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Mike - good luck with the race. Hope you don't have to use an acronym I saw on the RWOL forums though but if you do here it is HRH= Hurls per hour, lol

 Curt - can't you find a happy medium area where you're pushing it but not too hard? Good luck with the race either way

 Kate - hope the next race goes well.

I don't seem to even be able to find any information on the race I wanted to do this year and I'm currently neglecting the bike so it'll probably be held off til next year after I've added it back in. I do know bike is my weakest sport followed by swim and run - probably on par wth each other but the swim is taking longer to build up and I can always walk during a run section -  but I do still plan to do a tri one day.

Link to the race report is shown below.

After a good night of sleep, I'm pretty pleased with the race yesterday.  The swim was a PR (but not up to expectations), the bike was about what I had been doing in training (but REALLY below expectations), and the run was another PR (and WAY above expectations).  The competition was really tough / lots of great performances.  In fact, the one guy that ALWAYS wins did not do so; AND, as a result was placed in my age group.  Turns out that with him in there I was 4 of 9!!!!!  So close to actually getting some hardware.

My biggest challenge is deciding to take the next step in training.  I'm still really spooked about hurting myself if I turn up the intensity (tearing up a him and rupturing an achilles will do that to you!).  Almost all of my training has been nice and easy and focused on building a base and working on the cardio.  It's great for the pace that I am currently at.  However, I'd like to see things start to improve / improve a bit faster.  For this, I'll need to either (i) increase the volume or (ii) increase the intensity.  I'm guessing that over the next month I'll focus on the volume aspect.

Have to brag on my son a bit.  He finished 16th overall against a tough field.  He had a solid swim (around 20th), an OK bike (around 60th), but killed the run (top 10 with a 5:56 pace).  Tough part for him was finishing second in his age group by 3 seconds!!!!  The kid that beat him was a couple of years older and a very strong cross country runner, so Alex was OK with it.

Hope everyone else had a nice Saturday and enjoys the remainder of their weekend.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=258145&posts=1&start=1

Link to the race report is shown below.

After a good night of sleep, I'm pretty pleased with the race yesterday.  The swim was a PR (but not up to expectations), the bike was about what I had been doing in training (but REALLY below expectations), and the run was another PR (and WAY above expectations).  The competition was really tough / lots of great performances.  In fact, the one guy that ALWAYS wins did not do so; AND, as a result was placed in my age group.  Turns out that with him in there I was 4 of 9!!!!!  So close to actually getting some hardware.

My biggest challenge is deciding to take the next step in training.  I'm still really spooked about hurting myself if I turn up the intensity (tearing up a him and rupturing an achilles will do that to you!).  Almost all of my training has been nice and easy and focused on building a base and working on the cardio.  It's great for the pace that I am currently at.  However, I'd like to see things start to improve / improve a bit faster.  For this, I'll need to either (i) increase the volume or (ii) increase the intensity.  I'm guessing that over the next month I'll focus on the volume aspect.

Have to brag on my son a bit.  He finished 16th overall against a tough field.  He had a solid swim (around 20th), an OK bike (around 60th), but killed the run (top 10 with a 5:56 pace).  Tough part for him was finishing second in his age group by 3 seconds!!!!  The kid that beat him was a couple of years older and a very strong cross country runner, so Alex was OK with it.

Hope everyone else had a nice Saturday and enjoys the remainder of their weekend.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=258145&posts=1&start=1

Nice work Curt. sorry things weren't up to expectations but at least they were about where you've been in training so you haven't lost anything.

On the new training thing I hope you can find something that's doable but pushing it slightly so you feel like you're getting some race benefit from it.

Me - Finally got back on the road for a run/walk today and killed the 30 sec run intervals so I'm ramping up to 35 and 40 sec ones as of Tuesday although I may get a "try out run" in tomorrow along with my swim.

Race went well today. Great day, lots of fun.

Swim was good, but equipment manlfunction (2 or 3 times) cost me 3 minutes or so, bike was fantastic, and run was the semi-mess I thought it could be. More later, as I'm off to a family party. Race report.

One good thing - when I was swimming (w/o equipment issues) I was passing people all over the place. Felt GREAT!  Massive confidence builder for the swim.

My swim goggles broke *as I was heading in to start swimming*. Had to stop, and took 2 minutes to fix. about 1/2 way through the swim the filled w/water, and I stopped to tighten them. about 30 seconds later they broke again, and I did the final 200 yards w/o any goggles at all. Not fun.

RR tomorrow.

Nice job!

Ugh, goggle issues! I still have them.  Way to tough it out and finish!

Race Report is up -- go have a good laugh!

http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=258303&posts=1&start=1

Sounds like you did a good job of dealing with adversity.  And love the new avatar of the famous culprits.

Yahoo!!! Awesome, Suzanne!

Mike-I enjoyed reading your race report!  Sometimes the RR with the most detail about what went wrong helps you AND others the most!

Sounds like new goggles and Yanks are in your future!

How's everyone doing??

My crazy busy month is over, hurray! This weekend is our annual local triathlon.  This year, our triathlon club is working with the County to put on a youth triathlon.  We have almost 40 kids signed up which is a HUGE change from just a few weeks ago when we had less than 10. =)  I think we're a little nervous because we don't know how kids will do on the bike course (there's a few turns in the park), but I think we're mostly excited to see them in action.  I hope I can get pics of the race to show you all!

For my own training, last night was the first night back to being a triathlete since I spent most of last year fighting the hernia issues, Jan-April recovering from the surgery to fix the issues, and April-June training for that 148 mile bike ride.  I have a triathlon in Geneva, NY (Musselman-absolutely outstanding race!) in a few weeks that I just want to be fit enough to get through.  I had to stop A LOT last night and fix leaky goggles (is this a theme on the thread, or what?!), but I was able to jog through a couple miles with little trouble.  So, it felt good to do two sports in one day. 

Other than the tri, the next big event is my husbands 30th birthday, two weeks after he finishes Ironman Lake Placid... any ideas on what to do for a guy for a big event like that??  My mother in law thinks we need a party with a popcorn machine, I'm game! 

Agreed. I'm back to dealing with some heel issues - split skin that's causing pain - so I haven't run since Monday but I might get some more swimming in today as it doesn't seem to aggravate it - although the gravvelly floor (it's some sort of tile that has rocky bits in it) does. Hmm, maybe I should invest in some thongs (as in flip flops, lol) and wear them to and from the pool and change room.

Other than that I'm pretty sure I'll be able to do my new intervals when I get running again.

yeah, I've been kinda MIA lately. Mostly training and work--its event season at work, lotsa long days. Also, I have been ramping up my training for the tri next week.

Yesterday, I could barely do anything--my beloved cat passed away after 16.5 wonderful years. She and I had such a bond. I am going to do this next race in her honor.

It was very tough for me yesterday--I am still pretty raw feeling today. The difference being that I knew if I kept busy and didn't allow myself to think too much that I would be okay. So I trained with my class, but also did other things too.