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 2013-10-31 10:41 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
Expert  2192    Greenville, SC |  Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closedfor the past year pretty much all my workouts where "planned" a week ahead and volume based. 1 long run, 2 tempo, 2-3 easy. 1 hard interval bike, 1 long, 1 hill/trainer, and 1 group ride. swim was swim; i had/have no idea what im doing, but i have gotten a top collegiate swimmer to give me private lessons in exchange for me helping him out on the bike. im giving the coaching route a shot next year. may be the only shot i get at it since the GF is getting pretty serious about settling down. i can buy all my toys i want for the next 10 years in 12 months right guys? to be honest there are a lot of great free resources on training plans out there. every coach i met with didn't really have a training regime that was any different than what i do now, but i am looking for someone to manage my workouts and make sure i am not overloading going into next season.
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| 2013-11-01 7:40 AM in reply to: Clempson |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Originally posted by Clempson for the past year pretty much all my workouts where "planned" a week ahead and volume based. 1 long run, 2 tempo, 2-3 easy. 1 hard interval bike, 1 long, 1 hill/trainer, and 1 group ride. swim was swim; i had/have no idea what im doing, but i have gotten a top collegiate swimmer to give me private lessons in exchange for me helping him out on the bike. im giving the coaching route a shot next year. may be the only shot i get at it since the GF is getting pretty serious about settling down. i can buy all my toys i want for the next 10 years in 12 months right guys? to be honest there are a lot of great free resources on training plans out there. every coach i met with didn't really have a training regime that was any different than what i do now, but i am looking for someone to manage my workouts and make sure i am not overloading going into next season.
Thanks for the advice all. Dude, you're going to kill it with a coach. Seemed like you had an awesome year, I bet having a coach will only open things up for you even more. Best of luck with that. Also, the marriage thing isn't what takes up the time, it's the kids. 100% the kids. It's awesome and I'd give up anything for my little guy, but it's definitely a change. I signed up for the silver membership ($45 for a year, I spend more than that on gas in one week) here yesterday so I have the freedom to modify my planned sessions as I need to. The plan I ended up going with is a 22 week intermediate Oly plan, but it's really more geared towards a HIM. There are some serious hours on there but I'm going to try and do my best to match up my schedule to it and hold myself accountable. It maxes out at 12.5 hours/week towards the middle, which is going to be near impossible for me to hit with life and all, but if some of the 2-3 hour bike rides have to be cut down then so be it, I just want to have the ability to look ahead on a schedule and set things up and keep track of it all. I'll also modify the taper towards the end because it ends in March and if all goes well I should be able to jump into an 8-10 week program after that to be ready for race season. |
| 2013-11-02 7:47 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Member 275 Cleveland OH | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed I don't see how I could ever follow a plan. My life is way too by the seat of my pants. I don't see how you could get in 10-12 hrs a week Jon. I doubt I could get in 7 a week. But I don't have a normal job though I guess either. Clempson, Jon is right, a wife is 1 thing. a kid is entirely different. My wife stays home now, which you would think is nice but then she complains because I never see him or her. So tread lightly and like you said you might want to make this your year. Ready as I can be for our HM tomorrow. uhgg no sleep last night little kiddo just wont sleep through the whole night at all. Love waking up a 3:30 and being up for the day. |
| 2013-11-02 11:14 AM in reply to: smithat05 |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Originally posted by smithat05 I don't see how I could ever follow a plan. My life is way too by the seat of my pants. I don't see how you could get in 10-12 hrs a week Jon. I doubt I could get in 7 a week. But I don't have a normal job though I guess either. Clempson, Jon is right, a wife is 1 thing. a kid is entirely different. My wife stays home now, which you would think is nice but then she complains because I never see him or her. So tread lightly and like you said you might want to make this your year. Ready as I can be for our HM tomorrow. uhgg no sleep last night little kiddo just wont sleep through the whole night at all. Love waking up a 3:30 and being up for the day. I doubt I'll be able to get anything more than 7-8, maybe 9-10 if I was able to really use the weekends wisely. The thing I have that works most of the time is that I can swim most days during lunch. So without really missing a beat that's 3-5 hours a week in the pool with no real issue. I'm at work between 8-10 hours a day, so taking an extra 1/2 hour at lunch is no big deal. Also, my kid is a nap machine. 2-3 hours on the weekend, 12-2/3 without question. Good luck on our HIM tomorrow. I think of the 5 triathlons I did this year I didn't get more than 6 hours of sleep on any of them. Ah the joy of kids. |
| 2013-11-04 8:04 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
Member 275 Cleveland OH | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed HM went very well. My goal was 1:40. It was 37 degrees when we started the race, and it almost snow/rained on us. I wore a beanie,Under A cold gear, t-shirt over , and shorts. by mile 3 I had the beanie and UA cold gear shirt off. My first HM 1:34:00 |
| 2013-11-05 7:24 AM in reply to: smithat05 |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Wow man, that's an awesome time and you destroyed your goal time. Congrats. Any issues pacing or anything or did you just keep it pretty even the whole way? |
| 2013-11-06 7:02 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Member 275 Cleveland OH | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed First mile was 6:26, second was 6:54 then evened out after that about 7:15 ish. My watch needs calabrated so I cant give you my splits that my watch says. I felt pretty good the whole time. Only time I thought I was bonking was around mile 10-10.5 at mile 11 I picked it up knowing we only had 2 miles to go. I was shocked that no one around me picked it up also. I finished 26th out of 670 runners, I almost caught another guy at the end too another 20 yds and I would have had him. |
| 2013-11-06 8:02 AM in reply to: smithat05 |
Expert 2192 Greenville, SC | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed great race, way to crush your goal time! picking it up at the end is exactly what i like to do too, and surprisingly few people do it; i'd rather just suffer it out and be done sooner. |
| 2013-11-08 7:42 AM in reply to: Clempson |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed So I'm kind of digging the higher load of workouts. Just having the schedule that I can edit and know my upcoming workouts is huge for me actually keeping with it, but I still feel obliaged to keep with the schedule. I'll be close to 9 hours training at the end of the week if I can sneak in a longish (2hr) ride tomorrow. If I can keep between 7-10 hours constantly thoughout the winter I'll be psyched. |
| 2013-11-08 8:16 AM in reply to: smithat05 |
Champion 7136 Knoxville area | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Originally posted by smithat05 HM went very well. My goal was 1:40. It was 37 degrees when we started the race, and it almost snow/rained on us. I wore a beanie,Under A cold gear, t-shirt over , and shorts. by mile 3 I had the beanie and UA cold gear shirt off. My first HM 1:34:00 That's a sweet time for the first HM! Crushed the goal too! |
| 2013-11-08 8:17 AM in reply to: Leegoocrap |
Champion 7136 Knoxville area | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed |
| 2013-11-08 9:24 AM in reply to: Leegoocrap |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Happy Birthday. Welcome to the big boys club. Hell, I'm only 32. I'd kill to be 24 again though. KILL. |
| 2013-11-11 8:40 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Champion 7136 Knoxville area | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Originally posted by jonD81 Happy Birthday. Welcome to the big boys club. Hell, I'm only 32. I'd kill to be 24 again though. KILL. haha indeed. 5 more years and I can race masters  |
| 2013-11-15 7:04 AM in reply to: Leegoocrap |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Anyone ever done an inside tri? There's one coming up first week in December. 20 minute swim, 20 minute bike, 20 minute run. It's at the YMCA that I swim at, so I might do it just for fun. I'd rather they spread it out more like a traditional tri, but that's ok, 20 minutes at anything is pretty much just an all out effort, and you get 5 minutes in T1 and T2 to avoid anyone running through the Y trying to get on a bike or treadmill. Also have a 5 mile run on Thanksgiving morning, put on by the same YMCA. I did it last year in 40:58 but that was when I was barely even running. I think I can get it somewhere around 35-37 minutes this year. |
| 2013-11-15 11:12 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Champion 7136 Knoxville area | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed so what do they compare times on? Seems like you could crush the bike split inside if you set the resistance right... I've got a Thanksgiving 5k myself... going to try and break 19:00 (:21 PR) |
| 2013-11-15 12:16 PM in reply to: Leegoocrap |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Results are by distance. So however much you can do in 20 minutes for each discipline. The 5 minutes between is huge, IMO. They must have someone dedicated to each lane/bike/mill to record distance after. Don't really know how it's going to work but for $15 I'll give it a whirl. There's a 5k or 5mile. Everyone at my office does the 5 mile. I want to do a stand alone 5k sometime soon though, see what I can put out. I bet you can get under 19, just think of all the turkey after. |
| 2013-11-20 1:16 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Man, swam next to this guy and his gf today and they were both super fast. The guy was a bit faster than her, but they both blew me away. I can pump out a 100 at around 1:35 if I'm just pushing a single 100, but most of the time I'm around 1:48-1:52 over longer distances. Regardless, this guy was flying. I'd take off at the same time as him, he'd pass me on his way coming back after I was only 3/4 of the way down, then he'd get me again as I was on my way back. I talked to him between sets and he said he's been swimming for 15 years, all throughout college on teams and such. He said his double sessions in college would be roughly 13,000 yards a day. His warm up was 1000 yards easy and he'd probably get 5-6k yards in while he was there, which I was guessing would be a little over an hour. I'm not even at that point where this is humbling because I'm still learning how to swim really, I was more still in shock than anything. |
| 2013-11-22 4:12 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
Champion 7136 Knoxville area | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed it's humbling being beside a real fish. This older guy comes to the pool every now and then and he can match me for 500's doing the backstroke. I mean, I'm no fish, but I generally hold 1:30's/100s for my longer sets... he crushes it. |
| 2013-11-26 6:19 PM in reply to: Leegoocrap |
Expert 2192 Greenville, SC | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed sounds like my masters swim classes. there are 5 or so guys there last night doing 300 repeats on 3:30..... and there is a girl that shows up sometimes who blows them all away. its more frustrating than humbling when i'm in a lane next to them. well i had my first bike workout from my new coach tonight. a 3 interval FTP test..... it was absolutely brutal. good news is its sits me at 299W for my FTP |
| 2013-11-27 11:32 AM in reply to: Clempson |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed There was another girl in the lane next to me yesterday that was crushing it, but she didn't look very fluid. It looked violent, but she was in the low 1:00's. I'm seeing some good progress on my swims just from going more often. I'm doing a lot of "speed" work, relative term of course, but just doing more 100's and 200's during my workout. Yesterday I was doing 1:45 every time, 1:30's when I pushed it. I haven't incorporated any drills yet, just trying to keep my form good, really feeling my pull since I have pretty big hands I get the feel of really pulling a ton of water along side me. Man, 299, that's awesome. That's some serious output. It will be interesting to see what your coach gives you to kick your butt. |
| 2013-12-02 7:11 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Did my 5 miler on Thanksgiving. Frigging 10,616 people at the race. I forgot how crowded it was from the year before. I started around the 7min pace corral, but that was absolute crap. People were walking. My goal was to break 40 minutes, which I knew I'd be able to do. My secondary goal was 37:30 for an even 7:30 pace. I ended up at 38:04 because my first mile was something close to 9 minutes because of just the walking and dodging of people. Last mile was 6:41 to try and make it up, but it just wasn't happening. Still happy with my time, now I know not to try and set any hard goals for this race because it's SO crowded haha. Still fun though. |
| 2013-12-06 9:05 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Expert 2192 Greenville, SC | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed solid time, i couldn't imagine running in a race that crowded. did you negative split the whole race or did you just speed up that last mile to try and get back to your goal time? |
| 2013-12-08 12:49 PM in reply to: Clempson |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Technically the whole race, but that's only because that first mile was just dodging people like crazy. Other people I was with snuck way up front and had less than a 1 minute differential between gun and chip time. My difference was closer to 3 minutes. I also did my indoor tri yesterday. 20 minutes on each leg. Did 1100 yards, 7.4 miles and 2.7 miles. I ended up winning but there were only a dozen or so people in it, it was just a small little thing at our local YMCA. I came in 2nd (1200) in the swim, first in the bike and 2nd (2.76) in the run. It was fun. I did most of the damage on the bike, everyone else was saving up for the run but we had 5 minutes between each leg, so I figured I'd blast the bike and loosen up during those 5 minutes. There's another one in March and everyone said they're gunning for me now haha. It was worth the $15 entry fee, got me 3 solid workouts in yesterday. |
| 2013-12-12 9:59 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
Expert 2192 Greenville, SC | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed awesome on the win! yeah, a lot of recovery can happen in 5 minutes. i had to redo my powertest that gave me 299.... now im a little higher than that... and i think my power zones are going to kill me. i almost blacked out in the last 30 seconds of the test so i feel like it was a solid effort. |
| 2013-12-14 7:43 PM in reply to: Clempson |
Member 275 Cleveland OH | Subject: RE: Leegoocrap & Newbz rowdy Mentor Group - Closed Great job Jon, be careful Clempson, don't want to black out on the trainer. Might hurt coming down. I have been swimming and biking, not running too much. Ran a 5k for the Turkey Trot, ran pretty slow with a dog and stayed back with my wife trying to cheer her on. She wanted to do Sub 23.00 so I helped her out. I am excited for the 14' season. Know that Im going to do a HIM for sure. Will also do a couple Oly and probably couple of HM's |
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