SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 22)

Trevor: I looked into some teams/groups down here and found they were priced about the same and decided against joining one. I thought the cost was too high for what I was getting out of it. I will hire a coach on a  short term basis to help me develop in specific areas. I find that I am training pretty evenly across the three disciplines and don't have a specific weakness (or is that a strength) in any one of them.

thanks for the input everyone on the training. Sounds like pretty solid advice.

I was looking at my training log and notices that I have swum almost as I did all of last year already and in 8 hours less time. Goes to show that you really can get better without realizing how much.

Thanks for the story Karen. Made for a good chuckle on a slow Thursday morning. It sounded like something I will end up doing for my first fall excpet for the turkeys. No wild ones up here.  Glad to hear that there was no serious damage.

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Karen, that is an awesome story - way better than my fell over clipped-in story.  And my only encounter with Wild Turkey was in college and didn't result in a funny story - just a hangover.

I have a friend (it's true - just ask Facebook ) that posted a comment about going carb free for 7 days, starting yesterday, in preparation for an Oly on 5/3.  I asked him about it and here is his response:

Basically what you are trying to do during the first 7 days is deplete all the glycogen (energy) that is stored in your muscles.  Then you over load all those stores with fresh glycogen.  The purpose is to have more than enough fresh, good glycogen stored in your body so that by race day, you are good to go and you won't "hit a wall" so to speak during the race.

I have heard of Carb loading, but never depleting glycogen first.  And that only gives 3 or 4 days of carb consumption prior to the race to restore balance.  Does this seem right? Anyone ever heard or tried this approach? 

Karen, awesome story.  There's not much better than encountering wild animals - at least I always enjoy it.  Admittedly, though, I've never been in a fight with a wild animal.  Fortunately the turkeys must have kept their spurs put away.

Trevor, you were speechless and yet you managed 45 words!

Karen - great story!  We have wild turkeys that live near my house and I've had one walk out in front of my car one time (he's lucky he didn't end up as dinner), but haven't had them chase me yet. 

Well I took my bike over to the LBS at lunchtime (and just to give you another chuckle, when I put my bike rack on the back of my car, I put it on upside down  - makes it hard to attach a bike to it).  The guys over there are really nice and I don't know why I hesitated to take my bike in, but he looked at it for a few minutes, told me it didn't look like anything was broken or bent and all it probably needed was an adjustment (seems like someone here told me that too ).  I left it there for them to work on this afternoon (I had to get back to work) and he just called to say that it would be ready for me after work today.  He's going to adjust both the front and rear derailleurs - said the front was loose - and replace the cables because they're kind of rusted.  So I should be good to go for next weekend. 
Janet

Karen, that is a great story, love the visual of the bike pointing upside down and you still clipped in!  Thank you for sharing

Suzy, I like the one ending in 073 also, you look so focused!    I also wonder what Trevor thought you looked like...

My goodness, does he think I look anything like my rhodesian ridgeback???  Yes, I do have that quizzical look much of the time

Trevor you are so funny!  But I'm the Asian one, not Suzy!

Well, not that there could only be one asian one...okay, i'd better stop now...