Razorxp & KC Mentor team RFP CLOSED (Page 17)

A meter is about 1.094 yards.  39.37 inches.   Pools are either yards or meters. 

The suggestion is not to try to overdue a workout to make up for one that is missed. 

Hey Team.

I hope everyone is having a great day. Good News - my Mother is home from the hospital and things are going fairly well. More testing, blood work etc. next week but for now - all is good.

Bike and weights for me today before I go out to dinner with family and visit Mom and Dad.

Have a great day everyone.

KC

Brian: Family is much more important than any training session!  Remember we do this for fun.

Sara: how do you like 405? I hear they upgraded the bezel (that was my wife's only complaint)  What do you do that you have to travel so much? I used to travel for work and I can say I don't miss it one bit.

Mary: you will do just fine, its early and your only racing yourself.   I hardly ever try to do a makeup workout, unless its a tpace or lt session.  As for paddles my only advice is don't go too big at first, can cause major should troubles.

Jen: a yard is .9144 meters so just a little  bit shorter.  For keeping track of laps I tend do wear a watch and just count by 100's.  Way to keep working on the sighting it will help when racing starts.

Karen: I wish it were my saying but I'm not that smart to come up with it.  Being a BOPer is not that bad, I still struggle to move up to mop or fop.  It's very hard to do.

KC 1k could go a long way for another bike.. lol

So I have a short race tomorrow, I won't say it is on the beach since SOME people are tired of hearing that, even though the name is Easter BEACH Run. Just 4 miles.  Funny it is part of the same route I already run. "...and I am paying for this WHY??"

For those who celebrate, Happy Easter, and for all of us, happy weekend!

Rest day for me, yeah. -Karen

I know!  They are my times, too!!!!  Sigh...

Never heard of that but what a terrific idea!  Best of both worlds. 

Brutal, Karen.  Brutal.  

Karen you are so lucky, I have a college pool like that about 1hr away that I swim sometimes and its so nice.  Scott once you swim in one you would be spoiled and never want a normal 25yr pool. 

Hey Karen I almost have beach front property problem is its due to a overflowing river (30 degrees too)

I'm making progress did another 5 mile run today with some pain but nothing I can't deal with.  Hoping to get this whole training plan going soon.  Supposed to be nice tomorrow in OH so hope to ride outside.

Good stuff, coach.  Soon, you'll be as good as new.  Hopefully.

KC - Great news.  Glad things seem to be looking up!!

Did a 30 mile ride today.  The first half was awesome, I was cruising well above my typical speeds, effort felt good.  I was excited was thinking I was actually getting faster.  Than I turned around to head back, and thats when I discovered a 20 MPH wind.  The ride back sucked, was harder, colder, and much much slower.  I made it though and still had an avg speed that was good for me on a longer ride like this.   

So this will be my second year training for triathlons and I currently have an entry level road bike.  I likely will not upgrade until I think the engine is slowing me down more than the bike  That doesn't mean I am not interested in some free speed if it is out there to have.  What's everybody's thoughts on adding aerobars to a road bike.  Good Idea? Will it provide a speed boost.  I am little concerned about how comfortable I would be but think my body has adjusted fairly well to riding and may be able to go aero without much pain.

Any suggestions as to which ones to buy?

KC let the page die! Lol your nuts. Lol....

Thanks george hope your right I have alotof training to catchup on.............

Deb just move to ohio never have to worry about seeing the sun

I am worried about my handlebars fitting anything, as they seem pretty thick.  From the Fuji website:

Handlebar Fuji CGC Double Butted 6061, 31.8mm w/Anatomical drops

Good Morning Team.

Mom is home and seems to be doing good.

Coach - ok, I will let it die LOL. Nice to hear your knee is holding up.

Charlie - aerobars for sure

Karen - good luck today - enjoy the beach

Bike, swim and maybe I might even do a little golf practice today, as long as it does not rain.

Have a great day everyone.

KC

Got in the 1/2 mary with my wife.  Kept nice slow pace for her.  Then saw that bad weather was coming back this afternoon, so an hour later I was out on bike with training partner for a 42 mile loop.  Even though tired, still able to keep up a pace about 1/2 mph faster than last time doing this loop.  My engine must be getting more horse power!

Get to go out on date with wife tonight and see live band.  Enjoy a few beverages and have some post woerkout carbs.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

I had a great workout yesterday.  I ran, outside, for 4.25 miles without stopping.  I owe a lot of this progress to Tim, whose advice to pace and keep thoughts away from running really helped me to get to this.  Like I said in my introduction, I play basketball and volleyball, so I sprint from one place to another.  Endurance and long distance was never my thing.  I even had trouble running a whole mile in one shot.  But with Tim's advice and the encouragement of the team here, I was able to do this last night.  I was amazed.  My heart was not pounding out of my chest.  I was not winded at all.  In fact, I felt so good that I could've even kept going if I wanted to.  Very happy.  Granted, I was taking about 12 minutes per mile, but hey, I was able to keep going.  I'll work on the speed once I get the endurance down.

Just wanted to share this piece of news.  Thanks, everyone!

I am doing the Don Fink Be Iron Fit program.  The swim workouts have recently gotten longer.  Due to pool availability and my personal schedule I am not always able to get in the entire workout.  See examples below.  I am trying to figure out what would be 1st to cut out.  I think the 2nd round of drills because I am usually tired and not doing them correctly at tha point anyway.  But don't know if I am short changing myself of focusing on those drills when I am tired.

Anybody have any clues on what would be most important vs what I could skip when necessary or too tired?

NICE. keep it up.

The 1/2 I was tempted to run and didn't........ they got snowed on. Seriously, it's almost May. Whats up with that??

KC - Did you get your own car back yet? Surely you can't be driving round in a beetle still?

Dave, glad to hear you got a decent run in.