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icky43 - 2010-04-06 10:38 AM

Most of you will not remember, but at the first part of March I asked for some advice about swimming and swimming endurance.  The advice that was given from Suzy and the rest of you was great.  Balance is the Key.  My complaint was that I could swim a 1000 yards but had to be done in bits and pieces, I could not for the life of me swim more then a 100 yards straight. So I set a Goal after taking your advice to swim 500 yards by the end of March by working drills and balance techniques.  I set the date of March 29th as my due date, and if you look at my blog March 29th sucked, I was fighting off a head cold that weekend, needless to say when I jump in the pool and started to swim my warm up laps I just about drowned.  I have never swam with a cold before and I didn't realize until then how plug up my nose was.  On my first breath I had to stop and come up for air because nothing come out my nose.  To my defeat I postponed the due date until today.  I swam yesterday to test the waters and to see if I could breath once aging, all be it a little rusty from taking a week off from everything I thought I would give it a go. 

Got to the pool this morning at 5 am (couldn't sleep) did 200 yd warm up rested 2 minutes did another 200 yards.  Then I did 100 yd easy with 30 sec rest in between, up until I was at 900 yards total.  After swimming the 900 yards I waited for 3 minutes trying to talk my self out of it, then I had a "What the Hell moment, what do you have to lose?"  So I started swimming, and every lap felt so hard for some reason, I got to 200 yards and thought I was going to die, I have never swam more the 200 yard consistently.  When I made the turn for 250 I thought it was over, struggled through it, hit the wall for the turn and things got easy, I broke through the mental wall that I had put up and swam until I hit 2100 yards total. 

I Swam 1200 yards straight

I was so stoked that I got out of the pool headed home and went for a 3.1 mile run.  I have never done a triathlon before, but today, for the first time I'm starting to feel like triathlete.

Thanks for the support.

Ben

icky43 - 2010-04-06 10:38 AM

Most of you will not remember, but at the first part of March I asked for some advice about swimming and swimming endurance.  The advice that was given from Suzy and the rest of you was great.  Balance is the Key.  My complaint was that I could swim a 1000 yards but had to be done in bits and pieces, I could not for the life of me swim more then a 100 yards straight. So I set a Goal after taking your advice to swim 500 yards by the end of March by working drills and balance techniques.  I set the date of March 29th as my due date, and if you look at my blog March 29th sucked, I was fighting off a head cold that weekend, needless to say when I jump in the pool and started to swim my warm up laps I just about drowned.  I have never swam with a cold before and I didn't realize until then how plug up my nose was.  On my first breath I had to stop and come up for air because nothing come out my nose.  To my defeat I postponed the due date until today.  I swam yesterday to test the waters and to see if I could breath once aging, all be it a little rusty from taking a week off from everything I thought I would give it a go. 

Got to the pool this morning at 5 am (couldn't sleep) did 200 yd warm up rested 2 minutes did another 200 yards.  Then I did 100 yd easy with 30 sec rest in between, up until I was at 900 yards total.  After swimming the 900 yards I waited for 3 minutes trying to talk my self out of it, then I had a "What the Hell moment, what do you have to lose?"  So I started swimming, and every lap felt so hard for some reason, I got to 200 yards and thought I was going to die, I have never swam more the 200 yard consistently.  When I made the turn for 250 I thought it was over, struggled through it, hit the wall for the turn and things got easy, I broke through the mental wall that I had put up and swam until I hit 2100 yards total. 

I Swam 1200 yards straight

I was so stoked that I got out of the pool headed home and went for a 3.1 mile run.  I have never done a triathlon before, but today, for the first time I'm starting to feel like triathlete.

Thanks for the support.

Ben

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 9:41 AM

below is a email i sent out last night.  sorry i thought i copied everyone but i guess not. 

i'm not sure what to make of the water temps at this point. however, the post on the lone star thread is misleading.  there are no gauges in offatt's bayou, i spoke with and emailed with a program manager at NOAA's galveston lab this morning to confirm.   the gauge referenced in the thread is 4 miles east of offatt's and in the gulf of mexico.  more precisely located at the bottom of the southern end of the flagship pier.   4 miles may not seem like much but when talking about this it is. 

there are two gauges north of this one in galveston bay, not the gulf.  the closest one, eagle point is ~5 degree's cooler and the furthest one, morgans point,  is ~7 degrees cooler.  i'd pay more attention to these two.

and maybe most importantly, ;-), offatt's bayou is man made.  it was created way back in the early 1900's by dredging to actually build parts of the island.  there are some very deep holes in it with some very cold water.

also the post says something about a trend yet only provides one data point.  i'm not sure how a trend or pattern can be established. i've been watching the temp's since for several days now.  at galveston pleasure pier it dropped over a degree from saturday night to sunday.  it picked up four degrees since.  water doesn't heat up and cool down like this without the help of some serious currents. 

my race sunday is a few miles north of where we'll be swimming.  i'll get a better feel for it then.

either way though i don't think it will be above 84 so you should be fine wearing a wetsuit if your're comfortable wearing it in water that warm

icky43 - 2010-04-06 9:38 AM

Most of you will not remember, but at the first part of March I asked for some advice about swimming and swimming endurance.  The advice that was given from Suzy and the rest of you was great.  Balance is the Key.  My complaint was that I could swim a 1000 yards but had to be done in bits and pieces, I could not for the life of me swim more then a 100 yards straight. So I set a Goal after taking your advice to swim 500 yards by the end of March by working drills and balance techniques.  I set the date of March 29th as my due date, and if you look at my blog March 29th sucked, I was fighting off a head cold that weekend, needless to say when I jump in the pool and started to swim my warm up laps I just about drowned.  I have never swam with a cold before and I didn't realize until then how plug up my nose was.  On my first breath I had to stop and come up for air because nothing come out my nose.  To my defeat I postponed the due date until today.  I swam yesterday to test the waters and to see if I could breath once aging, all be it a little rusty from taking a week off from everything I thought I would give it a go. 

Got to the pool this morning at 5 am (couldn't sleep) did 200 yd warm up rested 2 minutes did another 200 yards.  Then I did 100 yd easy with 30 sec rest in between, up until I was at 900 yards total.  After swimming the 900 yards I waited for 3 minutes trying to talk my self out of it, then I had a "What the Hell moment, what do you have to lose?"  So I started swimming, and every lap felt so hard for some reason, I got to 200 yards and thought I was going to die, I have never swam more the 200 yard consistently.  When I made the turn for 250 I thought it was over, struggled through it, hit the wall for the turn and things got easy, I broke through the mental wall that I had put up and swam until I hit 2100 yards total. 

I Swam 1200 yards straight

I was so stoked that I got out of the pool headed home and went for a 3.1 mile run.  I have never done a triathlon before, but today, for the first time I'm starting to feel like triathlete.

Thanks for the support.

Ben

dalessit - 2010-04-06 11:43 AM

Just one more reason I love my wife, I sent her this link

http://www.veloclassic.com/Tours.html

and said how cool it would be do do this, she replied that it looks awesome and we should start saving now for it...

 

icky43 - 2010-04-06 10:38 AM

Most of you will not remember, but at the first part of March I asked for some advice about swimming and swimming endurance.  The advice that was given from Suzy and the rest of you was great.  Balance is the Key.  My complaint was that I could swim a 1000 yards but had to be done in bits and pieces, I could not for the life of me swim more then a 100 yards straight. So I set a Goal after taking your advice to swim 500 yards by the end of March by working drills and balance techniques.  I set the date of March 29th as my due date, and if you look at my blog March 29th sucked, I was fighting off a head cold that weekend, needless to say when I jump in the pool and started to swim my warm up laps I just about drowned.  I have never swam with a cold before and I didn't realize until then how plug up my nose was.  On my first breath I had to stop and come up for air because nothing come out my nose.  To my defeat I postponed the due date until today.  I swam yesterday to test the waters and to see if I could breath once aging, all be it a little rusty from taking a week off from everything I thought I would give it a go. 

Got to the pool this morning at 5 am (couldn't sleep) did 200 yd warm up rested 2 minutes did another 200 yards.  Then I did 100 yd easy with 30 sec rest in between, up until I was at 900 yards total.  After swimming the 900 yards I waited for 3 minutes trying to talk my self out of it, then I had a "What the Hell moment, what do you have to lose?"  So I started swimming, and every lap felt so hard for some reason, I got to 200 yards and thought I was going to die, I have never swam more the 200 yard consistently.  When I made the turn for 250 I thought it was over, struggled through it, hit the wall for the turn and things got easy, I broke through the mental wall that I had put up and swam until I hit 2100 yards total. 

I Swam 1200 yards straight

I was so stoked that I got out of the pool headed home and went for a 3.1 mile run.  I have never done a triathlon before, but today, for the first time I'm starting to feel like triathlete.

Thanks for the support.

Ben

swbkrun - 2010-04-06 11:46 AM Cliff Notes Please!  I am back.

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 10:24 AM

linda got beat playing tag by her kids then complained about it in her logs.

tracy got pi$$ed that linda logged this so she logged something about walking in anapolis.

trevor logged in as andy and fooled us into thinking andy was back.

suzy did a triple blind XR4Ti combover DOGPOOP test ride on her guru outside finally.  but her output was low and her coach yelled at kim for it.

ben crushed his swim

george asked about womens clothing, claimed its for his wife. 

ryan shaved kona.

there are starbucks every 500 feet on all rural roads in the seattle area.  just ask kyla, she's flat.

red sox suck.  or so says william.

tony and sam are gonna ride unicycles in europe.

edit... i just heard from janet.  she got got her second wind. 

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 12:24 PM

linda got beat playing tag by her kids then complained about it in her logs.

tracy got pi$$ed that linda logged this so she logged something about walking in anapolis.

trevor logged in as andy and fooled us into thinking andy was back.

suzy did a triple blind XR4Ti combover DOGPOOP test ride on her guru outside finally.  but her output was low and her coach yelled at kim for it.

ben crushed his swim

george asked about womens clothing, claimed its for his wife. 

ryan shaved kona.

there are starbucks every 500 feet on all rural roads in the seattle area.  just ask kyla, she's flat.

red sox suck.  or so says william.

tony and sam are gonna ride unicycles in europe.

edit... i just heard from janet.  she got got her second wind. 

edit 2... doug, matt and barry are all pitching in to buy me a new CT. 

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 12:45 PM

updated.  a few more just checked in

SSMinnow - 2010-04-06 12:56 PM Whenever I need a good laugh all I have to do is think about John......

How's that FattyFatFat?

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 1:59 PM ha ha.  now i feel better. 

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 11:45 AM

updated.  a few more just checked in

fattyfatfat - 2010-04-06 10:45 AM

updated.  a few more just checked in

jvanis - 2010-04-06 8:07 AM Question about Look Keos then since we have a high population of users.  Do they hang with the back end down, I know the Shimanos are weighted toward the back so all you do is push the toe in and then step down, are the Looks weighted similarly?  I am just about to pull the trigger on a set.  What lines does everyone use?  I am probably looking towards the Keo 2 Max, dont think I can justify the carbons.

gdale - 2010-04-05 6:10 PM

Thanks ladies for all of the suggestions.  Funny...the shorts she tried on and liked were Sugoi which a lot of you mentioned.  I will take a look at some of the tops you suggested.  She wants to avoid the sports bra underneath if she can.

George

kickitinok - 2010-04-05 8:56 PM

DJ - WTG on your 4 mile run! I love reading your training logs.

I finally get to run again tomorrow. We'll see how the arch inserts treat my feet. 

CyborgQueen - 2010-04-06 2:17 PM

Hope you understand my visualization....if not, do I need to make it more clearer, ie, pictures? *wink wink*

kt65 - 2010-04-06 2:06 PM

You forgot to add that Tim Lincecum threw lights out yesterday and beat the 'stros...were you there???