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Kate-  Awesome that you have a race already.  Color me jealous!  Is it indoor (must be, right?) and how long is it?  You may have said, but how many events are you doing this year? 

I'd love to have a race in sight, but I am looking at early May for my first race of the season. For those of you who have done one, how are tris with an indoor swim?  The race in May has had to cancel the swim the last 2 years as conditions still stink here (the rescue boat capsized last year) and I was thinking of a local race that has a pool swim instead.

I like a pool tri and any other tri for that matter, once its started. For me, as I stated before, its the anticpatory anxiety that bugs me most. The tricks I found were to seed yourself properly and to not go hypoxic too early in the swim, keeping yourself in your normal pacing zone. Don't let others get you out of your mental space when they pass or are catching up. Just keep swimming as if its you and only you in the pool/lane. Essentially you need to keep your space to yourself as much as possible

Peter is right that those mass starts on an IM are a rush. They are quite scary, but so are your local races with wave starts where everyone is duking it out physically. At IMAZ I was scared for my life, where in IMFL I expected to get beat up and learned to push/nudge and guard myself so I could keep moving forward without taking my face out of the water. Once your face is up yor hips are even further down creating even more drag and killing you. I think I will be even better/more comfortable at IMCDA with that mentality (expecting the scrum rather than fearing it).

I am trying to make amends for yesterday's off day today. Its fourple Friday but I will be happy with the tri-fecta. What do you all have going for the weekend?

sorry aboiut your brick peter, but at least you have a great vacation coming up! have fun skiing! dont fret about that brick. plenty of time to get ready for long course and youve done some solid and consistent work.

WTG nerdjock! you keep this up, and finishing IMCDA will be no problem. even better that you are suffering now, as it will make you stronger for the more mild conditions we hopefully will get.

i missed my swim but got 37 miles on trainer and then some strength training. later i ran a 10k tempo. not what i was hoping for in terms of fourple friday, but ill take what i can get while trying to keep the fam happy.

You can't get rid of me!

Ran 8 miles today.  Wanted to swim but I was feeling lazy.

Have a fun trip, Peter!

peter, i bet if you laid down you could probably nearly touch both sides of the pool. hows the skiing? sounds like you got good snow.

solid work nerdjock! noticed you have been burning the candle at both ends with work and working out. great way to stick with it!

I am real taint-sore after another 4+ hr trainer ride due to rain. tagged on a 5.25 mi brick run too. this after a 10 mi run and 4100 yard swim yesterday and a big old friday too. treating myself to some ribs tonight (and I already hit up the homemade cookies and mcdonalds bacon cheeseburger deluxe meal my wife bought me). one of the biggest benefits of all this volume is eating whatever you want whenever you want!

how'd all your weekends go? we had a teammate run 100 miler for the first time ever and come second overall. i was thinking that no matter what i did i couldn't whine given what he had done.

The pool is not going to work. Being a fat old lazy guy, I flip turn with a good push. I can't get more then 3 strokes in before I flip again. I tried not pushing off the wall but I can't get back up to swimming speed before I'm at the wall again. There are nice treadmills here along with recumbent bikes.

The skiing is outrageous. I had a couple of turns in deep powder where I almost wished I had a snorkel. The snow is endless. It doesn't look like there will be much s/b/r this week but I will hit the s/s/s.

I will slack this week but I hope the rest of you make up the difference.

OOOWEEEE, Harv!  Sounds like you deserve those treats!  Very well done!  Hope that taint recovers.

Peter: sounds like a blast!

Only managed one hour on the drainer today.  Not very slayer-like, but manuscript writing got in the way.  The good news is I think I'm done with it.  At least this draft.

Looking forward to a big week.

Flip turns: Ugh! I need to figure them out. Every time I get started learning I get frustrated and just carry on swimming without them.

A snorkel in the snow sounds pretty whacked. That must be pretty awesome if you are a skiier.

nerdjock and I are getting to that critical point Friel talks about in his new book about your best triathlon (84 days before/12 weeks) where you have to be consistent and can't miss workouts and have to get your long ones in especially in our case with an IM in June. We need to keep the heat on. Just like you all.

Lets get a check in from Cali, Ga., Canada, Oz, Scotland, etc! Whats going on in other parts?

FWIW I saw a thread on the main board about ice baths. I am very cold intolerant but wonder if anybody else uses the for recovery after miserably long runs?

26k is awesome. Keep it up

yeah nicruns! well done. and love it when my legs are barking mad haha!

im pretty crapp at recovery. i dont ice, cool down very well, or drink the protein shakes like i should. i do compress and rest though. i thought i saw Jorge saying ice baths hurt the body's ability to repair itself per some recent lab rat studies.  something about inhibiting inflamation that actually helps you heal?

how did mgalanter do? and lisab was having a pity party yesterday i noticed.