kaburns1214 Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 16)

Congrats on the bike!

YES women have groins!  And groin pulls are very painful.  Anything pain in that area is muscular (unless its a broken pelvis, which you would know).  ICE, ICE, ICE.  I know probably feels better, but ice will really help with the inflation and pain.   NSAIDs are a good choice too.

Good luck to Kelly and Trilooney tomorrow in the Brian Aselton 5k in Hartford, CT.  Wish I was there.  What are your paces for 5k's typically?

Bag of frozen peas are good ice alternatives.

Good luck with that! 

On the groin injury, Yes you do and you need to let it heal. It doesn't mean you have to stop training, but do avoind the things that irritate it. The slowly build a good stretching routing in for it. Been there and done it. It will heal up quickly of you take care of it, it will prolong and begin to cause more problems if you don't

I agree on the ice, ice, ice and NSAIDS

Queston on training plans:  I finally signed up for a plan and noticed that all the longest bike rides are on Saturdays followed by long runs on Sundays.  I thought you were always supposed to do the long runs Saturday and the long bike Sundays because you are more likely to injure yourself Sunday running on tired legs from Saturday?????

HELP . . . last thing I need is more injuries.

you can switch them - but the idea is to run on tired legs to get used to that, also running is harder on teh body than biking so if you run before biking you will impact your bike more than the other way around.  which plan are you using?

So, good news and bad news! Good news is during the week i was offered a new job (dream job really, conservation officer on Rottnest Island which is just off the coast of Perth). Bad news is its 2.5hrs north of where i currently live, so its moving time! Moving time right in the middle of our triathlon season, what horrible timing....

I guess all i can do is try to fit training in where possible but i'm going to have to pull out of the tri's i had planned for the next few weeks. There is a womens Tri in March not far from where im moving too, so perhaps i'll make that my new goal.

What would life be without challenges!

this one is for you kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXjPQYgT25Q

We should go right around 23:00 -- my personal goal is 22:50.

I haven't run a 5K in 2 years so it should be interesting.

There are several training theories with regard to long bikes / long runs.  The theory you have is that you should ride long on Saturday so that you feel the ride in your legs when you run on Sunday (i.e. you're running on tired legs).  I also follow this theory, when training for a HIM last fall, I would ride for 4-5 hours on Saturday and then do a brick run of :45 minutes.  On Sunday I would ride intervals for :90 and then do a long run of 90-120 minutes.  It works for me.

As a corollary to this theory some coached advocate long runs on Saturday and long rides on Sunday -- so while you're not running on tired legs your feeling the cumulative effect of long training sessions.

Another theory is to completely separate the long bike and long run.  The way I've seen this theory scheduled is to do a long run on Thursday and a long bike on Sunday.  The theory is that you what both the long bike and the long run to be "high quality" and on "fresh legs" so you space them as far apart as possible.

Just like with training plans there is no right way or wrong way, just the way that works best for you and allows you to training consistently.  I would try executing the plan the way its written and if you're having problems with the long runs, switch them.  Also, because you're recovering from injury, you may want to look into water running as an alternative until you're healed.

CONGRATULATIONS!  Conservation officer sounds like a fantastic job!

HEDGEHOG!!!!!

215 this morning, not sure if that's right. 

Weigh in for this week:  263.2

I haven't been specifically watching what I eat but I ate at home a lot more this past week, so I'm likely just flushing my body of the crap I'd built up.

I'll probably have to actually start watching my intake in the next couple weeks if I want to see gains.

My weigh in is 180.

Happy Sunday everyone (and happy recovery week!!!)

I'm afraid to weight myself I've been eating out every meal it seems since my guest have arrived. I did get up extra early this morning and got a ride in before everyone woke up. The wind is a killer felt like I was peddling forward and rolling backwards. I'm going to try to get a run in later.

I didn't lose any this week.  Bah.  Hoping that by adding 3 bike rides in next week (in addition to 35+ miles running) I can shed a pound. 

Thanks for the feedback on the groin pull.  It feels better today but still hurts.  I iced it once last night, and I'll ice it a few more times today.  Not working out at all today to let it rest.....will see how it feels tomorrow!

Congratulations on the job offer! 

5K complete.  PR for me on a hard course, not as fast as I wanted to go, but not bad.  Here's the 5K group:

178 this morning and I may be geeting over this crud I picked up

From L to R:
Jeff, Shaun, Kel, Erica

131 this am

my weigh-in for the week: 64.3kg (141.7 pounds)

Nice to see a pic of everyone

How did you all do? 


I must have been retaining a lot of water from the holiday eating or something, because I'm back down to 146 today (goal of 140).  I'm pretty sure I can reach my goal weight over the next few months. 

Groin pull feeling much better today. I'm going to do an easy run this morning and take it easy for the rest of the day.  Have to get up at 5 to get the run in tomorrow, because 2 kids have well child visits at 9, so I'll be in bed early tonight.  I need TONS of sleep to function.