Ironman Florida : Official Thread (Page 32)

What a great day!  Our team co sponsored a kids tri today.  These kids were awesome.  Two age groups, first was 6 - 9 then 10 - 13 I think.  We started as human buoys in the water.  About 20 of us formed a line in the water and the kids swam by us.  We then ran up and helped in transition.  Oh my gosh, what a bunch of cuties!  So polite!  My favorite was Team Cupcakes.  Little girl and her younger sister.  Probably 6 and 9.  They swam together, went out on the bike together the ran side by side.  If I ever get another chance to work a kids tri again, I'll jump on it.  

I had as much fun today as I will at our sprint tomorrow.

Oh yea, just saw my training plan and I have a 6 hour ride the weekend after Augusta. Can't wait

enjoy,

Duane

How was everyone's weekend and last week of training?

Anyone racing soon?

Raced the Captiva Sprint yesterday - 2nd place in the old man age group.  Augusta this weekend. Just want to work on pacing, nutrition and make sure I have a good run.

enjoy,

Duane  

Good week for me too. Ran my fastest 10k ever early in the week. Mid-week I swam my longest distance ever, 4250 yards, and was going for my longest bike ever (120 miles) on Saturday. Had some discomfort in my knee so I stopped at 96 miles, but still a good long ride.

How is everyone else doing with their training?

I've had pretty good last 3 weeks of training. Working on walking fast and walking frequently during the week. I'm still not sure walking 26.2 in the amount of time I should have off the bike will be enough.

My right shoulder has been hurting doing certain movements last couple weeks which is a new thing. I'm getting symvisc injection in my knee to see if that will reduce the pain.

I'm doing ChesepeakMan IM AB this weekend. I did it last year and had fun...and negative split the bike by 10'. This year my plan will be different seeing if I can do harder effort on bike and be able to walk okay since over biking is not really a concern since I won't be running at FL.

I've been having some doubts recently of the wisdom of racing.

I am using the BT Beginner plan based on HR and last week was a building week, this (18-24) week peaks and then I get a break again. For about 6 weeks now I've been dealing with a tender piriformis on the right side and backed off of the long runs and have done some stretching and strengthening and it is finally getting much better. Did my 1st 16miler last Thursday.

11 Weight: 148.6 B: 18.82 Mi 1h 01m 09s R: 10.08 Mi 1h 20m 02s

12 Weight: 151.6 B: 23.80 Mi 1h 14m 05s Str:  1h 20m

13 Weight: 151.6 S: 2600.00 M 1h 00m R: 8.04 Mi 1h 06m 53s

14 Weight: 150.6 B: 27.50 Mi 1h 41m 24s

15 Weight: 146 S: 3000.00 M 1h 05m 25s R: 16.01 Mi 2h 10m 17s

16

17 Weight: 145 B: 113.64 Mi 6h 01m 24s R: 4.67 Mi 40m 36s

S:   5600.00 M 2h 05m 25s B:  183.76 Mi 9h 58m 02s R:   38.80 Mi 5h 17m 48s Str:   1h 20m

Weekend workouts have been pretty solid..during the week is a different story. Work and life stress leaves little motivation left but I feel better with 3-16 mile runs, a 95 and 102 mile bike and 2 mile ocean swim under the belt.

I started seeing my chiropractor weekly for maintenance and she mentioned that at this phase because the body is under such stress that you nagging injuries might creep up...for me it is ITBS which sure enough flared up on Saturday's run.  So just a reminder to be nice to your body; get your sleep, good food and hydration and try to minimize the outside stress.  (easier said then done I know!)

Training going strong. placed 2nd in the 40 -44 ag at a sprint tri this week(replacement sprint tri), ironman training really has helped. Will their be any BT swims the week prior to the fl IM. I will be arriving Wednesday. This is my First Ironman and I am going alone..so hope to meet some fellow bters.

David

We normally set up swims on the days prior to race at 7am or 8am  at race site.

We have a couple of meals that we have place and time, that you can show up if you want.  Day after race we often go to great Pizza place lunch time.

Monday we plan on renting pontoons, look for dolphins and go out to beautiful beach/key that has no development. People brought drinks and snacks last year.

Last two years I organized the meet ups.

2nd in AG in 40-44 is impressive!

DanielG - 2011-09-20 1:36 PM

KathyG - 2011-09-19 9:18 PM

I've had pretty good last 3 weeks of training. Working on walking fast and walking frequently during the week. I'm still not sure walking 26.2 in the amount of time I should have off the bike will be enough.

My right shoulder has been hurting doing certain movements last couple weeks which is a new thing. I'm getting symvisc injection in my knee to see if that will reduce the pain.

I'm doing ChesepeakMan IM AB this weekend. I did it last year and had fun...and negative split the bike by 10'. This year my plan will be different seeing if I can do harder effort on bike and be able to walk okay since over biking is not really a concern since I won't be running at FL.

I've been having some doubts recently of the wisdom of racing.

'Sokay, I'll keep ya company for at least part of the run. We'll be on the course at about the same time FOREVER

You'd have to take a long nap somewhere as you are faster on s/b than I.

Company would be good for run.

Coming together for me at the moment - with a big couple of sessions last weekend.  Previous week I nailed The Nation's Tri (turned into a Du because the Potomac was in flood) and came 9/412 in the M40-44 AG.  All the Ironman training seems to have helped my speed. 

I'm also doing the Chesapeake Aquavelo - so might see you there Kathy.

Now all I need to master is copying and pasting from my training log into the forum page.  Sorry if this looks a mess.

Adrian

OK - how do I get it into a nice horizontal white box ?!

Adrian