jsiegs and slornow's Train Hard and Have Fun group - CLOSED for Training (Page 26)

@Matt - how do I get my husband to say the same thing to me?! 'Help me spend my money' I'm sure he wishes I would QUIT spending his money, ha!

Sorry, I have no advice for you!

@Randy - good luck this weekend!!

Had Tri Training this morning. The run felt great, but right at the end I ran out of steam. I know I had a tiny bit left to finish my all of 2 miles... but I just couldn't do it. We are supposed to go out easy and come back harder on the finish. I did mine in reverse. *thumbs down*

Tomorrow I'm going for a short ride. I was going to do a group thing, but we had something come up with family so I'm just going to go out early and get a few miles in.

Sunday will be a day of rushing to complete this remodel before next weekend. Sigh. I'll be SO happy when this is done!

Hope you all have a GREAT weekend!!

Randy and Deb-Good luck this weekend.  I'll be anxious to hear if you meet your secret goals.

Matt-I love spending other people's money! I have a Fizik Arione Tri 2.  It is uncomfortable when i'm in my aero bars for an extended period of time.  I'm guessing men and women would be different as far as what is comfortable.  I saw Fizik has a women's saddle I'd like to try.  But....my husband doesn't share your "help me spend my money" idea.

I'm going to try to get in a long run tomorrow.  Sunday I'm doing a group swim/bike/run.  It's a 1500 meter open water swim, 14 mile bike, 3 mile run.  Should be fun.  I'm doing it with a couple of girlfriends.  They are not comfortable in the open water, so I agreed to swim with them.  I'm going to try to go all out for the bike and run.  They are way faster runners than I am.  Hoping to keep up with them.

Are Randy and Deb the only ones racing this weekend?  Good luck if I missed anyone.

Christy

I found a new recovery food.  Homemade whole wheat bread with Justin's chocolate hazelnut butter on top.  It has WAY less sugar than Nutella and I think it's just as yummy. 

What's your favorite recovery food?

slornow - 2011-06-04 11:27 AM Hey folks-had a good race today.  My "secret" goal was sub 1:25.  I finished in 1:20:31.  Very pleased.  Really wanted to finish in top 3 in age group.  Would have won the age group by 3 minutes last year with that time.  This year there were some really strong racers and I finished 5/47 in AG. Was 32/550 overall.  Can't control who shows up only what I do.  Really hit the bike hard and looking at prelim numbers I avg between 23.4-24mph over 18 miles.  Looking forward to the race splits being posted to see how I did for s/b/r.

Recovery food??-so far today I have been very fond of cold beer. Not sure that helps with recovery but helps on so many other fronts.  

More later time to clean up..Thanks to everyone for their support and encouragement.

Randy

WOW!! Beating your goal by 5 min is awesome; even if it didn't get you in the top 3.   I love a recovery beer as well .

Beer and nutella...you're a genius!

slornow - 2011-06-05 6:08 PM Hey-kind of quiet here today.  Hope everyone is getting in some good training/racing.  We had rain here (.25 inch) for the first time in 3+ weeks.  Yeah!!! Was able to get in a ride and some yard work this morning.  Then a nap this afternoon. 

I am going to try and attach a pic of my bike in race mode. It is not what I started with 2 years ago.  My tolerant wife of 20+ years suggested that I get a new one over the Christmas holidays since we have 2 entering college in the next 2 years it was likely then or 5-6 years from now.  I have to say that it has been great motivation to ride.  Frankly, it is a much nicer bike than I deserve.  But, I have trained extra hard to "justify" having such a nice bike.  Don't want to be the guy that people pass on the bike leg saying "Why does that slow old guy have such a nice bike?"

Randy  

Nice bike!  I feel the same about mine.  It's WAY too nice for me.  But my husband got a bonus from work earlier this year and was nice enough to get me a bike .   I figure now I have no excuses. 

I had a crazy day.  Went to an organized swim/bike/run with some friends.  One friend had a really hard time in the water.  I "swam" with her the whole time.  My other friend hit a rock on her bike and went over her handle bars.  It was her first time riding on the road.  She was pretty beat up.  Needless to say, there was no running.    Both of them are new to tris.  I hope this doesn't ruin it for them.  It did reaffirm the fact that the tri community is awesome.  Everyone was so helpful.  Tons of people stopped to help my friend who crashed.  There were people there cleaning the gravel out of her scrapes. Everyone was great. 

Hope you guys had less eventful training this weekend.

Christy

Here's a picture of my friends crash.

The picture is too big. 

Wow Randy! Nice bike. No wonder you are clocking in with 24mph averages!

I did my second triathlon of the year yesterday. Only a sprint again. This is the link to my race log:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=255202&posts=1&start=1

I was pretty pleased with the day. I came 4th out of 209 and was the first novice! My aim was to break 1hr 4mins overall and also break 20mins on the run. Disappointed not to reach my goals but it was raining all day so maybe that hindered me because the run was on grass.

I really want to do open water triathlons at a standard distance but have looked at hiring or buying a wet-suit and it's not cheap... Being a student I am pretty strapped for cash so parting with £100 ($160-170) seems alot when i could enter three sprint triathlons for the same price....

What are your guy's thoughts on this?

James

That is awesome!  It seems like giving up 30 seconds on the run wouldn't be too big a deal if you increased your bike speed that much.  Congrats on a great race.

Looks like you had a good race.  Nothing you can do about rain and running on the grass. I'd be THRILLED if I ran that fast!

I'd say wait on the wetsuit.  You won't be a student forever! 

Christy

slornow - 2011-06-04 12:27 PM Hey folks-had a good race today.  My "secret" goal was sub 1:25.  I finished in 1:20:31.  Very pleased.  Really wanted to finish in top 3 in age group.  Would have won the age group by 3 minutes last year with that time.  This year there were some really strong racers and I finished 5/47 in AG. Was 32/550 overall.  Can't control who shows up only what I do.  Really hit the bike hard and looking at prelim numbers I avg between 23.4-24mph over 18 miles.  Looking forward to the race splits being posted to see how I did for s/b/r.

Recovery food??-so far today I have been very fond of cold beer. Not sure that helps with recovery but helps on so many other fronts.  

More later time to clean up..Thanks to everyone for their support and encouragement.

Randy

GREAT JOB!  congrads on personal goal..  Bring on the beer!

Randy - you are SICK with bike times that fast, way to go!

Hi all!  Great weekend for racing! Congrads to all who had a great race or training this weekend, keep up the good work!

I did the Naples Fitness Challenge in Naples Florida, had my best time in years!  Really excited about the run.  It was a sprint tri, so I did not know how fast I was going to be.  My goal was an hour and I missed it by 1 minute and 16 seconds UUUUUGGGGHHHH!  Next year I will break that hour mark.

Here are the stats:

Hi all. Great job Randy and great bike! Wowser! I had an interesting and enlightening first open water. My son raced in the regular sprint so I had someone to keep me company for a while. It was hard waiting to be the last group getting in the water.

We swam in a small, private lake surrounded by office buildings and a concrete wall. We were told to sit on the wall and sort of slide into the water. It was about 3' deep at the wall. There were 28 women and 29 men. Half of us chose to get a little deeper at the start buoy and tread water and the other half stayed in the shallow until start time. We had a five minute wait after we got in before starting.

At the gun start, I felt pretty confident and started out. About 2 seconds into the race, I had the thought of swimming across to where my husband was sitting and quit. Eeeegaads! I can do this! It is only 300 yards and I have practiced it many times in our lake. I did NOT count on the many slapping bodies of all those yellow hatted people, though! Wow! Kicks I avoided but they were everywhere! I felt like a sardine. Halfway to our first buoy, my goggles fogged so bad I could barely see. After just passing the buoy, they started to leak...these are $37 AquaSpheres that shouldn't be doing this!

I am chugging down lake water and blind and have to stop to try and sight or see what the heck is going on two or three times. I try to fix my goggles and blindly swim on. The whole time, I am thinking I am way out of my league! What was I thinking? The last 25 yards, I put my goggles on top of my head because I couldn't see. When I saw the finish was so close, I stuck them back on and swam for it. I finally made it and climbed up a steep set of carpet covered iron rails put in for us. Needless to say, I was very shaky leaving the swim but ran WAY BACK to the area set aside in transition for the newbies. The good news is I swam 300 yards like that in 5:55 with a less than 2:00 pace per hundred and the first two tris (in pools) I did were 9:00 and 10:00 respectively.

I was so nervous and frazzled, I decided to put my shoes on without socks and tried to take the bike rack with me when I pulled my bike off. Took me an extra few seconds to get the bike off finally, but I slow jogged out of transition in about two minutes. The bike course was hilly and it was hot, but I pushed as hard as I could and my 12 mile pace was 16.7 mph. I was very pleased with this as my previous two tris were 49 and 47 min and I did this in 43.

The run was rough and it was only two miles for us newbies. The course was a long, relatively flat one. A couple of false hills and one hill with a little size. The problem was you could see a long way up the course and it looked like it would take forever! No nice winding thru the woods. Just miles of concrete highway up ahead. I think I sort of defeated myself on the run. I ended up doing 10.17 min. miles which is my worse ever. 9:20 has been my best so far on a 5K.

I am happy with my 6th place out of 28 women, though! I was the oldest by far! I learned alot and have some things to work on. It is the day after, and I am not sore or exhausted! I can do this and get better!!

I do have a question for everyone. What kind of goggles do you use? Do you put a defogger on them? Do you spit in them? How do you clean them and any help for getting them on correctly so they don't leak??!!

Super Job!   congrads!  Glad you did not give up!