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stevebradley - 2010-06-08 4:46 AM STEVE - Glad you're back, and relieved to know that all systems are functioning according to wishes and plans. Whew! It sound slide Encinal Canyon shares a limb on the same side of the family tree as Silverman, so if you do that roue and other of its brethren between now and then, you'll cruise the bike in November. As for you and Vineman, I figure you have very little to do to be ready for that bike. After all, it was only about 5-6 weeks ago that you did 112 miles under duress at IMSG, so the fitness is certainly there. All you need to do is tweak it, refine it, build it up, add some speed to it.....and Vineman should be yours. From when i seriously contemplated doing Vineman iron-distance in '05, I remember the course as being a big loop (double for the iron) that has one kind of taxing climb, but then a lot of rollers -- certainly not at all like SG! I imagine the course hasn't changed since then, and with the half being just one loop, then that means only one climb, and that means you'll find it all very tackleable. How is your hamstring feeling, anyhow? I remember well the constant refrain throughout March and April about your hammy bothering you, but all you mention about Sunday's brick is that in the three hours after the bike your legs had stiffened -- but no bad stuff about the hamstring! Is it possible that the post-SG recovery plan has worked its wonders on it? Halleloo!

stevebradley - 2010-06-06 1:45 PM Losing my father was tough, adn when my mother died it was just all so final. (I'm an only child.) Lynn's dad died in March, and her mom is struggling. 

stevebradley - 2010-06-08 9:31 AM



TRACEY -

Just so you know, as long as the weather is decent Friday night I will be staying at Myles Standish. I talked to someone who told me that the Barrett Pond Loop is the nicest and quietest, but going to www.reserveamerica.com, it looks as if most sites are taken for Friday night. The next option will be Fearing Pond Loop, which seems to have lots of availability.

What's the forecast looking like? I guess I'd better check that out!

And remind me to PM you my contact info, which will mostly be in the form of Lynn's cell phone #; hopefully, I'll remember to bring her phone with me! I guess as an absolute emergency contingency plan we could set a meeting point for the where the past feed is, and I will be there in a bright yellow running cap with NEWTON written on it in red letters. That cap, plus my 6'2", makes me kind of hard to miss.

But that's just a tentative-tentative for now. Are you still thinking about some sort of ride and/or swim beforehand? I am happy with ANYthing, and so do whatever works best for you and your family!

SAquavia - 2010-06-07 8:08 PM



Chiming in from the Peanut Gallery:
1)  Throw out the scale - muscle weighs more than fat - many people are losing fat, gaining muscle, and in turn, either treading water on weight, or maybe gaining some.  Better to use a tape measure around your critical measurements (calves, thighs, hips, waist, arms, etc.) and monitor inches.  I found in my IMSG training that I lost a lot of weight in the first few months, and then plateaued, even though I was still getting smaller. 
2)  I'd have to disagree with the kineseologist.  From what I've read and been taught, you'd have to be working REALLY hard, Z4 and Z5 type efforts, to be burning pure sugar (carbs).  What's more likely to be happening is that you are burning a higher percentage of sugar (carbs) than fat at the higher intensities.  But, more is often more.  Look at it this way.  If in an hour of a solid workout, you burn 1,000 calories of which 25% are fat, you burned 250 fat calories.  If in the same hour, you work really hard and burn 1,200 calories, but only 22% of them are fat, you still burned 264 fat calories.  They are a smaller percentage of calories burned, but still more fat than at the lower intensity.  Typically, a Z2 HR effort will burn the highest percentage of calories from fat.  But while the higher Z2 or Z3 will burn a lower percentage, the fact you are burning so many more total calories means you are likely burning more total fat calories as well. 

But I hear you.  It's HARD to lose the weight when you're training, because you're hungry all the time and all you want to do is eat.  I'm on day one of watching the calories again, and I'm already dying!  LOL. 

stevebradley - 2010-06-08 8:14 AM



TRACEY -

Your post was full of fine news!

Really nicely done on the simulated OWS in the pool, and noticing the drop of the legs each time you sight. Yes, the buoys at Escape will be further away, but they're also gonna be big suckers -- more sunstamntial than a towel and a cone! But the important thing is that you're getting used to what your body is doing as you sight, and in time you will refine this to be as economical as possible.

It's great to hear that you have adjust to the "clipless" system so well, and that you're experiencing some of the benefits of being more rigid down there. And the 7- to 9-o'clock pull back sensation means that yet another something is working well for you in your pedaling mechanics, so that is also a big positive.

And the saddle! I love those stories about transformations in people's lives in getting The Perfect Saddle! There are accounts of people who have gone through 3, 4, 5 saddles before finding the perfect one, but you found yours on the second try, yes? As I think about this, it is more of a female problem than a male problem. Or maybe men just don't talk about it. (Typical, eh? ) I'm just thinking of posts I've read over the years from people who had troble getting comfortable, and is it true that they were all authored by women? Hmmm.

ANYHOW, you've got your dream saddle now, and that's all that matters!

(Just a side note --- When I got my new bike in July '08, although it was still a Cervelo I didn't like the new saddle at all, so I had it swtiched out in favor of my old saddle. I had forgotten then until just now.....even though it's not like it wa ancient history! So here I am, on a newish bike, but with a saddle from '01 and cleats from '00. Oh my!

smarx - 2010-06-08 8:24 AM

I'm still alive all...Left calf and shin were tight yesterday but all good today. Will be out for a mountain bike ride today.

I'm way behind (as in page 218 currently) getting caught up on everything here...Man we are a yacky bunch!

Here are the race results:
http://www.raceservices.com/10/hawk/060610_tri.txt

To beat SteveB to the chase, here are links to my race results and the photos that are up so far of myself:

http://timeframephoto.exposuremanager.com/g/hawk_island_tri_2010

End of swim:
http://timeframephoto.exposuremanager.com/p/10hit-endswim/10hit-endswim-34_12_11_2
http://timeframephoto.exposuremanager.com/p/10hit-endswim/10hit-endswim-35_12_11_2
(nice sun tan eh??)

Bike:
http://timeframephoto.exposuremanager.com/p/10hit-bike/10hit-bike-45_12_11_4
http://timeframephoto.exposuremanager.com/p/10hit-bike/10hit-bike-46_12_11_4
(what a nice fancy jacket?? Don't care it kept me warm. Glad I had it though. I had ordered one of e-bay that the seller lost. Now I have a nice new PI jacket coming...albeit a little late. Glad I wore it though to keep the body temp up. I even had my leggings just in case I wanted them)

There will be more pics coming...

thall0672 - 2010-06-08 9:15 AM Anne: It's interesting what your kinesiologist says about training and burning carbs. I feel like there's different information all the time from every expert or article. And add to that the fact that everybody is different as far as their intake needs, metabolisms, etc. It gets confusing to know what advice to follow!

stevebradley - 2010-06-08 8:55 PM MANDY again -- Just got the email that Pirate has only 10 spots left. May no less than 70% of them be from the M60-64 cohort group!

stevebradley - 2010-06-08 8:43 PM ANNE - Did you get blown all over creation this morning. The winds were nasty out of the north until about 2:30 here, so hopefully they departed Muskoka a couple or three hours before that and spared you an especially grueling ride. My ride was wretched, but at least by the time I swam at about 3, it had pretty much settled down to a gentle zephyr.