New Year New You...reopened for late comers (Page 26)

Originally posted by pvfd304

Any time you PR, it's a job well done. I figure I keep getting older each year, so one year this PR stuff has to slow down.

Originally posted by kturnity

Hey everyone!

I have good news and bad news on the training front.

Good news - I swam a mile straight the other day for the first time and it felt great. I felt like I could have kept going. I've also managed to drop more time off my 100s and be able to hold it through 10 of them straight. So I'm feeling pretty good on the swim.

Bad news - I hurt my foot on a hiking trip about a week and a half ago (and then hiked a solid 20 miles on it over the next 2 days). I was hoping I had just twisted it or overused it and it would go away, but no such luck. I tried wrapping and icing it, but the compression just made it worse. That and the big lump on the side of my foot have convinced me I need to go get it checked out. I'm hoping it's nothing too bad since I have less than 4 weeks until my first sprint. Guess I'll just have to wait and see what the doc says. Fingers crossed!

Hope everyone else's training is going well!
KT

Originally posted by Wumba41

Hi folks

My apologies, had a tough few weeks, daughter in and out of hospital, had to get a new job, suffered another injury setback and so on! Hope you are all good and happy to pick up and start posting again, looks like David is doing a great job as usual on here!

Originally posted by pvfd304

2nd race of the year on Sat. Wish me luck. I went swimming on Wed and my calf cramped really bad while jumping out of the pool. It has been sore ever since. Did an equipment check ride of 19 miles today and it seemed to help loosen things up some. I think I'll be ok in the swim and bike but pushing off while running may be an issue.

Don't think this will be a fast race this time. Just going out to have fun.

Originally posted by pvfd304

2nd race of the year on Sat. Wish me luck. I went swimming on Wed and my calf cramped really bad while jumping out of the pool. It has been sore ever since. Did an equipment check ride of 19 miles today and it seemed to help loosen things up some. I think I'll be ok in the swim and bike but pushing off while running may be an issue.

Don't think this will be a fast race this time. Just going out to have fun.

Originally posted by pvfd304

Had a great race. Took some Tylenol and Goody's this morning to help me though. Did a 18 mile equipment check on the bike on Friday and that seemed to help more than anything. I never bother me all day so I guess something worked,

Still waiting on my times to be posted so I'll update the race log when I get all the times. Race felt good though.

Our Tri club had about 10 members there so it was nice to see a friendly face on the course and cheer each other on.

In other news, got to take my new road bike out for a spin today after the race. Bought a Cervelo S2. This is my first carbon bike and I'm very impressed with it so far.

Originally posted by RobR

well done Katie, your progress in the swim has been amazing! Hope the foot is getting better!

Originally posted by RobR

sounds like it went well. That's great!

post a picture of your new bike when you get a chance!

Originally posted by kturnity



One other question: as far as warming up before a tri, what do you all do? I've realized over the last couple weeks that I struggle through the first couple hundred yards of a swim while I'm still warming up. I know I can't swim a warm up before the race, so any ideas to get me going would be helpful.

Originally posted by RobR

2 weeks to go until my first sprint tri. I spectated at the first local tri of the season last week and it was so awesome I can't wait to compete! What a buzz! There was everything from people who did not look good in lycra to world class athletes on show! Swim was in 15c water so I'm glad I was only watching! But watching the whole transition process was really useful and I feel comfortable doing that now.

So this is where I'm at;

swim - improving all the time and happy that it takes a year to be a good swimmer because after 6 months I am certainly not one! lol. But I can swim 750m in one stretch but I have to mix in breaststroke to get it done. My wetsuit is on order and will hopefully be here ready for an OW swim next saturday.

bike - probably my strongest discipline now. My rides have been strong and I'm learning to handle the aero position of the tri bike. It sure gives you a stiff next the first few times. Had a flat and managed to fix it so got some practice in that too.

run - it's been a defensive / avoid injury strategy. I don't have great mileage built up because of injuries earlier this yar but I've been successful in avoiding them in the last 6 weeks so I feel I can get the 6k done on the day. Tried a brick workout the other day and it proved to me that I'm going to have to take the first 5 mins of the run easy.

so this is it, the long winter months of training are behind us and we're racing at last. Good luck everyone with their events!

Originally posted by pvfd304

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