Allison and Ryan's Beginner Mentor Group - FULL (Page 22)

Nicely done guys.

Hoped to get a ride in last night but nope flat tire so hopefully will get it in tonight or tomorrow, trying to get acclimated to this heat and am setting a required 25 miles/shift at work to help me get used to it.  Between three of us we killed half of a 5 gallon water tank @ work yesterday

anyone racing this weekend?

Great Job Guys!

One thing I've found that if my performance from work-out to work-out is slipping, I just take a couple days off and not worry about it.  I've not been in the water in a while.  I cut my finger last Sunday, and it's not all the way healed, so I'm bummed about that, but I've gotten some running in and got in a good bike ride, with one big hill half-way through.  I averaged around 16 mph, which is what I expected having done so much running this week already.  doing a spinning class and some treadmill fartlek today, and then doing some hill repeats (huge hill about 6 miles down the road, and there is a loop road that is about 2 miles, so I might ride that 3 times, and then back the 6 miles, or depending on how strong I feel, I might ride it 4 times.  Hopefully next week I can get in the pool.

Hope your foot feels better on race day.

I am on vacation getting my daughter registered for college, (University of Illinois) but hope to get in a long run tonight. 

Hope it's not serious Wushunut! Hopefully you get to feeling better soon.

I did a 4 mile run this morning at 5:50am and the humidity is just so bad right now but I still managed to squeak out a decent run.

Happy Training All!

Swam around in the bay yesterday.  Sunday was a rest day buy since we were at the beach I decided to take advantage of the time. 

The water was HOT!  I couldn't believe it.  Definitely warmer than the water at the indoor pool at the Y I swim at.  It was like swimming in a giant warm bath.  Kind of weird actually.  Now I wonder if there are going to be people overheating on the swim!  No wetsuits here for sure!  On another note, feeling much more comfortable in the open water.  The bay is much nicer to swim in than a lake.  At the lake I could barely see my hands in from of me.  In the bay I can see maybe three feet further. Ha.

Thanks for encouragement on the foot.  Gonna take it easy a bit, maybe look into an insert or some Superfeet inserts.

Have a swim in about half an hour for lunch and maybe a bike later today. 

Happy training everyone!

I haven't done much training unfortunately, had to catch up with some of the things I let slidfe towards the end of my training last month and going to Ireland thursday for 2 weeks so it is hard to find that motivation when I know it will be interupted...

Good rule of thumb that we use in bike patrol is 1 water bottle filled with a sports drink for every 2 of water.  Helps to make sure you get some of the sodium you need back into you and not over doing it on calories etc.

That is probably about what I do. I start out with both bottles full of ice, and put sports drink in one and water in the other. It probably works out to 1/3 to 1/4 sports drink by the time the ice melts.

This Saturday is my first race - sprint tri.

Good luck Alath.......mine is 2.5 weeks away and I'm already getting excited/nervous. Which brings me to a question for the more experienced. Looking over the upcoming schedule, there are desirable races every 3 weeks starting with my first on June 25. These are all sprint distance as this is my first season. Is doing 4 races,  each 3 weeks apart too ambitious?

Dan

Good luck Alath.

Mine is about 1.5weeks away now.  Getting a little antsy.

Pro-tip of the day. It is not a good idea to "go for a quick run" at 2:30 in the afternoon in Florida with a 101 heat index, 80+% humidity, no shade, and no wind.  There was nothing "quick" about my "run.".

Good Luck Alath!

SFD156 - I'm no expert or nor do I have any Tri experience yet, but I would say if your scheduled for Sprints and your recovery goes well, then by all means you should be good to go with your race schedule. After 2 races or so your body might say differently and I would just listen to that. Maybe even ease into the first one and build up to your final race as a PR setting performance. Many ways to look at it I guess or approach. I was in a similar situation back in Apr and May, in which I had a Half marathon in Apr and a short 2 weeks later another half marathon in May. So What I did was setup my training plan to have my peak week hit the first half marathon and basically run it as a workout then taper down to the last half marathon in May to try and set a PR in which I did. Anyway, good luck as you appear to have an exciting lineup of races!!

Well I did a 6 mile run this morning in this awful heat! I took it slow as I found a 5k this Saturday I am going to run in place of my cancelled Du. I'm having race fits as I haven't done one since May 1st.

Happy Training All!

SPD:  I echo what Huntr is saying. If I were you, I'd commt to the first two, and then the day after the second one, take an assessment of how you are feeling before you commit to the very next one.  You might be able to do two within 3 weeks, and then two more after skipping one..

On another note, I've decided not to do any tri's this year, as I've just started running and it needs A LOT of work.  My swimming is ok, but my focus is the bike, so I'm sticking with the orginal plan.  The only difference is that I'll still train as if I'm doing one in either September or October, and then push hard over the winter with swimming and indoor training on the bike and treadmill, and then next year, do a progressive series (2 sprints and 3 OLY's).  The year after target a couple HIM with a sprint and OLY thrown in.

Question:  I've been experiencing numbness in just my left foot during running, and I've been trying to diagnose it.  Last night, I went for a 2.6 mile jog/run and I wore my elastic knee brace around my calf (similar to a compression sleeve), and I noticed a little bit of improvement, but the foot still went numb.  Is anyone else familiar with or have experience wearing compression sleeves around the lower leg.   (I've tried, looser shoes = slight improvement, no knee brace = slight improvement)  Biggest improvement so far..  Any suggestions?  Should I invest in a quality pair?

I think you should be fine at 3 weeks apart depending on how well your recoveries go.  You may begin to become tired though by the 4th race. I did 3 races in 5 weeks (each race 2 weeks apart) last summer and I felt it a little in the 3rd race.  I was originally going to do a 4th but passed on it. But that was a mixture of sprint and Olympic distance though too.  Have you signed up for all 4 already?  If not I was going to say race the first two and then sign up for the other two unless you think they will sell out (don't want you to miss out).  But overall I think you can do it just remember to relax afterwards.

Out of the country for the next two weeks doubtful will have internet access good luck to all on your races hope to read some awesome race reports when I get back