Penn State's mentor group - CLOSED! (Page 36)

PennState - 2010-05-01 1:52 PM x1000. Go Chris! Temps are supposed to be 68-72 deg., which is pretty good!

PennState - 2010-05-01 1:53 PM Ha, the Call of Duty reference reminds me of the TV show "The Office" when they were really into the game except for Jim. Anyone watch that show?

PennState - 2010-05-01 1:53 PM Ha, the Call of Duty reference reminds me of the TV show "The Office" when they were really into the game except for Jim. Anyone watch that show?

phxphotog - 2010-05-01 6:27 PM Chris is on the run:

Swim    1:50:22

Bike      8:20:14

Run          ?

PennState - 2010-05-02 8:57 AM I looked up the results. Chris DNF'd according to Ironmanlive tracker. I hope he's ok

dharris13 - 2010-04-29 11:12 AM

I have a pretty general swim question. For my HIM distance race i am unsure how hard to push on the swim. In my past 2 i have generally taken it nice and easy. yet for some reason i want to try and push a little harder for this one. Thoughts? I am a BOP swimmer incase that helps.

phxphotog - 2010-04-29 3:32 PM So I have been disappointed in my run times for the last two tri's that I have done and I have spent some time trying to figure out what is going on.

1st...I went back and looked at my logs and noticed that I took 6 rest days off in Feb (not bad), 15 days off in Mar (was sick but that's 1/2 the month) and Apr (10 days so far...too many).

2nd...I really spent a lot of time on the swim in the 1st 3 months of training. I was struggling with the swim at 1st and after I got better I spent a bit more time working on being comfortable and a little OWS.

3rd...When I did run I did mainly 3-4 miles max and only half of that was running.

So after looking at all my training logs I have come to the conclusion that I have just not trained enough. I have not put in the amount of time or effort to get better, especially on the run. I also have spent some time hiking and walking on the treadmill that I could have spent biking or running. Over the next 3 weeks I'm going to really try to get my 5k run down to about 30 minutes. I know that is slow for some of you but that is the goal that I have set for myself. After I finish my sprint on May 16th, I'm going to go into 1/2 IM training for October.

In the 1st two triathlons, my goal was just to finish but now I want to start to whittle my time down on both sprint and oly distance races. I would like to be able to do the 1/2 IM, not just finish. I have come to the conclusion that I need to stop making excuses and get the job done through training. It starts tonight!

phxphotog - 2010-05-01 4:53 PM

I love that episode..."Fingers forked up in the air"         CALL OF DUTY     Jim: I'm just killing the Germans   Andy: We're the German's...kill the British.

dharris13 - 2010-05-02 9:56 AM

I just sent this to Fred...but here is a brief race report as i am too lazy right now to really write one. here are the impotant (to me) details.

It went amazing!! I am still trying to wrap my head around how i did so well..and i cant come up with how. I PR'ed the swim by almost 2 minutes...and PR'ed the run by almost 10 minutes. The course was HARD HARD. I really just cant understand how i did so well for myself. I Beat my 70.3 PR time by 1 min 37 seconds on by far the hardest course i have done.
Swim: 37:56
Bike: 3:07:48
Run: 1:48:54
Transition times were in top 5% of all finishers.

Overall i went 5:38:23
Top 20% of all finishers.

Thank you everyone for your help and support!!

dharris13 - 2010-05-02 10:56 AM

I just sent this to Fred...but here is a brief race report as i am too lazy right now to really write one. here are the impotant (to me) details.

It went amazing!! I am still trying to wrap my head around how i did so well..and i cant come up with how. I PR'ed the swim by almost 2 minutes...and PR'ed the run by almost 10 minutes. The course was HARD HARD. I really just cant understand how i did so well for myself. I Beat my 70.3 PR time by 1 min 37 seconds on by far the hardest course i have done.
Swim: 37:56
Bike: 3:07:48
Run: 1:48:54
Transition times were in top 5% of all finishers.

Overall i went 5:38:23
Top 20% of all finishers.

Thank you everyone for your help and support!!

dharris13 - 2010-05-02 9:56 AM

I just sent this to Fred...but here is a brief race report as i am too lazy right now to really write one. here are the impotant (to me) details.

It went amazing!! I am still trying to wrap my head around how i did so well..and i cant come up with how. I PR'ed the swim by almost 2 minutes...and PR'ed the run by almost 10 minutes. The course was HARD HARD. I really just cant understand how i did so well for myself. I Beat my 70.3 PR time by 1 min 37 seconds on by far the hardest course i have done.
Swim: 37:56
Bike: 3:07:48
Run: 1:48:54
Transition times were in top 5% of all finishers.

Overall i went 5:38:23
Top 20% of all finishers.

Thank you everyone for your help and support!!

dharris13 - 2010-05-02 10:51 AM ohh and i have never met anyone who is a bigger fan of the office than myself (dont know whether that is sad or awesome). Every day i send my friend an office Quote of The Day..usually a quote from Dwight.

The bike had 5000+ feet of climbing and then run 2000+

Any word on what happened to chris?

Bears, beets, battlestar galactica.