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Beautiful bike pictures. I had my first outdoor bikeride Saturday, by mile 20, my rearend was happy that this was a 25mi ride. I'm tapering for this coming weekend's half marathon. I cannot wait to complete it so I can go back to a more balanced swim/bike/run routine and launch this year's tri season. At least I shouldn't fear the 10K for my one oly after getting through the half marathon.

Yes, I am also trying to get back to the 5am workouts. Tomorrow will be the 3rd or 6th week in a row that I am trying to get up.  We'll see what happens.  Although the sun is rising sooner (and I have a skylight in my bedroom encouraging me to wake up), you would think it would be easier.  But guess what....they are calling for snow tonight.  I love Chicago!!!!

My body feels pretty racked up from increasing the mileage (in a 3 sports) these past 2 weeks.  Especially because I am learning how to properly swim (using 4 paddles) and doing sprint workouts running.  This week I am trying to start doing some interval work on the bike/trainer probably/ so that I am ready for the hilliest sprint in the midwest on May 16!  I am scared.  Let's just see if I remember that at 5am.

Hey---Heart rate discussion anyone?  I seem to average 157-162 running during competitions.  Does that mean it should be my max?  (I know, tammy, I need to do the threshold test). Maybe next week.  (But check out my log from last THursday track practice when I did the mile repeats.  Shouldn't that be a good indicator?)  Ok...crazy girl is singing off and hopefully hitting the pillow for that 5am wakeup....

RUNNING IN THE RAIN IS AWESOME!!!!

Good morning everyone-hit a milestone today.  My first 3000+ swim workout.  Had Masters swim at 5:30am.  Mix of pull work and varying levels of effort with freestyle.  When I started 7 weeks ago I had a hard time finishing a 50.  Still a long way to go to get more efficient and faster but feel like I am getting a solid base. Total Immersion clinic a week from Saturday-hopefully that will help.

Heart rate monitor-I have been using one recently for running and biking.   Never used one before when I was just running and in looking back I probably overtrained alot. Using one now primarily to keep from trying to push every workout harder than the last. Want to avoid overtraining/injury! Really helps keep me in check on long slow run and easy days.  There are several good articles on calculating heart rate on this site.  I have not had a real test done to establish max heart rate for run and bike but feel like I have a pretty good idea after lots of reading and workouts.

I wear the SealXp...mask style. I feel safer during a race if someone karate chops my face

Good question. I actually can not remember the last 5k I did!  But the 157-162 average are during half marathons....either stand alone or else in a half ironman.   I checked for the mile repeats last week....my may HR was 185 and 190 vs ave of 172ish (I think).  So I would say I was going all out during those repeats.  (The first lap was fast, the second was fast and I had to push, the third I was struggling, and the fourth I was really pushing it hard trying to maintain 2 to 2-05 per lap pace.)

So basically, what you are saying is, is that I should be doing workouts in the 154-156 range, but when I do intervals, I need to push it into the max range for a bit.  When I do long slow runs, I need to keep it below 154. Right?  I know...I should pick up the HR book this weekend and figure it out. (I think I have a link to a spreadsheet too.)

But thanks again for your thoughts.  I really appreciate it.....oh, and someone asked earlier on the thread..no you do not have to work out via HR (Chrissie Wellington does not). Just some of us are data freaks and it keeps our mindds busy