Team No DNF - FULL (Page 22)

Cutlass454 - 2009-07-16 8:56 AM I'm still here and doing good.  I have my race this weekend so I'm tapering.  Swam easy last night for about 40 minutes.  Decided not to track distance, just swam.  Going to put the bike on the trainer tonight and ride for 45 minutes or so and then take a quick run around the neighborhood.

Looking forward to the race, but the weather doesn't want to cooperate all that well.  Lows in the lower 50s, highs in the mid 60s.  Should make the swim in cold water fun without a wetsuit and then a nice cold, wet bike ride. 

tkd.teacher - 2009-07-16 3:01 PM Good luck on the racing!

I've been training, just nowhere near the volume I was. Oddly enough, my weight is dropping which is a good thing. Changing the eating patterns around a bit helped huge. I'll be heading up to Colorado to do the sprint instead of the Oly in August, and the HIM is still up in the air.

If I can drop my A goal of finishing under 5 hours and be ok with that, then I'll probably still do it. I think I could still finish under 5:30, but we'll see how it goes.

Take the breaks when you need them, a couple days rest won't kill any training plan, and if you been going steady since april, you could use a couple days!!

John

Cutlass454 - 2009-07-16 8:56 AM I'm still here and doing good.  I have my race this weekend so I'm tapering.  Swam easy last night for about 40 minutes.  Decided not to track distance, just swam.  Going to put the bike on the trainer tonight and ride for 45 minutes or so and then take a quick run around the neighborhood.

Looking forward to the race, but the weather doesn't want to cooperate all that well.  Lows in the lower 50s, highs in the mid 60s.  Should make the swim in cold water fun without a wetsuit and then a nice cold, wet bike ride. 

zachkoe - 2009-07-16 4:07 PM good luck emily and kevin!!!
Fi- have you talked to many triathletes in your area about types of bikes? the guys I talked to today said in Maine most people don't buy tri bikes because of the amount of hills/mountains and that the carbon road bikes work better. maybe they will have some good insight

alexenafi - 2009-07-18 8:19 PM So I'm going to go with the S2 Cervelo  - what was the Soloist - Full cabon. Bit more than I was going to spend but a great bike and will get me over my grief of signing the cottage over to the ex.

How did the races go this weekend?

Cutlass454 - 2009-07-18 5:31 PM

Fi, congrats on your decision to go with the Cervelo.  I will envy you for a while. 

Well, it's official - I AM A TRIATHLETE!!!!!

Had and finished my first one this morning.  I'm waiting for the final results and then I'll do my race report.  After my preliminary run, my goal that I was telling everyone was 2:30 or quicker.  It was a 1/2 mile swim, 18 mile bike and 4.5 mile run.  In the back of my head, my ultimate goal was to be quicker than one of my friends who got me into this sport, which was 2:13.  I wasn't sure if I could do that or not.

My unofficial time, according to the posted results, was 2:08!!!!!  I could not believe it when I saw that.  I was like "are you kidding me"?  Then I looked at my swim time.  Up until today, my times were 22-24 minutes for about a 1/2 mile swim.  Due to air temps in the low 50's at race time, I decided at the last minute to rent a full wetsuit.  I did not have a chance to try it out (go ahead John, let me have it for "nothing new on race day") prior to the swim.  My time was slightly over 14 minutes!  Once again, I was like how in the world?!?!

I won't discuss my transitions right now, as I need work on them. 

Overall, I was extremely pleased and happy with how I did.  First one is done and like most everyone else, I may be hooked.

Looking forward to hearing how Emily's race went.

Cutlass454 - 2009-07-20 3:03 PM John,

During the run on Saturday, I developed a couple of blisters on the ball of my left foot.  Obviously, as the run progressed, so did the pain.  Not that I've run an extreme amount of miles since training began (approx. 100), but why would they pop up now?  My shoes have been super comfortable and fitted at a running store.  I've never had any foot pain up until now.  Same goes for my bike shoes.  I wore the same socks as I train in.  I'm going to give them a couple days before I start either running or biking again, but curious what may have caused this.  Could it have been some debris I picked up running from the water to T1?  Any thoughts or ideas?

Oh, and BTW, I will be purchasing the wetsuit I rented for my race.  Around $175 for a brand new (slightly used) Blue Seventy Reaction full wetsuit that I know works. 

Chaderbox - 2009-07-21 2:35 PM
The blisters could be from having your socks be pretty soaked.  I know that I started to get a blister  when I normally don't, and the only difference was that I was wearing socks that were soaked from putting them on post swim.  Maybe in the future I'll either bike sockless, or take 2 pair of socks.