bhoover10001's Group - Closed for the holidays! (Page 3)

Happy New Year everyone!

Training in earnest starts Monday.  I'm so excited.  I'll finally have something to do other than drool at bikes on the internet...

ROFL!  You're not alone...

I started yesterday, just an easy run - didn't even meet my distance goal.  But, I am going to hit the Y tonight.  Since I have a day of momentum, I don't want to start making excuses for myself already! 

So, I was being nosy (and am not very busy at work today) and another group is doing a monthly challenge.  Would that interest people in our group at all?

The one I saw was a 4 weeker and was based on distance in each of the three disciplines. It wouldn't be competitive.  But moreso a goal for all of us.

Sure, I say let's do it.  I've got a plan in place, but I'll make my goal to hit the volume in the plan, no more, no less.  (More is just as bad as less at this point...)

OK, so I'll start.  Starting this Monday, for four weeks, I will do:

S: 40750.00 meters
B: 332.20 miles
R: 52.75 miles

OK, so I said it.  Now I have to do it. 

S: Honestly swimming once a week would be a good goal for January.
B: 300 road miles with mountain biking once a week. 
R: 55 miles.

Core: 5 times a week for 10-20 minutes each.

I got burned out on swimming this year do to training really hard last winter.  So i don't want to start to early and get burned out again.  I'm slowly adding more miles back onto the bike so 300 is a good goal for January.  I'm slowly getting over tendinitis in my left foot, so i'm only going to be running 3 times a week for 3-7 miles this month.  I was running 35-45 a week a month back so that seems like nothing to me.  Me and three friends decided to just go to a 12 hour adventure race in early feb. So consistant training this month will be the goal

FUN! OK for the first four weeks:

S: 1200 M/ week

B: 1 Spin Class/week

R: min 6 miles/week

I actually just joined our Y which has a Masters group (switched from our old mega-gym that I hated), but I have to talk to the coach still to find out what their paces are and if I can join at my current slowpoke status.   Considering it more, you are probably right... realistically I can expect to get to the pool 3 times/week.  Do you think 600 or 800/visit is better then?   I do have a plan and it varies, but it looks like in the coming weeks 800m is the standard per visit distance. I do know that I have to be able to do 1.5k at a pretty good clip by June.  Any suggestions are totally welcome, I don't want to overshoot but moreso I don't want to be too easy. (And eventually I will figure out this metric bizness)

arny - 2009-01-04 7:46 PM Hey Samantha: I feel secure in committing to this ... I will join you in this challenge S=1200 B=1 spin/week R=min 6 miles Went to the pool today and could not even find parking...the gym was overflowing with folks starting their resolutions! Yahoo! Happy training Ann

Happy training to you too!

I'll say x10 on the coached workouts, and that's coming from someone who is an incurable self-coacher!  When it came to swimming, I tried to teach myself, and made some progress, and maybe after 20 years I would have figured it out, but with a coach I've learned stuff that literally would have taken me years to figure out on my own.

If your masters group provides that, then great.  I tried three different ones and had terrible experiences each time, but others have had great experiences.  I hope yours is the latter.  (I ended up hiring a private swim coach with very reasonable rates and I don't regret it.)

I'll say also that I too find it very difficult to get the distance in in the pool.  I'm pretty sure that I'm just way too undisciplined in the pool -- I find that I can easily push myself running and biking, but not swimming.  But this month I've made a vow to get in 40000+ meters, and honestly I think that's what it takes with swimming for us non-swimmers -- a commitment to just do it.  

Thanks, Ann! 

I did actually call and the Aquatics director was really nice and actually excited that I was calling!  They do take beginners, the only pre-req is that I am a Y member.  They divi up the lanes by speed/skill and I can just show up to swim with them!  They swim Tues/Thurs AM as well as Sat AM.  I was thinking it would probably be better to start on a Saturday just to introduce myself, etc.

Thanks for the encouragement guys, I feel good about this decision.  I think I will also look into some personal coaching too, a place by us has a swim stroke service where you endless pool it and they record it and help you tweak and refine your stroke.  Looks pretty cool!

Thanks guys... on a happy note I saw at our Y last night for the first time since we switched from XSport.  I am happy to report that the pool was nearly empty of people, the water was clean and chloriney (how I like it) and didn't make me want to barf for swimming in it unlike our last place.  I think switching to the Y was our best move.

I am researching swim coaches bc I had to muscle through my 400m yesterday... not good!