Slornow and Wannabefaster's Winter Group version 3-CLOSED (Page 26)

Kevin- great news about your knee. Will the weather be nice for your race this weekend?

 Bryan- Wow. You're making a lot of progress in every area. Are you taking pictures of your progress along the way? 

Blanda- glad you like to run easy. Actually I'm beginning to get use to it.

Nelson- did you get Trainer road to work? 

Nancy- hope your students do well on the test this week. 

Randee- Get well soon!!

Today was a decent day in the pool (3300 yards) and a bit of a "rest" day of sorts. We had to reschedule the bike fit for tomorrow night. Which will call for a bit of creative rearranging with the  wkt schedule tomorrow. 

Hope everyone has great week. 

Or maybe no one will say anything if they do notice!

Good luck with the bike fit.

The only other measurements that I would add probably don't apply to males. 

I measured my waist, high hip (right below waist) and lower hip (closer to butt).  The small changes in measurements add up. And it also helps when your weight might plateau or if you add more muscle. My husband is the one that suggested measuring when I first started working out and losing weight. 

Bike fit went well. Anxiously awaiting the bike recommendations from the fitter. It was a late evening. 

Rene, glad your bike fit went well! I did a Retul bike fit last year and it was extremely useful. One of the best parts was that the fitter gave me a set of stretching exercises specifically targeted for my body type. I have very tight hamstrings and ankles. But everything has loosened up quite a bit since I started doing regular stretching.

Bryan, nice job on the running improvements and weight loss -- keep it up!

Before and after pictures are very motivating. Actually, the thing that got me the most motivated occurred several years ago was when a niece told me I looked Fred Flintstone. I still think about that sometimes when I lace up my running shoes...

Everybody, please send your rain out here to California! We've got a major drought going on, and it's affecting our triathlon venues. On Saturday, I rode past a local lake used for triathlons and it was almost empty. At least there's an ocean nearby...

Randee, enjoy your vacation!

- Steve

Randee-I think doing a full marathon in May risks the remainder of your season. Everything may go wonderfully and you are able to train and race the marathon with no injuries. BUT, the recovery after a marathon is going to take some time. I think the thing to do is to prioritize the events....A, B, C etc. Then figure out what is the best way to prepare for the A race. Not to say you can't have more than one "A" race but you should train to peak for those races. No way you should do the marathon the week before the May 31st olympic. I think, if you are doing the marathon on May 25th you would need to scrap the May 18th duathlon and the May 31st oly. All of this is assuming you are talking about doing the whole 26.2 rather than a portion in a relay. My thoughts may change if we are talking about a relay. 

I think the rest of the season looks good. Nice breaks between races so that you can recover and then build.

Good morning, everyone.  About 6-8 inches of snow here so not a shut down.  It's cold, though...about 5 degrees this morning with 30+ MPH wind gusts.  Looks like another treadmill run...I could survive the cold but the footing outside is just horrible.

Monday was Bikram and a bike/run session, yesterday was a 4 mile run and ST session in the morning and an easy lunch swim (side note:  my daughter was off from school and went with me, and during our short session I've come to the sad conclusion that I can no longer train with her in the pool - I was doing 50M repeats on 1:15 and she was keeping up just using the kickboard).  This morning was a 70' Z2 trainer ride and I'll get in a run at lunch.

Hope everyone stays warm and safe.

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk

Originally posted by slornow

Randee-I think doing a full marathon in May risks the remainder of your season. Everything may go wonderfully and you are able to train and race the marathon with no injuries. BUT, the recovery after a marathon is going to take some time. I think the thing to do is to prioritize the events....A, B, C etc. Then figure out what is the best way to prepare for the A race. Not to say you can't have more than one "A" race but you should train to peak for those races. No way you should do the marathon the week before the May 31st olympic. I think, if you are doing the marathon on May 25th you would need to scrap the May 18th duathlon and the May 31st oly. All of this is assuming you are talking about doing the whole 26.2 rather than a portion in a relay. My thoughts may change if we are talking about a relay. 

I think the rest of the season looks good. Nice breaks between races so that you can recover and then build.

I agree that the marathon would blow up the schedule - I really just want to do the half that day (that's the relay) but I won't know until March 1st. Ok then so let's assume I will do either the half or just spectate and skip the full. I'm also kinda eyeing a full AFTER my HIM in Oct or Nov but I'm waiting to see how that all shakes out! Ok I updated my post My A race is the HIM in Sept. I also want to nail an Oly during the year I just wish that Rev3 was a little later in the season.

Sorry to be a wet blanket on your plans. Just my thoughts. You have alot of racing planned and I was just concerned that a full marathon would drain the tank early in the season. I like racing ALOT and think that its a good thing in the shorter distances. Keeps you sharp and familiar with the feeling of racing. I like the way the schedule sets up without the marathon. Good build into the season with adequate time between races.