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 2011-02-03 4:42 PM in reply to: #3256872 |
Regular 87 |  Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closedSwam today, went 300yds without stopping. Longest I've done so far, and felt pretty good. I feel like I might have been able to go farther physically, but mentally I was done as far as straight swimming. I need to work on the mental aspect of swimming longer. |
| 2011-02-03 8:22 PM in reply to: #3334647 |
Veteran 344  Georgia | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - OPEN mbasta - 2011-02-02 6:23 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-01 7:43 PM mbasta - 2011-02-01 7:37 AM Threejs - 2011-01-31 11:01 PM mbasta - 2011-01-31 5:29 AM Threejs - 2011-01-30 4:10 PM I am looking for some advice on purchasing a good tri suit. Does anyone have any first hand experience they can share with me? Thanks! What do you prefer, the one piece suit or the singlet and shorts? I haven't tried on either style but I have a feeling I would prefer the two piece. I liked both, but singlet and shorts were more comfortable..One note on color I would advise against white because if you swim in a lake it gets dirty very quick.. |
| 2011-02-03 8:43 PM in reply to: #3256872 |
Veteran 344 Georgia | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed Well as far as the weekend,,if it is not raining and freezing cold.. I plan on getting in a fifty plus mile ride with a route that has several hill climbs.... I also plan to get in a long steady run.. It has been hard to get my training in due to work, right now putting in 12 plus hours a day on the construction site, the shoulder separation is staying aggravated due to over head work.. I have to get my butt in gear because I'm planning on doing a HIM in May... Mbasta I want to get my weight to start coming off, what could you recommend and what info would you like.. Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Thanks |
| 2011-02-03 9:34 PM in reply to: #3256872 |
Elite 2640  Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed Just a quick check in on the team! I wanted to let you know the first day of my anniversary plans went great. It's time for bed, early rise for tomorrow's events, then I might be away for part of the weekend. See you all soon! |
| 2011-02-04 12:24 PM in reply to: #3338440 |
| Regular 87 | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed Happy anniversary! Have a great weekend. Swam today. Blech. Struggled through the whole thing, maybe because I had a couple of glasses of wine last night? not sure, but was not my best day. |
| 2011-02-04 12:30 PM in reply to: #3338390 |
| Regular 87 | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 8:43 PM Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Thanks Do you run pretty much at a steady state when you go out? If you do, maybe start adding in some speed intervals and tempo training? |
| 2011-02-04 1:03 PM in reply to: #3339392 |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed kwynnc - 2011-02-04 10:30 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 8:43 PM Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Do you run pretty much at a steady state when you go out? If you do, maybe start adding in some speed intervals and tempo training? Thanks I don't know what your weight status is so this could be completely unhelpful, but I'm finding that as I loose weight running is easier on my knees and so I can go faster. Just thinking about it now I seem to remember doing intervals and hill sprints (on a really really steep hill) in high school cross country under the guise of going faster. |
| 2011-02-04 4:44 PM in reply to: #3336383 |
Champion 23360  Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed mbasta - 2011-02-02 8:58 PM Words of wisdom from John Stanton founder of Running Room: No one ever got injured from running too slow. I like this ^^^!  I need to have a t-shirt printed up with this on it. I can wear it every time I go out wogging. LOL Edited by D001 2011-02-04 4:45 PM |
| 2011-02-04 4:54 PM in reply to: #3336474 |
Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed Threejs - 2011-02-02 9:55 PM If I could post something cool and sparkly like Dee I would ....but I can't... There are a lot of text generators available. For example, here's one: http://www.commenthaven.com/glitter-text-generator/ You can just scroll down and copy the code, then paste it here.
(Great, now I'm teaching everyone my bad habits. LOL) Edited by D001 2011-02-04 4:55 PM |
| 2011-02-04 5:01 PM in reply to: #3337672 |
Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed purpleshoes2 - 2011-02-03 2:24 PM I am finding it really difficult to get back into training. In fact the month of January was awful - the first 2 weeks we were away in Australia and on coming back we found out my husband (in the military) has been posted - I look at the date and lost 3 weeks! However on the plus side I have taken my bike in for a full servicing including a new comfy seat - so am looking forward to takin that out on the roads when I collect it tommorow. I'm trying to find the energy to go and do exercise - I know sounds so silly and awful. But take today - I was in work 0730 on the dot, had a 30min lunch break at 12 and left work at 1600 to go straight into a 2 hour driving lesson. by the time I've cooked/eaten my dinner its 1900 and I haven;t done any of the house work or just sat still. I know its only going to be for a short time because we are soooo busy at work - and I'm learning to drive in 2 months (ARRGGHH) I just feel like im making excuses - but do I go down the gym at 2000 and spend less time in there, and feel really drained at work the next morning. Or do I just ignore the training unless I have time - until things ease off with work and driving? My first ever 5km is in June and my first ever triathlon is in September. I understand. Completely. I'm right there with you, in fact. What if you try to concentrate on things you find enjoyable right now? Since you're looking forward to getting your bike back, maybe do a short bike ride. And leave it at that for tomorrow's activities. And instead of trying to workout every day right now, maybe you could just schedule a couple of workouts per week until your schedule is less hectic. |
| 2011-02-04 5:12 PM in reply to: #3339444 |
Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed bumbbles21 - 2011-02-04 2:03 PM kwynnc - 2011-02-04 10:30 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 8:43 PM Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Do you run pretty much at a steady state when you go out? If you do, maybe start adding in some speed intervals and tempo training? Thanks I don't know what your weight status is so this could be completely unhelpful, but I'm finding that as I loose weight running is easier on my knees and so I can go faster. Just thinking about it now I seem to remember doing intervals and hill sprints (on a really really steep hill) in high school cross country under the guise of going faster. I remember reading something that said basically, "Hills are speedwork in disguise." And my (few) breakthroughs seem to have come after I concentrated on hills awhile. Here's an article on cadence, too: Using Cadence Properly in Run Training Studies have shown a correlation between pedaling at a high cadence and running at a high cadence, which leads to faster running. The shorter your ground contact time , the less chance for injury. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=... |
| 2011-02-04 11:33 PM in reply to: #3339851 |
| Veteran 227 | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed D001 - 2011-02-04 2:54 PM Threejs - 2011-02-02 9:55 PM If I could post something cool and sparkly like Dee I would :)....but I can't...:( There are a lot of text generators available. For example, here's one: http://www.commenthaven.com/glitter-text-generator/You can just scroll down and copy the code, then paste it here.
Edited by Threejs 2011-02-04 11:42 PM |
| 2011-02-05 6:44 AM in reply to: #3256872 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed I hope everyone has a great weekend! I am on a break from anniversary adventures because I thought Adam would appreciate getting to sleep in today since the last two were scheduled to wake earlier. On Wednesday the wall climbing went great! We had so much fun that we're talking about doing it semi-regularly. It kicked my butt upper body though, which is a good thing! Later that day we went to Dave and Busters (adult arcade) and played for 2 hours. Yesterday i took him to Scandinave Spa at Blue Mountain, it's an outdoor bath house and we also got 1 hour massages. Today, not planned other than dinner. Let's see what we cook up! |
| 2011-02-05 6:45 AM in reply to: #3256872 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed Thanks for the anniversary well wishes! |
| 2011-02-05 6:47 AM in reply to: #3336542 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - OPEN Dorsai - 2011-02-02 10:48 PM bumbbles21 - 2011-01-15 3:52 PM As each new person joins I get more and more excited about this group! We are going to rock this year! :-D So today I went for my first outside (aka non-eleptical) run of 2011. Here is: the map of approx what I did. I've been running 30-40 minutes inside over the winter and lost about 8 lbs so I was surprised at how hard it was. About 1/2 way though I got a terrible side-stich that continued through the rest of the run along with a sharp pain in my right shoulder that I remember from last year, but went away once I was in better shape. I'm really glad that I went out 'cause I'm super motivated to get my running lungs back. What's everyone else up to this weekend? I consistently had the same problem and then read an article in my wife's Runner magazine about how to cure it. You'll probably find that you normally breathe in on the same stride for each breath. For example, my normal breathing would have me breathe in as my right foot lands most of the time. If you change that up to where your alternating the stride you breathe on, you should find you don't get a "stitch". The easiest way for me was to focus on an odd number of strides for each breath - ie breathe in lasts 2 strides and breathe out lasts 3 or when I'm pushing it, breath in lasts 1 and out lasts 2. Hope that helps. That's interesting. I'm going to pay attention to my breathing on my Sunday run to see if I have a pattern. |
| 2011-02-05 6:49 AM in reply to: #3336648 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed bumbbles21 - 2011-02-03 3:07 AM Original 1/2/11: How did you edit this the following day? When I edit posts I have to do it in 30 minutes or it doesn't let me. |
| 2011-02-05 6:51 AM in reply to: #3337403 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - OPEN harlequinduck - 2011-02-03 12:30 PM mbasta - 2011-01-31 7:20 AM harlequinduck - 2011-01-30 1:30 PM mbasta - 2011-01-29 7:57 AM harlequinduck - 2011-01-29 2:21 AM kwynnc - 2011-01-27 Just wanted to open up the topic. I know from my own experiences as well as others--recover often is sacrificed in our training plans when shortfalls occur. Besides having a couscous effort to not sacrifice recovery days, what would be ways to optimize or improve recovery? It sounds like you're saying if a triathlete misses a workout or cuts it short they make up for it on recovery days. Please correct me if I'm wrong. In this case, the day you miss workouts would be the rest day unless you still did some training and only canceled part of it. In that case I suggest moving the workout fragment to a day that you have training scheduled, as long as it won't make the day so intense that you risk injury. Worst case scenario - delete the session. Rest periods are when we rebuild and without them training doesn't have the effect we want. We break down our tissues during training and rebuild them during rest. Let me know if you (or anyone else) have more questions. Subject too many recovery/missed days. Due work related stuff and now my brother in the hospital with meningitis my training has stagnated. Yesterdays 97 min. bike was okay but a planned 48 min. swim just wasn't there for me day. I only did 39 minutes before I lost rhythm and called it. I can note one bright side in that in the first 15 minutes there was improvement in my sick turns. If I'm off line for a while it's due to travel. Best to all. Have a good trip! |
| 2011-02-05 6:55 AM in reply to: #3337672 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed purpleshoes2 - 2011-02-03 2:24 PM I am finding it really difficult to get back into training. In fact the month of January was awful - the first 2 weeks we were away in Australia and on coming back we found out my husband (in the military) has been posted - I look at the date and lost 3 weeks! However on the plus side I have taken my bike in for a full servicing including a new comfy seat - so am looking forward to takin that out on the roads when I collect it tommorow. I'm trying to find the energy to go and do exercise - I know sounds so silly and awful. But take today - I was in work 0730 on the dot, had a 30min lunch break at 12 and left work at 1600 to go straight into a 2 hour driving lesson. by the time I've cooked/eaten my dinner its 1900 and I haven;t done any of the house work or just sat still. I know its only going to be for a short time because we are soooo busy at work - and I'm learning to drive in 2 months (ARRGGHH) I just feel like im making excuses - but do I go down the gym at 2000 and spend less time in there, and feel really drained at work the next morning. Or do I just ignore the training unless I have time - until things ease off with work and driving? My first ever 5km is in June and my first ever triathlon is in September. That's quite a schedule you've got there! If you have days that you aren't doing driver training, you could put your workouts on those days. If you still find that there is no balance between your daily activites you could do a run focus to prepare for the 5km, and once the driver training is done you can go back to full triathlon training. |
| 2011-02-05 6:58 AM in reply to: #3338366 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - OPEN shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 9:22 PM mbasta - 2011-02-02 6:23 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-01 7:43 PM mbasta - 2011-02-01 7:37 AM Threejs - 2011-01-31 11:01 PM mbasta - 2011-01-31 5:29 AM Threejs - 2011-01-30 4:10 PM I am looking for some advice on purchasing a good tri suit. Does anyone have any first hand experience they can share with me? Thanks! What do you prefer, the one piece suit or the singlet and shorts? I haven't tried on either style but I have a feeling I would prefer the two piece. I liked both, but singlet and shorts were more comfortable..One note on color I would advise against white because if you swim in a lake it gets dirty very quick.. Thanks for the help! I almost bought a white swim cap the other day and decided against it. |
| 2011-02-05 7:04 AM in reply to: #3338390 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 9:43 PM Well as far as the weekend,,if it is not raining and freezing cold.. I plan on getting in a fifty plus mile ride with a route that has several hill climbs.... I also plan to get in a long steady run.. It has been hard to get my training in due to work, right now putting in 12 plus hours a day on the construction site, the shoulder separation is staying aggravated due to over head work.. I have to get my butt in gear because I'm planning on doing a HIM in May... Mbasta I want to get my weight to start coming off, what could you recommend and what info would you like.. Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Thanks When it comes to weight loss it boils down to calories in / calories out, but as the body gets closer to its ideal weight it can be harder to make it give up the pounds. How far are you from your goal weight right now? Do you track calories consumed? You'll want to see how many cals you're consuming per day compared to the output from training. http://www.figwee.com/ is a great website to help calculate the active portion. It's also great for food logging, but sometimes the pre-listed foods have more or less calories than your food, so it's good to keep track of those on your own. What I used to do was add my own foods with the proper calories and log on that website. If you get a 500 calorie deficit every day you should lose 1lb per week (1lb = 3500 calories). |
| 2011-02-05 7:06 AM in reply to: #3339851 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed |
| 2011-02-05 7:10 AM in reply to: #3339878 |
Elite 2640 Ontario, Canada | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed D001 - 2011-02-04 6:12 PM bumbbles21 - 2011-02-04 2:03 PM I remember reading something that said basically, "Hills are speedwork in disguise." And my (few) breakthroughs seem to have come after I concentrated on hills awhile. Here's an article on cadence, too: Using Cadence Properly in Run Training Studies have shown a correlation between pedaling at a high cadence and running at a high cadence, which leads to faster running. The shorter your ground contact time , the less chance for injury. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=... kwynnc - 2011-02-04 10:30 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 8:43 PM Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Do you run pretty much at a steady state when you go out? If you do, maybe start adding in some speed intervals and tempo training? Thanks I don't know what your weight status is so this could be completely unhelpful, but I'm finding that as I loose weight running is easier on my knees and so I can go faster. Just thinking about it now I seem to remember doing intervals and hill sprints (on a really really steep hill) in high school cross country under the guise of going faster. Great article! One day i will have to test my cadence. I think I'm probably the running equivalent of a masher... |
| 2011-02-05 10:00 AM in reply to: #3340287 |
Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed mbasta - 2011-02-05 7:49 AM bumbbles21 - 2011-02-03 3:07 AM Original 1/2/11: How did you edit this the following day? When I edit posts I have to do it in 30 minutes or it doesn't let me. Pssst, I think she's talking about entering it in her training log, not in the forums. You can *always* edit your training info. |
| 2011-02-05 10:05 AM in reply to: #3340292 |
Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - OPEN mbasta - 2011-02-05 7:58 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 9:22 PM mbasta - 2011-02-02 6:23 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-01 7:43 PM mbasta - 2011-02-01 7:37 AM Threejs - 2011-01-31 11:01 PM mbasta - 2011-01-31 5:29 AM Threejs - 2011-01-30 4:10 PM I am looking for some advice on purchasing a good tri suit. Does anyone have any first hand experience they can share with me? Thanks! What do you prefer, the one piece suit or the singlet and shorts? I haven't tried on either style but I have a feeling I would prefer the two piece. I liked both, but singlet and shorts were more comfortable..One note on color I would advise against white because if you swim in a lake it gets dirty very quick.. Thanks for the help! I almost bought a white swim cap the other day and decided against it. I think a swim cap might be OK, if it's made out of something like latex..... Clothing can be stained by mud and silt pretty easily. But I don't think a latex swim cap will pick up dirt as easily. (Even so, I live in a place that has red clay -- I think it can stain just about EVERYTHING!) A white swim cap (if it stays white) would be really visible though, which is a good thing..... :) Edited by D001 2011-02-05 10:18 AM |
| 2011-02-05 10:08 AM in reply to: #3340302 |
Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Tri Curious - closed mbasta - 2011-02-05 8:10 AM D001 - 2011-02-04 6:12 PM bumbbles21 - 2011-02-04 2:03 PM I remember reading something that said basically, "Hills are speedwork in disguise." And my (few) breakthroughs seem to have come after I concentrated on hills awhile. Here's an article on cadence, too: Using Cadence Properly in Run Training Studies have shown a correlation between pedaling at a high cadence and running at a high cadence, which leads to faster running. The shorter your ground contact time , the less chance for injury. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=... kwynnc - 2011-02-04 10:30 AM shake-n-bake - 2011-02-03 8:43 PM Also for the runners in our group what advice to you have for getting faster per mile... Do you run pretty much at a steady state when you go out? If you do, maybe start adding in some speed intervals and tempo training? Thanks I don't know what your weight status is so this could be completely unhelpful, but I'm finding that as I loose weight running is easier on my knees and so I can go faster. Just thinking about it now I seem to remember doing intervals and hill sprints (on a really really steep hill) in high school cross country under the guise of going faster. Great article! One day i will have to test my cadence. I think I'm probably the running equivalent of a masher... Here's a 'cheap way' to test it..... While you're running, sing the cadence "happily, merrily running along."* (And no, you don't need to sing out loud, unless you want to! LOL) That cadence is supposed to get you close to 180 steps per minute. I know that it made my cadence pick up a lot! * I really wish I remembered where I read that. Because I need to give credit back to the source! I'm thinking that it *might* be Chi Running..... |
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