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 2010-04-06 10:10 AM in reply to: #2761717 |
Expert  1163   |  Subject: RE: The "A" TeamOk, I'm caught up but can't reply to more because I have a meeting soon. Boo work!  Up for tonight is a run, but it's raining, so it may have to be on the treadmill. . . Or maybe I'll skip it and just do the trainer. I can't decide which I like better, but at least the trainer is at home! We'll see. If I'm motivated and bored enough, maybe I'll do both! |
| 2010-04-06 10:14 AM in reply to: #2770420 |
Expert 1202 Montana | Subject: RE: The "A" Team tri808 - 2010-04-06 2:53 AM If you could be a professional athlete in any sport...which would it be? Tennis! They have great legs, and nice tans. Uh, wait, no.....me in a little white skirt would terrify the fans. |
| 2010-04-06 10:19 AM in reply to: #2771085 |
Expert 1202 Montana | Subject: RE: The "A" Team I woke up at 2:00 with my chest packed full of crud. Not sure where it came from, but I"m going to go sweat it out later today. As a bonus, I looked out the window and saw another 2" of SNOW! I'll go to the Y for a short ride and a short run. Hopefully it will melt off like it did yesterday! |
| 2010-04-06 10:27 AM in reply to: #2761717 |
Member 51 CO | Subject: RE: The "A" Team Hi A-Teamers! I just wanted to say that I had a really great swim in the pool this morning! I did my first interval workout (not pushing hard enough apparently, since I didn't feel like puking  ), 8x100 with warmup, drills, and a leisurely cooldown. My fastest 100 clocked in at 1:24, and I managed to keep the other 7 no slower than 1:30! I'm pretty happy about that, especially since I'm still getting into swimming shape. I haven't figured out what my goal should be down the road, but now I at least have something to work from.On a completely different note, I've been pondering something that I thought I might as well throw out to all of you. As you may have guessed from my puny post-count, I'm very new to BT and to triathlons in general. I've since come to wonder; do most of you more experienced folks do double workouts in a day? I see a lot of "I swam this morning, getting on the trainer this afternoon..." and the such. It makes sense to double up in a day, I think, but I've been wondering how to structure it. Double up one or two days a week, or more? Hard workout in the morning, easy in the afternoon? Two relatively easy workouts? One long, one short? Just curious what my fellow teammates are up to... |
| 2010-04-06 10:36 AM in reply to: #2771133 |
Expert 1202 Montana | Subject: RE: The "A" Team Except for Saturday, all my days are double workout. M,W,F - abs and core routine, then run. T,Th - swim and bike Sat - swim with our masters group There have been times when I've cut back to only two training sessions per discipline per week, but I like it better this way. Great swimming! |
 2010-04-06 10:44 AM in reply to: #2771133 |
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Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team kimk - 2010-04-06 4:19 AM brick94513 - 2010-04-05 2:23 PM Well I was planning on a road ride this morning, but my wife left my tights in the washer! Errrrrr.... So, changed the plan and went for a little run. Pace was pretty pedestrian. My legs are still sore from running stairs three days ago. Planning on taking the boys to the movies later, baseball practice, then hopefully to the pool for my first swim of the month. come on now...at least she washed them and didn't put them in the dryer!  I always have to look at the positives when it comes to laundry! Hubby tries to help....I went through so many clothes that he either shrank or dyed a different color! BUT he tried! He is so much better and now nothing of mine goes in the dryer! I knew one of the ladies would stick up for her! |
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| 2010-04-06 10:49 AM in reply to: #2770420 |
| Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team tri808 - 2010-04-06 1:53 AM If you could be a professional athlete in any sport...which would it be? Probably golf.... Only problem with baseball is you're gone from your family for a long time. Not to mention, the constant re-location if you're being traded all the time. I find it funny that know one has said triathlete. I know my body couldn't handle that full-time. |
| 2010-04-06 10:50 AM in reply to: #2770486 |
| Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team kimk - 2010-04-06 4:40 AM Again I am up early when I don't have to be! What is this? No next week when the kids are back at school I won't be able to drag my arse out of bed! It is storming pretty good here...lots of lightning, rain, rain go away because Kim has a run to do today! I was not able to ride to work yesterday like I wanted to  but I did get a swim in. I'll get a trainer ride in today and hoping for a run! Then speaking of baseball...I am going to the game tonight with some friends!Have a good day A TEAM! About time we gave you your weather back. Nice, sunny skies here in California. |
| 2010-04-06 10:52 AM in reply to: #2770420 |
Elite 3460 Slackerville, USA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team tri808 - 2010-04-06 2:53 AM If you could be a professional athlete in any sport...which would it be? I'm not really into sports so for me it would be something related to the tri sports. i'm a horrible swimmer so that one is out. Maybe mountain biking or a runner. Not as much money in that though. One thing I've learned though, money only motivates for so long if you're doing something you don't enjoy so I'd rather make less money and do something I like. |
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| 2010-04-06 10:57 AM in reply to: #2770658 |
| Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team rnihill - 2010-04-06 5:57 AM I got my 20 mile trainer ride in last night. It was S-L-O-W and painful... but done! Maybe I'll get lucky and the rain will stop? Slow.... 24 was on last night. You should of been sprinting! |
Trying to decide if I want to suck it up and just get on the treadmill here at work or wait until I go to the pool tonight and run around the track.| 2010-04-06 10:57 AM in reply to: #2771214 |
| Member 51 CO | Subject: RE: The "A" Team tri808 - 2010-04-06 2:53 AM If you could be a professional athlete in any sport...which would it be? Tossup between soccer and ice hockey. Soccer is my first love among all sports, but ice hockey is just so incredible to watch. There's something about racing around on the ice with knives strapped to your feet, chasing around a puck that can barely be seen that is just...impressive. I don't think I could ever measure up to other women hockey players though. |
| 2010-04-06 10:58 AM in reply to: #2770461 |
| Elite 3460 Slackerville, USA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team kimk - 2010-04-06 5:15 AM brick94513 - 2010-04-05 2:55 PM wgraves7582 - 2010-04-05 12:50 PM mchally - 2010-04-05 3:50 PM Just finished a 22 minute run (a bit over 2 miles) at school. Running on Asphalt sucks. I felt ok while I was doing it, but I am feeling slight twinges in my shins now. I probably should have mixed in a little more walking. Howdy Mel - sorry about the Asphalt but it is better than concrete Concrete is definately the worst, especially concrete with slight grade for drainage! HORRIBLE. For my street runs, I try to stay off the sidewalks and run on the asphalt or dirt next to concrete if possible. I'm with you on this....but this is usually how I have to run(sidwalks for shorter runs) for my long run if I don't want to do the same loop over and over! I usually run through the parkways, so I will run against traffic so I "even" out my hips on the way back! I've found that if I don't make an effort to "even out," my knee on one side will start to bug me. I wish there were more trails close by. I really enjoy trail running and I don't have to worry about "evening out" part way through the run. We're a couple of months away from having any open trails though. We just got another snow storm come blowing through last night. Kind of strange we're getting so much snow now, especially since we had a very mild winter. |
| 2010-04-06 10:59 AM in reply to: #2770661 |
| Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team rnihill - 2010-04-06 5:59 AM What I really think I am going to do today is come up with a plan for my swim session tonight. I could swim the same pace forever and ever... And I am never going to speed it up without some sets of sprints, etc. Plus, I'm getting bored in the pool. So, in order to keep me from getting bored at work, my goal today is to come up with a fun plan for the pool tonight! I posted this last month and some people really liked it. So, I will share again: http://www.ntcmastersswim.blogspot.com/ I've been following plan "b." It can be challenging at times. |
| 2010-04-06 11:02 AM in reply to: #2770509 |
| Elite 3460 Slackerville, USA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team wgraves7582 - 2010-04-06 5:49 AM tri808 - 2010-04-06 4:59 AM I think I would love to be a pro baseball player. I like to laugh and goof off, so baseball provides enough breaks during the game where you can do so...while in the dugout, etc. I'm not as interested in playing sports like football where you have to be so intense all the time. I think being a pro golfer would be fun too...but honestly, I don't like the stress of trying to shoot low. I just like to go out there and hit the ball...if I hit it in the lake...ahhh...whatever...give me another beer. LOL - great attitude Jay. Go for it!!! Travel isn't a big thing for me any more. I used to travel for work and it gets old after a while. My wife loved it because she would go to see the sights while I was at work. |
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| Elite 3460 Slackerville, USA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team wgraves7582 - 2010-04-06 5:56 AM tri808 - 2010-04-06 4:53 AM If you could be a professional athlete in any sport...which would it be? Hmmmmmm - Golfer I guess because it is one against the field and the course. Guess that is why I would be called an introvert If it were just me on the course, then I could relax and enjoy and feel like its me against the course. That doesn't usually work out unless you sneak on a course at night, which is a lot of fun if you don't get caught. Typically there are a lot of other people standing around waiting for you which makes me tense and there goes my game. |
| 2010-04-06 11:10 AM in reply to: #2771133 |
| Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team TElenor - 2010-04-06 8:27 AM Hi A-Teamers! I just wanted to say that I had a really great swim in the pool this morning! I did my first interval workout (not pushing hard enough apparently, since I didn't feel like puking ), 8x100 with warmup, drills, and a leisurely cooldown. My fastest 100 clocked in at 1:24, and I managed to keep the other 7 no slower than 1:30! I'm pretty happy about that, especially since I'm still getting into swimming shape. I haven't figured out what my goal should be down the road, but now I at least have something to work from.On a completely different note, I've been pondering something that I thought I might as well throw out to all of you. As you may have guessed from my puny post-count, I'm very new to BT and to triathlons in general. I've since come to wonder; do most of you more experienced folks do double workouts in a day? I see a lot of "I swam this morning, getting on the trainer this afternoon..." and the such. It makes sense to double up in a day, I think, but I've been wondering how to structure it. Double up one or two days a week, or more? Hard workout in the morning, easy in the afternoon? Two relatively easy workouts? One long, one short? Just curious what my fellow teammates are up to... First, you should be very pleased with those 100s. Those are good times! As for the training, the only workouts I double up on a normal basis is swim plus a run or bike. I find this less stressful on my body than brick workouts (bike, run, ick). I only do bricks a couple times a month and keep them very small in distance, usually around 20 bike and 3-5 run. I definately avoid double runs. Hope that helps. |
| 2010-04-06 11:10 AM in reply to: #2770661 |
| Elite 3460 Slackerville, USA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team rnihill - 2010-04-06 6:59 AM What I really think I am going to do today is come up with a plan for my swim session tonight. I could swim the same pace forever and ever... And I am never going to speed it up without some sets of sprints, etc. Plus, I'm getting bored in the pool. So, in order to keep me from getting bored at work, my goal today is to come up with a fun plan for the pool tonight! Now that sounds like a cool job. Planning your workouts and exercising. |
| 2010-04-06 11:11 AM in reply to: #2770647 |
| Elite 3460 Slackerville, USA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team rnihill - 2010-04-06 6:52 AM tri808 - 2010-04-06 4:53 AM If you could be a professional athlete in any sport...which would it be? Does it have to be a sport where there are real professional teams now? I completely suck at volleyball but I would say beach volleyball. Anything that would get me on the beach everyday. In my opinion, it doesn't get any better than sand between the toes and not having to get dressed up everyday. I used to tell my mom when I was growing up that I wanted to be a professional beach bum when I grew up. She was thrilled. Didn't think about volleyball. That's something that would be fun to do for a living. |
| 2010-04-06 11:13 AM in reply to: #2771194 |
| Master 1887 Brentwood, CA | Subject: RE: The "A" Team wgraves7582 - 2010-04-06 8:46 AM brick94513 - 2010-04-06 11:44 AM kimk - 2010-04-06 4:19 AM brick94513 - 2010-04-05 2:23 PM Well I was planning on a road ride this morning, but my wife left my tights in the washer! Errrrrr.... So, changed the plan and went for a little run. Pace was pretty pedestrian. My legs are still sore from running stairs three days ago. Planning on taking the boys to the movies later, baseball practice, then hopefully to the pool for my first swim of the month. come on now...at least she washed them and didn't put them in the dryer! I always have to look at the positives when it comes to laundry! Hubby tries to help....I went through so many clothes that he either shrank or dyed a different color! BUT he tried! He is so much better and now nothing of mine goes in the dryer!I knew one of the ladies would stick up for her! I didn't even touch it and I admire your courage by posting that - LOL Morning Tim! Morning Bill! Just got caught up on the thread. Us left coasters are at a disadvantage here. Its hard enough to keep up with you, but especially when you have a three hour head start! Edited by brick94513 2010-04-06 11:14 AM |
| 2010-04-06 11:13 AM in reply to: #2771024 |
| Master 2042 Albany, NY | Subject: RE: The "A" Team yogachic - 2010-04-06 10:58 AM rnihill - 2010-04-06 7:59 AM What I really think I am going to do today is come up with a plan for my swim session tonight. I could swim the same pace forever and ever... And I am never going to speed it up without some sets of sprints, etc. Plus, I'm getting bored in the pool. So, in order to keep me from getting bored at work, my goal today is to come up with a fun plan for the pool tonight! Rhoda, have you checked out swimplan.com? You enter in your time for a certain distance (I forget, it's either 100 or 500) then it spits out a workout for you to do. You could do a different workout every day if you want! Ooooh! I love it. Thanks! |
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