brick94513-GoGoGo Mentor Group - Closed For Now! (Page 34)

Meulen - 2010-05-02 8:54 PM Great job Tim and Mike!!  Sounds like you guys had better luck than I did.  I had a pretty bad race, but still had a good time!

My race didn't go so well for me today.  I was going to complain about the 1000 ft of climbing I did in 10 miles but after hearing Tim's report I'm not going there. LOL

I took a couple days before the race hoping to get over this upper respiratory infection.  I felt good going on the starting line, but about halfway through the race my lungs burned.  Not the kind of burn you get from a good workout either.  Anyway, I really wanted to stick it out and finish the race so I did.  But I was completely out of focus.  I crashed at least 3 times that I remember, and it was all stupid stuff. 

The good news is two of my training partners did really well.  Infact, one of the beat me even after he broke a chain.  LOL  I gotta give props to them because last year that weren't even keeping up.

So Tim, looks like I won't be moving to Cat 2 anytime soon

So I guess the next QOTD should be what to do when your feeling sick and possibly over trained?  LOL

dhopman - 2010-05-03 11:00 AM Good morning everyone! I got home from Wildflower late last night and need to catch up on the last few days of posts but wanted to give you all a quick race report. 

There are definitely some things I can work on but I'm happy with the results. My overall time was 2:50:44. I was competing mostly against 3 other friends and ended up beating all of them. Second place was 11 minutes back actually...so the target is on my back for sure.

Swim: I'm capable of going faster. I didn't get into a good pace until half way, choppy water for first half, hard to sight on the bouys.

Bike was 1:27:44. Ugh...hills! I kept thinking it would be mostly rollers with one or two climbs. They were BIG rollers. I traded spots with a couple guys - they would pass on the hills, I would pass on the descents. This tells me I need to build strength in my legs to spin up the hills easier.

Run...It was HOT. And HILLY. Up, up, up, the whole damn way. Again, lack of leg strength. The last mile of the run is down Lynch Hill. The problem is, it's so steep that it's not an enjoyable downhill run. A friendly spectator handed me half a PBR which I gladly accepted, generating a "chug, chug, chug" chant from the crowd. Run time was 51:37.

dhopman - 2010-05-03 1:00 PM Good morning everyone! I got home from Wildflower late last night and need to catch up on the last few days of posts but wanted to give you all a quick race report. 

There are definitely some things I can work on but I'm happy with the results. My overall time was 2:50:44. I was competing mostly against 3 other friends and ended up beating all of them. Second place was 11 minutes back actually...so the target is on my back for sure.

Swim: I'm capable of going faster. I didn't get into a good pace until half way, choppy water for first half, hard to sight on the bouys.

Bike was 1:27:44. Ugh...hills! I kept thinking it would be mostly rollers with one or two climbs. They were BIG rollers. I traded spots with a couple guys - they would pass on the hills, I would pass on the descents. This tells me I need to build strength in my legs to spin up the hills easier.

Run...It was HOT. And HILLY. Up, up, up, the whole damn way. Again, lack of leg strength. The last mile of the run is down Lynch Hill. The problem is, it's so steep that it's not an enjoyable downhill run. A friendly spectator handed me half a PBR which I gladly accepted, generating a "chug, chug, chug" chant from the crowd. Run time was 51:37.

wplummer - 2010-05-03 3:41 PM for everyone that raced over the weekend-great job. i hope everyone had a great weekend of training and fun....

brick94513 - 2010-05-02 5:16 PM Well... this was probably the hardest race I have ever done! I completed 11 laps, which is 135 miles and 18700 ft of climbing. I could of gone one more lap, but it would of been useless since I couldn't catch the guy in front of me. I learned a lot. I'll share the experience when I get home. I'm thoroughly beat!

Meulen - 2010-05-03 8:06 AM It's a new day.  I'm going to take some time off the intense workouts.  Maybe just lift weights and some light swimming or something for a week.  I'm going to try and look at the bright side.  Which is, even though I felt terrible, I still shaved 10 minutes off my time on the same course last year

2009
age grp overall                                                                               age  time   
18         84    4236   Brian VanderMeulen     Romeoville  IL             34   1:11:41.0

2010
age grp overall                                                                               age  time
17         68    4265   Brian VanderMeulen     Romeoville  IL             35   1:01:53.8

dhopman - 2010-05-03 11:00 AM Good morning everyone! I got home from Wildflower late last night and need to catch up on the last few days of posts but wanted to give you all a quick race report. 

There are definitely some things I can work on but I'm happy with the results. My overall time was 2:50:44. I was competing mostly against 3 other friends and ended up beating all of them. Second place was 11 minutes back actually...so the target is on my back for sure.

Swim: I'm capable of going faster. I didn't get into a good pace until half way, choppy water for first half, hard to sight on the bouys.

Bike was 1:27:44. Ugh...hills! I kept thinking it would be mostly rollers with one or two climbs. They were BIG rollers. I traded spots with a couple guys - they would pass on the hills, I would pass on the descents. This tells me I need to build strength in my legs to spin up the hills easier.

Run...It was HOT. And HILLY. Up, up, up, the whole damn way. Again, lack of leg strength. The last mile of the run is down Lynch Hill. The problem is, it's so steep that it's not an enjoyable downhill run. A friendly spectator handed me half a PBR which I gladly accepted, generating a "chug, chug, chug" chant from the crowd. Run time was 51:37.

croixfan - 2010-05-03 3:26 PM

Brian -- 10 minutes / 17% faster.  That's pretty good progress.  Trust we'll see the same percent gain next year?

GoGoGo - 2010-05-03 12:21 PM



I thought we lost you...welcome back!!!

Thanks for checking in! 

shmeeg - 2010-05-02 8:14 AM

<--- some of us are are nursing hangovers today instead

kickitinok - 2010-05-01 12:44 PM

Eh...forgot why I came here. Now I remember: 

Has anyone ever had post-race letdown? I can't seem to get motivated to do my training this week. What's wrong with me?

I love training, and I not only do it for racing, but for another, more important reason: I have a neurological "disorder" called tinnitus (it's where your ears ring constantly and it bugs the holy heck out of you until you feel like you will go insane), and I've found that getting my HR up for extended periods of time makes the ringing go away - so I really have no choice but to train.

I just feel kind of "eh" right now. I need to get over this as I've got two sprints coming-up the first two weekends in June.  

GoGoGo - 2010-05-02 8:21 AM

Back from my Long run...almost 17 miles  last half mile was a struggle, but got it done.

Long run next will between 20-25k, then 10k race weekend after, then Half mary weekend after.... 

Race season is starting!!! 



Now...gotta wait for a few race reports to roll in.

Shmeeg, Good luck with your hangover! 

croixfan - 2010-05-02 10:18 AM

Hit 4:08 on the swim, 17:38 on the bike, and 10:22 on the run.  Transitions took 2:35.  Total was 34:44 so I was under target by more than a minute.  Swim was just like a normal workout.  I REALLY need to learn how to swim as it's pretty ugly.  Bike went exceptionally well as I stayed in the lower gears and kept the cadence up.  Biggest issue on the bike was clipping in and turning around.  Really screwed up both.  Coming out of the bike I was a bit winded and made a mistake in T2 by eating 1/2 granola bar.  Stupid thing stuck in my throat for the entire run.  Run felt really, really hard as I was struggling settling down in to a breathing rhythm the entire time.  However, the run time was great!   Time on the treadmill, stationary bike, and road is paying off.  Transitions were pretty ugly due to lack of practice; however, not too worried about this.