Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 37)

DUDE that shift return thing IS AWESOME that has been bugging the S$%^ outta me for forever thanks Yanti, oh and the checklist helps too haha

Ahhhh yes, well, you are both correct. When I train with people, I chit chat. A lot. As in AD, A-dizzle, Addy (or Salty or whatever they choose to call me that day) WON'T SHUT UP!

The last time I barfed was during track practice in highschool where our coach/sadist imposed the "4min mile" workout on us. (I was a sprinter).  I puked hard after practice, along with several of my team mates.  It was miserable.  I shudder to think about an effort like that again.

If you're wondering what the 4min/mile workout is (good speed work), it's like golf where 4min is par.

800m warm-up

Time yourself at an all out pace for 400m.  That's your starting time.

Then do intervals of 100m, 200m or whatever.  Your total distance should be 1600m and total time should be 4 minutes or less.  You jog one lap (400m) between intervals (this is your rest, which you don't count as part of your time or distance).

So say you do your first 400m at 60seconds.  Congratulations, you're at "par" That means if you elect to do 4x400 then each 400 has to be 60 seconds or less to stay at par. 

I hate that work out.

Finished my class early enough that I was able to get my open water swim in, apparently it was field trip day at the county park at the beach I went to so I got some odd looks emerging from the changing rooms in full wetsuit.  The weather sucks today (so 1100 was close to what I'm expecting/hoping for on saturday) but I rather enjoyed swimming with the wetsuit once I got used to it/figured out that if I let some water in through the neck I could breathe a bit easier.  Although I need to work on my bilateral breathing, Had planned a 20 min swim ten min down the beach then back.  When I could see the land my sighting was awesome and my speed was decent- not so much otherwise.  My pace put me squarely in the 30-40 min range for a 1.2 mile swim.  Hopefully I'll be on the smaller end of that as I will be able to sight off of my left side the whole time, that's my preferred side for breathing while swimming. 

Good luck on the TT today Keye, try to leave a little bit of yourself on the course!

Prepping the race checklist tonight, fixing up the bike etc.  Has anyone had a problem swimming in the desoto 400 mile shorts?  Those are my planned shorts for the HIM but it is a fairly bulky pad.  Any things I should look to make sure I have for race time?  Besides the regular expo there is also a tent sale at the local tri-store down the street so I might be able to pick up some last minute things.

Allen I'm looking forward to racing with you just in different venues on saturday Good Luck and have FUN!!

ETA: My awesome spelling got me again!

Oh nononono, it is waaay too cold for Southerners to get in the water, especially in the rain, they were shell searching (or I secretly believe that the teachers were just letting them run so they'd calm down).  It's odd even with mid-80's temps and sunny people just don't get in the water around here until May,  it was cool but not uncomfortable and some surfers were out but not the childrens   the looks I got were from the teachers/chaperones like I had lost my fool mind getting into the water...

Finished my class early enough that I was able to get my open water swim in, apparently it was field trip day at the county park at the beach I went to so I got some odd looks emerging from the changing rooms in full wetsuit.  The weather sucks today (so 1100 was close to what I'm expecting/hoping for on saturday) but I rather enjoyed swimming with the wetsuit once I got used to it/figured out that if I let some water in through the neck I could breathe a bit easier.  Although I need to work on my bilateral breathing, Had planned a 20 min swim ten min down the beach then back.  When I could see the land my sighting was awesome and my speed was decent- not so much otherwise.  My pace put me squarely in the 30-40 min range for a 1.2 mile swim.  Hopefully I'll be on the smaller end of that as I will be able to sight off of my left side the whole time, that's my preferred side for breathing while swimming. 

Good luck on the TT today Keye, try to leave a little bit of yourself on the course!

Prepping the race checklist tonight, fixing up the bike etc.  Has anyone had a problem swimming in the desoto 400 mile shorts?  Those are my planned shorts for the HIM but it is a fairly bulky pad.  Any things I should look to make sure I have for race time?  Besides the regular expo there is also a tent sale at the local tri-store down the street so I might be able to pick up some last minute things.

Allen I'm looking forward to racing with you just in different venues on saturday Good Luck and have FUN!!

ETA: My awesome spelling got me again!

I like the structure of those swim plans!

I usually get in and do 100 drill, 100 free, 100 another drill, 100 free etc because the coach I had (for 2 weeks in January) had us do it that way.

Okay... what is sculling?  I've heard it helps you "feel" the water.  Is this something I can learn to do w/o a coach?

I did it! I made myself go for a run when I wanted to come home and read on my deck, AND I had a really good workout! I think the bike interval work at my computrainer class plus the coached track workouts with my running club have really improved my speed in a short 3 1/2 months!  I started out "easy", which is usually around 10:00 min/mile, but today it was 9:45.  Then for my second mile I was running an average 9:15! That is so good for me! It's like last week, at track, I was shooting to do my 400m repeats at 2:15s, but each lap I came around and I was at 2:08.  I said, well if the legs feel like running an 8:30 mile, who am I to stop them!  Now I need to teach my body to maintain that pace, because I felt like I was going to puke a little (that lovely feeling when your stomach says "stop or I"ll..." fill in the blank as to what it threatens, lol).

And honestly, I thought about all of my fellow manatees and all the killer workouts they've been logging, and that's what got my butt outside to log some miles today.  Thank you for the inspiration!!

I did it! I made myself go for a run when I wanted to come home and read on my deck, AND I had a really good workout! I think the bike interval work at my computrainer class plus the coached track workouts with my running club have really improved my speed in a short 3 1/2 months!  I started out "easy", which is usually around 10:00 min/mile, but today it was 9:45.  Then for my second mile I was running an average 9:15! That is so good for me! It's like last week, at track, I was shooting to do my 400m repeats at 2:15s, but each lap I came around and I was at 2:08.  I said, well if the legs feel like running an 8:30 mile, who am I to stop them!  Now I need to teach my body to maintain that pace, because I felt like I was going to puke a little (that lovely feeling when your stomach says "stop or I"ll..." fill in the blank as to what it threatens, lol).

And honestly, I thought about all of my fellow manatees and all the killer workouts they've been logging, and that's what got my butt outside to log some miles today.  Thank you for the inspiration!!

I did it! I made myself go for a run when I wanted to come home and read on my deck, AND I had a really good workout! I think the bike interval work at my computrainer class plus the coached track workouts with my running club have really improved my speed in a short 3 1/2 months!  I started out "easy", which is usually around 10:00 min/mile, but today it was 9:45.  Then for my second mile I was running an average 9:15! That is so good for me! It's like last week, at track, I was shooting to do my 400m repeats at 2:15s, but each lap I came around and I was at 2:08.  I said, well if the legs feel like running an 8:30 mile, who am I to stop them!  Now I need to teach my body to maintain that pace, because I felt like I was going to puke a little (that lovely feeling when your stomach says "stop or I"ll..." fill in the blank as to what it threatens, lol).

And honestly, I thought about all of my fellow manatees and all the killer workouts they've been logging, and that's what got my butt outside to log some miles today.  Thank you for the inspiration!!

Thanks everyone.  I didn't puke but that was because my legs stopped listening to me at some point.  I was just hanging on for dear life towards the end.  I don't ever expect I'll be as fast as some of those cyclists, even with fresh legs.  I think some are cat 1 riders.  Gives me another goal I guess.  Along with my running.

And my swimming...

And my eating habits...

You guys are all so awesome!  I'm sorry I haven't posted more, and when I do post, it's pretty lame.  It takes me so long to catch up on all the posts (partly because I'm giggling so hard at your little rants (ex: piglets on the run pretty up the place - so funny!)) that by the time I post, I've forgotten all the little comments I've thought of as I was reading!

But I want to say thank you for the humor, the workouts, the great pieces of advice, the examples of tough-ness and just over all cool-ness of you all!!  You're all great!  Keep up the great work in this group and in LIFE!!

Carry on meow!

Thanks everyone.  I didn't puke but that was because my legs stopped listening to me at some point.  I was just hanging on for dear life towards the end.  I don't ever expect I'll be as fast as some of those cyclists, even with fresh legs.  I think some are cat 1 riders.  Gives me another goal I guess.  Along with my running.

And my swimming...

And my eating habits...