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Kellie-I was away for 2 days, so sorry I'm getting to this so late. I hope everything went well for you. I'm sending lots of positive energy your way!

Kellie

 Sorry, been swamped all week and missed this, hope all went well!!!

Matt

My first ever tri is May 3rd.  It's short, with a pool swim, so should be a good intro.  Hope to do 3 others over the summer, with the final one being an Olympic Distance.  

Thanks for the well wishes here and in my blog everyone!   THe surgery went well.  He removed the Plica and found no further damage so that is good.  Now its just sit and recover time, which drives me a little nuts!  My husband is taking care of me though and got me some movies to, so I will be watching movies and whatnot.  Hopefully the recovery goes as smooth as the surgery.  Time will tell!

Oh, and yes, they gave me Vicoden, except the generic kind is what the pharmacy filled.  The generic brand for Vicoden does not work for me at all, so that kind of sucks.  I would have to pay good money to get the real stuff they told my husband, and I am not in that much unbearable pain.  I popped a few advil.  It just seems to be sore.    Tomorrow I can remove all the wrap.  So we'll see!

Have a great weekend everyone!

It is good to hear that there is no other damage.  Let that hubby take care of you!!!

My first race of the year: the Martian 1/2 Marathon.  I was hoping for a sub 2:00 but I don't believe I am trained that well at all.

So far I'm planning an Oly in August. It's a small local one, so I'm hoping it will be fairly beginner friendly.

But I'm looking for a couple of 5 and 10K's before that.

kellc09 - 2009-01-26 11:17 AM So whats on tap for everyone this week?   Im doing more laying around recovering, so give me some good stuff, make me jealous

I'm doing week 5 of Jorge's program. But I also know that I have to travel for work on Weds/Thurs again this week, which makes working out impossible on thosae 2 days.

So the plan is this:

Today bike day 1 of week 5.

Tues: Swim and run

Weds- nada

Thurs-Pilates

Friday: Day 2 of week 5 bike.

I'm really struggling with the winter Blahs this week. I want to bike outside and that isn't possible.

kellc09 - 2009-01-26 11:17 AM So whats on tap for everyone this week?   Im doing more laying around recovering, so give me some good stuff, make me jealous

Plan says:

4k swim 

5mile run

I shall see, shoulder is not liking the swim yet.  Any advice on how to adjust my training plan, I am currently on a 17week IM training plan.  The problem is I only have a 70.3 in May and the full in not until August/Nov.  So far I am just adjusting the workouts in order to avoid burnout.

Trainer ride today

Tuesday: run 3 miles

Wednesday: run 6 miles

Thursday: run 3 miles

Friday: Re-test LTHR on trainer

Sat:6 mile run

Sun:12 mile run

Still trying to get in the pool!  Will try again this week

Training for a spring mary and doing Jorge's plan is tough for me!  I have even more admiration for IM athletes who train even harder.

Yesterday was the first day of my HIM training for the bike/swim, and I'm about halfway through my marathon plan so the next week looks like this:

Today: run hill repeats/ swim 3100yd

Tuesday:  bike 1hr/run 45'/ yoga

Wednesday: run 50'/swim 3500yd

Thursday: bike 1hr 15'/swim 1700yd/ yoga

Friday: bike 2hrs/ run 45' (brick)

Saturday: run 2hrs 40'/ yoga

Sunday: swim 3200yd/ yoga

kellc09 - 2009-01-26 10:17 AM So whats on tap for everyone this week?   Im doing more laying around recovering, so give me some good stuff, make me jealous

 We finally have snow here, to the point that I skipped my swim workout at the Y this morning.  Going to ride the trainer after my wife gets up, then do a swim workout @ noon.  I think I discovered the cause of my calf pain, so now I'm waiting on the weather to clear a bit so I can begin running again.  I got sloppy with my form, and was not leaning forward at all, and was keeping my left heel completely off the ground, which was placing too much stress on my calf and causing it to tighten up, so hopefully I can get back to running correctly and pain free. 

Alright, nice workouts going on this week guys

RazorXP, I would think that by the point of the HIM, you will be far enough along in your IM program to complete the HIM as a run through?   If you dont think you will be, I would do a HIM plan, and then go back into the IM plan after the HIM is over.

Completing is not really an issue, my goal is sub 5:15 my problem is that I need to do longer workouts to prepare for the IM without getting bored (burnt out).  I want to redeem my race from last year as leading into the race I was not able to run the 6 weeks leading upto it.   My only real goal for the summer is to stay healthy and still get quality workouts in.

Ah ok.  I get the problem now, I read it opposite    The distance isnt going to hurt you really, but if you want more speed to meet your goal, adjust your non endurance days (long days) for more speed than distance.  Leave your long run, bike, swim in, but do more intervals and speed work with the shorter workouts.   

I just realized a problem with overlapping the marathon and HIM plan... no rest days. So, any suggestions on working a rest/recovery day into the plan? Should I just cut out a couple easy workouts to make a rest day once a week? Could I take a rest day every 10 days and not be overtraining? What about just a swim as an active recovery day? Love to hear any thoughts on this.

Hey Roni..

Working out 7 days a week wont hurt you if its set up properly.  The key is spreading apart the intense days and easier days.   If you want to get the most out of a "rest" day, only do a swim one day a week.  Swimming is actually quite a nice recovery workout and I have found that if you place a more endurance based swim after your long weekend runs (so say Monday if your long run is Sunday) it actually feels pretty good and helps the legs out when Im done swimming.  Give it a try.   

We're getting slammed with a storm today. I was supposed to go to Long Island for the next 2 days but postponed it because of the weather. This was my first thought when the office manager there agreed with my decision: "Great! Now I can get day 2 of the bike week in tonite!" How bad is that?

Every one who's getting hit with this storm, be safe.-Heidi

Haha, to others it may seem bad, but to us here in this forum, and website probaby, it is a normal thought

We tend to make the best of whatever situation we are in , don't we!  I came home to a foot of snow, so I got 1.5 hours of snow shoveling in!  I purposely did squats to work the legs and moved fast to get my HR up.  Since I won't be able to run on the roads tonight, at least I got something in.

I'll also do some yoga later this evening.

You bet I'm going to log it as training!