Sesh's Group - FULL! (Page 42)

I randomly had something come up about that USAT junior membership.  A lady had called me and asked about the $5 fee for her daughter to do our race this Saturday.  After explaining the race registration fee plus the $10 USAT one day license in a nice long email, I realized her daughter was 17 and only needed the $5 junior memberhship.  Then her daugter backed out of the race anyway.  Oh well.

As a moment of bragging, last year 183 people did this race.  This year, we have 270 pre-registered

serendipity - 2009-05-13 9:41 AM

sesh - 2009-05-12 1:50 PM

serendipity - 2009-05-09 5:43 PM I did the 5K in 30:20.  My PR is 30:17.  Do I get points for consistency?

Nice!  Sure you do!

Seems like your enjoying the race atmosphere.  Now just wait until running is the THIRD thing you do

I spent two hours cleaning out the garage before that race.  I told myself it was good practice for a tri. 

If you're available, my wife would LOVE for somebody a little more motivated than me to have a go at our garage

Suh-weet!  We're all growing fins!

The fun part is trying to convince my husband that, no, he really doesn't need to save that 3 foot piece of PVC pipe because he might need it someday.  Or the half sheet of plywood.  Or the baby stroller that no one fits in anymore...

Okay, stupid question time. 

When you do an open water swim, how do you know how far you've gone?  We'll be at the lake for Memorial Day weekend and I was hoping to do my Monday swim in the lake.  (Provided the ice has all melted.)  My training plan is all based on minutes, so the distance really doesn't matter, but I'm sort of addicted to knowing how fast slow I went.

sdalessio - 2009-05-13 10:18 PM Can I cry on the groups shoulder for a moment?  I am totally bummed.  My swim lesson did not go very well today.  I got out in the water and it was a little breezy so the water was a little bumpy.  Anyways after 200m I was getting sea sick.  I had a few issues the last time in the lake but I thought it was the bobbing kayak.  So I tried another 200 then had to swim in.  I was so dizzy when I got out that I had to lay on thr ground for 15 min to get my head to stop spinning.

I have had motion sickness issues my whole life but not in the water except for snorkeling once but that's a long and not so pretty story.  I'm not sure what to do - try various methods to stop it or hope that it's a fluke thing on this lake.

This of course is not helping my psyche for Mooseman. 

Hmm.. if I remember correctly, ChrisM, who happens to be a very strong swimmer, had something like that happen to him at IMAZ.  Might want to shoot him a message and see what was up and if he had to do anything to deal with it.

I do it two ways:

1.  There are landmarks on the shore that I swim between then map it using the route function on this site.

2.  Guesstimate my pace and extrapolate it out. 

I'm addicted to swim yardage, too  However, I've come to terms with the fact that there is hardly ever an accurately measured open water swim in a tri, so I can just guess my training yardage, too.  Most important thing is that you're out there.

Ok, helping plan a race is much harder than actually doing a race.  I think I'm just now recovered.  We were shooting for 250 people at the race on Saturday.  That would have been 70 more than last year.  We had to close registration at 400!!  Everybody keeps saying it was the most organized event they had done, but it felt like all hell had broken loose to me. 

As for me, my hip pain won't stop, so I'm laying off of running for a while and bagging the tri I wanted to do on June 6th.  I'm working on getting my bank to sponsor a relay team that I can either swim or bike for, though.  Kinda frustrating, but there's a sprint on August 1st that I want to do well in, so it's the focus now. 

How we all doin?

It's pretty isolated and really feels like joint/tendon/ligament pain.  It'll get better, I'll start running, and it'll flare up again.  I'm just not going to push it right now and see how it goes.