Hashers and Mashers - Open (Page 32)

I have no idea. I was thinking of shooting for 5 hrs training per week and adding weight training back in. I am waiting to see what my coach suggests.

enjoy the rest of the year "IRONMOM"

I love that.

Yeah, I think y'all are right. Oly is challenging enough to make me work, but not as all-consuming as a HIM. I just don't have enough time to train in real life for that.

Loved your RR, George. But I'm still going to do a sprint. Question is: Should I do a sprint that's an open water swim with a longer (16 miles) bike? Or one that's a short pool swim? Next week we are going on vacation, so I guess I'll have to plan how to train until whichever one I choose... Funny, the sprint distances sound SO SHORT to me now! Funny how your perspective changes.

Well, after weighing all the options, I finally signed up for the open water/long bike sprint, in 2.5 weeks.

This one: http://www.setupevents.com/?fuseaction=event_detail&eventID=232... love biking in that area. The lake is nice. The water will be low 70s. Could borrow a wetsuit maybe... or just be chilly... So. Intending to go hard the whole time, like Ransick said.

Originally posted by strykergt Guys/Gals Need help with a few logistics: 1.) Do you know where can i buy cheap CO2 cartridges? because if im bored i practice changing my rear tire and i use them all up I have yet to PR sub 5 mins 2.) Skratch labs is perfect no complaints this week , will try it out on brickwork tom, but Oh My this bag is expensive a 20 dollar bag lasted me only a week? know a place where i can buy this cheap

I don't go through that many co2 cartridges so I just pick them up at whatever lbs I happen to be closest to after I use one.  I'm sure you could buy them in bulk on Amazon or something.  Or I bet if you bought a box at your lbs instead of one at a time they'd probably cut you a deal if you ask them to.

Regarding skratch, yeah the stuff is not cheap.  I get a deal on it through my work, but even with the deal it's not much cheaper than I've been able to find anywhere else (on Amazon it's $19-$20 per one lb bag from what I recall).  And yeah, it seemed like when I was training for the olympic earlier this year a bag would last me 2 months, but at the height of my HIM training I was going through a bag a week easy.  All I can say once you've established it works well for you you don't *have* to use it every time you work out, you can use something cheaper for most of you workouts and then use the skratch for your long rides and bricks or something.  I don't go through it very quickly during oly training because I generally just stick to water for workouts up to 1 or 1.5 hours long.  Of course during HIM training every workout is longer than that...

Also, and not that I don't encourage the more the merrier, but I lost track of membership with some of the new people and it had already started to get somewhat prohibitive to my ability to do the stats in any sort of reasonable amount of time.  That isn't to say I don't like more Hashers and Mashers.  Anyways, I will get to it, I promise.  I'll try for this weekend.