Beer Drinker's Appreciation Society--Always Open (Page 43)

It was an EPIC watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry Andrew but wtf?!? Still in shock!!!!!

More or less, yes. Not all muscles, just the ones with the knots in them.  For me it was always IT bands and calves where I'd find the bad spots.  I've found with the stick sometimes it's difficult to get leverage, and those are the spots I end up using the foam roller since you can do more with body weight on it.

OK, Dave.  You can't just come do a drive-by like that.  How are you?

Nice work.  Probably don't need to worry about the swim, it'll come back quickly.

I'm into week 2 of the Prep phase of my bike-racing-but-still-pretending-to-be-a-triathlete plan, though like Andrew I didn't get in any swims last week.  However, unlike Andrew, I don't have an excuse. 

Week 1 was really easy, focusing on getting on the bike more often (5x/week), for a total of 3 hours.  Same thing this week with a little more volume and intensity.  Still doing tons of strength, stability and yoga work, too.

Bike project is moving along...I have most of the parts now and everything is loosely put together.  As I an still inept at sending you images you can actually see, I'll just show the stock photo of what it will look like:

I have a fitting session on November 16th and then I'll have the bike shop finish putting it together.

They don't archive until the new ones are active, which isn't until roughly Jan 1st.  Gretchen has been handling the admin stuff on it.

@Gretchen - glad you go to Egypt safe and sound, and I thin Ryan's right on the time zone thing.  Has your Garmin synced with the satellites there?  That should help if it hasn't.

@Dave - welcome back.  You know darn well we'll keep you honest.  And Ryan's right...diet is a huge component of fitness, as is sleep.  Right now my diet isn't all that important but come spring I'll need to lean down considerably to race effectively in crits and road races, much more so than triathlon where once I got my fat azz rolling on a flat course I'd be good to go.

Today was at 5:30 AM swim session and some strength work.  My daughter decided she wanted to go to her club team practice at 0530 now that high school swim team has started.  It's amazing the change in her motivation this year -  VERY focused, shooting for sectionals in the 100 fly.  The workout actually wasn't too bad, slept pretty well and woke up 15 minutes before we usually do and had all of our stuff ready to go and we were early.  The pool doesn't actually open to the public until 5:45 but the coach knows me (I swim all the time when the swim team does) so he let me in early.  First swim workout since my race (so almost two months) actually went OK...about 1200 yards just mixing up strokes.

That's weird.  Are you uploading directly to BT or having it pull from Garmin Connect?  Is GC correct?  If this persists you might want to have Alice have the developers look at it and see what data is coming in to BT.  In the meantime just pull up the calendar view here and slide the stuff around - at least that's a quick workaround.  

BT also does nothing around strength/yoga and doesn't pull the TrainerRoad or Sufferfest workouts from GC, just stuff directly uploaded from a Garmin device.  So I have to manually do it every dang trainer session.    I wouldn't care but BT is my "single source of truth" for my historical workout data (going on 10 years of it).  Like you, using TP to plan and coach using their ATP features.

Yesterday for me was Bikram and a short trainer ride to fiddle with my bike position and get some aero tolerance (drops and than flat-arm thing the pros do).  Headed to spin class today and will get a little cool down swim in.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  

Oh, and GO RAVENS!!!!!!

Hey all, hope you all had a good w/e I'm back on my bike after a few much needed weeks off (time off for b'day and just not wanting to deal with idiotic drivers). Now on dark commutes (never fun the first few, but strangely peaceful after a while).  It is back to bad traffic next week as the kids return from half-term which is a bit rubbish but I do feel better for exercising and tend to eat cleaner when i commute.

My only exercise this w/e involving drinking guiness and shouting at the rugby (@bulfrog - where we just bad or were the bokke that good?). Next planned longer ride is at the end of the month with a local social group which ends in good coffee and cake!

oh and GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!