Athena/ Clydesdale Official Mentor Group (Page 35)

and I thought camping in the rain was bad enough...

37 minutes on the drainer today, swim scheduled for tomorrow

hockey is about the only good thing in winter... loving the condensed season, so much less time between games!

Got in another swim on Sunday, pool was super busy 6+/lane, did I mention I can't wait to move? This morning I actually pulled off a morning workout, which is a first for me. Set up everything last night, 5:00am alarm and by 5:05 I was on the trainer, logged 30 minutes. I'm going to try and make this a new routine. Waking up at 5 is terrible, but it feels so good to already have today's work out in!

Exercise today consisted of shoveling the snow out of my driveway.  I chose to shovel instead of use the snowblower.  I haven't shoveled this driveway for, probably, over 10 years.  I know I haven't shoveled it since '06 when I spent a week in the hospital for chest pains.  No pain today.  I wasn't even breathing hard after an hour of shoveling.  Then the weather transitioned into freezing rain and ice, exactly as forecast.

Before I headed out to the pool I decided to go get the mail.  Halfway up the driveway I fell on my right side.  (ACL surgery on the knee, dislocated hip in karate, and reconstructed rotator cuff)  They ALL bounced off the pavement.    I came in, got some Tylenol, and haven't moved much since.

Really hope I can hit the gym tomorrow.  So far, this is the first month since September that I've had more workout days than lazy days.

hopefully you didn't mess up the leg too bad... keep safe in this weather everyone!

 Swim – 1600 yds – 36m 40s – 2:16 avg/100 yds avg

Dreadmill – 40 mins – 9-90sec intervals of running

I woke up not sore this morning, so I decided to hit the gym. I only have 68 days until White Lake, so I hit it hard.

In the world of triathlon, if you train two of the events back-to-back in one session it is called "a brick". And since I missed my workout yesterday I decided to attempt one today. First I did a 1600 yard swim that took ~37 mins, dried off and dressed out, then hammered the dreadmill for another 40 minutes. Not only did I increase distance & time in both events, but I also increased my running intervals from 60 seconds to 90 seconds. And at the end all I could think was “I must have gotten a slow treadmill”, because I was hardly feeling it.

Those are nice times!  My 50's are pretty much in the 62-65 range.  Of course, that is at a sustainable pace.  I haven't even considered trying something like your test yet.  Right now, for me, it's all about getting the distance and the aerobic base.  My 100's are coming in around 2:10-2:15.  And then I do my big interval in the middle.  That's 600 yds this week.  That came in at 14:40 last night (first attempt).  Overall, I'm maintaining a 2:16 avg/100 for the 1600 yd workout.  I'm happy with that, for now.  I figure that ain't bad for haulin' Moby through the water.  (My swim team nickname in college was Moby, because of both my size and how long I could go underwater.  There aren't a lot of collegiate swimmers who come in at 6'2 and 220 lbs.)

Wow, that is an impressive improvement. I need to work on my swimming a lot... and unfortunately I missed my swim last night. I did get in a half hour on the drainer at 5am this morning, so that was positive.

Looks like you guys are getting in some quality training and congrats on the improvements in time.   The past few days have been rough on us.     I was sick with a stomach bug at the end of the weekend and still not feeling 100% yet.  And now Mike has it.   It definitely puts a damper on the workout routine.   I am just taking it easy and am sure that once we are both feeling better that we will be right back to working out.   Just keeping my fingers crossed that our boys don't get sick.

It is also so hard with the gray, dreary, cold days to find any motivation to do anything but curl up with a warm fuzzy blanket and veg out.   

Welcome Candi!  So glad to have you here and look forward to getting to know you

stay strong DB, sounds like quite the swim workout.

I fell off the bandwagon the last couple of days, work and then catching up with old friends, so wednesday morning was my last workout and its really bugging me. Hoping to hit the pool tonight and then long bike on saturday.

I should try and do a better job of tracking workouts, I'm terrible at it. Although I've been better about tracking food and that has made a big difference, I guess one step at a time.

Hit the pool today, had a really good swim until the end, leg cramped up as I pushed off the wall, really painful, hopefully I got it stretched out enough after that I can get my long bike in tomorrow

Swam 2000 yards – 48 mins – 2:23/100 avg 

Great day today! Went into it feeling pretty good and decided that I could jump from 1600 yds to 2000 yds without killing myself. And it was pretty easy. Added 100 yds to the warm-up and to the cool-down. That left only 200 more to add to the main interval. Compound that by resting for only 30 seconds between any interval, including the BIG one, and you have a really nice workout. 

4x50, 4x100, 1x800, 4x100, 4x50 

The 800 yds in the middle were completed in only 19:40. The best part, I added 400 yards (25%) to my workout and only lost 6 seconds per 100 yds average. And 2000 yards means I am already swimming the distance for my longest race of the year, the one in September. Nothing to do now but work on improving my times.

Nice swim!  It's a good feeling when you know you can do the distance.  

Well, good news for my cabin fever.  Friday afternoon it was a balmy 34 degrees outside, so I took my run workout to the streets.  Actually, I am lucky in that I have a rails to trails just a couple blocks from my office.  I didn't know however, the City keeps it cleared all winter long, it only took me 7 years to find that out.  So I will be moving more of my runs outside from here on out, because honestly, I don't know how much more treadmill I can take.  This was the first outside run I've done since last fall (and second in the last 10 years).  It was also a good run for the confidence because the route I mapped out (>3.5mi) just flew by and I felt like I could go even further.  I wasn't running fast by any means (10min/mi), but time just seemed to go by much faster, maybe it had to do with the scenery rather than the wall I am used to staring at. 

Had a rest day saturday, a short spin on Sunday, and a swim today.  My swim class ended last week, so this week I am back to solo swim workouts.  If it would just stay lighter out a little longer, I could do some bike rides outside.

Happy Monday all, let's have a good, strong week

@Leather nice swim, can I get lessons? In addition to speed can also work on lowering rest time and being less tired at the end of the swim to leave move energy for the bike and run.

@DB still frigen cold here, that's awesome that you got outdoors, and I will second the lets have a good strong week!

@Soccer glad to hear that you are feeling better, can't work out if you are sick (or at least it is probably a bad idea)

Got my long bike in on Saturday (45 minutes on the drainer), felt pretty good. Sunday was a rest day (not really scheduled...) and got another 30 minutes on the drainer last night. Tonight is a pool night, I'm really hoping that my leg doesn't cramp up like it did on friday.

Still haven't been able to do any running, it remains cold/frozen outside and I don't have access to a treadmill until I move at the end of the month. Been trying to go for a walk at lunch to make up for it. I feel like it is helping with the weight loss part, but not really helpful in getting in run shape for tri season...

edit: thanks for the suggestion with myfitness pal, I've used it to look up calories, but haven't looked at using it for workouts, will have to check it out!

DBG - nice run!  I'd love to try something like that, but my city doesn't even clear their paved bike path.  So I am trapped on a Dreadmill.

Candi - it will get better the more regular you become at working out.  And I know how rough those bugs can get.  I'm working on one now.

kent - Don't know where you work but have you considered walking the stairs?  I know that 50 lbs ago I couldn't do two flights.  Now I can actually use them for a workout, although I hate that even more than the Dreadmill.  (I just haven't come up with a nickname for them yet.)

I don't know how you full-time job folks manage this.  I'm doing a 12 week substitute teaching gig and running ragged.  I can barely keep my workout days equal to my lazy days.  And then to top it all off, I got out of school at 5:45 tonight and was feeling too chilled to venture to the gym tonight.  What idiot decided that the treadmills should all be lined up in front of the door that brings the FRIGID cold air downstairs from the street entry!?  And as if that weren't enough, the three in front of the mirrors are directly under the ventilation blower.  Double Whammy!  (The mirrors are awesome for examining/correcting your gait.)  So I got home and after I finished watering the chickens it was already 6:30.  What's up with that thing about no strenuous exercise within 4 hours of bedtime?  Do any of you exercise within a couple of hours of bed?  I don't fall asleep real easily as it is, so if there's any validity to it I should probably avoid it.