Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed (Page 19)

Today I booked the Hotel in Montgomery, AL for the Coaching Clinic by USAT (April 27 and 28), hopefully in a month or so I will be an Official Level I Triathlon Coach by the governing body.

I'm anxious, it took a lot of attempts!

Challenge sounds fun. I'm in.

How do we post our workouts? Here or in the workout logs?

Someone with computer talent will create a grid for logging points and workouts on this forum. BTW I'm in. My two cents I say if you have a race you get a point for all events in the race regardless of time, distance or speed. You will be going race speed, which hopefully (?) is faster and harder than most training paces.

Today I did a 6 mile runch in 52:25, I was at MAF +1, which I attribute to a stressful week. I start trial tomorrow, so, I'm probably done until Saturday. There goes work getting in the way of fun. 

Ernesto- I have no doubt that you will be a level I coach in a month, and if USAT has a problem with that, they can answer to us.

i am in for the May challenge although i will be at camp for a week and unable to do anything but run.

Data will be posted in following format:

Proposed reporting format:

Mitch - Swim X; Bike X; Run X; Total X; Minutes XX:XX:XX

So you total your qualifying Swims for the month, Bikes for the month, etc.  Then you add those up for the grand total.  You report your total S/B/R minutes at the end of the line for tiebreaker purposes.  It will be a list format - if you are playing you add your name to the list and update your ranking as the challenge progresses.

For those new to the challenge, here is what the reporting looked like during our previous March challenge, where Kev is in bold characters because he was the one inputing the latest update and he had 7 swims, 9 bike workouts and 14 runs, for a total of 30 workouts and a cum. time of 37:06:05.  Whomever goes next, just copies the chart and then ads his data while adding the bold format to his name/date and removing it from the previous entrant.  - Hope this helps

- Gabe S 11 / B 18/ R19; Total = 48; 69:04:32 
- Joe P S 12 B 18/ R 13 Total = 43; 51:01:05" 
- Mitch: S 6 / B 14 / R 20; Total = 40; 29:09:47" 
- Matthews: S 13 / B 10 / R 12; Total = 35; 29:10:00 
- Jim S 0 / B 19 / R 17; Total = 36; 27:52:30 
- MarkZ: S 4 / B 11 / R 13; Total = 30; 39:11:00" 
- Kev: S 7/B 9/R 14; Total = 30; 37:06:05
- Rachel S 8 / B 10 / R 11; Total = 29; 38:04:08" 
- Charlotte S 7/ B 12/ R 10; Total =29; 20:47:00 
- Jackie S 11/B 8/R 7; Total 24; 33:40:32 
- Chris S 0 / B 1 / R 22; Total = 23; 28:47:45 
- Samy S 5 / B 7/ R 8; Total = 21; 16:58:58 
- Jennie S 5 / B 4/ R 9; Total = 18; 13:53:17 
- Ernesto S 3 / B 5 / R 13; Total = 21; 22:48:26 
- Scott S 2 / B 4 / R 8; Total = 14, 11:36:54 
- Mark H S 3 / B 6 / R 2 ; Total = 11; 7:15: 

Andy, you will find this good for motivation. The accountability part is great, and we're all pretty competitive so we like to see our names on the top.

Remember, challenge starts on May 1st!

Count me in for the May challenge also!

The timing is perfect as I'll be right in the middle of training for my first tri of 2012.

I am up for the challenge - I have my last place credibility to uphold :-)

thansk for all the swim time advice - it is in a pool only 300yds and snaking so I will post 1:35.

And as for Fry's Turkish Delight; brings back so many good holiday memories - sadly you cant get it out here in NC, USA :-(

Cheeers, Mark.

Have you listed to any Chickenfoot?  Not sure if you're a Sammy fan, since he is the front man, but it might work for you.  I'm also a fan of Living Colour, they released a new album a couple years ago that I think is great and run/swim/bike to often.  I also have a consistent lineup of Red Hot Chili Peppers and selections from live Police recordings.

Sorry I have been MIA, but crazy week, and with my second race tomorrow barley have time to breath. Count me in for the May challenge. After my race tomorrow, I am planning to put a good effort for 2 or 3 months and run my last sprint before I go into Oly or international distance, so the challenge will help a lot.

Ernesto et all - I am planning on changing my saddle (to the ISM Adamo) and was thinking also of putting clip-on aerobars on my bike. I know it wil take a while to make the adjustment to aerobars, but wanted to hear possible plus/cons on adding the aerobars. I am planning to do my next race in June, but its part of a trilogy (june/july/august) and since I was not planning to do them all, I can postpone and do the july one.

Keep in mind that I live in FL, extremely flat (only "hills" are bridges in some races), so no much shifting or braking involved during races. I have read mixed comments about shorties vs. regular size aerobars, so would like to hear your opinion on the matter also. I have a great bike shop very high on proper fitting, so will get fit with the aerobars if I decide to go that route, and they will problaly want to test a few to make sure we choose the right one, but wanted to go in there with some knowledge and make sure its the right thing to do. Last, any recommendations on aerobars?

I had the Profile Designs T2+ on my road bike before I bought the tri bike, and was very happy with them.  Price point was reasonable and the ability to fine tune the placement was excellent.  They were not the carbon ones, I just couldn't justify the extra $$ for a difference I may or may not actually feel.

They were so easy to put on and take off, I actually removed them from my bike and took them in my luggage for my first HIM where I rented a bike, because I didn't want to pay to fly my bike there.