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Happy Super Bowl Big Game Sunday. Life completely grabbed hold of my the last few days. Busy with work last week. Had wedding stuff Friday night, helped set-up a beach wedding for a friend yesterday, then a b-day dinner last night. BUT! I was able to get a good ride in this morning. Then when for a short run in the Newtons. Felt good to be back in them. But i'm taking it day by day with them and hoping all goes smooth. I was planning on going for a swim this afternoon, but way to many Man-O-War in the Ocean. (See photo below). We've been having great weather down here lately, low 80'

Anyone have any breakthroughs in training this weekend?

Ok, well i can't get the picture to upload. But trust me, there was hundreds of them!

Edited by nvalaitis 2011-02-06 4:03 PM

Yikes!!

Every time I have ever been to the beach I've stepped on some form of jellyfish. Fortunately I've managed to avoid all the really bad ones.

Great job! You should hit 210 a bit before two months time if things stay the way they are going!

Winter training has been going pretty good for me, made quite a few big leaps with my coaches help. Starting to ramp up some volume on the runs finally (1:10 this morning) which it feels like forever since I've done.

Still a bit of time away from the first tri, but it's looking like it's going to turn out to be a great season...hopefully!

No breakthroughs. Just keep chipping away.

Wait, my knees and ankles didn't hurt during my ride and run this weekend. I guess that is a breakthrough!

I'm jealous of your weather. I was excited to see a high in the 40's in our 10 day forecast.

Sorry I haven't been around much. I've been trying to sort out life these days. Looking into a new job, and maybe going back to school, so I have been up to my ears in personal crap recently. But it's slowly getting sorted out. Luckily, my training hasn't suffered much!

So I got some good news on Friday. I passed my Professional Practice Exam, so now I am one step closer to being a professional engineer! I just need to submit my paperwork for work experience, and pass a french test, and I will be considered a professional. It is very exciting! Should mean a bit of leverage when it comes to work, and a fairly sizable raise, which would be nice!

Hope everyone is doing well!

Oui Oui beau travail !!! My fiance' is a Civil/Land Development Engineer and passed her PE 2 years ago. She studied for moths. So i know how hard that is.  Congrats!. What type of engineer are you?

Pourquoi le Francais??  Je le parle assez bien, mais pour un engineur, ca me semble up peut bizarre..... non?  Bonne chance tout le meme...

Exciting! Good luck!

Merci beaucoup, Wendy! I'll explain in English so everyone can understand :P Yes, it is a bit weird that I have to know french to become an engineer, but I live in Quebec, which is a french-speaking province in Canada, and they are VERY strict with their language laws, because they feel they will lose the language in all the country if they don't enforce them. Therefore, all professionals (lawyers, doctors, nurses, dietitians, engineers, etc) have to prove proficiency. It is kinda weird, if you ask me, since it is really only me that it hurts if I can't speak french, since it limits my cliental, but whatever, it's the law, so I guess I don't have a choice!

I forget who asked, but I am a Civil Engineer, as well.  However, what I just passed and what your SO passed are 2 very different things. Up here in Canada, we don't have a PE exam. Basically, from my understanding, that is an exam that tests knowledge, application, etc of engineering principles. In Canada, we don't have anything like that. We have to get 3-4 years of experience as opposed to passing a test. The test that I did was a test of the laws and ethics as it pertains to Engineers. Very dry stuff, but pretty easy to study, since it SHOULD be fairly common sense to an engineer...

woahhh... I don't even speak english all that well Now I'm totally lost

Congrats Pete!

Congrats! That's awesome!

I too one day would like to become a professional engineering. It will be a while, but I am just starting to get back on track. Joined the military as a biomedical technician which seems to have some relation to my electrical engineering degree that I am going for. I now also have a field that I think I would like to specialize in as well.

Aside from being sick Monday, Sunday was a great day for me. The weather was perfect, so I started it off with a 9.34 mile bike. My average mph went up 2 from the last time I took the route so that is good news. I think I still need some more seat time cause I still am not able to push myself as hard on a bike.

Right after I decided to try out the new shoes and run a 5k. My time dropped 2 minutes over my last 5k run! It may be because I haven't been running for speed lately, or the new shoes, or the bike wore me off a bit. The good thing was that my pace was fairly consistent. It was crazy to see my heart rate jump up right when I started to feel my legs get tired. I was running at mid 160's then I look at my heart rate and it shoots up to 174. It pretty much stayed between 170-174 the rest of the way.

After the run I took half a packet of my powerbar gel and headed to the pool. Swam for just about an hour with little breaks. I think 2 breathers at most. Everything felt great. My shoulders weren't tired at all, breathing was very relaxed and just felt like I was gliding through the water. I swam for more than 100 laps which I'm guessing is the 25 yards. I did do the pushoff method shown to me from another member here. Although not as quick because I had to press the lap button on each time I hit the wall, it was better than trying to turn around and swim. Times ranged from 25-30 seconds per lap. 


Here are the gps logs for the bike and run 
Bike: http://www.sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/896846
Run:http://www.sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/897020

I would like to bring down the run to an 18 minute 5k by the time my sprint triathlon comes around. Not sure what to aim for on the bike and swim yet though. 

Edited by Andr3w 2011-02-08 4:31 PM

Wow that was a lot harder than I thought. Led my first group for physical training today. Guess I was a bit nervous cause I couldn't speak in the beginning and had to force my words out in the beginning. I thought I sounded like I was angry lol. I got more relaxed throughout the workout though. Everyone looked to be sweating and not gasping for air so that was good. After that was done, I ended my morning workout with an extra mile run and had a light breakfast.

Sounds like everyone is well; new jobs, new gear, new adventures/experiences.

I actually RAN yesterday.  Trail was pretty muddy, but I felt pretty good. 

Some may have noticed I've been banged up a bit lately; we've been practicing 'gound fighting' for work and since I'm one of the smallest guys (and oldest), my body has been getting tore UP!-especially my ribs/rib cage.  Boss has ordered us to tone it down-so hopefully, I can listen to that advice.  Right now I am WAY far away from where I want to be,but my season doesn't start til July.  Hope y'all are well.

Great to have you back! Glad to hear you dodged the surgery.

I can imagine you coming into work like Edward Norton in Fight Club

Feel like I'm starting to fade this week. I'm only into my 2nd week of the 1/2 IM plan, a little early to start fading! I've been really tired all the time and lost my enthusiasm for my workouts. I know it's because I've been stuck inside for everything and our schedule is crazy this week. I've just been hammering them out but not really having fun. I have a swim and bike on my schedule today. I'm seriously thinking about dropping the bike part. We'll see. I also spent 4 hours in CPR/first aide class last night. My knees did not appreciate all that time kneeling on the floor with the CPR dummy!

Tomorrow is my rest day and the weekend forecast looks a little warmer - 35 at least
 

it can get heavy sometimes, I can totally understand how you are feeling (I even manage to feel that way myself, like this morning ) but I keep it in perspective... the days are getting longer and warmer, all my numbers are looking great, I'm healthy, and all in all I know I'm just 'ready to race.'

Listen to your body/mind though. If you feel like you may be "burning out" then take a day or two to yourself, forget training and just relax. Obviously you can't do that every time you feel "meh" but every now and then it's the absolute BEST thing you can do.