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Soo cool that she is getting back into the mix of things.  She was inspiring to me when I was competing in the pool at that time in the 80's and she'll continue to be an inspiration to me now.

I affectionately call my youngest "the walking Petri dish"

Isn't that the truth?

Did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night?  Great running with you this morning Julia.  This morning's run kicked my butt.  Never go with Travis when he surges.  

Thanks for the swim workout, I can't wait to try it. 

Any other good swim sets people have found that increases their speed?

so i was about three miles into my run this morning when a busted my a$$ in front of some peeps.  it was hysterical and all i could think was, karma b+tch,  for posting that pic.  hahahaha!!!!  i pass my car halfway through and stop to send julia an email about what was going on..

kt65 - 2012-01-14 9:13 AM Happy Birthday, straight laced Babyface! Love ya, John!

thanks.  love ya, kim!  watching Easy Chinese: San Fransisco with the kiddos right now trying to get the girls to go to sleep.  not happening., 

:-)

You don't miss a beat, even at the ripe old age of 40!  So what are the birthday boy plans?

Great swim thread, Julia!

I'll need to go back through my logs and see what sets I've enjoyed over the past few years.

When I am in good shape, I always love doing sets of 100's on incresingly fast intervals, for example:

20x100 (5 on 1:35/5 on 1:30/5 on 1:25/5 on 1:20) -- where the last 5 you make it with 2-3 seconds rest and you just hang on for the duration of the set. The key, as Julia mentioned, is pacing. Start off moderate and comfortable, you shouldn't be really "feeling it" until around 12 or 13, but you know you can make the set. The last 5 you aren't so sure you can make it, but you hang on and you do. It's awesome.

I remember last year doing sets of 300's, that I loved. I think it was usually something like 6x300 where the first 3 are moderately hard and you build to all-out by the last one. I love trying to hit a time on #4 that seems hard to go any faster, and then finding enough to go faster on #5 and then crush it on #6. Clearly a set like that happens after a few months of steady swim work where you have endurance and speed and a good pacing feel.

Love something like a timed 2K, pacing the 500's and trying to go each one a wee bit faster.

Always enjoy ladders, 100-200-400-800-400-200-100 or 100-200-300-400-500-500-400-300-200-100... Always try to go faster coming down than going up. Pick an interval early on to hold, and the longer the distance, the more rest you SHOULD get, if you are pacing properly!

One of my no-longer-secret goals for this year is to knock out one of Hillary Biscay's 100x100 swim challenge workouts. I've been thinking about how I'm going to get there -- not quite sure yet. I'm also thinking of what pool I'd like to use for that -- I hate the narrow lanes at my local Y and if I had to share a lane with more than one person I might get frustrated. I'd love to find an awesome outdoor pool, with nice wide lanes, deep water, good lane lines, and enjoy every stroke of the set (Stanford's pool in Palo Alto comes to mind...). Maybe I can find a pool in Arizona over the summer if we do a trip there... I might build up to this challenge by trying to do 30x100, then a couple weeks later, 40x100, etc. Getting to 50 doesn't seem too hard. It's the next 50 I'm mentally struggling with... Wanna read more about 100x100? Check out Hillary's Q&A here.

Snow just started coming down... Oh happy day!!!!

beer and burgers!

gotta run - 2012-01-14 12:48 PM

 

Happy Birthday, John!

One good pic deserves another!!

Nice ...  Happy birthday, John!

How do I get so far behind on here? Just wanted to let you know that I'm still alive and have been enjoying the posts on the past 3 or 4 pages. I enjoyed hearing everyone's "take" on having their kids at their long races. 

Janet Evans Rocks.

Happy Birthday, John. Sorry about that Rudolph "thing"

I've had a good week of training this week.  I had one more swim planned, but hit everything else. 

I'm struggling to figure out how to incorporate HM run training into my triathlon training plan.  The stand alone HM run plans have you running 4-5 times a week, and I just can't run 5x/week and also bike, swim, lift, do my run drills, yada yada. 

I know this topic has come up before, but I must not have been paying attention.  I feel like I'm just muddling through and making things up as I go.  Once the HM is completed at the end of March, I can focus on a standard tri plan, but until then I need to make adjustments. 

LOL, we say this all the time.  I think the kids all lick each other to pass the germs around. 

kkcbelle - 2012-01-14 2:12 PM

gotta run - 2012-01-14 12:48 PM

 

Happy Birthday, John!

One good pic deserves another!!

Even better!!!

Michelle and I are heading to the pub. In your honor tonight Johno, I will have a burger and a beer!!

I haven't had breakfast yet and darn those burgers (and beer) look good.

Happy Birthday John.  Keep Rudolph out of the rain, dear!

Kim: thanks for the reminder on the women's Olympic marathon trials.  I wonder if that will show up on youtube - no way it will be covered on tv here in Japan.

Nice run Doug.  I don't usually have post long run issues until the next day or two days later.

Then you must be doing it better than me. I have had numerous issues. Last week was a tight calf and before that an inner thigh cramp. I worked nutrition this time. D'oh!

gotta run - 2012-01-14 3:48 PM

 

Happy Birthday, John!

nice.

thanks all! off to ride the bike.  HA!!

I wonder if your problem is too much intensity in the workouts prior to the long run itself since the long run should be at a somewhat easier pace.   Anyway, with 10.73 miles, you're ahead of me.