ChrisM's Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 3)

You are correct Seren. I am curious how your coach suggests that you change your stride to overcome this. I struggle with the same thing and never knew this could be corrected.

I will have to do more research also. Things that make you go HHmmm.

Very cool.  What's your job that you get to scuba as part of it?

Josh sneaking in under the wire....  Group is

1. Chris
2. Bret
3. Serenity
4. Brent
5.  Kim
6. Helena
7.  Mike
8.  Lisa
9. Patrick
10.  Jennifer
11.  Nora
12.  Hunter
13.  Stephanie
14.  Pauline
15.  Kirk
16. Josh

I am a diver out here, and know a few folks that specialize in trimix etc. and get called in by the sheriff's to do deep water lake recoveries.   I thought about trying to volunteer once but the requirements (and availability) are pretty brutal.  That's some difficult diving not to mention the bodies...

Can I just x1,000,000 Kim's post?  Trust me, I understand about the weight thing, I think a lot of us do.  But you will see all types of folks at all types of tris, from sprints all the way to IMs.  Personally, I think signing up is motivation - I've signed up for probably every race saying "I'll be X pounds lighter" by then..  And I usually never am  But I do it anyway

I think hiking uses different muscles than running, so i am always sore afterward.  I know people that have walked IMs and were more sore than after running them.

As for the form, it's good you have a coach.  We always hear about no heel striking, etc., but I've been told by a local coach what yours said, that it's really more important to get your feet under you.  I try working on it every run.  Not always successful

Nice.  We have everyone from people training for their first sprint to IM finishers.  This will be a good group.

And I am watching the Lakers 

Now that's something I can get behind. 

sorry. double post.

Its much like chi running....there's lots of info on it.  However there are so many changes to make that you really have to pick one and just perfect it.  Thats what we are doing right now by having me focus on keeping the hips under me and striking mid-foot.  I am a mid foot striker naturally on the right but for some reason not on the left.  Hmmmmmmm!

NAME: Boston Beginner / Josh

FAMILY STATUS: Married to a very supportive wife, 2 kids,  6 and 4 now.

CURRENT TRAINING: I haven't done anything since IMAZ.  I was actually feeling good after the race, not burned out, and wanted to get back into it, but things didn't work out.  I got sick, which was expected, but most of all, I felt guilty spending so much time training during the past year, that I had to do stuff with the family before training.  A month turned into 2, and now we are 5 months removed and need to find the motivation and time to get back into it.  Another slight road block the past month is that I woke up one day with vertigo.  Dr said it would go away in about a month, but still get a tad dizzy once in a while. 

2011 RACES:  Going to take it easy this year and do 1 sprint in June, an Oly in Aug, and HIM in Sept.  Oh, and I think I am biking from Syracuse NY to Cape Cod, Ma - about 370 miles.  So maybe it's not going to be that slow.

WHAT WILL MAKE ME A GOOD MENTEE: I have been on both sides of the aisle now.  I have been a mentor for the past 3 sessions, and was in a couple of mentor groups as a mentee before that.  It takes a lot of time and effort on both the mentor and the group members to make the group successful.  I will be able to handle some of the "simple" questions, and occasionally have a good tip.  I believe Mr. Smooth was my suggestion, wasn't it Serenity.  Anyway, I am glad to be getting back into it.

Oh, and I have been around here long enough to know that TriAya is exactly right.

OK Papa Smurf!  Mr. Smooth WAS your idea.  How was I supposed to know you were gonna join my group?!  This group is gonna be fun  :`)

i was in Josh's mentor group last year for 2 sessions.   He was a great mentor... Course I think he thought I was a little crazy when we first met.    Then we actually met for a few training sessions and I am sure it was confirmed! 

Are you blowing out enough when your head is submerged so that you get a full breath in when your face is out of the water?  That feeling of "needing air" is in reality a need to expel C02, not get air in.  A good exhale goes a long way to avoiding breathlessness.  And a lot of us, me especially, don't really fully empty our lungs in our everyday life, and we breathe too shallowly.

Kim, how did the USAT Nat'ls duathlon go?  (I still think duathletes are crazy, take the two most difficult parts of tri, and leave out the fun part   )

Chris

This is very interesting. I can run and bike without gasping for air within the first 50 yds., but when I swim my lungs say stop while the rest of my body says keep going. I always told myself it is because I am not in the shape I thought I was.

How would you teach a person to make sure to exhale all the way under the water? I use to think I was holding my breathe. You could be correct. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Mike