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Terrible kick today,  need some HELP.  I've tried with rolling hips, with flexi knees, with straight legs, lots of small kicks, Great bigs kicks. I've even tried frothy, foaming, breaking the surface with crazy legs, but it's not working.    I can lay face down in my best stream line pose and kick, kick, kick and not move an inch.This is an improvement over when I would kick and move backwards.  I have accepted this for a while with the justification of "Hey, I race in a full wet suit and I don't need a kick.  Save the energy for the run."  Not sure about the justification anymore.

Thursday RTB Masters Workout (2600 yds)
WU: 5x100
DR:  4x75 (1st25 Stroke only, 2nd25 Kick Only, 3rd25 Swim)
MS: 3x( 300, 150, 2x75) as 300 moderate, 150 fast, 2x75 Hard Count Strokes.

Thanks for the suggestions.

WoW Amy good catch!  That is scary stuff. We will keep him in our prayers.  Keep us updated.

I had to take all of last week off.  I have known all along that I was going to take last week off and planned for it.  None the less I was stressed all week not training.  However, today I got back on it and went for a 6 mile run.  I felt pretty good.  But when I got home I did the math and found that I improved my per mile pace by almost 40 seconds. I ran a 9m30s mile pace (that is really fast for me) I did not feel like I was going faster??? But I did notice my heart rate was a little higher.  I thought that was because I took 5 days off and was actually a little pissed about it.  Anyway, after doing the math I am in a great mood now! Plus my wife got me an "ITRI" shirt so I feel cool....

Hey all!

Sorry I have been MIA but work has been nuts and it has affected my training somewhat.  I still need to get some long rides in and am a bit worried about it.  Raining here today with lightning so no ride but a 6+ mile run before the lightning came in.

Amy - very scary but I am glad they picked it up.

Selling my current bike on eBay and picked up a Seduza with Dura ace pretty cheap.  While not a new Speed concept or a CD0.1 I think its a big step up for me and am really excited to try it out!  Should be here next week.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Its beautiful Gary!!!!! Congrats. I love new bikes

Amy thats so scary...great catch!!!

elcaminobill - 2011-03-05 4:21 PM Very good quarterback, maybe it will speed your transition times up!

Its a great bike not a Super Bike!

LRR - Sorry to hear about your friend.

@Amy - you indirectly saved your brothers life, way to go sister.

@Gary -NIce very nice QR.  DA to boot.  That looks like a 20+ all the way to the state line.  Stay loose.

@LRR - I'll work on chilling.

Hello Everyone,

no time to do anything lately. between the weather, work and getting ready to move, my training has suffered

I did get to ride again, just a few miles and now a new question. How do you tell if a hill is a tough one or a small one? I want to find the tough ones to train on (or for) but I dont want to train on an easy one and then get killed later.

Thanks!

Counting down the workouts until another PR.
2011 Rev3 Portland - Sunday, July 10, 2011
Tick Tock, Tick Tock.  1st HIM, Are we there yet?

Summary of last weeks workouts.
Swim:  6800.00 Yd   2h 32m
Bike: 62.00 Mi  4h 05m
Run:  29.00 Mi  4h 35m

Swim / Bike / Run Happy!

Hey all!
Feeling a little under the weather.  Had a decent workout weekend (mainly running) but took yesteday off.  Decided I would go for an easy swim today.  500 free at 1:59/100m  (hey I am a fish!!!) then decided to slack and do 1000m with the pull buoy and ended up just going for it and avgd 1:49/100m.  Probably won't help the cold but my ego feels better!  First race is April 2nd!  New bike showed up but haven't had time to assemble it.

Still waiting for the hot P90X body photos, what gives?

Lyoshka - 2011-03-08 6:31 
I also totally misjudged sunset time (never done that long of a run that late in the day), so I ran in pitch black for over 2 miles, until I could get off the path and finish in the neighborhoods close to home for the last 4 miles (at least some light from houses and street lamps). That was kind of fun, NOT. But, the run got done )

You're not the only one in LLR that's seriously misjudged sunset time.

 Last fall, the day after we turned back our clocks from daylight savings, I ran the last 6miles of a 16mile trail run in near total darkness.  It was a stormy night with the only light coming up from the hwy in the valley below, and 5 miles away.  Thats not much.  

I was having one of those runs, when everything feels good, even though its raining hard, the wind is blowing up a big storm and it's getting dark.  There were plenty of opportunities to turn around or detour back to civilization, but where's the adventure in that. 

Coming down off the mountain, a couple of hours into a really good 'Runners high', running in total darkness, all I could think about was being stalked by mountain lions or being eaten by a bear.  Every snapping twig was a cougar, every dark shadow was a bear. Freaking myself out.  Needless to say I was hyper motivated to run very fast and to run very quiet.  It's still one of my favorite running trails even with the posted signs that say 'Mountain Lions and Bears in the area, Don't feed the wildlife.'

Hey all, time for a little Bike pjorn!

Wow - Very nice blend of painted bits and naked carbon.  Nice x2.

Thanks!

The white aerobar tape has to go and I have to put my regular saddle on.  Trying to get a fitting for next week.  So far this week has been horrible for workouts.  My cold has pretty much killed most of my workouts.  Hoping next week is better.