2018 Beer Drinker Appreciation Society - Always Open (Page 39)

Great job, Gretchen! I know the "why am I running now" feeling all too well during a triathlon. During the Wildflower Oly I felt the same way and realized while I enjoy long distance running (mainly on trails now) I don't enjoy it after a long bike ride. Next season I plan to do a couple sprint tri's and keep my long course activities single sport.

Here's to a good off season!

Originally posted by nicole14e Ended up doing two tris this weekend. Had the Baltimore tri on Saturday (Sprint). It went better than I'd hoped but my shin was SUPER tight on the run so it wasn't as fast as I wanted it to be. I won my age group and got 9th overall. Will try to find time to do a RR but my races are never already up on BT and it takes awhile to fill in all that info. Do you guys have that problem as well? Or are you able to find your races and just add your own info? I then did a small tri at my gym. It was a 3000m row, 1000 yard swim and a 2.2 mile run. I haven't rowed in ages (and my shoulders/neck definitely feel it today!), but it went okay, and my swim and run went well (especially the run...had a PT at the race on Saturday massage it out and it helped a ton). I got 3rd overall and had a pretty good time! It was a fun challenge competing in two races! Now it's time to focus on swimming/meet season

Seriously, you kick a$$ Nicole!!!  It wasn't enough to compete in two tris over the weekend, you threw in an AG win and a 9th and 3rd overall for good measure!!!!!

Originally posted by drfoodlove welcome to the off season!!! My refrigerator already has two kinds of pizza and three kinds of beer in it!! My race on Sunday was great! I ended up getting second Athena division, but unfortunately I didn't know that until they posted results the next day, so no award. I've emailed the RD, but don't really expect him to go out of his way. The race was kind of crazy. First, the shuttle to T1 got stuck in the mud and I ended up sitting on a bus for nearly two hours waiting for it to get towed out. Then (or, actually at the same time) there was really dense fog. So much that we couldn't even see the lake from T1, and T1 was on the lake beach. So...we waited, and waited, and waited. The race finally started with a shortened swim, down to about 570yds by my garmin with full distance bike and run. Overall, 69.17miles according to my garmin. We started about 90 minutes late, but they announced they had to keep the same cutoff times for the bike and run, which sent me into a pretty good panic about not finishing. Anyway, overall my swim was fast for me. My bike was fantastic and my run was holding on for dear life just waiting for it to be over. somewhere in the middle of the run I decided my days of long course running are over, but I'm already rethinking that decision after a day of rest and pretty much no real soreness the day after the race. Guess all that training actually paid off. Although, I will admit I spent good chunks of the ride home from Indy sleeping while my wife drove. Race report is here (https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=553030)...it is boring. With the exception of learning pretzels taste like salty sawdust at mile 4.55 of the run, I don't have much insight for you. I was all non-thinking machine this race. I coudln't let myself start thinking, because then I'd get worried about the cutoff times. I ended up running across the finish line at 4:29:30, but then learned they'd decided to keep the course open later. Oh well...it motivated me to move faster on the run than I think I otherwise would have. Thanks for all the support this season everyone!

Holy S Gretchen!!  Great work!  Congrats on the division 2nd placing - AND overcoming all the adversity to get it done!!  All the hard work paid off!

Juan! Great to hear from you.

Nicole - Totally agree we need to be active on here even when we're not as active, it's the group that's always motivated me.  I remember my first year on here we were so active all winter, doing challenges and what not, I was trying to get to the gym or the pool in snowstorms just to meet my challenge quotas

I have my HM this weekend.  It's been a very long year of not making too much fitness progress.  No activity October of '17 until late March of this year, and since then it's been mostly running, and 2-3 times a week at that.  I've been about 70-80% faithful to my HM training plan at least, and hoping it's cooled off enough in FL to meet my goal time this weekend.  At least since it's a Disney race, it starts at 530am so the sun won't have had a chance to heat things up too much.

Disney races always start early and have great support, always fun to run through the parks. I'm hitting that post season lull as well however I need to start ramping up on my long distance bike rides. Signed up for a metric century in March so there will be no slacking for me this winter!

That's a great idea Mark - I need to sign up for something to keep me moving once this race is done.  I'm fortunate enough to live now where it's still hot at the moment, and I'll be able to ride outside all but probably two weeks this winter.  

Saw a great little blurb from VeloNews about offseason training.  something like 'now that race season is over, it's time to work on base building.  Any ride is miles towards that base - so don't stress about how far or how fast just go ride for fun!'

To pile on - I've been really off the grid lately (and off the reservation, too ).  Work is crazy...good crazy, buy crazy.  Some travel here and there.

I've been working out, sorta training, make my millionth attempt at getting this back/hip thing all sorted out.  It's like 90% right now and I'm going to start running again soon, hopefully.

Good to hear from everyone.

Getting a routine going is key!  Remind me of this next week when I settle into the post race 'recovery' that turns into a week of doing nothing at all that turns into 3 months. :D

Random tip #114 - a foam roller can be used to stretch your calves.

Is it just me who's constantly looking for a calf stretch spot?  When I lived in a 2 story house it was fine, I had stairs.  Now stairs are nonexistent, and using the wall doesn't work for me barefoot, but the shoe leaves black marks.....So today I noticed my foam roller lying up against a wall, and tried it out.  It flexes enough to be barefoot friendly, it's the right height, and more importantly, up against the wall, it doesn't move.  That was the best calf stretch I've had in months!

75' trainer ride this morning - it's supposed to be 75 degrees here today but there's no way I can make an outdoor ride work with my work schedule.  Bummer.  Oh well, might have a beer outside later. 

Managed a short two mile run and some bike commuting so far this week. Heading down to San Diego this weekend and hoping to get in a good trail run. Will likely try a few good beers while I'm down there, as it is a mecha of craft brewing.

Now we're talking!  Look at all this activity

I got 3 miles in yesterday, easy pace short distance just keeping the legs moving for my HM Sunday.  Will do the same on Friday, then since it's a Disney race, we're spending the weekend at WDW.  Hopefully I don't do -too- much walking around Magic Kingdom on Saturday!  Gotta save the legs you know.