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Nice work Neil!  A 2 month taper maybe?  

yikes.   200 IM is about all I can do....   I have been swimming 1-2 X per week and it shows.  Bumping that up to 3X per week starting this week, hopefully it will get a little easier.  Honestly, haven't really been tracking my splits as just trying to get base yards in at the moment.

I have been dividing my time between the elliptical and treadmill the last couple weeks, today did :30 on the treadie as 1:00 walk/4:00 run, so getting back to it!   Foot seesm to be fine, no ill effects I can discern. 

so it's 2014 V.2 gooooo... now.

Had high hopes of making it back to my faster training group last night (haven't run in that group since the end of XC season) but my body had other plans. My legs were just DEAD, which almost never happens for me, I am generally aerobic-limited. I'm giving myself some slack though because I only had one day in between my long depletion run and the workout.

Instead I did 3 x 1.5 miles @ 96 second a quarter. An that was hard enough!

Hoping maybe I can move up next week but I'm not going to force anything. It might just be that I need to run a touch slower when I am logging marathon mileage. 

Glad to hear your foot is doing better, hopefully you can put that behind you for good!

Hi Tom!

Good luck with the Tour, I can't imagine making it through that!

Hey Elaine, you made the pictures of the ST post about the camp!  

http://www.slowtwitch.com/Lifestyle/A_California_Aero_Camp_4145.html

Image 16 - the text says a 1cm drop + different helmet + different suit = 40watt savings...That's just crazy when you think about how much training you have to put in just to see a 10watt improvement.

Image 17 - does the coach not look really stretched out in his position?

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=4943130

A whole thread about the details.  I think somewhere in there it mentions that for some people (maybe with longer arms?) it was faster to be stretched out like that.

It can definitely smooth the flow and get you down without doubling you over or having to drop the front crazy far (long arms standing you up taller just in front).  I am short and thick (not a great tri build!), but have really long arms.  Yes, just like an ape…  so I was set up this way more and more at the end of the season.

But, stretching out like that also really stresses your lats, tris and (IIRC) supra- and infra-spinatus muscles.  I had a setup more like that at a HIM last year and, after a hard swim and being stretched a bit on the bike, felt it in the "back of my armpit" for the whole run (and had a ton of pain there after the race until I found a massage tent - thank goodness!).  Not sure it slowed me down, but ANY longer and I would have been in trouble.  Did this AND narrowed the pads for a sprint, and it was terrific!

So, like all changes in a bike fit, what is fastest on the bike might not be fastest for the race (depending on what it does to the run).  Or, what works for one distance might not be as great in another...

Very cool pics!  

Matt

My second appearance in a Slowtwitch article! Woo hoo!

Seriously - if anyone has questions - hop over to that thread and ask. Brian, Heath and Jim are awesome - and I've been in contact with Brian a lot since camp. Very responsive.

Also, just checked my data - a BTA bottle was slightly more drag (+.0089 on my CdA) than a bottle on the frame for me. Aero is weird, and this camp reminded me why I avoided Computational Fluid Dynamics in engineering school...

You're someone who can run really fast even when your slow running is REEAAAAALLY slow--you're challenging and developing your running in enough ways (training stimuli) that going a touch slower, even overall, for marathon mileage is not likely to hurt you.

I'm finally able to do a (very) little bit of easy activity coming back from an intestinal virus that was so bad they initially thought it was typhoid or dysentery. I lost a lot of blood and was producing a lot of mucus and pus as well (white blood cells), so I need to build everything back up. Usually vegan when training but the stomach's still not so good with a lot of fiber, and I desperately need the iron, so I'm back on meat (and yogurt for probiotics) for a while.

Also dealing with the stress of grief. Yeah, I know we don't post about kittens and dogs here ... so this was my KID, okay? Far more torn up about the loss of our family dog than I've ever been about any human. My mom (who has Alzheimer's), it was her empty-nest dog and really truly her kid, and trying to get her through this as well is ... it's really difficult. Stress is stress; I can't tax my body a lot training when it just doesn't have the reserves in any way at all right now.

Glad your back and healthy 

And sorry about the puppy    We lost our "kid" a few months back and it's tough

Originally posted by RChung

Originally posted by ratherbeswimming Also, just checked my data - a BTA bottle was slightly more drag (+.0089 on my CdA) than a bottle on the frame for me. Aero is weird, and this camp reminded me why I avoided Computational Fluid Dynamics in engineering school...

That's not "slightly" more, that's hugely more, and I wonder if something else changed.

Hey - welcome! -- we'd love to have your input on bike / power discussions anytime you drop by here.

Originally posted by RChung

Originally posted by ratherbeswimming Also, just checked my data - a BTA bottle was slightly more drag (+.0089 on my CdA) than a bottle on the frame for me. Aero is weird, and this camp reminded me why I avoided Computational Fluid Dynamics in engineering school...

That's not "slightly" more, that's hugely more, and I wonder if something else changed.

Hey, welcome to our group!

It seems like people at the camp were finding the BTA bottle to be mostly a neutral change yet Cervelo's testing in the wind tunnel seemed to suggest it was a big benefit.  Do you think that is because the aero camp was basically at 0 yaw (so the wind hit the front of the bottle) while in the wind tunnel they would have some results at a higher yaw and the bottle would fill in the gap between the arms more?

I shared an apartment with two engineering students at university.  They constantly complained about the difficulty of their fluids courses...

Bottle wasn't loose. We changed nothing else in the set-up. There's a chance that with user error (me!) my position changed a bit, because I was adjusting to the new fit. 

It was a net increase from the bottle on the frame - I've checked a few times. I'm wondering if the top of the bottle was head-on to the "wind", which was worse, than the air hitting the side of the bottle?