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Got in 1800 yds in the pool,

Swam 12 x100 yards

Swam 3 x 200's

those 200's are long but I really need to get used to longer distances.

Whew,  I was just hoping you and Sarah had power.  They keep talking about how there are over 500,000 without power.  Hope you get your shoveling done but remember snow is heavy so a little at a time.  My neighbor had a Heart attack shoveling his a few years ago and died.

Stay warm!!

glad i live in the south.  i only had to shovel snow for the short time i lived in asheville nc, and i can certainly say if i never have to do it again i will be ok with that.

haven't been posting much the last two weeks, hate dealing with the internet here at the hotel i'm at in wichita... only two more weeks til im back on my bike...

Went out for a run, planned on doing 10k,  ended up changing my mind halfway through the run to run for time not by miles.  set my goal of 1hr of running.  kept looking at my watch regardless mainly out of habbit.  figured I might as well try for 8 miles in 1hr so I did it with 4 secs left.   Felt great then,  had about 1/3 of a mile walk home so had time to cool down and did some lunges and stretching while I was walking home.  Most of the snow has melted off the sidewalks, still a few slippery spots, had to hurdle some ice but it was all good. 

I posted earlier about the Relay around Columbus, We will have 6 men on my team so basically I will be running  3 of 18 legs of the 105 mile total.  I will be running 7.5, 5.1 and 6.6 miles I am guessing a few hours apart.  for a total of 19.1 miles,   The farthest I have ever ran was today at 8 miles.  Before that I have done 20 or so 10k's.  My question is what do I do between runs?  I know the obvious, stretching, eating, hydrating, and staying loose.  What other things can you suggest? 

That's a lot of running for one day.  No clue what to do about staying fresh between your runs. Good luck though.

Finally back in the pool today after almost 2 weeks.  Felt really fresh, although I was a beat bit from shoveling all day yesterday.  I still don't really go with a plan besides just swim.  I'm just doing longer sets.  No more 50's, just 100's and 200's and I'm keeping the same pace for the 200's as I am the 100's so I'm just fine with that.  I'll keep stretching the distances and kind of go from there.

I did the Ragnar Relay Tennessee in November last year, it was 196 miles with 12 runners. It was really fun, I'm sure you'll have a blast!! It was hard for us to stretch because you basically have to finish your leg, cool down a few minutes, then get in the van and drive to get to the next relay point so your next runner can loosen up. I brought a massage roller (The Stick) and a foam roller and that helped. Biofreeze would have been nice to have too but I didn't bring any!

Happy to get back to training hope everyone has had a good weekend!

Haha, maybe you should pretend you're sore to make her feel better!

Whew, glad you guys up north are doing ok. Power goes a long way when the weather sucks!

I've been an angry hermit the last couple of days (weekend) - this whole injury thing has kinda got to me I suppose. I guess on the positive, my house is cleaner than it's been in years.

Got a 30' spin in yesterday, going to do the same today. We'll see how things go from there.

At least my pain seems to be disappearing. Hopefully I can give running a go again by the middle/end of the week.

Everyone keeps saying it, let's get these little bumps and bruises out of the way now so we all have a good, healthy season.  It does get old pretty fast though.  There's only so much you can do during the hours of the day where you're typically working out without losing your sh*t.  My foot pretty much feels better so I'm jonesing to get back out running, but seeing as we just had 2' of snow dumped on us looks like I'll be waiting at least until the dr appt in 10 days.  Bike swim bike swim bike swim...

Way to keep moving up in distance!  I'm pretty much in the same boat.  I've moved up from my 50y warmups to 100y warmups.  I did a couple sets of 300y today (that's with a 50y either backstroke of kickboard in the middle).  My pull is feeling a lot stronger and I'm feeling faster with my increase in distance.  I just finished my session of 3 private swim lessons and I signed up for 3 more on a bi-weekly basis.  Now it's time to improve a little more between every 2 weeks.... I'm starting to get a little more confident for an Oly in July!

That's great progress.  How are the lessons going?  Are you doing all of them on a bi-weekly basis?  I was thinking more like a once a month basis?  I want to take a lesson then have some time to work on it, have a refresher lesson, work on that and then bring it all together before the summer starts.  We'll see how it works.  Guess I should sign up for the lesson first.  Everything has been crazy lately.

Did a good half hour spin tonight.  Raised my FTP by 10 the other day just 'cus.  This was 1/2 hour which was 10'@90%, 10'@100% and 10'@110% with no break.  Definitely felt the last few minutes.

Going to go swim this afternoon... been spinning... sounds like we're in the same boat. Well, besides me not having to deal with snow of course

Got a 2k swim in last night without any pain! Sweet!

Today I'm going to go for a 20' or so run and see how that ends up. With any luck I'll be back to moving normal next week! Woohoo!

The pool heals all!  Good luck with the run.  I can't wait to get out there again.

I'm slacking this week.  Huge project going out tomorrow night (mechanical engineer) so this week has been a crazy push.  Hoping to get out of work by 7 or 8 tonight so I can get a nice relaxing swim in.  Actually did all my Valentine Day gift legwork for my wife about a week ahead of time so I don't have to sweat that at the last minute.

I'll admit it, since I got sick early last week, I haven't done a single thing that would be considered exercise. I'm just too comfy in bed in the morning to get up on time, then, I'm too lazy or busy to do anything once I get out of work. I know the guilt will win out eventually, but it's difficult to find the motivation this time of year, especially since we got all of this snow.

Okay, my mini rant is over. I think I'm just going to take the rest of the week off to relax and stop stressing about it, then jump back into things next week. That will be the start of 12 weeks before my first race, so it seems to be a fitting time to remotivate. Keep up the good work everyone, I'll be using all of you as my motivation soon enough!

adding a little bit more speed to my runs since i haven' had any tendinitis flair ups.  got my managers to confirm i will be going home next friday so i can finally start training like i should be! w00t

nothing against wichita....but yea...