Beginner 1/2 Ironman Plan Group (Page 29)

akrenik - 2011-01-08 12:28 AM Here I sit on my couch with my laptop and my bike is 4 feet away from me on the trainer staring at me.  Sure wish my HIM was swim, run, internet.  I would have the 3rd leg down perfect!  I am always "training" with my laptop.  haha!

Mellissa - 2011-01-07 11:22 PM happy weekend my fine friends...

I decided I will not be withdrawing from O'Side California HIM. Yay me! PLEASE let me know if you can help me out with the bike situation, in the mean time I'll keep hanging out on the spin bike

jaegee - 2011-01-08 11:23 AM Had a great bike ride yesterday with lalexander. That was fun buddy, let's do it again soon. He introduced me to what hills really are. Prior to that I thought I was doing hill training, but it was nothing compared to yesterday. I can't wait to get back out on that route and get better at it.

With my mass I was a champ on the downhills though! Too bad they were few and far between.

JG_GreenCoast - 2011-01-08 6:42 AM

Hah! I have a big smile on my face now thanks  I'm so happy I can finally get outside to bike or else it would be swim run internet.  I love being on BT though and just laptop in general.   Iwish there were more people on here! 

jaegee - 2011-01-08 11:23 AM Had a great bike ride yesterday with lalexander. That was fun buddy, let's do it again soon. He introduced me to what hills really are. Prior to that I thought I was doing hill training, but it was nothing compared to yesterday. I can't wait to get back out on that route and get better at it.

With my mass I was a champ on the downhills though! Too bad they were few and far between.

akrenik - 2011-01-08 12:15 PM

haha.  I am the opposite.  I am a stick, so i can get up those hills fairly well.  However, everyone zooms past me on the downhills.   

50andgettingfit - 2011-01-08 1:06 PM

Where did you go? Depending on the location, I'll either be looking or avoiding those hills  

jaegee - 2011-01-08 2:39 PM

I created the route when I uploaded my information from my garmin.

Hopefully this link works: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/map.asp?route... />
It started at canada road (near 238 around Foster City) then went down to sand hill road, then we turned around. Do you have any good routes in the San Jose area (or anywhere in the bay)? I'd love to get around the bay and go on more different routes. The one close to me really sucks. It is completely flat with poor gravel and it is a recreational trail so there are runners and walkers on it as well.

If you have some routes, please share them!

JG_GreenCoast - 2011-01-08 8:43 AM

Hell yes! Good for you

What's the bike situation? You don't have a bike i'm guessing? 

Mellissa - 2011-01-08 6:36 PM

Yah, my bike got stolen over the summer...which would have been slightly better except I just started working after almost a year of job hunting and my husband just got laid off (again) right before Christmas. And we've several times so I don't even know anybody that has an old bike of any kind lol

anyway, I'm already committed, no point in giving up due to a setback...for now

bill2059 - 2011-01-07 1:25 PM Still looking for fellow Gulf Coast HIMers. Let me know if you are doign this race. I am almost complete with week 3 of the Prep phase, lost a couple of lbs already!

Bouellet - 2011-01-07 5:51 PM I'm about to sign up for my first HIM.  Just waiting for the registration to open.   I'm both excited and nervous to getting to that start line.   Hoping to get lots of help from you fine folks while I train during the cold winter months.

adamamelia - 2011-01-07 6:07 PM My endorphins are high :-)

I'm just so pleased with my run training. I've been on the treadmill for about six weeks now and have made more progress than I could have imagined. I've always been athletic, but these past six weeks, with swimming, spinning and running 6 days a week have put me in some pretty good base shape. I started running around 10 minute miles at 147 HR. Now I'm running 8:20's at around 152 HR. It's unreal. I'm having to stop myself from pushing harder and/or running farther because I don't want to over do it and either burn out or get hurt....but every time out, it's like I get to the end of the 5 or 6 mile run and just want to keep going. My long runs on Sundays are only 6 miles right now, and I can't wait to go longer so I can start to experiment with nutrition. I'm just thrilled :-)

I know some hate treadmills, but I find them quite useful!

I think my bike spinning sessions (I'm new to tri's and bike riding all together) has sped up my run cadence and my neurologic system is starting to learn how to adapt to the faster tolerances.

Enjoy the weekend everyone :-)

cheekymonkeys1 - 2011-01-08 7:31 PM Hey Folks

Just signed up for my first HIM in June!

Looking forward to getting started on the plan.

Tri Take Me Away - 2011-01-08 10:01 PM

Great! Thanks for joining in. Which race are you doing?

50andgettingfit - 2011-01-08 2:57 PM

The link didn't work but I have a general idea of where you were. I haven't ridden over in that area. We usually ride down to Morgan Hill/Gilroy from our house. We're in S. San Jose. I don't have routes mapped out anywhere but if you look on a map where McKean intersects with Harry Rd., start there and follow McKean south. There are some loops that are beautiful with some rolling hills. You can ride past Uvas reservoir. They have a tri in the spring. Also, look at tierrabella.org. They are having a bike ride in April and they have some good routes on their website. Some with some really challenging (to me) hills  If I sign up for a local tri, I like to pre-ride the routes so it gets me out and about.
Johanne 

JG_GreenCoast - 2011-01-08 8:04 PM Jaegee: How do you get your lap data to import into BT? Presumably from Garmin? I've started uploading my garmin to BT but I wish the map and lap data would come in in addition to HR stuff.  I don't see it for me though.

jaegee - 2011-01-09 11:54 AM

Correct, I import the data from my garmin. When I add a workout in my log, I click the import from garmin link, then select the workout after it loads. That takes a few seconds and it loads the lap data at that time I believe. If you are doing the same thing then perhaps it is because of the membership levels?

JG_GreenCoast - 2011-01-09 1:08 PM Had a SWEET 1000yd swim today! Was supposed to do 1000m TT but cut short at 1000yd...still, under 21 min and I'm like the worst swimmer ever! I'm thrilled...and especially after running 12.5 yesterday