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"implements of destruction"

Wish I could take credit, but its something borrowed from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant". 

Yeah Steve, Get better!

Jim, Good luck at Masters.  They are a killer!!!

I'm getting frustrated with my foot.  I think I may have a touch of Plantar Fascitis.  Had to pound the pavement for work the other day in dress shoes and I think that did something.  Not sure but my heel is killing me.  I've never had any  problems before but all of a sudden I feel like I bruised my heel.  I only ran 4 miles last week, then took off until today.  It felt fine but an hour after the run the pain came back!  Not sure what to do but i really need my running.  I've been icing and rolling it with a golf ball. 

I'm wondering if I can run on it or will it hurt it more?

Mitch - Bad news and hopefully it is just a soft tissue thing and the ice and roller will help. You might try taking it a bit slower and walking a few, in the correct foot wear.

Larry - Wondering what your goal is. At the beginning of the year, I started by tracking everything I ate and droped about 10 lbs pretty quick. Tracking does take a lot of time and now that I know my diet I don't spend the time tracking. The weight has continue to drop about 1-2 lbs a week and the scale went below 225 for the first time in probably over 10 years. Woohoo! The initial goal was 220 but it may be time for a new goal.

Joe, I'm still counting calories, but I'm not going to do it forever.  I am currently 225, down from 300.  Originally, I was shooting for 200, but think I may try to get greedy and go for 190.  I finally decided to start eating a little more because I was lacking energy, and am going to be happy with 2 pounds a week, instead of the 4 I had been losing.

On another note, I compared my training log from 2011 and this year.  This year was 255 miles biking, 59 miles running, and 17250 yards swimming.  Last years totals in all three rhyme with Bero and start with a Z.

Jim - Just having a little fun. Steve's advise has been spot on and I am certainly impressed with the number you guys put up. I can feel myself top out at 6-7 hours in a week and that is not near the distance or speed most of you reach.

Last night I was not feeling it. in fact I felt a little sick but hopped on the bike anyway. The weather was too nice to miss out and it turned out to be a good strong ride.

Hearing all the training number does keep me motivated that some day perhaps not far off my name might be in a HIM register, or maybe even an IM register.

Ya I was MIA a bit, but was out of town for 4 days with a very tight schedule.  Another short fast run today (5 miles at 7:25).  It is great to run without a big fatigue load, but not so good on the lungs.  I am doing about 25% of my normal workout load just trying to maintain something.  I'm not that sick, just would be nice to not have to carry a box if tissues all day and a bag of cough drops.   I haven't been swiming or biking in over a week.

The stump is relatively close to my new sliding glass and 6 foot windows on the side of my new pool room, I kinda don't want to be using TNT near that stuff.  I figure it would be a month long project and I will probably have to buy a chainsaw I am sure.  I struggled with the last one of similar size.  It turns out Juniper stumps do not burn away.  You can melt glass bottles on them in the middle of a fire that is uncomfortable from 10 feet away. 

Mitch, I would walk rather than run and see who that goes.  What part of your foot is sore other than your heal?  When the top of my right foot was sore I wore that shoe relatively lose, even for a marathon to not irritate the tendon sheath and such.  There are some stretches in addition to the golf ball idea and ice. 

The short answer is that the most important part of a plan is to just get in the distances.  You will survive yoru race doing that.  To race faster, you need to do the drills and speedwork in the plan.  So, looking at a run plan, the drills over the course of a year may take an additional 30 seconds off your mile pace than if you didn't do the drills, it could be more depending on how not hard you push yourself during practice. But you also need enough base before doing intensity to not pull something. 

Ok here are my totals for April.  The combination of taper, recovery and sick has me down 400miles on the bike 50 miles on the bike and 10,000 yards on the swim.  So I am taking it easy with 4 complete rest days out of the past 10 days and lite workouts on the rest of the days.  With a race on Saturday (ugh) I am hoping I will be back up to speed next week.  I am monitoring my resting state fatigue as well as the quality of the workout.  So on Sunday the fatigue was too high and crappy workout so took 2 days off.  Yesterday and today, short workout, no fatigue during the workout, but longer to recover afterwords, so dropped the afternoon workout allowing more time to recover.  There is an art to knowing what you can and can't do and it changes from week to week. 

Lets have everyone throw up their monthly totals, even if they were not so good.  That way we can see them be better next month.  Hopefully I can double my bike miles from April to May, add 25 miles to the run and double the swim yards.  

But remember this is fun and most of us are not good enough to stress too much about performance in a race.  It is just to get in the work and then enjoy the day.  It really helps to swim a bit before the race starts for the swim, especially if the water is numbingly cold.   

Here are my totals for April:

 I should come close to doubling this in May (if Mitch quits whining about his foot and gets out here and rides with me, jk)! I'm feeling really good right now!

I am doubling the distance of my mid-week runs and spending a lot more time on my trainer as well!

My goal for may is:

500 Mi on the bike

125 Mi running and

30,000 yds swim

I need to work out my nutrition strategy for Vineman. I have to be careful with my mixture or I'll have really bad stomach cramps on the bike and no juice for the run. Steve, I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

Bike                                              run                                            Swim

Quick question for the bike experts.  I did a short ride in my brick.  I got a new seat, so when I put it on I ended up moving my position up by accident.  I was going to move the seat when I was done, but noticed my speed was 18.9 mph.  I felt good on the ride, and pushed a little, but not crazy.  My fastest average time ever was 17.5 before tonight.  I know that position is important, and I admit I don't know much about it, but could my improvement be from accidentally getting in a better riding position.  thanks

Larry, I'm not an expert and am not fast on the bike but if I made that big of a leap I wouldn't change a thing! 

Ok, here's my totals:

 Definitely a recovery month for me.   1 week recovery from my HIM and 7 days out sick but I feel good about getting what I could and am happy with the numbers.

I'm going to try to double everything this month. 

April's totals:

 I was without a bike for 1 1/2 weeks so those number will go up. I am also hitting a bit of a stride running as the base numbers build. Last night running the Home stretch 5K (3.23mi from the garage door) I broke 30 min at 29:55. There is hope for my running yet. 

Larry - Mentioning a HIM and the distances involved to my wife and she replied, write your will first. lol. Although you definitely have me thinking. To me my base seems rather thin and would like to see the number move up quite a bit before taking that jump. More and more next year looks like next year would be a definite.

April 2012
Bike:  11h 37m 50s  - 98.2 Mi (Some spin class w/o mileage)
Run :3h 31m 18s  - 21.42 Mi
Swim:6h 10m  - 9800 Yd

Compared with last April's stats, I'm up about 3.5 hrs and 50 mi on the bike time from last April (unusually nice weather); understandably low on the run,since I was injured (down 4 hours and about 20 miles). Thought I was doing more swimming but actually 6000 yds and a couple hours less than last april!   Useful to check the stats I spend so much time logging!

Here is my April totals. Its light, since I missed 9 days (incl 2 long runs & 2 long bikes bikes) due to illness, and a couple others as life gets in the way sometimes. May will be much better, althought not a great start since I missed my 1 hr bike last night. Not concerned, but the race date isn't moving out a day if I miss a workout....

Happy traininng everyone!

Those numbers all impress me with or without the obstacles. Take a page from Carol and pat yourselves on the back. You are among few who would even consider this, keep it up, and make it such abig part of life.

Beth - Hope today's swim goes well and good luck on the sprint.

Samantha - Speaking of available junk food. I indulged a bit yesterday with a package of Yodells as I came across your post. lol

Larry - My wife is supportive too and I am working on her getting in shape too. At least some warm up walks and I gave her a hard time about being ready for a 5K soon. You never know.