Have I lost my mind to consider a HIM? (Page 38)

~ AZ Sunshine ~ - 2009-07-29 10:58 PM

I'm doing the California 70.3 the end of March.� It will be my first Half Ironman and I am scared to death.� I figure we have 34.5 weeks until the race.� I have a training plan worked out and I know I am going to have to work my butt off to make the cut off times!� I'm a BIG girl but I'm totally motivated.� Let's do it!!�

twinstrimom - 2009-12-26 7:54 AM I'm doing my first HIM in August. which gives me 30 weeks from January 1st. Would love to see your training plan. I'm not small either, and have only been able to find a 20 week training plan. Train safe!!! Mary _________________________________________________________________________________ I may never finish 1st or make it to Kona, but I’m proud of the fact that I had the courage to begin my journey.

losta - 2009-12-26 8:31 AM Hi there ladies and Scott! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and are back into their tri training. My local Y had a "fitness marathon" this morning. I spent two hours and forty-five minutes there in spin class, pilates, Abs of Steel, group personal training then I ran on the treadmill. I ordered my new scale last night so next week I should be able to start with that and continue with the racing weight book.

IdealMuse - 2009-12-26 7:14 PM Just looked at everyone's logs... You all put me to shame with all that working out over the holiday! I'm not really pleased with the way I've been thrown off track this month. Anyway, luckily the holidays are winding down and we can get back to business here. Sounds like everyone had a good time. Sorry it was a bit sad for you Kate - First holidays without a person is pretty hard sometimes. I didn't get any Tri toys, but I got a really nice digital camera for my Birthday which also takes great videos, so come Ironman my husband will be prepared to take lots of photos hehe. Registration opens for Door County on Jan 1st and I'm all psyched to register at midnight. The race has a REALLY good reputation and the buzz about it has been growing, so I want to be sure and get signed up early. Pretty positive it will sell out.

twinstrimom - 2009-12-26 7:54 AM I'm doing my first HIM in August. which gives me 30 weeks from January 1st. Would love to see your training plan. I'm not small either, and have only been able to find a 20 week training plan. Train safe!!! Mary _________________________________________________________________________________ I may never finish 1st or make it to Kona, but I’m proud of the fact that I had the courage to begin my journey.

~ AZ Sunshine ~ - 2009-12-26 5:38 PM Awesome work out Lisa!!  You are so good!  I'm not being so good.  I think I officially have the holiday blues.  1st Christmas without my dad.  Sad.  Today I napped for 2 hours instead of going on my bike ride and I ate WAY TOO MUCH pecan pie.  UGH.  I'm going to try to rally, perk up, and get some kind of work out in today.  Wish me luck.

LeahDD - 2009-12-27 7:32 PM

Is anyone here doing the January White Sale Challenge?

~ AZ Sunshine ~ - 2009-12-28 8:02 AM I have a polar watch with 5 zones.  It made me load my age height weight and DOB and came up with my heart rate.  I figure it was a good starting place. 

LeahDD - 2009-12-28 2:33 PM



That is a good starting place, but a better one would be to do some sort of time trial and get your zones based on the result.  In a nutshell, after warming up, you go as hard as you humanly can to get your heart rate up as high as you can.  That would be your max.  Then you figure out your zones from there.

I think I will skip the challenge this month too.  I am pretty consistent with my training and don't need it (much) for motivation.  I do acknowledge that it has gotten me off my fanny to get that last workout in before the end of the month, but overall, I'm OK.  I always look to see if there is a new and different one that might tempt me.  Don't know what that might be or I would have to start it.

HOWEVER,  I was thinking of having a little contest with just us folks to see who could get to 2010 miles first.   I would count running, biking, walking, hiking, swimming.  Anything with forward motion involved, the exception being logging the "miles" on the trainer.  Right now I only log hours, but I could log miles as well.  The reason I don't is that it seems to show that I can go more miles at a given speed than I can really do on the road and that seemed like "cheating." 

Are you game for it? 

losta - 2009-12-28 12:22 PM I'm in but trainer miles have to count otherwise I'd be going nowhere for 3 months. I get distance on my trainer through the Garmin cadence monitor. I haven't been tracking my mileage either (though I do have some of the data especially from the bike) but I was going to start adding to my log on Jan 1 so this will be fun. 2010 challenge...lets go!

LeahDD - 2009-12-28 12:59 PM Excellent article on "saddle comfort."  And a new saddle was barely mentioned and not much recommended.  I buy mid-price bike shorts and am now itching to go out and buy the most expensive I can find.  Same thing with chamois butter.  I've never used it, but now think I probably ought to.