IM FL Training- how is everyone doing?? (Page 3)

For accomadations check out these 2 thread. 

I'm sure we'll have a few get togethers for IM FL- it'll be fun meeting everyone and seeing BT'ers on the course- I can't wait!!

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=29806&posts=48&highlight=IM%20FL&highlightmode=1#M387517

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=46630&start=36&posts=61

 How about some BT AM swims?

I was going to suggest group dinners, but I just plan on going to Wendys and eating a Biggie Sized Spicy Chicken value meal with Diet Coke every day for lunch and dinner and don't want to deal with the dirty looks from everyone else.  I'll follow it up with a giant frosty.

Tommy 

Some am BT swims sound good!  It'll be good to bond with the ocean before the real deal.

Just my way of keeping people off my wheel.

It was really just a joke on runnergirl's sig.  In reality, I imagine grilled chicken, white rice, grits, turkey sandwiches, etc consumed for race week.  Yes sir, I'll take the bland entree with a side of bland and bland and a glass of water.  Booooooring, that's me!

HAHAHAHAHAAAAA. You are too funny. I'm game for the AM swims! (Then we can sneak off to Micky D's and get two egg mcmuffins for three bucks or whatever the deal is.)

I'll be at the Summit as well. 

Gatorade will have a booth at the swim start/finish on the days before the race where you can check in your stuff and go swim while they keep an eye on it. Plus they give away free water bottles (a small, but powerful part of my brain will gather of several more water bottles because I might need more of them and YOU JUST NEVER KNOW).  I plan on doing that.  Nothing beats seeing what things look like from the course.

As for the race week activity thing, I believe my plan calls for something just about every day of the week, but it's VERY light activity like a 20m swim & 20m run.   I will no doubt be going nuts.

Tommy 

Thanks for the article- it was awesome!  I'm struggling now with alot of issues that article mentioned- for example, group rides= hammer time= not good for my training= I always get dropped.  And I've gotten a lot slower, which is discouragining but good because I'll be able to run slow and seady for IM and walk when I need to.

And...one of my friend's is training really hard core.  Whenever I talk to her I worry that I'm not doing enough because she's always doing more.  Reading that article made me feel much better!

Another week almost down.  What's on everyones' schedules for this weekend???

I have a 4.5 bike followed by a 1:05 track workout afterwards on Saturday.  I'm making this up from last Saturday.  I know I shouldn't try to make up workouts, but of all things I can't afford to miss a long bike.   After this weekend I'll be back on schedule. 

I'm determined to have a better long ride tomorrowthan I did last time.  I need to redeem myself since i felt AWFUL on my last 4 hour ride.  I think I forget that I need to carb load the day before a long workout.  I'm good about doing that for races, but I forget with training how long I'll actually be out there.  My nutrition on the bike is good, it's just that I don't have enough gas in the tank to start out with.

I have a HIM race this weekend.  I'm using this as training.  I'm using the same nutrition as I plan to use at IMFL.  Hopefully I can recovery quickly and get right back into IM training.  Have a massage appointment on Monday to help with the recovery.  After this weekend, my training continues to ramp up to a long bike of 6.5 hours, 2.5 run and 2 hour swim.

Runnergirl, if you think you don't have enough gas in the tank to start with, you might want to look at your breakfast.  I recently discovered that my long workouts are much better if I eat 700 - 800 calories about 3 hours before the workout.  I get up at 4 am eat breakfast, then back to bed.  I start the long workout at 7 am.

TJ

Exellent point.  I've tried that before- only problem is it's hard for me to fall back asleep.  But maybe I'll try it again- now that I'm more tired now falling back asleep shouldn't be an issue).  And since filling up my gas tank has been an issue it's well worth trying.

One quesiton though-  if you eat at 4am do you eat anything else before your workout- like a banana, Cliff Bar, etc??

Fingers and toes, Ken!  Wishing her a speedy recovery. 

Seems like this is turning in to a challenging time for all.  Proud of everyone for pushing through and sticking with their training plans.  Less than 2 months left!