Stuck in the Middle - May Challenge (Page 30)

x2!

who'd have thunk we'd have so many in the same AG?   

Awesome job, Terry!!  Great Podium!

Thanks all.  I'll do a race report later today.  (I took today off from work.) 

My 300 meter pool swim was about 4:30.  I've done 300 yards in 3:58 in practice.  But nerves, adrenalin, other people's elbows and feet, congestion on the turnarounds, etc. slowed me.  I did 300 meters in the warm up and never could find my rhythm.  T1 was a little over 2 minutes - I was trying to calm myself down and not "fumble around", I tried to stay slow and deliberate.  The bike was a blast.  I hit 38 mph at one point and my time for 8.5 miles including T2 was about 30 minutes.  There were some uphills too.  My run was 15'ish and it was humid with no wind.

I had a ball; wife and kids were there too.

I missed 2nd place by 18 seconds. 

I'm not sure how many of you middlers read the BT articles, but here is some good info on those dreaded "other" strokes:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=1482&vote=5

To put a different spin on the words of Mark Twain...

"Do the fly.  You will not regret it if you live."

We ROLL!

Congrats Terry!  Off to read your race report...

EDIT:  Guess it's not up yet...but congratulations are still in order...

When we rock we rock, and when we roll we roll

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RR is up.

Not sure if I'm going to train today or not.  Still "unwinding."  May get some trainer and/or easy bike time and will get back on it tomorrow for sure.  Shouldn't be any problem finishing goals this week by the 31st.

Just a few days left!

In the mood for some swimming inspiration?  Allow me to brag on one your middler team mates for a moment by recommending you check out what Amy has done in the water the past week:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/index-weekly.asp?memberid=84438

Quite frankly, she's had an unbelievable week in the water.  Outstanding!

Holy Canoli!  I used to swim that much when I was on the high school swim team but I think, at this point, that the wheels start to fall off around 2500 yds.  Way to go Amy!

Question - I filled out my race report and isnt' it supposed to add my training time automatically to my workout log?  I took the 25th off, filled out my race report, and there is nothing on my training chart.  Seems like I never get those race reports correct or I wind up with two in my log.  No biggie, I put the times in the log the regular way.

Also, does my tri yesterday count as 2 bricks?

I got some recovery swim laps at the neighborhood pool today and an hour (easy) on the bike. 

Nice swimming Amy!

I've never quite figured out if the RR is supposed to fill in the blanks or not - hmmmm - seems to me I've had the same question.

As far as a double brick - I defer to the captain of the team and the organizer

btw - Awesome job! 

As for the second question, the way I read it is a multi-sport race counts as one brick.

Bummer.

ah, captain my captain!

I knew you would have the answers  

Lets just hope they are the right answers

they sound right to me

how goes it?