GordoByrn's Group Full for the Spring (Page 26)

Hey Justin and Matthew, you both have young kids - they will not be young for long and soon you will only see them for a few minutes in the car, or when they are asking you for money :-) Then there will be more time for training. In the meantime you do what you can do. When I was working, early early morning workouts were what worked best for the family. BTW you are both employed which is very cool: if I were employed it would be a. really. good. thing; as that is not the situation there's all this time to train. So that's good for my fitness but not so good for our checkbook. Justin, my kids have been blessed with some excellent coaches who have taught them so much more than the game of soccer. It's a wonderful thing that you do.

Good luck to our racers this weekend. Locally there are a couple huge tris this weekend and I seem to be wishing folks 'good luck!' left and right. Myself, this weekend will be Big Training Day for my Olympic in three weeks. And about which I have a question, Gordo: I can do this BTD starting at noon (race would be early morning start, of course) but with giant T1 and T2's - meaning, I will have to drive from the pool to a place to ride (20 minutes at least) and likewise to a place to run. OR I can do it all indoors with T1 & 2 being just a couple minutes. Is that a better way to do this, and to get a feel of the sustained level of effort a 3+ hour race will take?

I did a BTD in June with the giant T1 & 2 - it was fine, no particular fatigue until a few days later, but mild. Of course, it was not at race pace.

Oh and as I am not yet up to a 6 mile run in my return to running after injury, I will run the prescribed 4 miles, but add about twenty minutes to the bike to compensate. Make sense?

Hi All!

I'm officially a half ironman!  A 6:22 gave me #2 AG which is really remarkable....the beauty of small races.  This was the swim right before we started, pretty amazing.  Swim went well and I stuck to the bike plan G layed out which meant slowing down the pace, but today the run was my undoing.  Yeah, the course was tough, but I got such stomach pains from swallowing air on the swim that I ended up walking many, many times. My legs felt great, but the rest of me felt like crap. Not defeated, even more determined.  Signing up for IM WI on Monday after volunteering all day tomorrow.

G--I know I asked you once before about the swallowing air thing, but your advice of "dont swallow air" doesn't seem to get me to stop doing it.  Any other ideas? maybe breathe less often? currently breathing every right stroke.  Seems to get worse on the bike when consuming Perpeteum, maybe diluting the protein to aid digestion?

Congrats Suzy! That was a hilly course, too? I used to have the swallowing air issue too when I started swimming. I don't know why and I don't know why it's stopped - perhaps I'm more relaxed now when I swim? Sorry that's not much help, I know. Good job girlfriend on executing the race according to the best of your ability given the circumstances. - B

Got my big race tomorrow, first time for International distance. It's gonna be sunny and 79 degrees.  I feel quite prepared and ready, even though there were some bumps in training this summer that will reduce my ability to run at my best. I've debated strategies, either going all out on the bike and jogging the run, or pacing the bike for an optimal run. Whatever way it happens, the swim will be at my go forever pace, draft off my super fast friends best as I can and stay on course.

Happy to have been sharing some of my runs with my kids. My nine year old son particularly loves the trails, he's an animal out there, keeps going and going. Until he's done and I have to practically carry him home.

What's everyone got in mind for the off season? Gordo I'll check in with you and take a peek at how your Silverman training is going, I'm sure you are rockin it. Take care all.

One more thing... I know that one of the major de-motivators for me is lack of sleep.  I have been waking at 3 or 4AM every night and can't fall back.  It's exhausting (especially when going to bed at 10 or 1030 the night before)...  Happened last night as well.  I was all set to ride this morning but am just exhausted. 

Hope everyone has a great weekend -- and Babs, kick BUTT at your Oly!

Ken