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On Ernesto's kind request I'm sharing my story here (after I posted it on FB):

I'm riding along the ocean at 9am and crossing a T-intersection, but not changing direction, just going straight on the bike lane. The light changed to red  and having a nice momentum and seeing no cars I rode through the red light (yes)... Sure enough I lifted my head and saw a cop telling me to stop.... He lectured me nicely and didn't write the usual $120.- ticket. Instead, he let me go. Boy, did I feel embarassed.

Riding further along, I saw a Meter Maid putting coins in somebody's expired parking meter!

What a morning!!!

 FYI, these girls are employed by the Local Council to attract tourists (and everybody else for that matter)... It is not a joke.

THAT'S IT!!!! I'm moving to the Golden Coast! I don't care about my belongings, my job or nothing. Just taking my triathlon gear, bike, running shoes...

Mark, do you have room for one more in the house???

Please notice the name of the street in the photo, you guys in Australia have a lot of sense of humor, and pretty girls, and tons of races, a thriving economy, I'm gone!!!! Dang it! tickets are expensive though. I'm putting my wedding band for sale...

Chris is right once again, fitness has been built, all the hay is in the barn now. Actually it is kind of a good thing because it will force you to rest. Just try to run short and keep the intensity high by doing lots of intervals. One thing though, during your last week make the recovery of an interval just as long as the interval itself, i.e. 1 minute hard X 1 minute recovery.

Trust your training, you've been smart and dedicated, it is not going to the trash in one week.

I can see we could degrade this thread very quickly...

Too late, already there.  How about some meter men?? 

So I ran twice this weekend and maybe made a discovery on why my knee pain got so bad out of the blue two weeks ago.  I had been wearing a knee strap to help dsitribute the load on my patella across the knee.  I think over time I placed it higher and higher on my knee until it was forcing the tendon to rub even more on the underlying bone. 

My first run in two weeks was okay on Saturday.  I need to refocus on running slow when I am supposed to.  No real pain at all.

Yesterday I ran in the heat of the day and again need to focus on slowing down.  I started experiencing knee pain and rasied the knee strap up my leg a bit as I had done in the past thinking that it was too low.  The pain got worse and I had an epiphany and lowered the strap...amazingly no more pain the rest of the run.  Now I wonder if I wasn't my own worse enemy and created a situation where I sidelined myself for 2 weeks for my own stupidity.  Oh well...always a lesson in our actions.

Today I am off to swim at lunch again.  I feel a routine starting here with lunchtime swims and I am getting very happy about it.

Ernesto - Happy belated birthday!

Chris and Ernesto, 

Thanks guys for the words of encouragement, I feel a little more confident now and will work on getting healthy, getting some high intensity workouts during my trip tomorrow and come back ready to enjoy the Iron Maya event!  

Chris, I enjoyed your post a few days back about the importance of your running form (and also enjoyed the book "Born to Run").  I started running at a track in the last couple of weeks and someone pointed out that  I was heel striking on my stride and should try to land more mid to fore foot.  As soon as I tried landing on my forefoot, I felt like I could go faster with the same level of effort.  So it is something that I will be testing slowly, to see if I can get used to it without risking injury.   

Jen,

Happy Birthday, hope you are having a great one and settling in well in Colorado!

ajajajajaja  LOL !!   this is super funny !!  

nice public service !!!!

QUOTE]older2533 - 2011-08-01 11:52 AM Well, July is over. For the month, I swam .4 miles and biked zero miles. On the other hand, I ran 27 out of 31 days for a total of 189 miles, by far the most I've run in a month. Can you tell I'm putting my upcoming marathon as a higher priority than my sprint tri on August 27th? (Again, I'm planning on picking up tri training again in the winter. Gabe doing both a HIM in August and a marathon this fall is making me feel outdone, so I may sign up for the HIM version of the Olympic I did in June as a motivator over the winter.) Yesterday I ran my first of four "long runs", after running 22 miles the three previous days. It was 15 miles, the next 3 are 16 miles, one 6 weeks out, one 4 weeks out, and one 2 weeks out. Ugh. First ten miles fine at about a minute slower than my goal pace, but then the humidity got to me. I bought a fuel belt so was hydrated, (two 6 oz bottles of gatorade, two 6 oz bottles of water) but still, I just lost motivation to push it and gradually slowed to about 2 minutes below goal pace. At the end, I literally rung out my shirt and shorts on my driveway. I didn't want to bring that much water into the house. Hopefully, the gains in endurance will translate to the bike and swim, even if the particular muscle training doesn't.

Thoughts anyone? 

I was fitted on a 48 cm Cervelo P2 and a 48 cm Specialized Transition Comp.  Since the Cervelo has 650cc wheels vs the Specialized with 700cc, I am 99% sure I'm going to go with the Specialized.  That will make my third Specialized bike.

If you have one of these or know someone who does, please give me any insight you have.

Also, Ernesto, the wheels are basic.  The shop is telling me to go ahead and get those (souped up) special tri wheels.  The financing deal is pretty sweet, 0% for 12 to 18 months.  Your thoughts on wheels??

Gracias amigo.

Good morning everyone.  I took some time to read the last few pages of the forum this morning.  Trying to set up a new training plan without a race in sights is difficult.  I've been running and although the air is rare I'm good with it now.  It's the endless hills that are everywhere I turn.  I've mentally accepted them as life now getting my body to embrace them!  I am not training with MAF here yet because my heartrate is still high and I want to give myself more time without having the limiter on.  I am tracking my heart rate though.  I'm up to running 45 minutes at a time and I only have to walk once or twice on the steeper hills and even that is less than a minute combined.  I also started on the trail here.  I can access it about 1.25miles from the house.  Once on the trail it goes on to a 5% grade incline.  I haven't ran that long on it yet.  The hill on the way back to the house is 4% or so.  I know they say it's cooler here but running in the direct sun..Is like running under a heat lamp, IT MELTS YOU!  Once in the shade however..  WOW!

The hills and trails will make me stronger.  I am looking forward to the training.  We are mapping the bike loop today to see how that looks and I will start shopping for a new bike this weekend.  I was going to put sites on IM UK but I think I want to do a few 1/2 IM next year instead.  That will give me another year of training and confidence.  April I will return to SC to do the Cooper River Bridge Run... I can't wait!  

So enough rambling...  Ernesto, or anyone..

Any strategies or plans to just "train to prepare for training".  After all, I too an now a year older and I want this to be the best year ever!!!! 

For a steady heart rate, find a local high school track and run early in the morning while still "cool".

About the training, set your sights on some race and sign up for it, it is by far the best motivator. If you don't have a goal that holds you accountable you will probably sucumb to other responsibilities. If you don't believe look at my training log. Right now I don't anything in the horizon and it's killing me. This of course is contingent upon available time, I know getting settled takes time and a lot of work.

Try and find a local tri club that has regular rides and runs, group workouts are fun and they can be challenging.

For melting, try our high today: 110 degrees!!!!! Heading for a record in Texas, only 11 days away for the longest streak of days above 100, and the most incredible drought in decades.