jsiegs and slornow's Train Hard and Have Fun group - CLOSED for Training (Page 21)

I was going to ask the same thing. 

I'm going to make myself go to a spin class this morning.  I have NO motivation.  I hope things change soon. 

What's everyone else doing today?

I have now!  Thanks for the heads up.  Unfortunately (or fortunately probably), I don't seem to have meniere's.  I forget what exactly ruled it out, but I think it was a combo that I'm not losing hearing and the inner ear balance tests they did.  The latest doc (a neurologist) said its most likely vestibular something-or-other.  Probably not migraines though (my cousin, and ENT, thought it might be migraines presenting w/o the pain I'm used to) but a viral infection that just needs time to clear up and heal.  No structural damage is evident.  I did try my migraine meds before playing softball the other day and it didn't seem to help.?

Although...I don't know why, but yesterday I woke up feeling well...I felt like if I went for a run, I'd be OK (I've haven't felt like that in a long time).  I think I'm finally over the migraine (regular type) I had a week ago and that's part of the reason.  I'm getting back on the biking horse, so to speak, after all the talk yesterday, I got motivated to copy all of Jorge's workouts from last fall winter into my plan and start following it again (I've been struggling to maintain focus w/o a plan), so I only had time to do the bike last night.  Tonight, I've got engagement photos (what fun!) so I think I'm gonna try a run tomorrow.  I got a death stare from my fiancee yesterday when i said I wanted to try at lunch today...I believe her response was something to the effect of "do stupid things and get dizzy on your own time, you better not ruin the photos by being sick tomorrow".  Yikes!  Happy wife, happy life, right???  No run today

not quite - You're looking for your lactate threshold HR, not your Max HR.  There are formulas that use Max HR but it's much harder to figure out and pretty widely considered a useless number for setting training zones.  There's lots of mis-information about Lactate Threshold, it's definition, etc, but suffice it to say when people refer to LT or threshold anything, it's an effort you could do for about an hour (an arbitrary time, but it somewhat correlates to a physological phenomena going on in your body that defintes the boundary between a sustainable effort and unstustainable effort, caused by your body's ability to clear lactate faster than it is produced).

There are test protocols on BT for finding your LT HR for the bike and run (they will be different) but I need to run right now to a meeting so I'll post later (unless someone else knows them and can post).

Yeah, now that I have had a day to think about it, it was silly and I did feel tired doing it, yeah, it was silly, but after having a week off I was excited to do anything and as much as I hate it, I am a 'stick to the plan' kind of guy.  Still trying to break that habit.  My next swim (thursday or friday) isn't so tough, easy day just 30 mins open water.  See how I feel, also Saturday running an hour and Sunday a ride with group about 30 miles. 

That's the one.  Jorge has a slightly different one on his blog (take the avg of the whole 30 min and multiply by 0.97, hence it will be lower).  Either is probably fine, a few bpm in either direction isn't a big deal.  What's more important is to correlate to RPE (the chart at the bottom of the BT article is great) and make sure you use that feedback.

Just remember: the quality of the test dictates the quality of the data.  If you mess up (go too hard or too easy) plan to try again.  One thing I bet Randy can attest to with power, is that half of your improvement when starting to train with power is just due to being able to do the tests better.

Thanks.  I'm going to give it a try. 

Good morning everyone.  I have no idea what to do today.  I think I'm going to try an easy run to see how my hip and knee feel.  But I'm not sure.  Spin class yesterday was good.  I didn't have the motivation to do anything on my own.  Not sure what my deal is.  Post race hangover?  I feel like this week is a wasted week, as far as training goes.  I hope this long weekend helps me get my act together. 

Hope everyone has a great day.

Christy

Hey all,

Figured I would drop and say 'Hey' to everyone.

The last few weeks have been good for training, not near as many swim/bike/run sessions as I would of liked, but the quality of each one has been good.

The last week however has been brutal, only had the chance to work out once this week. Did an hour of strength training, and then did an hour run on the treadmill. Felt since I missed my strength session on Monday, I'd combine it on Tuesday with my run. Needless to say, my legs hate me now.

I am trying to get my local bike shop to get some trainers in so I can finally buy one, they keep selling before I can get one...GRRRR

I definitely feel like this will help, as for me to get in a solid training ride (little traffic, etc) I have to drive about 12 miles and park, adding about 30 minutes on each side of  my ride. So an hour ride (for example), turns into a 2 hour session.

What a crazy week this has been. I'm back on the training wagon today and I have a full couple days ahead of me. Starting with spin today, Tri Training tomorrow, a group ride on Saturday... Sunday I'll probably enjoy the day off! I hate scheduling things in the middle of my workout times, but sometimes life happens. I can only imagine what will happen when I have two kids to tend to on a daily basis!

You will be busy!  It is really hard to find time for yourself.  I wasn't able to do anything today (as far as training goes).  Like you said, life happens.   We can only do so much.  I was going to try to do something tonight, but  I just stuffed my face with Five Guys.  Not sure I can do anything but lay on the sofa. 

I did cut the grass and plant some flowers today.  That should free up some time this weekend for training.

It is amazing how depressing it can be to look at your training logs when there isn't much in them.  I'm REALLY hoping to change that this weekend.  My husband "thinks" he can be home early enough for me to do a long run tonight.  We have a babysitter coming at 6 so we can go to dinner.  I don't think he will really get home in time for me to run for 2 hours, shower, and be ready to go out at 6.  So...not sure if i do a long run on the treadmill , or try to do it tomorrow.  I'm leaning towards tomorrow. I'd be so pissed if I ran on the treadmill and he actually made it home in time for me to run outside.

Does everyone have big plans for the long weekend?  Anyone racing?

Christy

Hi guys: Looking for some advice here... I have my 10-miler race tomorrow (woot!). 

My hip/pirformis has been bothering me for the past 2 weeks. It's been tight and aggravated ..."fired up" as my PT used to call it. And my runs have been hurting like hell because of all the tightness - plus, I'm pretty sure it's pressing on a nerve. I have been stretching and foam rolling like CRAZY to relax it, and using heat therapy to get blood flowing to those tissues.

Last night I was using a tennis ball and I found a knot that I couldn't get out right where the hip joint and pirformis meet. I think this is causing some of the problems. However, when I tried to massage the knot, I was getting pain all down the back of my leg.

So here's my question. Given that race day is tomorrow, should I try to get a chiro/massage appt this afternoon? Is the day before race day bad to get treatment? I am not planning on going crazy tomorrow, I'm just racing to finish the race. My pace will be rather slow I think, so no worries there about affecting my time.  My bigger question is whether you should avoid massage the day before a long run (does it damage the tissues)?

I went to Tri training this morning - 11 mile spin, 1.75 jog/walk, roughly 700 yard swim. I had planned on a group ride tomorrow, but they aren't meeting.. grr!! I got on the email list so I know when they are going out again. I may hit the pavement and get some running in instead.

Since I like to go off topic a lot, :P I thought I'd share this:

A lady in my Tri class who is 70, did the same Tri I did, it was also her first one. She started training in September, she didn't know how to swim. She took some Masters classes (still does), took the info Greg (Tri instructor) gave her, and learned. She does very well.

This morning we were talking to Greg about his IM (wow, what a story!) and he turned to her and said, so you are thinking about doing an IM? She said yes. I about died. All kidding aside, my jaw literally dropped!! We talked for a while after class. This lady just became a HUGE inspiration to me. She is incredible.

She is very serious about doing an IM one day. On my ride home I thought to myself: What the heck, Karla... if she desires to do one... so should you! I may be 70, I may be 40. Who knows. I think the more I'm surrounded by people who have done one, or read these stories, or do more tri's... the more I think about it.

I love reading your reports, they are really inspiring. I truly bow down to those who have done HIM, or have done and IM, or thinking about one - really, very inspirational!

Thank you Joe and Randy for this group! Have a great LONG weekend!!

I don't know the right answer to this.  But..I got a massage the Monday before my Sunday race.  I think it was a bad idea.  I was really sore.  I'm not sure if it was the massage or not, but I won't get one that close to a race again.

Good luck tomorrow!

Nicole - I don't have any advice for you, I wish I did Are you sure it's not sciatica? (I don't know if that's been mentioned or not) I have that, and the pain down your leg sounds similar. Is it your right leg by chance? I actually ended up having two outpatient surgeries on my back - steroid injections really, but the second one he really did a number on me. Saying that, I did or still do, have two bulging discs that were pressing on the sciatic nerve.

Anyway. Have you had an MRI done or anything?

Good luck on your race!!

Five Guys Rocks!!!!  it is a stuff your face experience and yummie : )  In the big scheme of things it's probably great to enjoy a day like today, don't freak out, and don't make it a habit : )  If you do you end up 20 pounds over what u want to be, like me.

Ouch!  man bummer, hope it goes away for Sunday