Boston Beginner's Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 3)

Sorry about that Francesco.  I can see your logs now.  I am not sure if you have to be a bronze member to load in the training plans.  If it's the training plan on this site, you should be able to click on the import button and it will load the plan to your logs.  Let me know if this doesn't work.

Good Morning everyone!

Goals:  My A race is an olympic in July - I will start the 20 week olympic plan at the end of February...but until then

• 18% bodyfat by April  - taking in 1500 calories to lose 0.5lb per week
• Increase VO2 max - currently on Jorge's winter cycling plan Tues/Thurs/Sat
• begin a running program mid January - I am "running" on the elliptical to prepare and let my bilateral archilles tendonitis heal until then - Mon/Wed/Fri
• begin serious swim program mid January ( I am having a cyst removed from behind my knee Jan 4 so no swimming X2 weeks)

I think that's it for now. 

Good Morning.  I don't know how the weather outside New England, but it's 0 degrees with the wind chill this morning.  I actually made it to the gym last night, finally, after a week of being sick.  We have these new computerized spin bikes with video instructors.  It's pretty cool.  You can wear your HR monitor and it syncs up.  I started doing some spin classes last year and if you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend it.  It's a different kind of bike workout that uses different muscles.  

The goals are looking good.  As I was reading them, another thing came to mind that I wanted to throw out there.  Just because these mentor groups technically end in March, most groups continue on, if the members want to continue.  

Here are some of my goals for the next couple of months:

• Stay healthy
• Be a good mentor
• Build up my base to start HIM training in late Feb
• Stay balanced with training, work, and family
• Focus on training/race nutrition
• PR my Half Marathon time in Feb
• Have fun

I don't either.  Is there anything in particular you are thinking about, or just generally?  I can look in my nutrition book and get back to you.

Well as far as the triathlons go, they are nicely spaced out.  My guess is that you might be signing up for a sprint in June.  I did 3 sprints and an oly in my first year.  As far as running goes, you can pretty much make a road race a training day.  That's the beauty of  triathlons.  I know people who ride after they run a road race because that's what the plan calls for.  If you are not too worn out, I would look for a half marathon anywhere from late Sept to early Nov., depending on how the weather is out there.

As far as the plan goes, I would work my way back from your A race.  The 20 week olympic plans here are good. Same goes for the sprint in April.  I used the plans here and it work out well.  Just use the race date and work you way back.  If you take a look at the plans and have specific questions, please ask.  I hope this helps a bit. 

Here is a post for the day, is anyone dealing with injury from training?  I have flat feet and running/walking also seems to irritate them.  I had a mortons neuroma taken off last year and now the other foot is acting up.  Wondering if everyone has the same aches and pains and you just learn to deal with them.  Exercising seems harsh on the body.  Anyone agree?

Now you are asking questions that I can answer.  I have flat feet and when I started running my ankles would kill me.  I finally went down to the running store and they did an analysis and watched me run and I found these Brooks.  It took a couple of weeks to get used to, but by the time I ran the 13.1 in a HIM relay in June, I finished with no real problems.  That being said, since I took some time off, they started hurting again.  I should have been running a little bit through that time so I didn't lose any of the strength I built up.  Do you have a good running store in your area?

Hurting??  Lots of days sometimes more than others but am learning to deal with it and maintain my sights on my goals-Hey, after all I am 56yrs old and should expect this pains here and there but have been blessed with very good health and motivation!  As far as supplements, my boys 34, 32, 27, 21 and 19yrs are into weights etc and are always suggesting me to try some but have refrained.  But, I keep going back to proper Nutrition is the key-just need to figure out what works for me best.  PS-it's darn cold here in the Northeast--moving the training inside for a while, fingers nearly froze off on my run last night.  Really looking forward to the 5K I am in 12/31 at 5:30 pm--should be quite refreshing.