kenj's group - closed with a great bunch of triathletes in training!!! (Page 20)

Run tomorrow am, bike on Sunday...watch NCAA Basketball the remainder of the weekend!!  I don't know why I bother, my tourney bracket already looks like a train wreck and it's only been one day...


Go Bucks!

I rarely run without it, although I will closer to a race to get used to it as I don't where it racing for the most part.  The only time I use it on the bike is when I am in the trainer, I don't feel comfortable that I will hear what I need to outside.  Coincidentally, I spent yesterday looking at Ipod systems for swimming.  I'm thinking with the longer distance stuff it may help with the redundancy of long pool swims.

To address your statement about being more aware without the music, I agree a lot of the time.  But I have had some runs that just couldn't get into for whatever reason that I wish I had it with me.

Good topic for discussion though!  What does everyone else think?

A couple of added items on the Ipod, for triathlons they are against the USAT rules, even for the run.  Since most triathlons have marshalls out on the course, odds are you will get caught and penalized.  Most running races have gotten to the point where they allow them (although they suggest leaving them at home).

I have had good races where I didn't bring them, races I brought them but never turned them on, others (mostly the marathons) where they saved me during dark patches and other times where they were just annoying.   

bswcpa - 2010-03-22 12:22 PM Out of the thousands of dollars I've spent tinkering in this sport, my best investment has been a pair of Oakley Thump sunglasses with the built-in MP3 player. Love them, love them. Like Ken and Scott, though, I never play music while biking outside but I couldn't live without it on the long training runs. However, I've only run 2 half marathons and the first one I played music most of the way. The second I was into the run so much that I forgot to turn them on until the end and beat my time by 5 minutes. Maybe it was the lack of music that did it. I don't know, Ryan, but you're making me think. I don't use the Thumps during triathlons - they're too expensive to be bumped around in transition. Don't know if you read about the guy who was killed in South Carolina last week when running on the beach with his ipod and didn't hear a plane making a crash landing coming up on him. Some of the sites I'm subscribed to used his death as a statement to NEVER wear headphones and run. I think that's a little crazy. I think if you're running on a beach that's the perfect place to listen to music. What's the chances of being hit by an AIRPLANE?!? Any ways, just throwing that out there for you to chew on. Train safe!

Did you find the Thumps heavy?  I have looked at them online, but didn't really think they would work for me.  I have a small nose, and before I had the eye surgery, any heavier glasses I wore wound up at the end of my nose constanly and I would look like a little old lady!

Good for you!!! Registering is a great motivator!!!

Have you given any thought to doing Musselman at some point?  Great race and close by (for me anyway!). 

I run with my BIL  a lot on the weekends, we both do marathons and other local races so its nice to have company for the longer runs.  I don't know if it is running out of gas or running out of things to say, but usually by the 7 or 8 mile mark the head phones come out!

That does sound like fun.  The race director that runs Musselman (Jeff Henderson) is quite inventive when it comes to ways of making it a fun weekend.  Its too bad the ITU doesn't race as part of this race weekend anymore, it was always educating and entertaining to watch the pro's race.

Beginner Triathlete runs the aid station on the run for the mini mussel on Saturday.  I have done that the past couple of years.  Lots of fun and a great way to put a face to a cyber friend!

We have one of those up here every March! I have never done it but it is put on by a group at Rochester Institute of Technology at the college and the guy that runs our masters program is a professor there, so a bunch of the folks at masters swimming do it every year.  One of the reasons I haven't been able to do it is that it sells out so fast and I can never commit early enough!

It is differernt and other than the time in the pool and running, there isn't a lot of crossover to a normal tri, but if it gets you moving, why not?  Have fun with it!!!

Looking forward to seeing your results Lewis!  Have a lot of fun and enjoy the experience!!! You are going to be awesome!

Good luck to Lewis in his tri Sunday!!!  Also to Doug with his (assuming he has decided to do it!)

What does everyone else have planned?