Bob Stocks' Group - CLOSED with some awesome peeps!!! (Page 22)

What are you tapering for now?  

Hello

My plans for the weekend are unclear. I've been working a lot the past few weeks and thus my planning skills have been focused on work. I need to get back to every Sunday planning my week out.

I know I'm going swimming with daughter Friday night.

Saturday- long run and some bike

Sunday - run or bike. I may get outside ...we've been -5 to -15 below so I haven't ran outside for a couple weeks.

Oh I forgot to tell the group I learned how to do flip turns. I'm not great at them, but I can do them now. I'm also getting better at bilaterial breathing.

 T

1h 00m 5.90 miles 10m 10s/Mi

3x10' Increasing Speed 15' Moderate Speed 4x30"/1' interval HARD 1x1'/1:30' interval HARD 1x2'/3' interval ULTRA-HARD

This felt SOOOO good.  It wasn't on my schedule, but I needed it; mentally and emotionally.

I got on the scale this morning for the first time in a long time and tipped in at 250 pounds.  30 pounds higher than I was at this time last year.

Long Island is experiencing 6"-10" of snowfall.  For those who have never been to Long Island, this will mean:

a) It will take me 4-6x as long to get anywhere today.

b) I'll be unable to buy milk or bread for a month, since it's all on BackOrder

c) 99% of all Accidents will involve, in some form or another, a woman driving an SUV at incredibly dangerous speeds.

d) I will see the same 1 snowplow all over town.

e)People will talk about leaving work early (I never understood this one for insignificant snowfall)

There will just be the type of chaos usually reserved for nuclear war or direct meteor hits.

Sometimes I miss Syracuse.

All right Shaun!!! It's time to get your MOJO back and focus on training and what goes in your mouth!!! I know exactly how you feel being heavier than last year. Let's get our act together and live up to the IM image!!

BTW - Very nice run dude!!!  

Bob, can you massage my ankle. . .

 I'm down here in Clermont and ready to sleep for a bit.  I'll ride the Floridian loop in the morning.

I saw we were creeping down the page a bit. How is everyones weekend going? My kids had a swim meet yesterday and Matt (my 8 YO) swam his first 500 in 8:30!! He held consistent :51's and got out with a smile on his face. He took 5th out of 7 in his race and the thing he likes best was they were all 11 and 12 yr olds!

I swam the 1650 with a few kids and did not get girled by the 13 yo! Whew!! I threw up a RR if you want to read about it. The cruise control was working fine yesterday! Held 1:08 100's the entire swim and felt like I could have gone a long time at that pace.

During your swims, especially in races, do your best to hold your stroke together. Easy to say but in distance swimming as soon as you lose your form it's like putting a parachute out.

Hope everyone's weekend is going well!! 

It is soo true about holding your form..  Friday when I was swimming, I was doing the form thing and then I felt myself getting out of alignment in another area.  Well, I felt like I was trying to start all over again and again and again.

I have hill training today on my bike.. then I'll be running and then I'm heading back to Jax..

This weekend I met Werner Leitner, Swen Sundberg and Matt and Annette, and David, and Axel and . . . . . .

Hill training!! Ha!Ha! In Florida? How much do you pay the draw bridge operator? I couldn't resist!

T can have my hills, if I can have her weather forecast!

Bob (or anyone): Anyone even train with a run/walk method?  I was reading about Mike Ricci's success with 8/2 Z1 training, so I did that today and will do it until I see results (or not).  I sure was slow (12m49s/m), but I also felt more "conversational". 

Thanks Bob. I just had to post this pic somewhere and didn't know where. For some reason it wasn't posting on my blog.  How much fun do Lucas and Mama look like they are having???

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Now that looks like a "no cares in the world" smile!!! They look like they are having a blast!!  

What means this?? 

AM I the only one seeing a little red X in upper left hand corner?

This!

Just gotta get use to it. That being said, some people just can't do it. 

Thanks Trix.  Are your walk breaks scheduled/structured like 8/2, 10/1, etc. Or do you do it randomly?