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Lol - thanks!  

It's okay though... it also means that I have a built in excuse for not being able to get to Masters at 6:15am tomorrow morning.  Awww shucks!  

On the flip side, I guess I'll be getting another Suffer Fest video tonight... 

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk

Originally posted by melbo55

Originally posted by brigby1

This was great. Sister just missed what fit on the screen.

Congrats, Ben and siblings!  The fact that your family races with you makes me smile.   You are a speedy lot!

I second this!! CONGRATS! And Happy Birthday JO!! On to Monday......blah - well it's half over And it's a shortened week for all my American friends (I hope, unless you work at Target then you may not have any days off this week). So what are your plans? I feed DH's family. There will be about 15 of us. The usual fare: Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, maple glazed carrots......and pie. Lots of pie. But first I have to survive 2.5 more days at work. In the meantime, my tri buddy emailed me his plan for US for our first IM in 2015 - LMAO - "Can I finish a half first?" Have a great day all!

I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving... and even better is that I get TWO every year as my hubby is so awesome that he makes me a Thanksgiving dinner for the Canadian Thanksgiving too.     This year will be orphans dinner at my friend Steve's place with all the usual fare - I'm not sure what we're bringing yet, but if I have anything to say about it, I'm bringing at least one pumpkin pie.   

FYI - I STILL haven't finished a half and have done 2 IMs now...  just sayin'    

I'm jealous of your Thanksgiving Squared. I love thanksgiving. Although, not a HUGE fan of turkey. Think we are going the ham route this year.

I'm wondering how not swimming leads to more biking. Arm crank action going on there?

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk

Originally posted by melbo55

Originally posted by brigby1

This was great. Sister just missed what fit on the screen.

Congrats, Ben and siblings!  The fact that your family races with you makes me smile.   You are a speedy lot!

I second this!! CONGRATS! And Happy Birthday JO!! On to Monday......blah - well it's half over And it's a shortened week for all my American friends (I hope, unless you work at Target then you may not have any days off this week). So what are your plans? I feed DH's family. There will be about 15 of us. The usual fare: Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, maple glazed carrots......and pie. Lots of pie. But first I have to survive 2.5 more days at work. In the meantime, my tri buddy emailed me his plan for US for our first IM in 2015 - LMAO - "Can I finish a half first?" Have a great day all!

I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving... and even better is that I get TWO every year as my hubby is so awesome that he makes me a Thanksgiving dinner for the Canadian Thanksgiving too.     This year will be orphans dinner at my friend Steve's place with all the usual fare - I'm not sure what we're bringing yet, but if I have anything to say about it, I'm bringing at least one pumpkin pie.   

FYI - I STILL haven't finished a half and have done 2 IMs now...  just sayin'    

I'm jealous of your Thanksgiving Squared. I love thanksgiving. Although, not a HUGE fan of turkey. Think we are going the ham route this year.

I think I just take some of the turkey because it's expected of me... if I could get away with it, I'd totally leave out the turkey and have the potatoes, yams, green bean casserole, stuffing, more stuffing, gravy, and then pie followed by more pie.    

Process of elimination gets rid of everything else - or that could just be the logic in my messed up brain talking.   

My angry knee is preventing me from running (there could possibly be some wimpiness going on there too in terms of not wanting to run outside and have my face freeze off... though I'm going with the angry knee reason instead), and I don't have any workout gear with me to do anything else at the gym... so voila! I'm left with the trainer! 

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk

Originally posted by melbo55

Originally posted by brigby1

This was great. Sister just missed what fit on the screen.

Congrats, Ben and siblings!  The fact that your family races with you makes me smile.   You are a speedy lot!

I second this!! CONGRATS! And Happy Birthday JO!! On to Monday......blah - well it's half over And it's a shortened week for all my American friends (I hope, unless you work at Target then you may not have any days off this week). So what are your plans? I feed DH's family. There will be about 15 of us. The usual fare: Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, maple glazed carrots......and pie. Lots of pie. But first I have to survive 2.5 more days at work. In the meantime, my tri buddy emailed me his plan for US for our first IM in 2015 - LMAO - "Can I finish a half first?" Have a great day all!

I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving... and even better is that I get TWO every year as my hubby is so awesome that he makes me a Thanksgiving dinner for the Canadian Thanksgiving too.     This year will be orphans dinner at my friend Steve's place with all the usual fare - I'm not sure what we're bringing yet, but if I have anything to say about it, I'm bringing at least one pumpkin pie.   

FYI - I STILL haven't finished a half and have done 2 IMs now...  just sayin'    

Ohhhh! Pumpkin pie is my favorite! I can't wait to make one...or two

My gym pool is out of commish for the week, but not like I've put any effort into swimming in the last week anyway. Always next Monday. hehe

One day til we pick up my parents. Lots of cleaning and reorganizing. Since my dad can't get upstairs much, plus he has his wheel chair half the time, we have to make sure the downstairs bedroom/bathroom are ready.  I finished half the Thanksgiving food shopping and found the smallest turkey possible. I've never even tasted one, let alone made one, so it's a good thing my dad will be here

Off to do more cleaning.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JO!

How is this possible? 

A TT question on vids and seeing more people picking things up here gave a reminder to put in a quick cheat sheet to the Sufferfest vids (some of this is copy/paste). They're all "hard" in some way or other, so look at how they're hard. What type of response they promote. They have their descriptions for what people think they want to see, but I look at theme a bit differently. And to help simplify things. "Hill Climbing, "TT", and other terms tend go blah, blah, blah on the trainer. I look at duration and effort level of the work sections. Their categories are more marketing, but can be simplified a bit to be more helpful.

Violator is a sprint workout, so not as useful for tri (though it does look hard)

Vids marked as "Speed" would be a VO2 workout with 1 or 2 of them possibly pushing into anaerobic at times. I'd also put Local Hero here as it can work well if one understands how to do it. Better than threshold development, imo.

Anything else currently there would be threshold focused, and they work various areas within that using different sized intervals and effort. There may be some other higher level work, but are still mostly threshold based. Something like Blender can go (much) higher at times, but most of it is still working around threshold. 

Those should work you well. For a single bigger one, most would probably like Blender more as the interval durations aren't as long. They won't seem short when you're doing them, however. I go with ISLAGIATT more often because of the length. It fits in better with what works for me, but I'm at a different point in development.

Revolver will really work you. I was more developed when starting structured training and was able to pick up pacing various durations rather quickly, but have read for people getting into it that shorter intervals are easier for them to pick up. And in this case the 1' intervals would be easier to pace than the 3-4' of some of the others. Though don't confuse that with thinking the workout is overall easier because of it.

I'm still learning more detail on just how often one should do threshold vs VO2, but do know that performance at threshold is more key to our performance and everyone will do more work in that range. The amount of targeted VO2 workouts to put in varies by person and they're development. in discussion with some others in the Utopia group, I don't seem to need as much as a few of them. Maybe once a month for me whereas they may average every other week or even several weeks in a row in a VO2 focus. Revolver, while a good one to have, is also probably going to be a bit hard to do every week. Additional things to work in over time would be one with at least one 20' block. HHNF is the 2 x 20'. The Hunted & Rubber Glove both have a single 20' (plus a little other work) and could also get one of the Extra Shot vids for a 2nd 20'. Though do know that The Long Scream is 30'. Then also something like Fight Club or Angels which has shorter-for-threshold intervals that can be pushed up to a higher effort level. 4 vids like this should give a rather well rounded set to work with (1 big, 2 types of threshold, 1 VO2). 3 would actually still work things quite well, with the long one being dropped off if one didn't want that many vids.

I confess I had to do a double-take on that one, too!

For those who have new gadgets on the list for Christmas or just because, DCRainmaker has a post today about black Friday and cyber Monday deals: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/technology-friday-monday.html

Ooooh - thanks Mel!  I think he also posted his 2013 gadget recommendations today?  

Yep - here it is!  http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/sports-gadgets-recommendations.html

Okay, this made me laugh so freakin' hard until I realized that I have no idea where some of the names should go either...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/its-thanksgiving-so-we-asked-some-brits-to-label-the-us-stat

Huh.  Big Scotland with Polar Bears.  Sigh.

I know, I know - but it could have been worse... they could have labeled it as "Super North Dakota"   

That was great!  I'm actually amazed by how well most of them did.  Every once in a while I will try to write all 50 states, it's always sad when I get stuck at 49 and really have to think to figure out what stupid state I'm forgetting!

LOL, "super north dakota" -  that is a great name!

lol, so many Americans have zero awareness of anything beyond their nose!  It is really very sad.  I always laugh and cringe when one of the late night hosts (like Jay Leno) do a man on the street bit where they ask people some very easy questions about things happening in the US or other part of the world.  Here is a great one http://videolicious.tv/2009/06/the-best-of-jaywalking-final-jay-leno-tonight-show/#.UpUnUSSqQ7A

Don't forget an Australian's take.

Oh, good lord.  I have to hope some of this is nerves!