Yanti & Salty RidiculoSnarky Almost Intelligent-Charming Manatees PART 4 - Full (Page 38)

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QUOTE]cdban66 - 2012-08-10 12:52 PM Thank you very much! You answered another question I had, before I even asked it. OK, now I have a question for Kirsten. In your race report (also read multiple times) you mentioned feeling nauseated during the run. And a couple of nutrtion items during the run. Did you figure out where the nauseated came from? And/or did you get it settled? You also mentioned neck soreness on the bike. Was it the rough road, or bike positioning, or something else?

A TRAINING QUESTION?!

I've never followed any plan "as such"

Whether one should follow all 22 weeks depends on what kind of a base you're starting out with and for how long you've been at that level (or how long it took you to get there).

It doesn't really include a taper, and to be honest you don't need much of one for a HIM, especially for the swim, somewhat for the bike, more so for the run. Taper's actually one of those things best decided as one gets closer to the date depending on the actual training one's done.

Fink plan is definitely light on swimming and I really do not like the way he structures his suggested swim workouts.

The running is just fine to get you through the HIM run, and the length of the longest run isn't really relevant. In fact, I'm considering never going over 2:00 or so even for the IM marathon.

Great. And this is feedback by the only person who has actually met me in person on BT. 

The nausea was heart rate related--if I got my HR above about 145-150, I was nauseated.  I suspect it was some dehydration (I only pee'd once during the race--and no, not on the bike )--although I drank a bit more than I had figured I needed, it was warmer than I had trained at.  Neck soreness= handlebars too wide + very rough roads + poor head position (I try to look too far ahead of myself--hmmm, that may be figuratively as well as literally...)

FORGET YOU EVER READ LONG DOG!

Competition Doggypaddle all the way.

Either way, the point of the drill is to focus on the pull phase without worrying about recovery.

Long Dog purports also to help swimmers not cross the midline (either during the reach or the pull), but Competition Doggypaddle does this better.

Long Dog also purports to build a strong finish to the stroke (push phase) except that's not only been demonstrated to be false and counterproductive; logically, finishing the stroke "long" (as far as you can move your hand back) means that you can only push water UP and therefore your body DOWN (when you want it to go FORWARD). It's better to get your hand back out of the water at about the hip and back around as quickly as possible to the workhorse pull.

I actually exclusively doggy paddled until about high school then transitioned to a doggy paddle with breast stroke kick then exclusive breast stroke. 

I don't know why I was always so scared of the free. Is this typical?

The Olympics closing ceremony is less than TWO HOURS after the last event finishes.

How are the female pentathletes supposed to get back to the Athletes Village, recover/shower/change/eat and get back to the stadium in time?

I guess they're athletes, and pentathletes ... used to going very quickly from one event to another!

Free shower included with every gold medal!

I'm not sure I know how to answer that. At first, I wanted to say "separate," but that might imply that we would be able to watch each other race, so we are racing "together," but we start had vastly different times, so we won't be "together" . . . you see my problem.

The adults start. It's a pool swim, so we start by time. After all of the adults have finished swimming, they will start the kids -- the estimate is that the kids will start 45 minutes after the adults started. That puts me maybe 20-30 minutes ahead of him on the course?

The bike is a 2.5 mile loop (closed, thankfully, since kiddos are doing it). Adults do it 5 times, kids do it 2 times. So, will I be finished on the bike before he gets out there? I certainly hope so, but I might not be. So I might see him on the bike.

Adults run a 5k; kids run 1 mile, on different trails. So I won't see him on the run, except maybe from a distance.

What I am hoping is that I will be very fast (and this is my motivation), so that I can get to the run finish in time to cheer him in. I want to see my boy racing, and I'm a little bummed now that I'm racing, too, even though this is a race I've wanted to do for over a year -- it's 30 minutes from our house, which is super close, compared to every other race I do.

I'm not sure I know how to answer that. At first, I wanted to say "separate," but that might imply that we would be able to watch each other race, so we are racing "together," but we start had vastly different times, so we won't be "together" . . . you see my problem.

The adults start. It's a pool swim, so we start by time. After all of the adults have finished swimming, they will start the kids -- the estimate is that the kids will start 45 minutes after the adults started. That puts me maybe 20-30 minutes ahead of him on the course?

The bike is a 2.5 mile loop (closed, thankfully, since kiddos are doing it). Adults do it 5 times, kids do it 2 times. So, will I be finished on the bike before he gets out there? I certainly hope so, but I might not be. So I might see him on the bike.

Adults run a 5k; kids run 1 mile, on different trails. So I won't see him on the run, except maybe from a distance.

What I am hoping is that I will be very fast (and this is my motivation), so that I can get to the run finish in time to cheer him in. I want to see my boy racing, and I'm a little bummed now that I'm racing, too, even though this is a race I've wanted to do for over a year -- it's 30 minutes from our house, which is super close, compared to every other race I do.