Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 38)

Nice work pushing through, Jay.  COVID is no joke...my daughter and I just bailed on a race because she got it and I didn't want to risk it.  That weather sounds awful.  Glad you had a good time.

LOL I was thinking the same thing.  About me, I mean, but yeah, probably you as well. 

@Andrew/Nathalie:  I've never heard of Park Runs, so I googled it and sure enough there is one every Saturday in Baltimore.  Who knew?

@Andrew:  glad your training is coming along and the little piggy is healing up nicely; keep up the biking!  RE:  power meters on the run - I find them interesting but I'm not sure what I'd be able to pull out of the data...please give some feedback on it after you use it some; I do use a cadence sensor on my shoe which gives me MUCH more accurate speed sensing indoors vs. just the arm swing readings from my Garmin watch (or the treadmill itself)

@Gretchen:  that is some bout of training you're going through right now; nice work!

A week in Aruba consisted of some light workouts in the morning, and enjoying many beverages during the day mostly of the Balashi brands (local Arubian beer).  Also had some good food.  Cool place...very unique vibe "one happy island" is their motto.  And since it's technically in South America I can check off another continent on my list.  

Now "back to work" both on the computer and on the tri training, starting with 1500 in the pool this morning that was a little rough around the edges but good results. 

Well...now all I see are blank white boxes where pictures were, so I blame the BT gremlins. 

Ugh - yeah, Gretchen.  What Andrew said - 2350 couldn't be a worse number (not a multiple of 1000, 500, 250, or even 100!!).  Yeah, tri training sounds like a really good idea at the time, doesn't it?  I got in a four-bagger today but they were all short (bike, run, strength, swim in that order back-to-back at the gym). 

Good week so far returning to tri training with a mix of pretty much everything in small doses.  I've also discovered that my bike fit is way out of whack (might explain the knee issues I've been having) - my seat is over an inch too high and I've been messing with the set back / reach to compensate and now I'm way to far forward as well.  I think it happened in my zero MPH crash back in March - seat came loose and I fixed it on the spot but never looked to see if the measurement numbers were right.  Now I have to ease back into the correct position LOL, and my aero positioning will need to be tweaked.  You'd think with over 12K miles on my Ridley I'd have it dialed in by now.  SMH

@Nathalie - nice work kicking 2022's Nat's azz.  2018 Nat is feelin' the heat. 

Hey, all.  I'm working on a project at work that I would love to get your input.  We're doing an innovation exercise (forced innovation - YAY!!!  ) and I'm doing a series of empathetic interviews to gather some data on our innovation idea that centers around solving for changes to our lives that impact our ability to achieve our fitness or well-being goals.  Now normally you do empathetic interviews in person or at least live on the phone/Webex, so you''ll just have to pretend I'm not directly asking the questions.  LOL

I think we've all discussed or shared this information with each other so nothing is particularly probing.  If you feel comfortable answering I'd love your feedback (PM if you want it private).  The questions are:

1. What motivates you to exercise / be active?
2. Coming out of the pandemic, are you facing any new challenges that impact your ability to achieve your fitness or well-being goals?
3. Of those challenges (if you have any), what are the toughest for you to overcome?
4. Have you encountered changes in the past that have similarly impacted your ability, and if so how did you overcome those challenges and maintain your fitness  and/or well-being program?

Thanks in advance for participating. 

I'll be sure to share what I'm sure will be a revolutionary innovation idea from my team!