Mndymond and Disturbed275's Awesome SBR Group--- Phase 2--CLOSED! (Page 26)

disturbed275 - 2012-06-02 5:21 PM

First time in the wetsuit? How did it go?

disturbed275 - 2012-06-02 5:40 PMI had another race today.  It was a 20k in Des Moines which is touted as America's largest 20k probably because it is such and odd distance.  Anyway, I had a great race and for the first time this year felt like things really came together.  I ran a 1:24:36 which was good enough for 177th out of about 7000 people.  It was a 4.5 minute PR over when I ran it last four years ago and a great confidence booster in terms of feeling I may actually be able to qualify for Boston later this year.  I celebrated with ginormous steak for dinner and a a few founder's IPAs to wash it down

kevinbe - 2012-06-03 10:12 AM

Just got back from longest ride to date.  38 miles!  No flats!  In fact, I just finished week 1 of bike focussed week, got 110 miles logged this week, and spent quite a bit of time on the HIM course I will be riding in August.  A solid week for me.  Next week is pretty much a repeat of this week to make up for all the biking I missed on my plan while training for marathon.

Summer weather has finally arrived, It's great to be alive!

Qua17 - 2012-05-30 8:05 PM

Hey Missy - Glad to hear you made the most of your weekend!  Sure it didn't work out like you planned - but your still found a way to make it happen while having a good time with friends.  What were you drinking on Saturday night?  I ask because I'm thinking of heading out to Chicago to take my son to a game at wrigley field and want to stop and grab some good beer made out that way...  Any favorites you would care to recommend?

So glad to hear that the plantar is getting better!

Qua17 - 2012-05-30 8:14 PM

I went for a ride today and was pleased by my pace... I've been getting faster (just shy of 16 mph)... I just need to keep up the progress and the speed will eventually come.  Anyone have any suggestions on how to get faster?  Right now I'm doing a bunch of hills and lactate threshold workouts.  What else should I be trying?

rydergal - 2012-05-31 11:34 PM

Thanks! Race went good! First time in a 50m pool, actually liked it better! Kind of got into the rythm of things instead of stop start all the time.  Probably the best organized swim start I have been in as well! ....I left the garmin at home so transition times would be faster rather then fumbling with it's buttons.... instead I just wore a normal watch and timed the whole race....

I really though my run was sucky by perception, just wasn't feeling great in it and then I get my race results and ran one of the fastest 8km's I ever have! that was awesome!! (the course had to of been short

I Managed to do some shopping in Edmonton, got some new bike shoes! Hoping these ones will work! I was getting numb toes in my last 2 pairs, but this pair is nice and wide so hopefully will be much better! Got a 90km ride planned for tomorrow so that will be a good test!

yogachic - 2012-06-04 6:35 AM

Hey!  Sorry, I was road-tripping all week, so I'm just seeing this now!  Am I too late?

Saturday for my friend's going away party, we were at Haymarket Brewery.... I was drinking mostly the Rubber Monkey, which is a collaboration beer between Haymarket and Greenbush.  Greenbush is one of the breweries I visited in Michigan when I road tripped up there last month!  I think it was a Belgian IPA. 

My favorite regular beer at Haymarket is the Mathias, which is an Imperial IPA.  But one of the reasons I like Haymarket so much is that you can get any beer in a 4oz pour, so you can try as many of them as you want before committing.  At the going away party, a couple of friends decided to order all the beers as 4oz so they could try them all and see which one they wanted a bigger glass of!

Closer to Wrigley, Goose Island is just around the corner (3535 N Clark).  I think my favorite of theirs (besides the Bourbon County Stout which is seasonal so unavailable currently) is either the Matilda or Pere Jacques.

 

FWIW, my favorite beers are Stouts, IPAs, and Belgians so that may be affecting my suggestions!  Both Goose Island and Haymarket have plenty of beers for all palettes!  

Moonrocket - 2012-06-03 12:53 PM Yes, it was my first time in my wetsuit. It was pretty akward at first. The whole bug stuck on top of the water feeling. My arms felt like they were working way too hard. After my third quarter mile loop I stopped and did some serious wetsuit stretching and re-arranging. I hiked up the ATMs quite a bit. After that I felt a whole lot better in the water. It was a good lesson for how far I really need to get the arms pulled up. I'm going to do a stroke and stride on Thursday and hopefully one more open water swim before my race in two weeks. Do new wetsuits stretch out at all, or will it always be a huge wrestling match to get it on right?

yogachic - 2012-06-03 8:01 PM

Ok, I'm caught up in the thread, but don't have the time to reply to everything individually!  Congrats to everyone who races this week! 

I was a complete sloth during my road trip!  My friend who I'd helped move has a tendency to always be running late, so we ended up getting started late every day, which meant driving late at night, getting to the next place late, sleeping in, and repeating.  So I didn't get any workouts in at all (besides physically helping my friend move her stuff into her new apartment in Texas).  BUT!  I did get to visit a brewery in Memphis and tried out some Texas beers while I was in Dallas and Austin.  Fun trip, but totally unproductive in terms of tri training! 

I tried to make up for my slothiness during my trip by going on a long bike ride today.  I was only planning on 50, but it was a nice day and I felt good, so ended up doing 68!  Yikes, we'll see if I'm sore tomorrow!  I kept a pretty consistent pace throughout the ride, and the only thing bothering me at the end was my neck and shoulders (heavy head??)  I guess this is my real test of whether my PF is going to continue to be a nuisance!

disturbed275 - 2012-06-02 6:40 PM I had another race today.  It was a 20k in Des Moines which is touted as America's largest 20k probably because it is such and odd distance.  Anyway, I had a great race and for the first time this year felt like things really came together.  I ran a 1:24:36 which was good enough for 177th out of about 7000 people.  It was a 4.5 minute PR over when I ran it last four years ago and a great confidence booster in terms of feeling I may actually be able to qualify for Boston later this year.  I celebrated with ginormous steak for dinner and a a few founder's IPAs to wash it down

kevinbe - 2012-06-03 11:12 AM

Just got back from longest ride to date.  38 miles!  No flats!  In fact, I just finished week 1 of bike focussed week, got 110 miles logged this week, and spent quite a bit of time on the HIM course I will be riding in August.  A solid week for me.  Next week is pretty much a repeat of this week to make up for all the biking I missed on my plan while training for marathon.

Summer weather has finally arrived, It's great to be alive!

Moonrocket - 2012-06-03 1:53 PM Yes, it was my first time in my wetsuit. It was pretty akward at first. The whole bug stuck on top of the water feeling. My arms felt like they were working way too hard. After my third quarter mile loop I stopped and did some serious wetsuit stretching and re-arranging. I hiked up the ATMs quite a bit. After that I felt a whole lot better in the water. It was a good lesson for how far I really need to get the arms pulled up. I'm going to do a stroke and stride on Thursday and hopefully one more open water swim before my race in two weeks. Do new wetsuits stretch out at all, or will it always be a huge wrestling match to get it on right?

yogachic - 2012-06-03 9:01 PM

Ok, I'm caught up in the thread, but don't have the time to reply to everything individually!  Congrats to everyone who races this week! 

I was a complete sloth during my road trip!  My friend who I'd helped move has a tendency to always be running late, so we ended up getting started late every day, which meant driving late at night, getting to the next place late, sleeping in, and repeating.  So I didn't get any workouts in at all (besides physically helping my friend move her stuff into her new apartment in Texas).  BUT!  I did get to visit a brewery in Memphis and tried out some Texas beers while I was in Dallas and Austin.  Fun trip, but totally unproductive in terms of tri training! 

I tried to make up for my slothiness during my trip by going on a long bike ride today.  I was only planning on 50, but it was a nice day and I felt good, so ended up doing 68!  Yikes, we'll see if I'm sore tomorrow!  I kept a pretty consistent pace throughout the ride, and the only thing bothering me at the end was my neck and shoulders (heavy head??)  I guess this is my real test of whether my PF is going to continue to be a nuisance!

Qua17 - 2012-06-04 7:56 PM

Bam!  Breaking a PR by four and 1/2 minutes...  Bam!!!  That is awesome - congrats on the accomplishment.  Qualifing for Boston now that would be an accomplishment.  If you make it - we will have to figure out a way to share a beer together as the start line is about 5 miles from my house.  I've been thinking about running it as a bandit next year to raise money for a hospital in the area (apologies in advance if the idea of a bandit upsets you... I don't blame you for being mad after putting in all the effort to qualify.).

The Founders IPA is in my top 5... was it the Centennial?

disturbed275 - 2012-06-04 8:28 PM

Yeah, wetsuits are always a bit of a pain to get into.  You just got to keep working the material up and it really helps to have another person to help you.

One thing I like to do is rinse the wetsuit with water about a week before I plan to use it.  I was told that a dry wetsuit will shrink a little bit (kind of like a dry sponge).  Not sure if this is true but I figure it can't hurt after storing it for awhile.

mndymond - 2012-06-04 6:59 PM Hi guys! Finally finished GIM last week!!! Yayyyyy! (still waiting on grades to make sure I passed...) started peds this morning and got in a double workout day! Haven't done that in MONTHS! In pediatric clinics all month. Only have 4 call shifts total over the next 8 weeks...and they are night float shifts! Woooo woooo! Looks like there was some good racing this weekend! Nice to see!

disturbed275 - 2012-06-02 5:40 PM I had another race today.  It was a 20k in Des Moines which is touted as America's largest 20k probably because it is such and odd distance.  Anyway, I had a great race and for the first time this year felt like things really came together.  I ran a 1:24:36 which was good enough for 177th out of about 7000 people.  It was a 4.5 minute PR over when I ran it last four years ago and a great confidence booster in terms of feeling I may actually be able to qualify for Boston later this year.  I celebrated with ginormous steak for dinner and a a few founder's IPAs to wash it down

mndymond - 2012-06-04 9:31 PMI learned some interesting tricks last summer at a day camp I went to for getting into wet suits. They suggested getting some garden gloves with the little grippies to help pull the wetsuit on without tearing and to use plastic bags to help get your feet and lower leg in. I'm fairly used to getting tight suits on from racing in swimming but if someone around is able to help I normally ask. The main thing I like to ask random strangers to help me with is to help lift the shoulders of the suit up to help relax the material. I used to find that I would start swimming and feel like the wetsuit was pulling my shoulders down and hindering my ROM. If you get someone to help I find it helps prevent that "too tight" feeling where you feel constricted. Also make sure you get the bottom as high as it will go to give your upper body more material to work with!

mndymond - 2012-06-05 1:20 PMHi dudes! Peds is awesome!!! Wooooo wooooo. I might get Thursday off! Free day off! Woooo wooooo! Haha.

Moonrocket - 2012-06-05 8:42 PM Awesome! I took today off with my husband and it was so much fun to have a random week day off. We went and rode the bike course for my tri next weekend. Then we went mountain biking. And we got in an OWS!