kaburns1214 Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 39)

jarvy01 - 2011-02-05 8:24 AM I ordered 5 pairs of shorts a few months ago.  My favorite so far are the Zoot shorts.  Love them!  They are comfortable and fit perfectly. 

I'm going to try and get in 90 minutes on the trainer.  Husband is at work for the day, and we're having a birthday party for my oldest tonight.  I have a lot of cleaning and cooking to do. 

I scheduled a deep tissue massage for Tuesday.  I am so excited (and scared ). 

pbrown70 - 2011-02-05 5:45 PM I got in a 7 mile run and did half hour on the ex. bike at the y before they closed for the night. I'm doing my first tri tomorrow in the morning. It's a short tri for beginners put on by the y and a local tri club. wish me luck.  

pbrown70 - 2011-02-05 3:45 PM I got in a 7 mile run and did half hour on the ex. bike at the y before they closed for the night. I'm doing my first tri tomorrow in the morning. It's a short tri for beginners put on by the y and a local tri club. wish me luck.  

pbrown70 - 2011-02-05 5:45 PM I got in a 7 mile run and did half hour on the ex. bike at the y before they closed for the night. I'm doing my first tri tomorrow in the morning. It's a short tri for beginners put on by the y and a local tri club. wish me luck.  

pbrown70 - 2011-02-05 5:45 PM I got in a 7 mile run and did half hour on the ex. bike at the y before they closed for the night. I'm doing my first tri tomorrow in the morning. It's a short tri for beginners put on by the y and a local tri club. wish me luck.  

pbrown70 - 2011-02-05 5:45 PM I got in a 7 mile run and did half hour on the ex. bike at the y before they closed for the night. I'm doing my first tri tomorrow in the morning. It's a short tri for beginners put on by the y and a local tri club. wish me luck.  

kaburns1214 - 2011-02-06 6:56 AM Erica (trilooney) and I are going to run a 5K then run out another 10 miles to make up for the canceled race in Maine.  Curious if we can go faster than we did last month.  More hills on this course but fewer turns.

pbrown70 - 2011-02-06 12:04 PM I'm not sure where or how to do a race report so I'll do it here. It was a short race for beginners. the swim was 400 meters, bike was 12 miles and the run was 2.2 miles. Since it was first race I'm not sure how qalified I am to judge how well it was put together but, based on other events i've  been to it seemed very well organized with plenty of volunteers. The course was well marked and pretty easy to follow. The weather was mid 60's and over cast probably prefect for racing. As for how I did next time I sign up prior to race day. I got put at the back of the line 100plus racers long and I spent alot of time waiting to get in the pool and then I had to navigate thur the crowd of slower swimmers. My transition time were pretty slow I watch people I passed get ahead of me in both the bike and the swim. My bike was ok I only got passed once and at the same time I passed alot of people. One thing I noticed I never got comfortable on my bike. My postion was messed up I never was able to get in the areo for any length of time I feel like I could have gone much faster had I been able to get comfortable. As for the run I passed  a bunch of people which was good however, I never was able to get my stride to open up. I think maybe I was too aggressive with my training the day before my legs may have been a little tired. With that said I finished in 1:10 so I guess it could have been worse.

pbrown70 - 2011-02-06 12:04 PM I'm not sure where or how to do a race report so I'll do it here. It was a short race for beginners. the swim was 400 meters, bike was 12 miles and the run was 2.2 miles. Since it was first race I'm not sure how qalified I am to judge how well it was put together but, based on other events i've  been to it seemed very well organized with plenty of volunteers. The course was well marked and pretty easy to follow. The weather was mid 60's and over cast probably prefect for racing. As for how I did next time I sign up prior to race day. I got put at the back of the line 100plus racers long and I spent alot of time waiting to get in the pool and then I had to navigate thur the crowd of slower swimmers. My transition time were pretty slow I watch people I passed get ahead of me in both the bike and the swim. My bike was ok I only got passed once and at the same time I passed alot of people. One thing I noticed I never got comfortable on my bike. My postion was messed up I never was able to get in the areo for any length of time I feel like I could have gone much faster had I been able to get comfortable. As for the run I passed  a bunch of people which was good however, I never was able to get my stride to open up. I think maybe I was too aggressive with my training the day before my legs may have been a little tired. With that said I finished in 1:10 so I guess it could have been worse.

abqtj - 2011-02-06 4:45 PM counting swim time:

I have a question/curiosity. When I enter my swim time, I've been deducting my time resting, drinking water, whatever, and I just enter my estimated time actually swimming. Is this correct to count it this way? My reasoning is I want to see what my rough per100 time is I guess.

I'm curious how others count there swim times. 

uhcoog - 2011-02-06 9:24 AM 5k in z2. 9 min/mile. No pain and icing just as a precaution. Very encouragred and now the mental battle begins to not push too hard too soon.

kaburns1214 - 2011-02-06 5:08 PM Erica and I ran a VERY HILLY 5K today (probably the hilliest I've ever run).  Two really long climbs totaling close to 2 miles.  We ran a 23:57 (7:44/mile) not bad for the hills.

We ran up to the monument on top of the hill (twice)



And here's Erica pre-race: