Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 255)

Yeah, I'm a bit of a mess - but that's fine, I'm used to it by now. 

First time I broke my back I was 12/13 years old at gymnastics practice and doing handstands on a set of uneven parallel bars when the cables holding the bars up snapped and I landed on my back on a mini rebounder trampoline that had been bolted into the ground.  That's the one that caused my spondy and sciatica:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondylolisthesis  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatica

The second time was in 2006 while snowboarding up on Whistler and I got cut off by a kid that was out of control, caught my heel edge and got tossed into the trees.  Thankfully I have no recollection of the trip down the mountain on the spine-board, and was given fantastic drugs while in the hospital recovering! 

I seem to have one speed..  I can't help it.    

Just to clarify, when I say "hard run" - I mean that it hurt like hell because I rode 50 miles before my 7 mile run.  I did not mean that I ran "hard".  

I do not mess with intervals, fartleks, sprints, speed days or the like.  I pretty much just always run at about an 8:30 to 8:45 pace while training.  It doesn't matter if it's 10 miles or 5 miles... I always seem to run that pace (without trying to).  

Sometimes that pace is way "harder" than other times - but my legs just always carry me at that pace.  Is that a problem?  

I do notice that when the legs hurt, I shorten my stride and pick up my cadence.  When they feel good, I tend to run with a longer stride, but at a shorter cadence.  

OK  - time for a training related post that's not about eye boogers.  

A little while back - someone (I can't remember who) posted that you should do bricks once in a while but to not go crazy with them.  

Why not?  

In my training plan - I have 3 days per week that have both rides AND runs scheduled.  I do every single one of those days as a brick.  

Weekly looks like this:

Monday - Medium bike - I usually push this bike ride pretty hard as the legs are fresh and it's a bike ONLY day.  

Tuesday - Short bike - Long run (Brick) I do this as an "easy" ride.

Wednesday - Off (to rest & recover from long run)

Thursday - Medium Bike - Short Run (Brick) I usually ride this pretty hard (hard means high cadence up hills - push it.. slightly higher heart rate)

Friday - Swim - Run (I often skip this swim day)

Saturday - Long Bike - Medium Run (Brick) I try to simulate race conditions on this day - push the bike a bit hard, see what's left in the tank for the run.

Sunday - Swim only - (to rest my legs)

Putting this in for a team 2015....

God you move soooooo slow.

Now if you get hitched in WA or in Bali or hell even in Jakarta - it's a short trip for me and I will endeavour to be there.  need me to frock up bridesmaid style - I can do that!

Chocolate cake is not workout fuel. Don't ask how I know this.

Carry On.

Neither are spaghetti or any form of Mexican......past experience.

Mine too, but not before I run!

Those pictures you posted were gorgeous!

I like the idea of doing something with the husband post race that he likes to do.....they really do get bored at tris.

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by jobaxas

Originally posted by TriAya

Originally posted by bcraht

Originally posted by TriAya

I feel like I have some important news to share ... durrrrrr travel coma ... oh yeah!

The King Man is moving in in March. If we haven't dental-flossed each other by April, including on a long Third-world style road trip out to the prawn farms (YES I REALLY AM A SHRIMP FARMER), we'll probably get hitched.

Wait, wait, wait.  Fer real?  Congratulations, that is happy news!!

Very much so.

The visiting schedule is as follows

He's in Indonesia Oct 17-23 (Mutti's birthday)
in Bali Nov. 22-25
I'm in Western Australia Dec. 5-19 (IMWA)
and Feb. 13-26 (Rottnest Channel Swim, trying to get a spot in a duo/team or will just sherpa for him)
Then mid-March he arrives here.

Putting this in for a team 2015....

mmmm a team in 2015 I might be interested in that...maybe

This guy is probably similar standard to me too - then we thought we'd try and get Macca on the team or Brenton Ford - so we hardly have to swim at all!  LOL

Hahaha! Way to throw that into our day

(no judgment on my tardiness here, Pod! My timing on most things today has been less than stellar.)

Love it!!

Sorry I have been absent.  I am in the middle of a pity party. 

Injured again.   Running and MCM training was going so good.  I felt like I was back to 80% of where I was a year ago.  Not any more. 

Tried running yesterday and it scared me.  I went from 0 to 10 on my pain in 0.39 miles.   I had pushed it to 1.2 miles on Sunday so I was hopeful I was on the mend.  I went to the sports med doc finally to rule out a stress fx (mostly because I was scared that if it was fractured I'd do more damage and end up with pins).  He did not see a stress fx on plain x-ray but diagnosed it as tensor fascia strain with hip flexor and IS inflammation.   He did some balance testing and I failed totally.  Physical therapy 3x/week for 4-6 weeks.  No running. 

Well now that is just BS!

Bricks are harder on you than doing these as separate workouts. If you need to do this for scheduling purposes, then go right ahead as it's better to get it in than not so long as you're not doing too much overall.

Heresy!!!

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by jobaxas

Originally posted by TriAya

Originally posted by bcraht

Originally posted by TriAya

I feel like I have some important news to share ... durrrrrr travel coma ... oh yeah!

The King Man is moving in in March. If we haven't dental-flossed each other by April, including on a long Third-world style road trip out to the prawn farms (YES I REALLY AM A SHRIMP FARMER), we'll probably get hitched.

Wait, wait, wait.  Fer real?  Congratulations, that is happy news!!

Very much so.

The visiting schedule is as follows

He's in Indonesia Oct 17-23 (Mutti's birthday)
in Bali Nov. 22-25
I'm in Western Australia Dec. 5-19 (IMWA)
and Feb. 13-26 (Rottnest Channel Swim, trying to get a spot in a duo/team or will just sherpa for him)
Then mid-March he arrives here.

Putting this in for a team 2015....

mmmm a team in 2015 I might be interested in that...maybe

Whoops.

A serious accident involving all of my fingers means I will also be in Perf Sep 12-18.

So how far away are you?

I have a couple questions for someone else, really just to run a couple things by the group here. My sister is going to run her first event this weekend (a sprint) and is nothing like me, going to just complete and will likely be more in the back of the pack. I'm actually the same size as say Jesse Thomas. She's similar to but still smaller than someone like Lauren Goss, or maybe Jesse's wife Lauren Fleshman. The two questions come in for the warm-up. Normally I would be all for getting into the water some to get going. The water itself should be fine, but air temps at the time are likely to be in the mid-50's. Her wave is also 35 minutes after the first, so would be 40 minutes or more of being wet in those temps.

I'm actually thinking of having her skip warming up in the water and doing things on land. She did gymnastics as a kid and maintains some activities, so between that and what I know, should have her ready to go there. Then get as wet as possible while walking in to start to get past the shock of being wet at that point (water is expected to be nice). Waiting a bit for that to wear off if necessary before diving in to start swimming. My concern with getting into the water is even with having warmer stuff to put on after getting into the water, she'll still be wet in colder air temps. I notice this in these kind of temps and she's substantially smaller than I am, so it can take more out of her. Potentially a lot more. She can be tough when needed and has dealt with colder water then she'll see and colder air temps growing up, I'd still rather put her in the best position to get through this. I know better than to guess at a girl's weight, but she really is close to as trim as the two Lauren's mentioned. I know what to wear on the bike, but wanted second opinions on the swim approach as it's a different world for her having so much less mass than I do. She'll have warm stuff to wear, but it's just different being wet for so long even with that available, so I'd rather avoid that for as long as possible.

Also thinking of the safest thing to have for nutrition. And that is confirming what tends to safest for people to try in general, not ideas to try as I know of a bazillion things to use. She didn't think of that at all in training as sessions were short, but I'm guessing this will take in the neighborhood of 1:45 with more potential to go over than under. Generally she can eat anything I can plus more. Powerbar comes to mind as it's easy to find and does work ok for me. A gel or bar she likes the flavor of could tape to the bike and just peel off as necessary. She doesn't have pockets and I don't want to confuse her any more with various bike pouches (yeah, she's really not like me).

I know none of this is really ideal, but she tends to wing it a lot more than I do, somehow seems to get just enough direction to avoid disasters.