kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 32)

jarvy01 - 2013-01-08 6:56 PM I use the handheld bottle with the wrist strap too. I think it's by Amphipod.

Scott - I am already dreading Thursday's 3 x 800 all out swim. I thought that was a one and done training session

Eh.  You have the swim endurance to do that.  Don't sell yourself short

Morning ... at work at 6am for the second time this week ... hoping to get out by 4-4:30 and get my swim done!!!

Jen - surprise your coach and do 3x500, or get ambitious and do 3x1000

uhcoog - 2013-01-08 10:31 PM

jarvy01 - 2013-01-08 6:56 PM I use the handheld bottle with the wrist strap too. I think it's by Amphipod.

Scott - I am already dreading Thursday's 3 x 800 all out swim. I thought that was a one and done training session

Eh.  You have the swim endurance to do that.  Don't sell yourself short

I'm not selling myself short.  I just loathe speed workouts and tests.  It's probably because I need these workouts more than anything.  

3 x 1000.....ummm, no.  LOL  The second I start editing the workouts and mixing things up is the second I get injured again.  I'll just stick to the plan.  

I may do the swim on Friday instead of Thursday anyway.  That gives me one more day to get rid of this cough.  I fear it may stick around for a couple weeks because I am an asthmatic.  

One of today's tasks is to look for deals on fluid trainers.  My trainer sucks!

Good Morning! Nice 1hr ride this morning with Tabata Intervals. Not sure where that name comes from but either way it was a good workout. Hoping to get in a adjustment to my bike fit this Friday with my new saddle and have them adjust a couple of other things on the bars. Tomorrow is the 3x800 test. Hopefully this time I get all three 800s in.

Scott, is the swim with the new paddles?

Yes it was with the new paddles.  They are tools of the Devil

Good morning.  Having a little swelling in that surgicvally repaired nerve area the last two days, even with the light spinning I was doing.  So I am going to take the rest of the week off.  I can't come back too soon, and risk another whole season. I need to get that in my thick head.

ETA: I will still hit the gym for some upper body circuits this afternoon

So important.  Taking extra weeks in Janaury to let your body heal will not affect your race performance in August.  Ignoring the fact tht your body needs to heal, pushing it and Janaury and being forced to take off weeks in May, June and July will affect your race performance in August.  Take the time to heal now and remember your A race is Timberman.

Scott, I know you are doing a 1/2 marathon in March. I also notice that you bike a lot. Are you biking less as you have been training for the HM, are you going to cut out biking at all as the race approaches?

Reason I ask is my HM is this weekend and I have been doing nothing but run and swim since appx Sept in prep for the race. The times I did bike and ran, my legs were kind of heavy - I say that with the caveat that I have not really trained on the bike at all - so I decided just to focus on run.

The question really ends up being what is your target race.  I have a HM on the 27th, but my A race is IMTX.  My bike time is going up as such.  If the goal race was Disney than you're in good shape, if it was an early long course tri maybe you should have been on the bike. 

My HM in March in the big scheme of things means very little to me. If I was serious about it I would be much more run focused. That race is sort of my kick off the season and see what I can do race. The first year this was my first HM and I did 1:59:56. Last year I did it in 1:46:53. So I took a full minute per mile off and that was with a calf pull and it was 30 degrees warmer out. So this I'll see where I'm at but I'd like to go sub 1:40 but not enough to focus on it.

My HIMs are the events I'm focusing on thus the higher percentage of biking. A friend tried to talk me into a full marathon but I didn't want to get pulled in too many directions.

You beat me to it in a much less verbose manner.

It was named after the person who delved into this kind of training - Professor Izumi Tabata.

They're just numbers Carrie.  There is no pass or fail.  Just using the numbers to make adjustments so that you get the most out of your training going forward.  I think the word "test" should be removed or something.

I grew up playing lacrosse and played in college. The sprints we did before and after practice were insane. I dreaded hearing the whistle and the coach saying "on the end line."

BUT...after having recently done a 1x1000 swim test and reading about people's 3x800, 3x900 etc, the aforementioned sprints in college pale in comparison, as does the dread that I experienced.