SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 35)

Gone for a day and way to long to get caught up. I do remember one question I can answer. The zipper goes in the back.  Feeling a little crappy today. Maybe a slight touch of the flu. I'm waiting to hear back from the doctor about my foot. I may have to call her this afternoon.

Only 4 more sleeps to go until Cuba.

Not a great month for me. Too many little nagging things. Shoulder feeling better so back to the pool soon. The last run took a lot out of me so I haven't done anything since Wednesday's hockey. I even missed my kickboxing on Wednesdday night.  I need to pick up my training and follow the program better. I have to short tri's in June. I think I will also pick up some 5 and 10K races in the summer. Times a wasting and I haven't been training properly.

I'm taking the under on Tracy's race.

Roni - There is talk of a pre-race BT meet-up over in the Washington forum.  No real details as of yet. 

Getting ready to call into a fun 2-hr project planning meeting and then off to Spokompton for the weekend. 

Good luck to the other racers this weekend!!

Re: Tracy's pic

http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/youve-killed-us-all.jpg

Good luck racers!  Would you promise to post at least a couple of words about your stellar performance over the weekend? Some of us are living vicariously through your experiences!

Steve, Tony, et al, can you stand another CT question?  What is calibration? and why am I doing it?  The little machine says it is at 2:00, but for an upcoming TT for my new coach, he said ideally it should be between 2.5-3.0.  What the heck?

I could use every last one of you thinking good thoughts about my swimming progress this weekend (hell, how about all year?).  I am taking a big step backwards to fix the ongoing flaws identified in my underwater video. Basically, my workouts are 80% drills and 20% translation into actual swimming.  First flaw I am working on is FQS, my extended arm tends to drop too soon which puts me off balance.  I can do the catch up using B2, but flail around using B3 and translating it into the actual stroke is awful.  What kind of things did you think about when taking a drill to actual swimming?or did it just come naturally?

Suzy

Good luck to everyone racing this weekend. 

Tony, be careful of the wet roads!  Yikes!  Tracy, you are going to do awesome, just let it come to you You are trained and strong!  And especially ready after your freezing cold oly swim! 

My new avatar shows me walking out of the lake, I was just so happy to be done, I had absolutely no sense of urgency...I don't know why not since I was in 174/175th place at that point...LOL.  easy to say now...not so much on that day

18:15 for 1000 is smoking fast!!!

X3  Don't wimp out, you need to do both!!!!

Kim 174/175 isn't so bad. You did finish right and did what other people only either watch on TV or just dreeam about doing.

Suzy: aren't you "crusty" at the best of times?

John: Do both. Tink of how impressed she will be when you tell her you did a run before you bike ride A half hour run should be just a warm up now for you.

I am a big sweater (I start to sweat just thinking about changing into my running gear) and replenish a lot with sports drinks and GU for energy. I haven't used any "salt pills" yet but was thinking of trying them this year especially with going longer distances. My races to date have basicallly been no more than 2 hours. The Olympic should run me about 3 hours I am guessing and of course the HIM much longer.