Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois (Page 42)

So sorry to see this. I truly hope that this is the last of it for y'all.

Ya'll are making me rethink IMNC next year...

Just wow. Prayers and hugs for you and the family.

don't do that!

Yeah, really!  It's on my list :-D

Adding my sympathy and prayers for your family. What an awful time it's been for you this year.

Adding my thoughts to Maffetone training, running pace, etc.

Phil Maffetone was a major consultant for SPIN Fitness both before and when I worked there, so much of his method underlies the cycling training programs there (to be clear SPIN Fitness has a range of training programs from couch newbie to casual class cyclist to competitive cyclist). As I think that guy brigby-whatsisname ( ) said, it has the same foundation as solid endurance run programs: mostly easy, sometimes hard.

To put it into a personal perspective, Oscar (the elite Indonesian triathlete who wins stuff and Karen thinks is hot ) does some of his runs as slowly as 15:00/mi (sometimes including walk breaks. Also the terrain around his home/work is all hills. Relatively short, most of them, but steep.) 

We suspect it's because he's pushing his fruit cart, but regardless also on some easier runs his kids are cycling or tricycling alongside. But those runs are very much a part of his training program and he's graduated from being an elite cyclist to being an elite multisport runner as well.

As long as it doesn't affect your run form (essentially making it walking or race-zombie-ing), it's hard to run too slowly.

OK, so while I realize that none of you are doctors, you are athletes with a wide range of experience and experiences.  I wanted to bounce a scenario off the group to see if anyone has had anything similar happen to them or has knowledge about it.

In my half marathon over the weekend, miles 1 through sometime during mile 9 my HR was at a pretty normal, expected rate. I felt good, very good.  Around 9 it shot up and stayed up until very close to the end of the race.  I felt very crappy and miserable and couldn't wait to be done.  The only thing I can say for sure that was going on is I was fighting a lot of knee and Achilles pain at this point.  Otherwise nothing was going on with regard to terrain, as you can see if you study the chart. FYI, my race strategy was to break the race into 4 5Ks, gradually picking up some speed on each one, then going a bit harder in the last mile.  Obviously this was going fine until whatever happened at 9 happened.

Thoughts?  

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Originally posted by JBacarella A rough day to keep the rough year going. Our Golden Retriever died today.

Oh no, I'm so sorry! Big hugs to you.

Oh I am so very, very sorry. Too  much grief in your life. I hope you have happy from now on.

Randee. this is great! Thank you for all you are have done.

Rant alert: Hurricane Mathew has killed my race. It was a fun, women's triathlon I was going to do with my friend. We were going to stay at the beach, force my husband into cabana-boy, sherpa duties and have FUN. I cannot get down to Fla from here. Well, I could have today, but hubbie bringing my tri gear and bike on Friday could not (long story on why two dates and two cars). No amount of finagling could make it happen. With the entire coast of SC evacuating this direction, the interstates are all lanes North and gas is already in short supply. The sad thing is, the tri is still going to happen in St. Pete. It should be marvelous weather for them. Oh.. and I have a nice 2 room cottage on the shore that can't be refunded. A boat-load of money spent for absolutely nothing.  rant over.

I'll be paying attention somehow or other. I have no idea who really has a shot against Frodo this year. Don't know if Ryf is really the favorite. Carfrae dropped out due to the accident last year and has a much better lead up going in this year since Daniela did the IM double over the summer.

Maybe could have KQ'd, but didn't like actually racing IM and have no interest in racing Kona, but watching all the best go at it out there sure is fun!

That stinks!!! I am so sorry ... 

That really sucks.  Dang Matthew!  Is it possible to still have fun locally with your friend?  Still have a girl's day out, just not (sadly) at the triathlon?

I'm wondering about the equipment first, something interfering or having a problem. That is a very substantial jump. Are you actually able to achieve 190-204? At first here, I'm having trouble believing those numbers are correct without more dramatic problems. I've had things go off over 220-240 before, so more obviously something wrong with the measurements.

Well, for the men, Thomas, Potts, Hoffman, and TO all have at least a slight chance at podium, although Thomas may be lowest on that to me due to him not having as much IM experience as the others. Particularly at Kona. I'm not sure on the women.