kenj triathletes in training - IM and HIM focused - Closed (Page 31)

That is a lot of climbing and a lot of saddle time!!  Congrats to your husband!!  It was a bit warm here on the east coast as well!

Good luck to all our racers today!!  Have fun too!!

Run and a swim today, I am going to get in the lake for the swim too. 

Wow Robin!!  Awesome views!

Great training!!  I am sure you will have a good time and get in some great training !!

Originally posted by Meulen Robin, congrats to your husband! Great pics too! Had a good weekend here. Saturday, we got rained out, had to hit the trainer. But, that was ok because not having to go out to our starting place and a much earlier start, gave me some much needed time to work on my basement project and cut the lawn when it finally cleared up. So I got a lot done on Saturday! It's always a good feeling for me when things in my personal life are taken care of and I can just get up Sunday stress free. I Actually, woke up at 5am and went over to the pool. I know....I know....yes, I finally got back in the pool. I didn't seem to miss a beat. Had a great swim. 1000m warm up, then a 1000m TT and 500m cool down. Felt pretty good. TT came in at 18:09. Definitely not my fastest, and to "some folks" around here that's DOG SLOW! LOL. But, I couldn't ask for any more than that being out of the pool for a month and being very spotty before that. After that I headed out for another ride. REALLY hot and humid. I failed a on my 2x20' @90% intervals, but I still felt pretty good and was riding pretty fast during my intervals. Had a little run in with a motorist on our group ride Sunday. I was up front waiting for the group after an interval. I guess the driver tried to run some of our guys into a ditch. She and her husband stopped as we re-grouped by a stop sign and I had everyone move over and waved them through to go around, but the guy rolls down the window and starts yelling. I, being the outspoken person I am, gave him a "yeah yeah, shut up and move along" The guy told me to shut my mouth and the woman yelled at me and said she paid taxes her and should have to go around cycling groups on "her roads". I told her I paid taxes too. She obvously, doesn't understand what she is paying because she said "not here". I was like, what is this....Deliverence? lol Well, when the husband told me to shut my mouth, I guess I lost it and started screaming back at them. Probably, not my best moment! Anyway, they dialed 911 and told them the were being abused by cyclist. He had his phone on speaker and 911 asked if this was an emergency. Since no one was attacking him or harming them in anyway 911 told the guy he shouldn't call 911 for non-emergencies and hung up on him! LOL We went on our merry way. I just HATE people in outskirt Chicagoland burbs that don't want to share "their roads" In CA people were so respectful and nice to cyclist. They really hate us by me. It really sucks!

Sounds like a great weekend of training Brian, too bad about the jack wagon in the car.  CA has a generally friendly approach to cyclist, but riding a lot out there I found that they have their share of jerks too. 

For the record, swimming 3 times a week and I would like to do at 1000m time trial at that pace. 

Saturday the workout called for a two hour ride with a bit of a warm up and then as hard as I think I can handle for 60 minutes, finishing the balance at Z3. I got a late start and it was hot and humid and after about 5 minutes of the hard effort I am thinking I am going to cut back and try it another day.  All of a sudden another triathlete pulls up besides me and it is my coach.  Just a coincidence, but no slacking now!!  He rode with me for the bulk of the hour before he turned off as his ride was a lot longer than mine.  He has IMLP coming up. 

Looking forward to hearing from the people that raced this weekend! 

That is still a pretty nice improvement, especially if you swam last year and ran this year before the cycle segment.  Nice work adapting to what was outside your control Jaime!

My experience is that most people over seed themselves in a time trial start.  So I wouldn't hesitate to go with the faster group since your swim times are legitimately in that group.  

Swim: 21:28 – The swim went pretty well. I went off in the second wave, 5 minutes after the men 40 and over. We managed to have an exceptionally violent start, at least from my point of view, with several people getting hit trying to get a good line on the first buoy. I managed to get clear pretty quickly and settle in. By around the halfway point, I started running in to the back end of the first wave. Luckily it was pretty spread out, so I managed to swim past people without too much difficulty.

T1: 2:01 – Definitely an area I need to improve on. Managed to get the wetsuit off better this time, but still pretty slow overall. Bike shoes slowed me down too, I think it’s time for me to finally figure out how to start with them clipped in…

Bike: 1:09:51 – The bike course was relatively flat, with a few rollers and one substantial hill into and out of the park where transition was. However, it was impressively windy out there. Overall, I wasn’t terribly thrilled with my bike. My legs were just not feeling it for the first 5 miles or so. After that I finally got into some form of rhythm, but I just could not settle where I wanted to. The course itself was very convoluted, full of loops, out and backs, and one U turn over a dirt road. Thankfully, it was very well marked and there were volunteers and police at every intersection where you could possibly go the wrong way.

T2: 1:16 – Pretty happy with this. Lost a few second because someone had racked their bike directly over my gear, but just slid it over, grabbed my shoes and race belt, and got going.

Run: 50:25 – Ah the run, always my worst enemy. The run course here was almost entirely on cross country trails within the park. During the pre-race time, the announcer mentioned that it was challenging course. Well, I felt lied to. It was not a challenging course, it was brutal. As soon as you leave transition, you go up some stone steps, up a little hill, and into the woods. At this point, the vast majority of the trail is made up of soft loose sand. The first three miles are mostly uphill, with a few little switchbacks. By the time I got to mile three, I was desperately trying to hold on to 9:00min/mi, which is slow even for me. Luckily, soon after that, we went out on to a road for a little bit. Finally on some solid ground, I managed to regroup. While the road only lasted for maybe half a mile, it was enough settle me down a bit. As the course went back in to the woods, it finally started going back downhill. I made much better time the second half, and was actually feeling pretty good for most of it. As you come out of the woods, the finish chute is not even 100 yards away, and you can see the timer. So, as I come out, I look up, and see 2:29:49. So I just took off at a dead sprint for the finish, aiming to get under 2:25. Well, final time – 2:24:59. :-) Seeing as this was my second Olympic, and my first one was around 2:45, I was pretty psyched. Plus I ended up 2nd in my age group, with the winner finishing 8th overall.