SWBKRUN MENTOR GROUP - OPEN (Page 38)

Nice half Jill, it's amazing how just dropping the intensity down a notch can still give you a good time but feels so much more fun!

Mike - I think you deserve a bit of a rest, use swimming as a nice easy workout and buy a few more swim toys. Just get in and relax, do lots of easy laps and play around. When you've got another tri on the horizon start adding some race pace intervals.

Jill--Great job on the half.  I bet if you were to do Vegas in a few weeks that sub 2 would be yours!

Mike--my motivation to get back in the pool is easy, I'll be even worse than I am if I don't!  Have you thought about REV 3 Knoxville for your first HIM of the season?  Mid May, tough course, but fun!

David--I've thought of quitting too.  The group has really lost its motivation and that makes me sad.

I'm hoping that the changes BT is making will make posting easier again - I miss it, too.

Crazy hectic around here - Zach's having MRIs and such - hip problems have shut down XC season, hard for a senior.  Torn labrum or stress fracture of the hip seem to be the prevailing thought.

I'll work harder to stay online with y'all - this is such an amazing group.

Not too late for Vegas......

67 is WARM.  You've got this!!!

I agree with Linda.  I suggest you get in the H20, burp the suit and do a short warm up to get used to the temps.  While 67 isn't bad, it still takes your breathe away!  Keep Vegas in mind.  I know we'll see you either way.

Linda, what the heck is up with Zach?  How did it happen?

We are off to Minocqua today.  There is snow on the ground and it is snowing today. Crap, crud.  I hate winter. 

OK, OK, a little birdy came and chirped in my log to drop on in here. Sadly my log is pathetic this week as I've been slammed with a cold. My first true cold in years, and it truly sucks. I've decided today is the peak in the severity of symptoms and tomorrow will be better!!

Hmmmm, riding my bike?? Not sure. I give thought to it, certainly!! And have thought about some shorter triathlons next season. We'll see. When I think about how structured life needs to be do to multisport, it feel overwhelmed and like it becomes more chore and less fun. My life litmus test at the moment is that if something isn't fun I'm not going to bother. So I ask myself often, "Am I having fun?" And honestly, doing intervals on the trainer and sets in the pool don't sound fun right now. But we'll see... never say never!!!

Otherwise things are all fine here. I'm just chugging along logging run miles and sometimes trying to run faster. Did a 10K w/Birdy and RP a couple of weeks back and pulled out a 1:00 PR in spite of the lack of training. I'm having minor surgery on my ankle in November, so I know I'll lose a couple of weeks of running due to that. I figured it'll be a nice break for my body and I'll ramp up slowly in December and see where the year takes me come January!! Meanwhile, I also spend a $#!^-ton of time shuttling my kids to their activities, but it's a labor of love so I'm not complaining.

Carry on!! I'm reading even if I'm not posting. I'll try to be better about posting.

My log is out of whack also. I just havent felt like putting on with GarminConnect and Strava thought that would be enough. I will start posting again next month.

I guess the MG goes pretty dull in the off season. I felt like the group was very different the second half of the year as well. I guess people have been busy with life

Best to do these things when the time is right rather than creating stress. How many days till IMFL???!

I had my latest night out in years last night! A friend from university was visiting from the UK so I went over to another Uni friends house after work (7pm finish last night...) then we all hit the town and I ended up walking home at 2:30am! I had to get up after 4 hours sleep and ride my bike back to Noosa to fetch the car. Never again,,,,

I personally know how hard it is to make a decision like that.  I waffled back and forth on IM WI for '14 but in the end decided I wanted a real summer to do other things.  We're doing a vacation too and I plan to do whatever I want whenever I want to do it on the race front.  Feels pretty good too.

Three cheers for Jill!!!! She had a great race!

Originally posted by copa2251 Finally on page 38!!!!! I was thinking about quitting the MG but then I realized that I really do care about how you're all getting on and talking about any old crap that comes up...
How are things going with the trail running Jayne? How's the cross season going Dino??? How's IM training going Trev? Are you ever going to get on a bike again Kayla??? Let us know

Honestly still stalking, just don't post much.  I am really not a "triathlete" anymore so I feel really strange offering any advice on anything other than cycling and bike racing "cycling" is much different and requires much different training than "triathlon" cycling.  I don't use the new BT logs since I now log everything on training peaks.   Wow, lots of excuses here, so I will try to be better.  But I don't see any tri's in my near future.   

Cross season has been tough but fun.  I have held my own in this Masters category, there is no faster group except Pros.  I am currently sitting in 5th overall in the series.  We will see if I can stay there since 10 days ago I got this chest cold that I just cannot seem to kick.  Been to the Doc and they have seen it going around and really can't do anything for it except let it run it's course.  Worse race of the season for me today, just had no legs or jump out of the corners or up the hills and finished out of the top 20 (21st) for the first time all year.  Been hacking ever since with my cold and "crossers cough" which a lot of folks getting from breathing really deep in cold weather for an extended period of time.  Need to get back with a real hard training focus to finish the season.......

Keep posting, we can't let SWBKRUN die.  It has been a BT cornerstone.      

Well done Jill, sounds like a great first tri, I think the swims get easier the more you do. I was ocean swimming before I started tris so I'm pretty comfortable being swum over, just relax and flow through the crowd. When's the next one?

Originally posted by badgerintx

Originally posted by copa2251 Finally on page 38!!!!! I was thinking about quitting the MG but then I realized that I really do care about how you're all getting on and talking about any old crap that comes up...
How are things going with the trail running Jayne? How's the cross season going Dino??? How's IM training going Trev? Are you ever going to get on a bike again Kayla??? Let us know

Honestly still stalking, just don't post much.  I am really not a "triathlete" anymore so I feel really strange offering any advice on anything other than cycling and bike racing "cycling" is much different and requires much different training than "triathlon" cycling.  I don't use the new BT logs since I now log everything on training peaks.   Wow, lots of excuses here, so I will try to be better.  But I don't see any tri's in my near future.   

Cross season has been tough but fun.  I have held my own in this Masters category, there is no faster group except Pros.  I am currently sitting in 5th overall in the series.  We will see if I can stay there since 10 days ago I got this chest cold that I just cannot seem to kick.  Been to the Doc and they have seen it going around and really can't do anything for it except let it run it's course.  Worse race of the season for me today, just had no legs or jump out of the corners or up the hills and finished out of the top 20 (21st) for the first time all year.  Been hacking ever since with my cold and "crossers cough" which a lot of folks getting from breathing really deep in cold weather for an extended period of time.  Need to get back with a real hard training focus to finish the season.......

Keep posting, we can't let SWBKRUN die.  It has been a BT cornerstone.      

Got to watch that "crossers cough" Dino, another group who get that are cross country skiers but it's been found to be exercise induced asthma. The cold causes airway changes that trigger bronchoconstriction.