TriAya (Yanti) and lmscozz (Lynn), Manatee Mentors--FULL! (Page 4)

 
-dineen
Oh, and I am slow.  Painfully slow.  Like I laugh when other people say they are slow because their pace is often 2-3 minutes per mile faster than I am.  Like I have to really pay attention to race cut off times to be sure I can make them.  But hey, I am out there doing it!

I did just that.  Let my back take the blow.  Made a point to keep the bike off of the ground so as not to scratch it up.  Only a tiny scrap and bruise on me.  Turned the hood on the handle bar in a bit, but hubbs fixed it right up (when he was done griping that I was late for dinner).

I had to stop training with the HRM for awhile.  It was all I would worry about when I was running and riding.  While running, I could get to the 190s pretty easily.  I couldn't get over 150 on the bike unless I was climbing Ft. Roots.  That's not a climb you can do on every single ride, so I started to feel like I wasn't really getting a workout on the bike.  Now I'm just concentrating on gaining some speed so that I can average 16 mph on my century.

I'm here....I really am!  My laptop isn't cooperating with the BT site for some reason and all the incredibly intelligent and insightful, and of course hilarious posts have just disappeared into the ethers--poof, vanished. Okay, they may not have been "all that" but they did vanish.

I am now at the desktop and let's hope it works.

Thanks, Yanti for holding down the fort, as it were.

It would be helpful for me to have a list of each person's screenname and "real" name next to it (if you're comfortable with it).

We can just start with this list and build and cut and paste into our blog dash if we want. Yanti may have to help with the linking part.

Lmscozz-- Lynn

TriAya -- Yanti

My experience and input on HRM and the lactate threshold tests, etc. is this: Growing up and playing sports a lot of my life I never had a heart rate monitor and I feel through that I learned to know a bit about my body and my heart rate and it's limits from the inside. Then, with all the talk of heart rate monitors and VO2max and thresholds, etc.,  I had the testing done this year to see what my max was and my resting metabolic rate and fat content and all that.I guess it was good to know the numbers and it's fun to put my heart rate data into the program and see where I am, but I don't find it all that necessary. I do better by "feel." Plus, I found that my heart rate monitor would only work half the time so it became frustrating to depend on it. My husband, on the other hand, loves to wear his monitor and uses it to help him push when he cycles (he does only one of the three sports). 

I do agree with Yanti that if you want to follow a HR plan, it's best to get good starting numbers through a formal test than from some chart somewhere.

As for the bike pedals go--I didn't even know such things existed until two years ago. I now use road bike shoes and have gotten fairly quick at getting into and out of them in transitions. My knees had great tri tattoos from my falls for the first several months, too. I think it's just part of the sport and I display my knee scars proudly!

"We can just start with this list and build and cut and paste into our blog dash if we want. Yanti may have to help with the linking part."

Lmscozz-- Lynn
TriAya -- Yanti
blackledge -- Ryan (aka "token male") -- from Chicago

Lmscozz-- Lynn
TriAya -- Yanti
blackledge -- Ryan (aka "token male") -- from Chicago

Scottie07-Emily (or Em if ye prefer)--from Atlanta

Lmscozz-- Lynn
TriAya -- Yanti
blackledge -- Ryan (aka "token male") -- from Chicago

Scottie07-Emily (or Em if ye prefer)--from Atlanta

elbi999 --Laura