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juneapple - 2010-04-02 11:57 AM

Kind of odd that now at most of the schools seniors find out acceptance via website... so yesterday she found out 5 schools within 10 minutes of each other... an intense evening of roller coaster highs and lows.  Maybe the biggest day in her life... and it showed... you could see months of stress released in her face and tears when it was all over.  She put so much into this... I was really proud of the way she committed herself to the whole process.  Inspiring :-)

So 3 weeks of hard build (avoiding injury) and then taper is the idea if I decide to go for it, eh Michael?  Guess mine will begin when we get back from NE.  (my tentative HIM is a week after yours).

TriGuyBri - 2010-04-02 7:58 PM Michael or anyone else for that matter....I suspect I'll have to alter my plans for my second race of the year.  My dilemma is that my son's baseball games are on Saturdays and I need to be present for them.  In June is Blue Lake Tri which is a pretty popular race.  The Sprint Distance is on a Sat. and Olympic Distance on Sunday.  The other issue is that the Northwest Tri Club Championship is also on Sunday as part of the Olympic Distances races and it would be nice to race with other club members as part of the race.  My question is, in your opinion am I on target with my training to do this distance?  I think I am as I am following an Olympic Distance plan right now, but would like your thoughts as well.

My training plan is on BT and up to date.

Brian

slow turtle - 2010-04-02 9:33 PM Pool running: I'm not sure that I was doing it completely right. I checked out some youtube videos to get the general idea, but it felt pretty awkward.

Michael, you're right-it's incredibly boring. I'm looking around to see if any one makes a cheap waterproof mp-3 player.
I managed to do 15 minutes today, and followed it up with 15 minutes of lap swim. I was surprised that I felt like I was getting an arm workout during the running session.

My foot feels sore tonight, the nerve issue is a little more intense than usual. I'll see how I feel tomorrow. I'm hoping I can hit the pool 3 or 4 times a week for the running. It seemed like a good workout, even if my technique wasn't awesome.

juneapple - 2010-04-03 12:03 PM 1.26 in the 10 miler... way better than I expected or even hoped.  10+ minutes faster than 3 years ago.  8.31 pace (10.12 miles according to the Garmin).  Definitely a huge confidence boost on the impact of all the winter training and adding things like the intervals and recovery runs.  Didn't die on the more difficult 2nd half of the course like years past.  So that's one of my long term goals accomplished!

Brian, I definitely think you should feel confident about the OLY.  Today's run was a real confirmation about the improvement in our conditioning.  My pace was better than the 10Ks I did last Fall on easier courses about the same time I did the OLY... so you should be sweet for the Olympic length now and by June... even better.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for the suggestions and encouragement along the way!

(btw, helmet is now at the top of the list!  Thanks for the thoughts and advice on that too)

Stu

StlPhil - 2010-04-03 4:08 PM Neat to see everyone beginning to gear up for races. Been on track and treadmill last two weeks to see if the knee would settle down. I took it out doors to the park I usually run at to test the knee. I ran 11.1 with NO KNEE PAIN! Half marathon next Sunday. Next week I will scale back my miles and get some extra bike time.

I really felt good after the long run today. First time I used GU Chomps. I really think they helped. My legs did not feel rubbery after the run. In the past after my long runs I felt like I needed a nap. Today I felt great. I really think it was the nutrition during the run that made the difference. I wish I would have figure this out before. I always felt like crap afer long runs and because the that dreaded them.

7 Days to my first Half Marathon.

Phil

Experior - 2010-04-03 4:29 PM

Fantastic!  Sounds like you are definitely ready for the race.  I'm excited for you!

Yes, nutrition during longer workouts is important.  It helps get you through, but it also helps with quicker recovery.  You were feeling bad after long workouts because you were in the early stages of bonking.  Thankfully you didn't get all the way there.  It has happened to me twice and it is not pretty. 

People are different, but I like to take some nutrition in for workouts that will last 90 minutes or more.

One thing that people sometimes screw up here is this:  they figure that they can go 90 minutes (or whatever) with no nutrition, and so on a 2.5 hour ride (or whatever) they wait until 90 minutes in to start taking nutrition.  Don't do this!  If you are going to take in nutrition, do it on a regular schedule, and start from the beginning.  If anything, you back off towards the end, not at the beginning.

Everybody has to work out his or her own nutritional schedule, but as an example, here is what I do for long rides (3+ hours).  On the :15 and :45 I take a swig of extra strong sports drink, and chase it with water.  On the :30 and :60 I eat either a gel or half a Cliff bar (chocolate almond -- yum!).  If I'm going to run afterward, my last bite of Cliff bar will be taken no less than 90 minutes before the end of the ride.  I drink to thirst.

OneFastMule - 2010-04-05 1:04 AM Sorry that I've been incommunicado this past week, but I've been swimming (see picture below - and note the pool toy floating next to the BowFlex ).  After the tremendous rains last week (7 inches in 24 hours), our basement really flooded for the first time ever.  I've been pumping water for 5 days now and it is still coming in from underground (though it is much slower now).   The one bright spot is that a week of cleanup has done something that a whole month of training couldn't do: I've dropped another pound!  Now all I need to do is to figure out how to enter my bailing time in my training log as crosstraining...

Stone Cutter - 2010-04-05 12:23 PM Mule...that stinks.  A flooded basement is truly one of life's most annoying PITA.

Great to see the discussion on nutrition during longer runs.  I have never really used gels but have been thinking about giving them a try...I'll definitely start to experiment this weekend on my 11 miler. I did 9.5 miles yesterday without anything (not even water) but am not too sore (although I was super tired last night).  It'll be interesting to see how I feel during and after when taking regular fluids and some nutrition.

In an unrelated topic, I got my computer on my bike hooked up and running over the weekend and was dismayed to see how slowly I'd been riding.  I'd thought for sure I was riding in the low 20s, but it turns out I was riding closer to 17-18 mph.  I think I need to cut out beers and lose the beer belly...it must be causing some serious wind drag. 

Hope everyone has a great start to the week. 

Stone Cutter - 2010-04-05 6:38 PM Welcome back Scout.  Sorry to hear about the accident...I hope the guy at least apologized for his moronic driving.  I'm also running a half in May...indeed, time to ramp up the running.  Let me know if you've got any good interval workouts.

slow turtle - 2010-04-05 10:16 PM

Funny story...
This weekend I was getting ready for 17 people to come have easter dinner at my house. I was moving a bunch of stuff around, and my daughters 30lb bike fell down on my foot. To be exact, the kickstand landed square on one of my toes. The nurse that I work with looked at it today, and declared that it's broken. Yep, same foot that is already injured. At least I feel justified in feeling like it's been throbbing and painful for the past 2 days!


Okay, it's not really a funny story. But, at this point, if I don't laugh, I might cry.

slow turtle - 2010-04-05 7:16 PM Funny story...
This weekend I was getting ready for 17 people to come have easter dinner at my house. I was moving a bunch of stuff around, and my daughters 30lb bike fell down on my foot. To be exact, the kickstand landed square on one of my toes. The nurse that I work with looked at it today, and declared that it's broken. Yep, same foot that is already injured. At least I feel justified in feeling like it's been throbbing and painful for the past 2 days!


Okay, it's not really a funny story. But, at this point, if I don't laugh, I might cry.

slow turtle - 2010-04-05 9:16 PM Funny story...
This weekend I was getting ready for 17 people to come have easter dinner at my house. I was moving a bunch of stuff around, and my daughters 30lb bike fell down on my foot. To be exact, the kickstand landed square on one of my toes. The nurse that I work with looked at it today, and declared that it's broken. Yep, same foot that is already injured. At least I feel justified in feeling like it's been throbbing and painful for the past 2 days!


Okay, it's not really a funny story. But, at this point, if I don't laugh, I might cry.