Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 30)

You're like ... spirit of hunky surf piglet. Yes. It's a mindset.

Asalzwed - 2012-04-16 12:31 PM Since I pretty much shamed my city with my last photo I figured I needed to make it up to her. This was from my long run yesterday: 

Wow. When it's beautiful there, it's gorgeous.

I'll practice my palm frond wielding. 

Swim squad....

Warm up set with fins

200m freestyle

200m freestyle breathe every 3

200m (100 back/100 breast)

200m (100m front scull/100m mid scull)

200m otter scull

Fins off - with pull buoy

100m, breathe 2, 100m breathe 3, 100m breathe 4, 100m breathe 5, 100m breathe 6

Supposed to do this set 4 times, I did 3 sets up to the breathe 5 then had to jump out as i had to get home. 

Awesome! Total for me 2.4km

Back last night from a family weekend in Western New York (mom-in-law's 80th birthday).  Found myself entering the  Buffalo Half Marathon on June 30th with sis-in-law.  Not sure if it's the smartest idea after ankle sprain 3 weeks ago, but couldn't resist a finish line on the 50 yard line of the Bill's stadium!  (plus it was a great schwaggle  deal).  I figure I'll just take it easy and enjoy it as a social event.

First outdoor exercise since sprain this morning, 5k race walk.  Still had to hobble going downhill, but for the most part, the race walking was pain-free (feels better than regular walking).  Got in a swim as well.

Only 2.4km...slacker  jk obvi. 

I don't own one so it's just really when I happen to be at the gym and when I have time. Oh, also my friend has a "stick" so if I am at her house I use it too

There is really no rhyme or reason to it. Probably more than anything it's a nice mental relaxation/cool down from my workout. 

VERY cool ending at the Bills 50 yard line! I can see why you signed up. 

As I recall when I sprained my ankle in high school it took quite a while to heal but I was good about doing my physical therapy and was back to Pole Vaulting by the end of the season. 

Have you got the "go-ahead" to start running from your doctor? 

I would ice and elevate after my runs (or speed-walks) if I were you, too.

It's already been said, but great work to everyone who raced this weekend! EVERYONE was a champ in some respect - take away what you can from the experience and put it towards the next outing.

Yanti, rest up and get better - we need you back at full speed for all the encouragement and wisdom.

Felicia - OMG tornadoes! I'm so glad to hear everything is ok.

Salty - Seattle looks gorgeous! I really want to do a trip to the Pacific NW, it looks lovely and so outdoorsy.

I personally had a lovely weekend.  Saturday I did the indoor computrainer interval class for an hour (that was HARD), then horseback riding (mostly without stirrups, i-yi-yi).  THen off to Boston for drinks on the deck and beerfest, FUN! SUnday was lazy, very unseasonably warm here.  Laid around (very tired from the beer outing!) then read on the porch.  Today was a beach day - over 80!!! WE walked there and back, and went for a walk down the beach, that was the extent of my exercise, lol.  Then ice cream, first of the season, yum! (chocolate with reese's cup and peanut butter chunks).  Good day! It makes me not want to go back to work EVER!

It is definitely outdoorsy! You can hike a mountain, ride your bike along the sound, kayak through the house boats on Lake Union and still have time to visit a brewery..or two or three in just a day. 

It sounds like you had a very nice weekend! Boston eh, so does that mean you live in Massachusetts? I forget? 

My cousin lived in Cambridge while he was in school and he speaks incredibly highly of the area, specifically Boston. He will be moving back at the end of this summer (JUST in time for me to have a place to stay when I run the Marathon next spring )

Thanks.  I was actually really surprised at my swim time.  It was 10-15 secs faster than I am in the pool.  Either I was really moving because it was so frackin' cold, or my watch froze up .

Single leg drills on the trainer?

That is awesome! I have a question, though about the following:

200m (100m front scull/100m mid scull)

200m otter scull

I think I know what a front scull is, but I'm not sure about mid scull, and I haven't a clue about otter scull. What are they?

Front scull hands are stretched out in front palms down - quick out and in with hands never letting go of the water.  mid scull same idea but hands below chest, elbows up fingers pointing down (this is very hard and your hands should hurt after)  Otter scull  push hands back belly button straight down body line (like the end of doggy paddle)

Front scull is fine and I move pretty fast but the other two even with fins it's like you're going backwards!

That sounds incredibly hard. The purpose is to feel the water? Does it also build strength?

The drills are to get a good feel for the catch of the water.  Your hands, forearms and triceps really burn after so I imagine it's doing some good!  Because it's mainly your hands working you have to really engage core muscles to maintain good horizontal position.  We have some real leg sinkers in our squad and they struggle a lot with these drills - I am lucky my legs float on the top (something to do with my big !)

I would try moving the nose of your saddle a millimetre or two to the left and see what happens. Possibly also a millimetre or two UP (not down).

When (minutes) into a hard/long ride do you feel it start to hurt/twinge/different than the left?

Sounds fun!

must. get. ankle. healed.

My first two thoughts were (1) foam roller and stretching 2-3 times a week combined with increased riding and (2) bike fit. 

It's fairly typical of me to have some muscle complaints early in the season.  For me, this typically manifests itself in my calves feeling crampy during the last 15 minutes of my ride.  There is a signal light there and when I stop and restart, my calves complain.  This only happens in the spring and goes away once ride duration and frequency increase.  If my piriformis complains, it's normally the next day.  Too much desk sitting. 

http://www.irunnerblog.com/health/runner-therapy-pesky-piriformis/

I usually foam roll my IT band and to some stretches that I learned in physical therapy a long time ago.   The article above shows one of the popular stretches and foam roller techniques.

What you really need to do is find out WHY this is happening (yep, I realize that's exactly what you asked, heh), and then you can fix it. The reason I recommend trying out a saddle adjustment first is that a) it's a common contributor to a L/R discrepancy, but most of all b) world's easiest fix if that's the problem (and the solution diagnoses the problem). If not, no harm no foul. You just move the saddle back and move on to Plans B, C, etc.

Aw c'mon. You set me up for it perfectly. Probably just did it to see if i was paying attention.