SBR Utopia - OPEN (Page 167)

We're actually rather close to the same size now as I'm 6'3" and around 180 lbs. I've been down to 175 during the season and have to take my time getting there. As in it had to be over a month, maybe like several, otherwise I'd experience noticeable energy loss. That's where I was cautioning a bit before Oceanside. Several pounds over was better than 1-2 under because the energy loss was that great. I mainly try not to go over 180 as I know I'm healthy & energetic there, and below that, it's just stay healthy.

If it helps, do know that there are several pros doing rather well who are about our size in Andy Potts and Jesse Thomas (for starters). Jesse & I look very close. Andy has the same height & weight, but had a really skinny lower body with a massive upper torso sitting on top. I thought he looked a bit cartoonish, definitely has a swim background! A number of others aren't too far off either.

And for everyone else, just remember how much more some of us have to carry around even though we are rather lean!

Ah, critters!

Sorry to hear it.

Aw geez, sorry to hear that Rusty.  I hope things work out for you - both that your pet gets better and you can still race.

I guess now that winter is winding down, you have to find something else to whine about!  LOL.

As a shorty...I suppose I'm closer to the blacktop, and it's hotter down there.  So just remember that!

I officially got the green light to race solo (first rider out) during our team time trial on Sunday.  Moving my LR to Saturday, and no taper, but I'm still going to take a crack at an hour.  Depending on the winds, I think 255 watts should do the trick.  We'll see how the legs feel though.  Will ride the course again possibly with a casual team to get in more mileage.

Fun!  What's the course like?

Pretty much pancake flat out and back 40k along the shore.  Two "rollers" that ascend about 30 feet but nothing you need to get out of the big ring for.  Most of the time we are exposed to a 15-20 mph wind, but the forecast for this weekend is for much lighter winds in the 7-12 mph range.  Could be a fast day, and wouldn't be surprised if some of the stacked teams go close to 52 minutes.

It's basically the same course as the State Championship 40k that I'll be doing later in June except the start/finish and turnaround areas are opposite.  So it will be good practice.

Ya. We're flying down to Kona with US Airways. AKA--worst airline second only to American..so I don't have my hopes up that I will avoid the bike fee. Booooo. We will see though. 

I get more perks out of my brother's job than my own...lol...His job at the LBS has benefited me in more ways that I can say. Haha. $500 bike bag for $200. Helmets, tri shoes...NBD. Maybe I'll get more perks now too--he just got his UCI Elite rider card and is sponsored by Specialized and the LBS....free bike? Too much to ask for? lol. 

Hope you can work something out!

X2 Rusty - hope it works out on both fronts.

Marc - here are examples (all happen to be from the same day).

Swim:  39min, 87.2TSS, 1.11IF, Pace 1:46/100M - Threshold = 107sec/100M
Run:    42min, 65.2TSS, 0.92IF, Pace 4:51/km     - Threshold = 4:25/km
Bike:    45min, 50.1TSS, 0.82IF, NP 197watts      - FTP = 240watts

I know that my FTP is likely 5-10watts higher than I have recorded, but it's close enough, and it's the one TSS number I feel is accurate.  Which leads me to believe the others are wrong.

For the swim I thought I'd understood that Threshold should equal 1000M TT pace.  I didn't man up to do one, but based on how I'm swimming, a 1:47 pace seems honest.

For the run, I kind of took a flying guess at this one because I was coming off injury when I setup TP and don't have any recent hard run times.  The last Sprint race I did in 2012 had me running a 4:07 pace for 7km.  I have been surprised by my current paces vs HR, the 4:51 pace was a Z1/2 run, and I didn't feel (minus the endurance and some top speed) that my running is far off where I was at my peak last summer.

Neil, for the swim do you record your entire time in the pool or just your swim time?  My average pace over a swim workout is never anywhere close to my threshold pace but I include my entire time in the pool.  That said, even if I only recorded swimming time I doubt it would ever be an average pace = to threshold.

I guess what I'm saying is 1:47/100 may not be your threshold pace.  

4:25 on the run is about a 43min 10k. I suspect you are faster than that. I would say 4:18 based on that 7km/4:07

According to your swim paces, you swam 39 minutes below threshold. Personally I have my TP swim threshold about 3 sec faster than what I can hold on a 1500m and it gives me a reasonable TSS.

a) the critter is gonna be fine, because I am praying for him. I love critters. My critter had two ACL repairs. Can you say cha-ching !

b) while waiting, can't you build a time travel machine ?

Best of luck. Let us know how the little guy/gal does.

There you go, a time machine will solve the race issue. 

Hope all is well with the critter Rusty

The BT logs record the entire time, so this mornings swim had me at about a 2:11/100M pace since it considers the rest intervals.  But TP strips out the rest time and just seems to use the actual swim time.  I don't know if there is a setting that lets me change that.

I forgot about the Olympic I did last year.  I did the run in 42:07 after struggling the first couple of km with a stitch (course measured 10K according to my Garmin).  So I now realize I should lower that threshold pace.  Is the idea to basically have it match what you can do in an open 10K?

Does your swim pace in TP include the rest time, or strip it out?

Use McMillan to get a 15k equivalent, which is closer to 1 hr, which is threshold

The rest gets excluded by TP for swimming.

Aw, now you guys are just being silly - everyone knows the Grandfather Paradox prevents travel back in time, which is what I would need to do to make it to Knoxville in time for check-in (I would do the math for you, but only Marc would get it). Of course I guess if I had access to a Large Hadron Collider I could travel forwards in time to at least find out if I was able to race on Sunday. That would at least let me sleep a little better tonight.... But then there would be two of me in existence on Sunday, and I am not sure the group would tolerate that.

Seriously, thanks for the well-wishes on this barely-marginal SBR issue I am dealing with.

My run TSS in Training Peaks looks pretty good/consistent. My swim TSS is hit or miss depending on whether I decide to use and upload data from my Finis Swimsense. When I do that it seems accurate to the way the effort feels. If I just enter total time/yards it under-reports as you would expect.

Okay, well if you're not going to at least try to build a time travel machine...

Update on your critter?  Hoping for the best -- good outcome for the critter and enough time to get to Knoxville to cheer on your wife....maybe even race!