kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 35)

Swim cap question ... I usually use speedo latex caps.  I have tried the silicone, which is like a cap with vasoline on it.  The material caps aren't bad, but you get that drag and I don't know if your hair is getting damage more with water constantly going thru it?

Are there any caps out there that stay on and don't shimmy up your head and off your ears?  I hate the cap not covering my ears.  Thoughts on caps?

I haven't bought a swim cap since I competed in my first triathlon.  I just wear my old race caps.  I have tons but some are better than others.  The race cap from my very first tri is still in rotation and the words haven't faded a bit.  Most of them are pretty big but sometimes they shimmy up after a while.  I just yank them down between sets.  I've never used the material caps.

Thanks, Michele.  

I just got my first silicone cap and I love it. It's a speedo.   I have short hair though and I don't know if that makes a difference. 

1. Jen I'm glad you're feeling a little better about things this morning.  Oh and I'd take 7 hours of sleep right now drug induced or not.

2. I only wear caps in races so I'm no help there.

3. 11.5ish miles down this morning.  Felt good.  Could use a nap though.  Reference point 1.

I generally like latex caps.  I tend to find one I like and wear it forever.  Right now its the Beast Milch cap from Kona 2012.

It's 50 degrees in Chicago this morning! I rode my bike to work today for the first time since maybe October. It was great -- despite getting caught in the rain and being a bit of a mess when I got to work. I had forgotten how much I miss riding to work. Looking forward to tomorrow too. 

Feel better this weekend! 

Glad you're feeling better. I went the homeopathic route and ended up doing good. Codeine for me is the devil. I've had it once in my life when I was 11. I had ten baby teeth pulled because they simply wouldn't fall out and my mouth needed the space to let the permanent ones grow in. I woke up in the middle of the night and was hallucinating, because it's technically a hallucinogen, so I saw a tarantula crawling up my chest and started screaming at the top of my lungs. You can imagine my parents horror at 2-AM.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes.

Your move is probably lateral at best. Mine really is moving up. I looked at it last year and basically it took me from the top 40% of the age group to top 20%. The 40-44 might not have the burners of some other age groups but the depth is second to none.

Yikes!  That's scary.  

I was coughing so hard I was vomiting, so I was desperate for some sleep.  I don't know if I got any blocks longer than 2 hours in the last week (with the exception of last night).  One minute I was coughing up a lung, and the next I was floating away.  I like it  

For women, 30-34 is the most competitive group around here.  35-39 is usually third.  I moved up to 35-39 with Larkin.  

Jen, I feel your pain.  I'm now into day six of a nasty sinus infection that has prevented me from doing any training at all.  I'm on antibiotics, but they're not beating it as fast as I'd like.  Hopefully by Monday I'll feel well enough to get back in the pool.  It drives me bananas when I can't exercise, and that drives my wife and kids bananas, too. 

Not as bad as Celiac disease/pneumonia/bronchitis to be sure, but I just wanted you to know you're not alone.  We just have to tell ourselves we're getting our "sick" out of the way now, and then we'll be free to train for the rest of the spring. 

Tell you what.  I'll send good healing vibes your way and you do that for me.     

This being my first full 140 in July, I have been trying my best to complete each of my scheduled training tasks, only to get a tough cold near the end of December.  I thought I kicked it, and did a all out 5k which totally knocked me down for a solid week - missing every scheduled training event for about 9 days.  Moral to the story, make sure you are truely over the bug before you wear yourself down and the nasty bugs take over and make it 10 times worse. 

I've found my "zen" with the cold, and what I missed in training, well, I just missed those and it's done with.  I have been getting back into the routine again, which was much more of a challenge than I thought it would have been.  Breaking the momentum really stinks, but it's all part of the process - better now than in June.

Good luck with the recovery for all those who are sick or injured - do what's right and don't make a rushed decision that could end up costing more time.

Well said! My good vibes to you guys too

Well said too! Excited for you for your journey to the 140.6

so sorry Deb...I bet it is just a sprain because you could still run on it after....but if I can just throw in my 2 cents I'd say if it still really hurts you may want to get an X-ray just to be safe... my 8 year old recently "sprained" his ankle but it managed to create a tiny fracture in the fibula (the smaller non weight bearing bone in the lower leg) and had to wear a boot for 2 to 3 weeks.  

GOOD LUCK!!!

Get it up above your heart, ice it and keep it compressed. 

Sitting down with you foot on the floor is going to increase the swelling.  If you take care if it would should be able to be back running in 1 -2 weeks.  Its definitely worth letting it heal and not pushing it. 

After 12 sprains in a year I had my ankle surgically reconstructed in 2005 -- as simple as a sprain may seem its not worth messing around with it.

This is such a fantastic point!  Nothing that happens in January is going to make a race in the summer or fall but you can do things in January that can break a race in the summer or fall. 

I've found that the most difficult thing about training is knowing when to back off and when to reset not when to push harder.