Pshorty's Group-GO NATHAN!!! (Page 16)

gracetheterp - 2008-02-27 8:12 AM

sesh - 2008-02-26 10:59 PM I'm totally wearing my tri-suit for it, too.  The life guards already think I'm crazy as it is.

Haha!! Did you really? If only I had my new wetsuit already... Awesome job!

Oh yeah.  The red 2XU was on!  I guess I actually don't freak the lifeguard out anymore.  He just said, "Tri season must be getting close."  He even said I'd gotten faster.  I guess when you have to open the pool up at 5:15 every morning, that's a little crazy, too.

That 1:34/100yd pace is ten seconds speedier than what I had been doing.  I'm definitely ready to get in the open water and see how it translates.

Nice work! 

Having plateaued at being able to sustain about 1:50/100yds for about 2000, I'm interested to here to what you attribute trimming that time . .  

Drills, drills, and drills.  From speed work to stroke work.  Three days a week in the pool helped, too.  As opposed to the 2, 1, or zero I had been doing.

I don't know if anybody else has this problem, but here is mine.  The LBS has great service.  Nice guy, can hang out in the store, watch him work on some bikes, shoot the breeze, learn some stuff etc.  Problem is, he just doesn't have a lot of inventory.  The big box bike shop here has all kinds of cool stuff, but the service there SUCKS.  Make the sale, then move on kind of thing.  Soooo... that lead to me just buying a forward seat post and tri specific saddle online.  Both were $55 each at trizone.com.  Pretty good deal I think.  I'll be fitting myself on my trainer, though.

Anyway, I'll let ya know what it's like when they come in if anyone was thinking about those products.  I also ordered some Aquasphere Kaiman goggles in my endless search for the right ones.  My basic TYR that I found at WalMart work really well, but dang they are uncomfortable.

gracetheterp - 2008-02-29 10:55 AM 27:50 It was pretty brutal too. Was NOT feeling that. Got better though and I put in a solid 3.5 miles, a new PR for me distance wise 30 seconds...that's less than a 50. We should race again. Good motivation. The girl I was swimming with finished a good 100 yards in front of me. She REALLY cleans up. Happy weekend!

Congrats, Grace.  I have challenged our fish and been put back in my place  Good swimming this month.

Anybody signed up for the March bike challenge?

The trainer counts.  That's what I did in January.  I'm really hoping I see less of mine this month though.  Sunday is looking good with partly sunny skies and in the seventies. 

Crossing my fingers.

pshorty - 2008-02-29 12:49 PM

gracetheterp - 2008-02-29 11:55 AM 27:50 It was pretty brutal too. Was NOT feeling that. Got better though and I put in a solid 3.5 miles, a new PR for me distance wise 30 seconds...that's less than a 50. We should race again. Good motivation. The girl I was swimming with finished a good 100 yards in front of me. She REALLY cleans up. Happy weekend!

Good job, Grace!! I sense a nice rivalry developing here a la Chris McCormick and Norman Stadler. We will need more trash talk in the future, however.

Grace can be Norman.  I don't wanna puke all over my bike.

I think you're right, and I'm getting seriously jealous of all the people getting to do tris this time of year.

You ready for 70.3 miles, Candace?

Candace and Chris, that is AWESOME.  This is a pretty cool thing we got going here.  The most important thing is that we are all improving and getting better.  The toughest person to beat out there is yourself.

I read a thread today about finishing DFL.  A post really stuck out to me. 

Triaya posted this:

That's what almost 99% of us do this stuff for.  To find out exactly what kind of strength we have inside of us, not to find out how we compare to other athletes.  That's the beauty of individual endurance events.