SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 154)

Any flatlanders do hill repeats as a weekly or bi-weekly bike workout?  If so, how do you approach them?  Seated, standing, mashing big gears, spinning smaller gears?  Hills are a weak point, so I am trying to focus on them at least once a week.

BTW - Steve, I can't comprehend 30k in elevation in a month...  That would be the 100' hill that is down the street what 300 times?

Have to churn out something every now and again or people get suspicious...

SSMinnow - 2009-07-09 9:03 AM Hi All

Hope everyone is getting pysched for the upcoming weekend!

Linda--you have the BIG race coming up so I think we can live vicariously through your training.  Some of us are considering an IM in the future so keep good notes.

I did my last ride/run before my little Sprint on Saturday and I am happy to report that my tire held (thanks Doug!) and I graduated to aerobars on long stretches!!  The only issue is my low back is tight. Is that normal? what am I doing wrong?

The lake is a wreck today.  We are supposed to get big storms tonight so whitecaps are the order of the day.  I don't have a swim scheduled, but I thought I would go down and spend a few minutes practicing how to deal with it all.  A friend completed a triathlon in the same lake my HIM is taking place and said it was treacherous.  They were pulling people out of the water like crazy.  I don't want that to be me!

Suzy

Wow, Suzy, please be careful out there!  The lower back tightness seemed to go away as I/or my body, got used to the aero position.  I find that if I stretch out a little bit every 15 miles or so...stand up and arch my back for 10-20 sec, it seems to help.  Now, I only get that tightness close to 40 miles...I suppose if I did longer rides, it would stay away longer? 

Sam, importing your own plan into BT is super tedious.  I have been doing the silver HIM plan and initially had wanted to juggle the workouts to match my schedule, but it took so long that I just gave up on that.  Instead I still use that as a general schedule and log my workouts as I do them.  There might be an easy way to do it, but I posted the question in the training thread and Ron showed me how to switch things around...it was a pain so I stopped after week 2.

I blew off a 40 min run this morning because...well...because I felt like taking the dog to the beach instead.  And didn't feel like going after we got back.   I am trying to decide whether to do it after work or just skip it.  Oddly, I don't feel too bad about missing it. 

I just downloaded motionbased and uploaded my activities for the past 3 months!  omg, I think I climbed 2 mount everests!  66,000 ft of elevation.  It does seem quite overstated, for instance my lake run, which feels mostly flat to me, shows 2200 feet of elevation.  Crazy!