Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 20)

nate's right to watch those bottle exchanges. A bit of practice doesn't hurt, either.  Even top pro's can have troubles.  A couple years ago while defending her 70.3 World Championship, Joanna Zeiger broke her collar bone in a nasty crash at a bottle exchange.

-Bib #687

I'm #693, I must have snuck in right after you.   

Oldteen  687
lakeview 690
gobey    693

1 out of every three isn't a bad BT ratio

Coach has me doing a little bit of everything on Saturday and a one hour run on Sunday. 

I only have modest goals... & a few nagging overuse issues.  Maybe 2 hr bike & 1hr run @ Z1-2 effort.  Maybe a short swim if my shoulder & pec feel good.

Very little.  Work Friday, 3.5 mile run Saturday, 2000 meter swim Sunday, 20 on the bike Monday, easy swim Tuesday and I am done for the half.  I used this past week to make up the 4 miles of swimming that I missed the last ten months. 

Swimming is my strong point so I feel good about the swim after the extra distance.  Keep the water temp up for next Saturday.

x2

sat 1hr b/ 5k/ run

sun 30 min s/45 run

2.5hr ride with a 30' run for me tomorrow and then off on Sunday.

We're almost there!  I'm getting really pumped!

Try arm warmers plus stuffing newspaper or plastic bag under your jersey as wind block.  As day warms up you can ditch the newspaper AT A DROP ZONE, and take off the AW's whenever you want.

Ive been sick most of this week.  Although i am almost over it now, it shouldnt hurt to scale back the long workouts I have this weekend?  Primarily the run....

Sautrday, 3 hr bike

Sunday, 1.5 hr run

I'd definitely bring that volume down this weekend.  Your hands down top priority right now should be to get yourself back to 100% healthy.  If that means doing nothing this weekend, I'd recommend that over any training session.

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Listen to da Coach!!!!  Nothing you do a week from the event can help your fitness-only hurt.  If you feel up to it, just get out for a little S/B/R to keep those muscles loose.  Get to that start line as healthy & fresh as you can be, NOT still sick &/or tired.

Hope you're feeling 100% on race day!!!!

need to stop looking at the weather reports. They seem to change every few hours from sunny to 30% chance of rain.  Since I can not control the weather must obsess about something else like finishing the swim in 2 hours or less and starting the bike by 9:15

Thanks for the idea.  I did a brick today and tested wearing crocs for a short "transition" run between bike and run.  They were amazingly comfortable for running.  I dunked my feet in water before slipping them on -- that was the only tricky part.  Wet feet don't slip in as smoothly as dry.

Now I've just got to find a place to stash them near the docks.

This time next week...!!!!!

I haven't either, starting to wonder about that.  Hope it comes soon...