Disturbed275's Mentor Group - CLOSED! (Page 31)

Jacklcm - 2010-06-17 9:45 PM I just had my plans adjusted since I won a entry into this weekends XTERRA race in Richmond, Va at a tri club mountain bike clinic.  What the heck is like a sprint so it should be a good workout.  Ride pretty technical, but I need to be careful on the bike and run. 

disturbed275 - 2010-06-18 6:25 AM So what is everyone up to this weekend? 

I have just a few light workouts on tap, but between a wedding Saturday and Father's day Sunday I probably won't get too much done.

scotty930 - 2010-06-19 11:36 AM So I finally got a round to putting on my new tires. I had bought the conti grand prix 4000 in the blue a while back. I think this should hopefully fix my rash of flats I was having. I noticed when I took my old tires off and throughly inspected them that the rear tires side walls were starting to fray and pull away. The front one wasn't bad, but if I am putting on new tires, I think its better to change out both of them.

I have a question. I am only going to put like 50-70 miles on these new tires before I have my first race, a duathlon with an 11 mile bike. Is it going to be ok to race on these? I was thinking that the tires might have a little less grip around cornering because there not worked in yet but I really don't know. So any advice would be helpful.

carrie639 - 2010-06-20 3:51 PM I did just under 35 minutes on my 5k this morning (I think).  I haven't seen results and it is a small local race, so not sure when I will.  My two goals were first and foremost, try not to walk, which I didn't, and try to do better than the last race, which I did.

It was a little more hilly than my previous races, but what the heck, I need help on the hills.  These 5k still seem really hard to me.  I have to push to keep going and I have to push to not walk.  I am not sure if race day has me running a little faster or what it is, but darn glad I didn't do the 10k. There would've been walking.

Then headed over to Moms for pancakes and bacon.  Awesome!

Hope everyone had fun this weekend and did well

dixrp - 2010-06-20 9:19 PM Well, I survived! Approx 2:20 will update time when results are posted. Everything went great and I had a blast, ewven on the run! Check out blog for preliminary comments and splits.

bar92 - 2010-06-21 9:00 AM Did something to my lower back Saturday and got worried I wouldn't be able to race Sunday.  Spent most of Saturday stretching, rolling on the foam roller, sitting on tennis balls, etc.  Even took a hot bath with Epson salt.  Got up Sunday morning for the race and the back was still hurting.  Figured I could get through the swim and bike but may have to walk the run.  Turns out adrenaline kicked in and during the race the back cooperated (for the most part - felt it some transitioning from the bike to the run and for about the first 1/2 mile on the run).  Ended up beating my time from last year by almost 2 minutes and came in 5th in my age group at 1:25:52.  Very happy with the effort overall, but just happen to be in a competitive age group.  The overall woman winner was in my age group.  Back is still bothering me today so I'm going to see who I can get in to see.  If nothing else, I'll be at the chiro this afternoon.