Beer Drinker Appreciation Society (BDAS)--OPEN (Page 26)

Sounds like a lot of injuries creeping up - take it easy out there everyone and heal up soon!

Matt - Hell yeah go get em!  Every day brings you closer to those words "YOU are an Ironman!"

Nicole - +1 to what Dave said.  Your 200 time isn't too far off my 100 time :D

Very nice!  Did you get to go off the blocks, or push off the wall?  100, 200, and 500 for time all in one workout sounds awfully mean!

I'm guessing the paddle on the head drill is something you only do for short distances, right?  I can't figure out how you'd breathe without knocking it off!

Oh, good....I'm not the only one!  I'm pretty shameless   My problem, though, is that I haven't figured out how to go on the bike.  I wouldn't do it for training, but I really would like to figure out how to do it for races.  I don't think it's mental, given that I'm perfectly fine with peeing myself while squatting down or sitting on a curb or whatever....but I guess the pressure of the saddle stops the ability to go, though not the need!

Sorry to hear that the race didn't go quite to plan, but very glad that you are happy with it in the end.

Sucks about the foot.  Have you been icing it?  Hopefully it's just reeling from the intensity over the full duration of the run and will get back to normal.  But definitely give it some time to heal....running through injuries never actually works (successfully)!  Maybe add some extra swimming and/or biking for a bit.

THIS.  So very much this.  I have it in my signature.  Since Dave turning me on to this last season I've used it any time I need that push to do a workout.  Fires me up every single time.  Last summer I was using it twice a week for my swim workouts.  I always dread those and needed it constantly

2:49 for SCY off the wall is pretty darn good.  That's like all-out 100 pace for me.

That's awesome - way to survive the cold. 

A couple of years ago my pool heater broke (it was an outdoor pool with a tarp/framed cover for the winter, so it got cold quick).  The water temp was 66*.  OMG the poor kids on the swim team LOL.  I swam like 1200M and I was still shivering so I called it quits.

ON - that hand paddle drill looks impossible!  At least for me.  I guess that's the point isn't it?  Anyway I had never heard of that one before and I most certainly could use the help there, so thank you!

Andrew - It's getting so close!  One final push this week and then it's a cruise down to race day.  You got this!

Me - first workout in over a week last night (not counting shoveling snow which we have plenty of).  Quality time on the bike trainer.  I mixed in some actual timed interval efforts.  Still probably not a 'real' trainer workout, at least so the watch tells me - my recovery status was between 'undertrained' and 'balanced'.  I was on for almost an hour and sweating my bum off but the only time I get my HR into Z3 is during the efforts.  I have a much harder time getting the HR up on the bike than I do on the run or in the pool.  Anyone else have this?  I know bike HRs are usually lower but like 5-10bpm for a given zone not 20-25 like me...

What order did you do those time trials in?  I'm going to guess that you did the 200 first, 100 second, and the 500 last.  Your 200 time is VERY good in relation to your 100 time, so I bet you're like me and built for endurance more so than for sprinting.  Double your 100 time would be 2:48, so to only be one second slower than that means that you do well at longer stuff!  Great for a triathlete!

Your 500 time does indicate that you were probably tired as it's more like a 1:38/100 pace.  Your 400 time, though, seems like an outlier -- it's closer to a 1:44/100 pace, but you did your 500 at a faster pace.  Maybe he wrote it down wrong?  Either way, looks like you're kicking butt in the pool!  Have you done a masters meet?

Thanks for the video!  That's so not what I was thinking!  For some reason, I was thinking paddle on top of the head (i.e. the part of your head that's not submerged under the water, so really on the back of your head, but top when you're horizontal).