THE SLAYER RULES-FULL Up (Page 37)

I'm still here.

Work has been crazy recently so trying to fit training in when i can. 

Last weekend managed my longest run of the year, 20 miles in prep for the london marathon in 9 days time.

come to Croatia, while you're at it...

First duathlon went well.

However, I payed my dues for this rookie race. I had good runs, but I didn't use transition properly. I got my helmet wrong, had to pull aside and fix it. It was wet and it rained until the start the whole day and almost the whole race. 

Run was actually cross (so, off road). First run I had 19:48 (5k), very good. I had a terrible and slow bike part (around 44min). The bike course was difficult (for me) and I lost plenty of time. After Transition 2 we had to make 2,5k more i.e. 2 laps of 1.250m. Close to my first lap after transition a partner from the club pulled me to run faster with her...and I automatically followed her and extended my run until the finish line although I had to make another lap. And then I had to get back...I lost the time here also. Rookie mistake(s), what can I say.

All in all, happy. I feel very sorry for the time lost due to various mistakes, the rain, and my poor bike in general. Just recently I started to drive and I hope I'll get as better I can as soon as possible.

Edit to add: I'm waiting official time... but around 01:15:00.

Good race Gladiator. Way to learn from experience. It's all good if you can take something away that helps you for next time.

I am just back from a 10Mile race throught Angus Glen Golf course. Great event through the course that has hosted the Canadian Open. Hilly and pretty challenging. Did this race 2 years ago and finished in 1:44. Today finished in 1:27:25. And a new PB for the distance of almost 4 minutes (the previous PB was on a flat course). Also 10th place finish in my age group and finished in 89th overall. So feeling good and that was after my first out side ride of the year yesterday (2 hours).

Achilles behaved and feeling good now.

Hope everyone else had a good weekend.

great work hoale and gladiator! hope you will both learn from your mistakes and be proud of your accomplishments. every race is a learning experience.

we will all be pulling for you silverback! kill that london mary. its a dream of mine to someday do it. that and the nyc mary. wish i could hit the European races more.

im starting to get in race mode for this weekend's 70.3. weight holding firm in the low 190s so i will be racing lower than ever. should be fun to see what happens. good workouts this weekend. did a killer interval bike brick on friday then an ironswim and some track work yesterday. today was a 3 hour bike and a sub 7:30pace 10k brick run. my di2s lost power in the middle of the bike so that was a bit of trouble keeping up but i managed by burning a lot of matches up.

anyhow, lets keep it rolling. there appears to be good interest. we want to hear how each of us trains and races after a nice start to the year. thanks for your participation! y'all who went to lurk should keep checking in. its only as good as we make it.

Hellooooo lovelies,

Had a big biking weekend.  Yesterday I set out on an 80 mile ride to Huntington Beach.  Unfortunately we had a wicked storm and the winds were 25-35 mph with gusts over 45 mph.  I made it 12 miles without dying (yes!) but with my bike blowing all over the road and going 9mph on the flats.  Then I took the train from Solana Beach to San Juan Capistrano and then rode 28 miles to Huntington Beach.  Still crazy windy and I white knuckled it up the coast.  Stayed with some friends and then rode back 80 miles today.  Rode with my honey for about 50 of the miles and it was very fun.  Definitely a leisurely pace.  Best biking week I've had in a while.

Big running week coming up, with my first trail race ever!  Going to treat it like a training day, though.

I did something similar to this in one of my first races.  Following a pack, we all missed a turn and ended up coming to the finish line from the wrong direction.  Race director looked at us all funny, asked if we were part of his race or if another one was going on.  We backtracked to the missed turn and finished the race.  Not the end of the world and it makes you laugh at yourself a little bit.

As long as were confessing I did the same thing. I had a terrible run time and after checking my GPS I realized I did an extra loop and ran 4+ miles in a 5k.

haha my first 5k i followed the lead pack and we ended up doing 5.5 mi. for a week, i was walking like i had rode a horse too long.

Edit to add: great job on the bike last week Ashley! trail racing is kind of fun but dangerous but i am sure you will be fine.

You have been absolutely killing it!

Finally starting to get some confidence back with my running.  Ran 5 days in a row with no real pain.  Last night I was able to do the second half of my run pushing the legs and not worrying so much about the knee.  And Im still feeling good today.  Legs are tired but my head is getting to a better place.

Whats the game plan for the race?

from my logs:

Running the other day (and getting some swagger back), the water bottle smash came into my head as I got to the driveway.  Its feeling good to transition from running scared to running with some attitude.  Almost good enough to break a water bottle in front of the neighbors.

sugar free does the trick! Not sure about the coke though. Thats my worry. Ive never raced on MET and not sure when the glyco is going to run out. hopefully the generation ucan bottle before the race and during the bike serves as enough slower burning fuel.

EDIT to add: bottle slam in front of neighbors? why havent i thought of that!

Also, im getting some questions on raisins as they are fibrous.

Finally decided on my first race of the year. Headed up to Knoxville for Rev3. I'll being doing the OLY. Finally something close on the calendar! 

i wanted to do rev3 knox but i just dont think it fits. it would be a force fit. may be better for me to train hard and long at home. TTT is a coming.

Good luck to you Scotty! Its great to get a race on the schedule.

I only coordinate with my wife on races.  'B' races we'll do on the same day.  'A' races we usually figure out for consecutive weekends so that the racer has a gopher in the morning.  (Its also hard to race an 'A' race when youre worried about the other person.)  For me, its hard enough to figure out races that fit into the schedule without having to worry about "team" obligations too.