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2012-01-15 7:41 AM in reply to: #3946995 |
Regular 92 Brooklyn, Michigan | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK So, it would appear that I am reduced to a cheerleader capacity for the time being until I can find out what's up with this knee. It seemed to be getting better last weekend, but then took a big turn downward. It now hurts ALL the time, and is VERY painful during certain movements. They want me to do at least an additional week of ICE, compression wrapping, NSAID's (high dose now) before moving on to an MRI. I just want to get on with finding out with what's wrong so I can get busy doing what I need to heal properly. |
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2012-01-15 11:21 AM in reply to: #3989302 |
Regular 92 Brooklyn, Michigan | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK lamarvenoy - 2012-01-13 5:09 PM This week was pretty uneventful. Work sucked. People annoyed me and I felt like I didn't get anything done. Training was just alright. I started off the week a fairly decent swim and some tempo work on the tread mill. 2 mile warm-up, 20 mins at Anaerobic Thresh-hold and a slowed it down for the rest of the run until I hit 6 miles. Tuesday I got on my bike and after 15 mins felt sick to my stomach. I think I might have eaten something weird the day before or maybe not have eaten enough during the day. Drank a coconut water afterwards and that "seemed" to help. Wednesday I hit the gym again for another uneventful swim and run. Felt super unmotivated. Garbage miles. Thursday, LET THERE BE LIGHT. I hit the trainer for 50mins while I watched band of brothers. Feeling better, got some quality work in. So today I have the entire day off to do as I please. What do I decide to do? I hit the pool at around 10AM. Totally wasn't feeling it today. I think I must have swallowed more water than I moved with my arms swimming. I managed to do 1200m. Ah well, you win some you lose some. I think I might need some swim coaching. Sunday I'm going to do a long swim or drown trying, Possibly 3000+ meters with a 2000m main set. That's pretty awesome running in that weather, I have NO tolerance for that. I'm impressed by all you winter runners. |
2012-01-15 4:57 PM in reply to: #3946995 |
Member 29 Chelsea | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Sorry to hear about your knee Erin. Are you going to be able to get some swimming in while your knee recovers? Ella, how is your recovering going? Chris |
2012-01-15 5:06 PM in reply to: #3991731 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK gearhart - 2012-01-15 5:57 PM Sorry to hear about your knee Erin. Are you going to be able to get some swimming in while your knee recovers? Ella, how is your recovering going? Chris Maybe try some water walking or swimming with a pull buoy so you don't have to kick at all |
2012-01-15 5:14 PM in reply to: #3946995 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Swimming for the beginner triathlete In this weeks installment of triathlon 101, I'm covering swim training. Every beginner I’ve ever spoken to is always concerned with one thing. The Swim. Here are some simple tips to help you overcome the “dreaded” swim. Sign up for a group open-water swimming class. |
2012-01-16 10:24 AM in reply to: #3946995 |
Member 29 Chelsea | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Happy Martin Luther King Day Everyone. I have the day of work and no school for my daughter. Big plans for the day involve making root beer and going to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D. But I got a good run in this morning and hope to spend time on the bike trainer later today. Last week started out rough. I had lots of conflict during my normal exercise times and my right knee was hurting. I spent the first half of the week looking out the window at beautiful weather that I couldn't take advantage of. By Thursday I was in a pretty bad mood. The great weather had turned to rain, the temperature was dropping and the forecast called for snow over the next few days. I had almost talked myself out of running, but I put my rain gear on and told myself I would just go out for 10 minutes or so to stretch my legs and see how my knee felt. After 5 minutes my bad mood was gone, I finished out my normal 5k route and felt great. Ran it again on Sunday with my wife. I also bought a Cycleops Fluid 2 trainer this weekend. I have heard lots of great things about this trainer. So far (1 workout) it lives up to the hype. I have big plans for the trainer on those evenings when my wife works late and I am on homework and bed time duty with my daughter. After she is asleep I should be able to get on the trainer while I watch TV. Chris Edited by gearhart 2012-01-16 12:05 PM |
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2012-01-16 10:50 AM in reply to: #3992816 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK gearhart - 2012-01-16 11:24 AM Happy Martin Luther King Day Everyone. I have the day of work and no school for my daughter. Big plans for the day involve making root beer and going to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D. But I got a good run in this morning and hope to spend time on the bike trainer later today. Last week started out rough. I had lots of conflict during my normal exercise times and my right knee was hurting. I spent the first half of the week looking out the window at beautiful weather that I couldn't take advantage off. By Thursday I was in a pretty bad mood. The great weather had turned to rain, the temperature was dropping and the forecast called for snow over the next few days. I had almost talked myself out of running, but I put my rain gear on and told myself I would just go out for 10 minutes or so to stretch my legs and see how my knee felt. After 5 minutes my bad mood was gone, I finished out my normal 5k route and felt great. Ran it again on Sunday with my wife. I also bought a Cycleops Fluid 2 trainer this weekend. I have heard lots of great things about this trainer. So far (1 workout) it lives up to the hype. I have big plans for the trainer on those evenings when my wife works late and I am on homework and bed time duty with my daughter. After she is asleep I should be able to get on the trainer while I watch TV. Chris Awesome Chris! It's amazing what a little run therapy will do for ones mood. |
2012-01-17 5:22 AM in reply to: #3992816 |
Regular 92 Brooklyn, Michigan | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK gearhart - 2012-01-16 11:24 AM Happy Martin Luther King Day Everyone. I have the day of work and no school for my daughter. Big plans for the day involve making root beer and going to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D. But I got a good run in this morning and hope to spend time on the bike trainer later today. Last week started out rough. I had lots of conflict during my normal exercise times and my right knee was hurting. I spent the first half of the week looking out the window at beautiful weather that I couldn't take advantage of. By Thursday I was in a pretty bad mood. The great weather had turned to rain, the temperature was dropping and the forecast called for snow over the next few days. I had almost talked myself out of running, but I put my rain gear on and told myself I would just go out for 10 minutes or so to stretch my legs and see how my knee felt. After 5 minutes my bad mood was gone, I finished out my normal 5k route and felt great. Ran it again on Sunday with my wife. I also bought a Cycleops Fluid 2 trainer this weekend. I have heard lots of great things about this trainer. So far (1 workout) it lives up to the hype. I have big plans for the trainer on those evenings when my wife works late and I am on homework and bed time duty with my daughter. After she is asleep I should be able to get on the trainer while I watch TV. Chris That's the best thing to do... just get out there for a few minutes. Be careful with your knee though. That's cool that you run with your wife. I wish my husband would run with me, but he's way more competitive than I am and he doesn't like to go my pace. He likes to go FAST even early in the season when he's not conditioned for it, and ends up getting injuries. (Which is part of why I do Massage Therapy...to try to protect him from himself. LOL) I'm really looking forward to a run as a pick me up. As soon as I get this knee under control.... |
2012-01-22 5:10 PM in reply to: #3946995 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK I hope everyone had an awesome week (training and otherwise). I know this board will surely pick up in the following months when weather makes a turn for the better. Yesterday I took a 12 mile trail run up at island lake in brighton MI. Around mile 4 I ran into a pretty burly german shephard cruising on the trail (soil pants now). It seemed pretty aggressive so I made a game time decision, hopped over the embankment, down a pretty steep hill and snuck past the damn thing. Pretty intense! Here's a pic from the run. Notice all of the foot prints. I got out there at 9:30 and people had beaten me to the punch!
Anyways, I'm working on an awesome essay right now. I'm not going to be posting it tonight because I've had a couple glasses of wine and I don't want it to be sloppy (gotta love rest days). Anyways, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the main point of the essay.
What makes you a triathlete (duathlete, runner, adventure racer, marathoner, etc.)? is it the completion of races that earns you the title or is it the mind set and way of life that makes the athlete? I'm curious what everyone thinks. |
2012-01-24 10:32 AM in reply to: #3946995 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [RE-OPENED] DOING WORK I've decided to re-open the group in hopes of getting more discussion going on in here. |
2012-01-24 7:38 PM in reply to: #3946995 |
Member 29 Chelsea | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [RE-OPENED] DOING WORK My training has gotten pretty consistent. Days are just enough longer now that I can sneak in a quick run after work and before dark. I have had a chance to use the Cycleops trainer 4 or 5 time now. I find it really helps me fit workouts into my life. Those nights when I know I have to watch my daughter I can schedule a bike workout after she goes to sleep. When I bought it I assumed it would be a winter time thing, but now I am thinking it will be a way to keep schedules flexible even in the summer. Swimming is still the tough one to get in. Because the pool I use has limited hours, any conflict causes me to miss a swim with few options to make it up. But I got one good workout in this week. I did a fairly continuous half mile swim. My daughter joined me for 3 laps in the middle which fun. She has declared that she is going to do a triathlon this summer too (thinking about Tri-Kids-Tri at portage lake) . So she wanted to know how far she would have to swim. Bryan, glad you opened the group up again. I hope we get some more voices in the forum. Where is the essay? You can't build us up and then leave us hanging. Erin, hope rest is doing you knee some good. This week will be a short week for me. We are planning to go skiing over the weekend. So I won't do any triwork Friday through Sunday. The following week my wife and I are doing the Super 5k in Novi. |
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2012-01-24 8:00 PM in reply to: #4009252 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [RE-OPENED] DOING WORK gearhart - 2012-01-24 8:38 PM My training has gotten pretty consistent. Days are just enough longer now that I can sneak in a quick run after work and before dark. I have had a chance to use the Cycleops trainer 4 or 5 time now. I find it really helps me fit workouts into my life. Those nights when I know I have to watch my daughter I can schedule a bike workout after she goes to sleep. When I bought it I assumed it would be a winter time thing, but now I am thinking it will be a way to keep schedules flexible even in the summer. Swimming is still the tough one to get in. Because the pool I use has limited hours, any conflict causes me to miss a swim with few options to make it up. But I got one good workout in this week. I did a fairly continuous half mile swim. My daughter joined me for 3 laps in the middle which fun. She has declared that she is going to do a triathlon this summer too (thinking about Tri-Kids-Tri at portage lake) . So she wanted to know how far she would have to swim. Bryan, glad you opened the group up again. I hope we get some more voices in the forum. Where is the essay? You can't build us up and then leave us hanging. Erin, hope rest is doing you knee some good. This week will be a short week for me. We are planning to go skiing over the weekend. So I won't do any triwork Friday through Sunday. The following week my wife and I are doing the Super 5k in Novi.
I can totally see myself utilizing the trainer in a pinch even when the weather is nice out.
As far as the essay. I had crazy writers block today and yesterday. I'd write a sentence then erase it, rinse repeat. I've also been trying to get content for my blog that I'm going to be launching soon so that's been taking up some time.
Running fit has a kids tri in august in brighton as well that's a great atmosphere and just an overall fun time. |
2012-01-30 8:36 AM in reply to: #3946995 |
Regular 152 | Subject: January is coming to a close! Good morning everyone! How goes the training? I am on pace for a little over 100 miles of run/bike this month. Not great but I'll take it! Who's officially registered for an event? When is it? How can our group help you get there from here? Have a great day! |
2012-02-02 10:53 AM in reply to: #3946995 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Hey Everybody! Just checking in. Sorry for the lack of presence on this forum in the last two weeks, life has been quite busy. We've just finished up month one of mentor program. As I understand it from the mentor program guidelines, there are just 2 months to go. These remaning two months should get you through all of your base training and ready for the start of your individual training program. To figure out when you'll need to start an actual training plan and not just base training and gaining fitness, count 16 (or whatever you plan shows) weeks back from your race date and boom, there you have it. If you don't have a training plan, you can find a whole bunch of free ones HERE. Hopefully everyone had a solid month and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some of the quiet members come back and share their experiences, questions and comments. I saw some pretty solid progress this month. Since swimming more regularly and longer for each session I've managed to maintain a 1:50 per 100m (which is still pretty slow from what I've been reading). My biking has gotten a lot better especially since I swapped my saddle out for the adamo Time Trial. Now I can just plop down for an hour no problem and hammer away. Running-wise I've been hitting the trails to switch up the monotony of treadmill and road running. Right now I'm averaging around an 8min/mile over a half marathon. I'm going to put my running fitness to the test in april when I do a stand alone Half Marathon. |
2012-02-06 8:04 PM in reply to: #4025341 |
Member 29 Chelsea | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Hey everyone, ran the first race of the season yesterday. A superbowl themed 5k. The weather was perfect. About 40 degrees, sunny, no wind. This was the second 5k my wife had every done. I think she was a little nervous going in. Kept worrying about being the last person. We ran together for most of the first 3 miles. Just a little faster than our typical training runs. The last half mile or so I sped up bit just to see how fast my legs might still go. My wife finished strong a minute or so behind me. She was very impressed to see that she ended up pretty much in the middle of her age group. This morning I learned that she had friended the local running shop on facebook and is actively planning for an upcoming 5k on St. Patrick's day. As far as race plans go. I am signed up the Hawk Island Spring in early June. I am using the free 20 week run focused spring plan from this web site with some alteration. I am already running the volume from the end of this program and my swimming volume is somewhere in the middle of the program. So I am working through the program for the bike, doing month 4 on the run and month 3 on the swim. My plan is to just keep repeating month 4 on the run until the bike and swim catch up. Still thinking about what to do for follow up races later in the summer. Any thoughts on how much time to plan between sprints during my first season? Chris |
2012-02-07 10:57 AM in reply to: #4032827 |
Regular 87 Canton, MI | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK gearhart - 2012-02-06 9:04 PM Hey everyone, ran the first race of the season yesterday. A superbowl themed 5k. The weather was perfect. About 40 degrees, sunny, no wind. This was the second 5k my wife had every done. I think she was a little nervous going in. Kept worrying about being the last person. We ran together for most of the first 3 miles. Just a little faster than our typical training runs. The last half mile or so I sped up bit just to see how fast my legs might still go. My wife finished strong a minute or so behind me. She was very impressed to see that she ended up pretty much in the middle of her age group. This morning I learned that she had friended the local running shop on facebook and is actively planning for an upcoming 5k on St. Patrick's day. As far as race plans go. I am signed up the Hawk Island Spring in early June. I am using the free 20 week run focused spring plan from this web site with some alteration. I am already running the volume from the end of this program and my swimming volume is somewhere in the middle of the program. So I am working through the program for the bike, doing month 4 on the run and month 3 on the swim. My plan is to just keep repeating month 4 on the run until the bike and swim catch up. Still thinking about what to do for follow up races later in the summer. Any thoughts on how much time to plan between sprints during my first season? Chris Congrats on the first race of the season! Glad to see your wife might have caught the running/racing "bug". That reminds me, I should probably schedule a few early season races myself. Coincidentally I just started looking for training plans for my HIM in July. Seems like I'm going to end up doing a little modification to the plan. Every plan has me starting way below the volume I already do on a weekly basis. As far as other races and how long to wait in between, Last season there was a stretch where I scheduled 3 races in 10 days (sunday, wednesday, sunday). It all depends on how you feel after your first race. Typically (unless you injure yourself during the race), there should be pretty minimal recovery time after a sprint triathlon, maybe 1-3 days max. I've read a couple places that you should take a day off (or just take it easy) for every hour raced. If you feel good the next day or the day after, get back to training! For me, the number of sprint races I do in a season is entirely dependant on money. Race entry fees aren't cheap, especially for some of the bigger races. I can recommend the running fit T-rex Triathlon Series. I've done a couple of those each of the last 2 years and they're a blast, a really laid back atmosphere and Island Lake Recreational Area is the perfect setup for a triathlon. I also really enjoyed the Motor City Triathlon on Belle Isle. Once you get past the idea of swimming in the Detroit River (which wasn't bad at all) the bike and run courses are really awesome. |
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2012-05-07 7:01 PM in reply to: #3946995 |
Member 29 Chelsea | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Not sure if anyone is still out there. But I thought I check in to see how things are going with Twinsmomma.Erin and gbswan. I have just started the last 4 weeks leading up to my first tri on 6/3. I did my first open water swim yesterday. A little freaky. Glad I didn't wait until race day for my first OWS. If either of you are still out there let me know how things are going with you. Chris |
2012-06-11 6:41 PM in reply to: #3946995 |
Member 29 Chelsea | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK I did it. |
2012-06-13 5:59 PM in reply to: #4195994 |
Regular 152 | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK It's been brutal. I lost my dad in March which really killed about three weeks of training and then I lost another four weeks in May due to a shin injury. It basically wiped out Tri season where I live because I can't swim until JUly 1 with the shins. As a result, I am focusing on cycling and am scheduled to do a 90 mile ride in August.
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2012-06-13 6:00 PM in reply to: #4256496 |
Regular 152 | Subject: RE: Lamarvenoy's (Bryan) do your first Triathlon Mentor Group [CLOSED] DOING WORK Congrats! How did it go? |
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