Mndymond and Disturbed275's Awesome SBR Group--- Phase 2--CLOSED! (Page 39)

thor67 - 2012-07-12 8:06 AM

Well first race of the season this weekend. My son races Saturday and I go Sunday(Oly). All week predicting sunny and 31Celsius(87F) and now they are predicting cooler and showers. I can live with the cooler but not so happy about the showers, unless they hold off for the run. 

A lot of hills on both the run and the bike. Last year I had major cramping in the quads on the run. Had to walk up some of the hills. Hope to avoid that this year. 

After that we are off to Penticon for the rest of the week for holidays.

Question: How far/long do you warm up for your swim? Basically in the past I tend to just get wet and get moving for warmup.  I find my arms feel fatigued after about 200 meters but feel better as the race goes on...

Moonrocket - 2012-07-12 8:12 AM

 

Yay!  you should rock it with all of your training! 

I usually swim 200-300 for warm up prior to a race (2-3 laps of the warmup area at our local tris.)  I find I feel better after that than starting from scratch.  I do it easy to stretch out.  If that would fatigue you then I'd dial back.  How much do you warm up when you do a swim workout?  (I usually do 400-600, so this is shorter than a swim workout warmup for me.)

thor67 - 2012-07-12 8:26 AM

I usually do 300 meter warm up. Even then my arms feel like a lactic acid build up. It goes away after a couple hundred more meters.  I guess i should just shut up and HTFU! 

mndymond - 2012-07-12 7:28 PM Hi all. Been a bit busy this week on emerg and wrote my pediatrics exam this morning. I'll catch up on Fri/Sat! I have a night shift tonight! Who's racing this weekend? Anyone have key workouts planned this weekend? Ive got a 6 mile run with some hard efforts and then a bike/run brick.

SportzVision - 2012-07-11 9:02 AM

Wish I had some amazing advice or that we knew what we were doing but we were both young when we married.  No one thought we should get married...so we eloped.  Even his best friend, on our wedding day, as I am getting ready to walk down the isle, said, "my car is right around the corner; we can just leave.", where he would have taken me I don't know...we always have a good laugh about that.  Here are my suggestions and what I have learned:

• never start, do or accept anything you do not want to do for the rest of your married life together. 
• no matter what others say, remember, its only a problem when its a problem
• fight fair, don't call each other names and don't bring up past offenses
• mean what you say and say what you mean...I learned early on that if my husband didn't or did do something that hurt my feelings, 99.9% of the time it was because he didn't know any better.  I had to tell him what I wanted. Doesn't mean I always got what I wanted...like I still live in the desert and not the beach...
• have a sense of humor
• accept your differences...we are completely opposite. If I love it he hates it!  We don't compromise we just accept it as fact.
• have wild angels

thor67 - 2012-07-12 8:06 AM

Well first race of the season this weekend. My son races Saturday and I go Sunday(Oly). All week predicting sunny and 31Celsius(87F) and now they are predicting cooler and showers. I can live with the cooler but not so happy about the showers, unless they hold off for the run. 

A lot of hills on both the run and the bike. Last year I had major cramping in the quads on the run. Had to walk up some of the hills. Hope to avoid that this year. 

After that we are off to Penticon for the rest of the week for holidays.

Question: How far/long do you warm up for your swim? Basically in the past I tend to just get wet and get moving for warmup.  I find my arms feel fatigued after about 200 meters but feel better as the race goes on...

rydergal - 2012-07-12 9:55 PM

 

I'm racing the Chestermere SPrint with 2 of my friends, will be both's first ows triatlon! Figured I needed a fun race in the mix and this one i'm going to have fun!! No watch , no garmin, no expectations just go out and have fun racing!!! It's close to home too so that's a bonus!

thor67 - 2012-07-12 9:06 AM

Well first race of the season this weekend. My son races Saturday and I go Sunday(Oly). All week predicting sunny and 31Celsius(87F) and now they are predicting cooler and showers. I can live with the cooler but not so happy about the showers, unless they hold off for the run. 

A lot of hills on both the run and the bike. Last year I had major cramping in the quads on the run. Had to walk up some of the hills. Hope to avoid that this year. 

After that we are off to Penticon for the rest of the week for holidays.

Question: How far/long do you warm up for your swim? Basically in the past I tend to just get wet and get moving for warmup.  I find my arms feel fatigued after about 200 meters but feel better as the race goes on...

rydergal - 2012-07-12 10:55 PM

 

I'm racing the Chestermere SPrint with 2 of my friends, will be both's first ows triatlon! Figured I needed a fun race in the mix and this one i'm going to have fun!! No watch , no garmin, no expectations just go out and have fun racing!!! It's close to home too so that's a bonus!

yogachic - 2012-07-13 6:26 PM

Good luck Thor & Terra on your race this weekend!

I don't usually warm up before my races, so it does take me a few hundred meters to get in the groove.  Of course, my swim times probably reflect this!

No racing for me this weekend.  I have a 17-mile run planned for Saturday and a 55-mile bike ride on Sunday.  

disturbed275 - 2012-07-14 6:39 AM I too am racing this weekend.  There's a local race tomorrow night.  I am running a 5k at 7:30 and a 10k at 8:30.  I've never run both races before, just the 10k so it should be fun.  There's a beer garden afterwards so it should be good

rydergal - 2012-07-13 8:55 AM

 

I'm racing the Chestermere SPrint with 2 of my friends, will be both's first ows triatlon! Figured I needed a fun race in the mix and this one i'm going to have fun!! No watch , no garmin, no expectations just go out and have fun racing!!! It's close to home too so that's a bonus!

disturbed275 - 2012-07-13 8:39 PM I too am racing this weekend.  There's a local race tomorrow night.  I am running a 5k at 7:30 and a 10k at 8:30.  I've never run both races before, just the 10k so it should be fun.  There's a beer garden afterwards so it should be good

yogachic - 2012-07-13 8:26 AM

Good luck Thor & Terra on your race this weekend!

I don't usually warm up before my races, so it does take me a few hundred meters to get in the groove.  Of course, my swim times probably reflect this!

No racing for me this weekend.  I have a 17-mile run planned for Saturday and a 55-mile bike ride on Sunday.  

rydergal - 2012-07-12 10:55 PM

 

I'm racing the Chestermere SPrint with 2 of my friends, will be both's first ows triatlon! Figured I needed a fun race in the mix and this one i'm going to have fun!! No watch , no garmin, no expectations just go out and have fun racing!!! It's close to home too so that's a bonus!

disturbed275 - 2012-07-13 7:39 PM I too am racing this weekend.  There's a local race tomorrow night.  I am running a 5k at 7:30 and a 10k at 8:30.  I've never run both races before, just the 10k so it should be fun.  There's a beer garden afterwards so it should be good

Qua17 - 2012-07-14 12:38 PM

Tera - is the race today or tomorrow?  I hope both you and your friends have a blast and that a fun sprint recharges your batteries.

thor67 - 2012-07-12 8:06 AM

Well first race of the season this weekend. My son races Saturday and I go Sunday(Oly). All week predicting sunny and 31Celsius(87F) and now they are predicting cooler and showers. I can live with the cooler but not so happy about the showers, unless they hold off for the run. 

A lot of hills on both the run and the bike. Last year I had major cramping in the quads on the run. Had to walk up some of the hills. Hope to avoid that this year. 

After that we are off to Penticon for the rest of the week for holidays.

Question: How far/long do you warm up for your swim? Basically in the past I tend to just get wet and get moving for warmup.  I find my arms feel fatigued after about 200 meters but feel better as the race goes on...

disturbed275 - 2012-07-15 6:42 PM

Hi guys! I had a decent couple of races last night.  The 5k was first and I ran it in 19:40.  During that last mile when I was dying I seriously questioned why I signed up for both races.  I really didn't want to run again.  Had about 40 minutes between the races which was just enough time to recover a bit and forget about the pain of the first race.  The 10k didn't go as well but I managed to hang on for a 41:56.  All in all not a bad night.  I'm not sure if I would do the double again, but still cool to say I did it.

Hope to hear how our other racers fared today!

disturbed275 - 2012-07-15 7:42 PM

Hi guys! I had a decent couple of races last night.  The 5k was first and I ran it in 19:40.  During that last mile when I was dying I seriously questioned why I signed up for both races.  I really didn't want to run again.  Had about 40 minutes between the races which was just enough time to recover a bit and forget about the pain of the first race.  The 10k didn't go as well but I managed to hang on for a 41:56.  All in all not a bad night.  I'm not sure if I would do the double again, but still cool to say I did it.

Hope to hear how our other racers fared today!