Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2022 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 16)

Originally posted by nicole14e I almost forgot my exciting new purchase! I finally pulled the trigger and bought a Garmin watch! It just came today and I love it already. It's the Garmin Forerunner 255S. S stands for small, so it's not super bulky, which is nice. It also plays music (to headphones). Maybe I'll go on a walk later to try it out

Congratulations!  At least it will be smaller than my first "triathlon" watch, this monstrosity:

15 stages done and about 300 miles total.  Lots more cycling on tap this week and I'm holding steady on a little swimming and running, plus my @#$@#$!!!  core work.  I'm going to attempt another early AM race tomorrow morning as I'm a glutton for punishment.  It's a five mile time trial with the last mile being straight uphill so probably 21-22 minutes of hell all-in.

I also my first EPL match this weekend....Arsenal vs. Everton.  It wasn't even a match, Arsenal just totally outclassed them.  Score was only 2-0 but it wasn't that close.

Much better result than last week - I actually woke up a little after 5 AM which gave me more time to wake up and then get a good warm-up in before the ITT.  PR over last year's Tour by eight seconds and tied or set all-time power records from about 7 minutes through 21 minutes.  Finished up with a quick run on the treadmill and some lower body strength and core work.  Five stages to go - tomorrow is almost 40 miles through France which I'll do Z2 except for the climbs and sprints. 

Hope everyone is having a good week.

@Gretchen:  yeah, four weeks of swim taper is a lot unless you're swimming like tens of thousands of yards a week; I usually only taper swimming maybe a week (run first, then bike, then swim as I get closer to a race).  I also think we're in the point of the summer that it's hot no matter when you run so at least you'll be heat acclimated?

Nice work, Nicole, getting it done on vacation.  I always find that I really want to chill out and do nothing on vaca, but then with all the revelry I NEED to do something active.  Plus, when do you have all of that free time available?

Today was the hardest day in quite a while for me, 1800 yards in the pool and some strength training at 6 AM, then 2 hours on the bike at lunch doing the longest route in France on Zwift.  My fitness and fatigue numbers on Training Peaks are crazy high right now - definitely need a recovery week next week.  Four stages to go and tomorrow is going to be easy for sure.

Me overtrain?    Maybe overreach occasionally but I'm pretty in-tune with a good beat down vs. risking injury.  I had an easy day on the bike yesterday and today, two stages races to go.  And yes I don't recover in my 50s as well as I did even 7-8 years ago.

As for the EPL, not sure what you mean by "control" - all I did was sit in the stands and watch the match. 

Not sure if I mentioned it but I'm going to give the full Olympic tri a whirl in September.  I had originally signed up as an aquabike last year but deferred when my BIL was in the hospital.  I can do the full tri at the same price and I've been successful running this year (I guess it takes five years for a back surgery to take LOL) so what the hell.  I plan on run-walking it but walking 2-3 minutes through the water stops each mile, which should get me around a 1:05-1:10 10K...looking to break three hours for the Oly.

EPL - English Premier League;  LOL play station - I'm so bad at video games it's hilarious...but I rocked the original Donkey Kong!!