Mad Manatees Mentor Group - VERY CLOSED!!! Sorry! (Page 15)

I did mention MANDATORY in the opening post for this group

Again, if you're not sure how to use them or set them up, just ask! DubSix ^^^^ is happy to help

Thump, thump. That was the sound of me being run over by the bus. JK, I am available to help!

One hour on the treadmill this morning for 6+ miles.    Ballpark figure, after all it is a treadmill and uncalibrated.  Doesn't matter.    45 minutes of calisthenics,   You know, the same exercises that are being marketed currently as cross fit, insanity, boot camp, pilates, etc.        Nothing new under the sun, there is.    

Log?   We used to tote them around in training, USMC style.        Seals weren't the only one to use these 200 pound beasts.     

Good for you!!  That sounds beautiful and wonderful, and enjoying nature is good for the soul.

I have a working Manatees Roster in my training log.  Feel free to copy and paste.

I did a first pass at the Racing Manatees.  We are a busy group!  It looks like we have at least one racer on Tuesday but I think that a few other people have mentioned New Year's Day races.  JoGo?  Felicia, did you find one?  Anyone else?

Sadly, yours appears to be empty!  

I do log, if haphazardly, on the daily workout thread on triathlon talk.        I'm on the Zen training plan.  I train when I feel like it and go by real perceived effort.  

Good thing it is that I like to train and often.    I have two true addictions.  Reading and Endorphins.

Melanie, here is my standard answer to this question. If you start getting up (and going to bed) a few minutes earlier every day, by the end of a couple of weeks you are an hour earlier then you used to be. Set out your running stuff the night before. It is waiting for you when you get up. The snuggly warm part I can't help with, nor the easing into the day. It was a committment I made to myself and my family about 5-6 years ago, when I was lifting at the gym. If I did my workout early, before the rest of them were awake, it was better that way.  So, I just started it a few years back and it works for me. I am up at 5 am, and out the door before 5:15.  An added benefit of the early awake deal is that race days are no surprise on my body.  I am, however, the first to admit that it doesn't work for everyone. I think it is good to find what works best for you.

Well, I am really the wrong person to be commenting

I agree with DubSix--try a few minutes earlier. The harder the change, the smaller steps to break it up into. Definitely leave running gear literally next to bed so you can just fall into them.

I like the mind trick of telling myself I'm just going to put the clothes on and then if I want to I can get back into bed.

Can the dogs come?

Is it possible to arrange to meet someone?

Every time you get up early (whether a run is included or not), put some change/cookie/give yourself a cookie crumb into or from a jar. A little reward, whatever it may be. A buck toward more running gear Then you'll feel guilty if you don't use the gear go buy yourself some lights to decorate yourself with? A reflective hat?

A little quote that helps me when I don't want to workout... "I have never regretted doing a workout, but I have regretted not doing one."  I read this on BT a long time ago, not sure who to attribute it to, but it has stuck with me.  

Not sure if that little quote will help you get out of bed, but I'm guessing that once you are up and you are running, you will not have regrets as you will feel energized for the day.  It only takes 21 days to form a habit, so maybe you can start marking off days on a calendar.  New Years day is as good as any to start.  

I am running a 1/2 mary on 12/31... Last year, as a result of bad training, I messed up my Achilles Tendon pretty bad at this race and finished in 2:04...this year, I'm looking to go sub 1:45, and possible sub 1:40 (based on my 13.1 mile training run I did 2 weeks ago.)  

I will get my races all added to my race log.  

Have been very bad about my "taper" week this week...only one 8.6 mile run..will do another 8.6 (very easy) run tonight..then nothing for 2 days before my race.  

Curious about a proper taper week...can you check my logs and let me know what I should have done?  

Thanks, 

Muskrat / Chad

I've been thinking about doing this on swim mornings. I have no trouble with the 5:30 alarm when i'm getting on the drainer, but going out in to the cold to drive to a cold pool is hard to motivate some (most) days. I was thinking I'd give myself a Bux stop if I do all 3 masters swims in a week but that seems to be too long term for my weak motivator. Might try every time, or just the really difficult mornings for a while.

Another option is the stick rather than the carrot. If you DON'T get to the pool, then no Bux that day. Or is that too extreme?

ETA: I read that after I posted and thought it might be crazy talk.

I was REALLY hoping to find a race for the 31st but there are zip, zero, nada to be found around here. There is the "Eggnog Jog" on the 1st that I am considering. Paying $30 to do a 5k seems silly, but I like the idea of getting out there with others who want to be healthy in the new year.

Well, believe it or not, I don't usually Bux every day. So Bux on mornings I need the motivation is the cheaper route.  

Support Salty! Save the Sbux!

Oh, don't worry, I def do my part to support our Salty. It's just usually when I'm out with DH, so we spend twice as much! I kid you not, whenever the two of us get in the car to go somewhere that is our first stop. We stop 3-4 times on the way from ABQ to Denver. I refill my app $50 a pop every few days.

Were you following a plan? How closely did you follow the plan?

Can't tell from your runs what TYPE of runs they were--or do you pretty much do all of them the same way (mostly easy, sometimes hard, or is there a difference between short/long/medium ones? I should go look at your paces ... )

1/2 mary doesn't require much of a taper, particularly if your volume hasn't been that high (it hasn't. It's been solid and mostly consistent, but not what I'd call moderate to high volume for a half).

Lemme go try to follow your log more closely and glean from it what I can. Please add any additional info you have here. Thanks!

Thanks Chris, I "borrowed" your list

'Kay, Skrat. Not seeing any identifiable pattern in terms of pace and distance in your running from the last couple months, other than regular runs of between 30min to 1:45ish. (Mostly under an hour)

If I were to rewind back to the last two weeks, look forward and give you advice for taper, it would be this: keep doing what you're doing. In the last week, do slightly less (80%ish) than what you've been doing but all at race pace.

Just as a general note, tapers are very dependent on the individual athlete, training history, goals and particular race. Overall training load (which is intensity and volume) as well as the individual components (intensity and volume) all need to be adjusted, as well as duration of taper.

For triathlon, ideally, you'd actually taper the three sports somewhat differently depending on the factors above for each individual sport.

Take Janyne's. It is prettier.

I agree with this. Then I say for your next half (aren't you doing the Sammamish half with me in Feb?) work on your consistency. Get out as often as you can (I know you have a busy schedule) and shake it up with a variety of distances.

Ohdearohdearohdear!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just realized that HITS is doing a race weekend in Loma Colorado the weekend of May 18!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the same venue where I did my frigid OLY in October this year!!!!!!!!!!! I've been wanting to do a HITS race and I like the venue but this presents SO many questions. It is 7 weeks after my HIM. Do another HIM? Drop down to OLY? Orrrrr, since the HIM is a training race in the Fink plan go on to the IM . Really hadn't planned on going to IM ever this year. Orrrr, wait and do Lake Havasu in November. The prices are incredible if I make a decision by Jan 18th.

I know, I know, "dooooo eeeeet". But WHICH ONE?!