/drills to do to help.  Of course, swimming more than once a week or so would probably help too. 

On a positive note - I'm getting more comfortable on my bike and am able to go for longer stretches without taking a break.  Did a full 30 minutes last night at a little higher cadence than normal for me.  I'm still slow, but I'm improving!

Can't wait to hear how the swim lesson went, Janet!! 

I've definitely had an off week, but hope to be hitting it hard next week because I am on SPRING BREAK as of this afternoon!!!  And none too soon, the kids have had their brains on Spring Break since Monday... I swear they are ALL ADHD!!  No big plans for us, looks like hubby will be taking most of the week off too, and we have the 5 mile trail race on the 16th.  Hoping to get some rides in with friends, and some running trail time and at least 3 swims too, since the pool will be closed the week after for their Spring Break ( normally all the schools here have it the same week, don't know why it's different this year?). 

I have to give a shout out to Luke's Locker... I received a HANDWRITTEN card from them thanking me for my Adidas Energy Boost purchase and hoping I did well in my duathlon last weekend and my name was even spelled correctly!  Yeah, I'll go back!

Swim lesson went pretty well.  My kick needs work but my stroke is pretty good.  I also need to get to the pool more often (hard to build up endurance if you only swim once a week). 

I'm thinking about doing a 5k tomorrow morning.  I haven't done a regular 5k road race in almost a year - I've been doing 10k's and trail races mostly - so I'd like to see how I'd do.  It'll probably be just a small race but the weather is finally turning spring-like and it's for a good cause.  A local HS girl is dealing with bone cancer and the money is going to help pay for her medical expenses.  And there's an easter egg hunt for the little ones.  Should be a fun morning. 

I swam again with the masters group this morning.  It's going well.  I did get a minor foot cramp kicking fly with flippers on.  It probably didn't help that the flippers were a bit too big and I was bunching my toes to hold them steady and then on a strong upkick whammo...I felt my foot cramping up on one leg and my calf on the other.  Stopped and headed to the side and prevented a full on cramp.  It feels good to swim with others and I'm gladd that for about a month we'll change our Wednesday practice to 6:45-7:45 instead of 7:45-8:45!

Hi Everyone!!!!!

Sounds like folks are getting back into the swing of things after a tough February.  

Good luck to all those doing swim lessons/sessions with a coach/group.

Sounds like a very cold trail run Shad.

I think I can finally get back on track with things.  We were visiting friends in FL for a few days and then stuff @ work has been pretty frantic.  So my training and eating schedule was thrown completely out of wack.  Looks like work will still be a bit frantic but manageable.  But a trip to Houston this week was cancelled (I am relieved - didn't really want to go).  

I had a pretty good trail race today.  5.6 miles.  Pretty flat twisty, turny, some roots and rocks.  One or two good hills.  Did well.  2nd in age group!!!  Woohoo!!  Got a pint glass -- with which I had two beers this afternoon.

Have a great week everyone!

Looks like a lot of us are checking out some trail running!!  Erin did a trail HM and got 2nd overall female (yes, we all hate her, we're lucky to get some AG bling and there she is winning the whole damned thing!).   I have just discovered trail running and only wish we had more of the reall kind of trails, not the big concrete sidewalk things they "call" trails around here. 

So Monday again, hope you all got up on time!!  I got to sleep in a bit because I am on Spring Break, woot!!!!  No big plans except trying to get in a solid week of training.. headed off for a swim in a bit, then hope to do a good bike this afternoon and hope the wind is not as bad as it's been.  Tomorrow hubby and I are travelling a couple of hours to go hiking at Enchanted Rock.  It's this GINORMOUS mountain of a rock that just comes out of the ground.  We've driven by it a few times, but have never hiked it, so I'm excited!!  Then we'll have a nice lunch out in a German tourist town near there....  I wish I could say I had big plans to do spring cleaning... ha ha!!  I DO need to do some cleaning, just don't know when I'll fit it in! 

Have a beastly week, everyone!!

Hooray for spring break!  I'm trying to figure out what to do with my training.  First order of business is getting new shoes.  I'm feeling good other than some foot irritation and a stupid schedule.  Really stupid schedule.

Glad to see most are keeping good progress.  Keep up the good work.

x2 on really stupid schedule.  Actually for me it is really, really, really stupid stuff @ work due to complete and utter ineffectiveness of our elected officials at the federal level.  

That's the spirit!  Rested legs are great.

I got a ride in yesterday and finally got new shoes.  We'll see how it goes.  Unfortunately no end in sight for stupid schedule. 

Happy mid-week everyone!

Riding outside is great isn't it?

This week actually went well (though my logs didn't show it until I finally updated today).  No foot pain since getting new shoes, getting workouts done, and feeling good overall.  Hoping for more of the same this week.  Minimalist training it is. 

Good!  Hope the new shoes work.  What kind are they?

Yo Beasties!!

I am recovering from my HM yesterday.  A bit sore and tired.  I had good race, not great but good.

Here is my race report. 

I'm now focused on one of my "A" races for the season.  It's in late May.  So I have about eight weeks to get ramped up and ready!