Gary's Mentor Group - Re-OPENED for Training (Page 46)

Elizabeth, do you already have google account?  If you do then you need to go into it and request access to my calendar (if you don't have my email address I will PM it to you) and once I approve it should work.

Chris - I see on your logs that it shows the overall time for your swim.  If you want it to log the individual portions of the swim you need to enter the first set of data (200m warmup as you listed) then click Add Another Swim Workout.  Let me know if I am missing something.

Jimmy, absolutely!  I do believe our group would be a great fit.  We have folks of all skill levels from beginners to those with lots of experience.  You are most welcome to join this group.

A side note, do you ride the Alligator Bayou area or any of the group rides (BRBC or BRTri)?  Central is a bit of a haul but not too far from where I live.

Danggg ... I go out of town for a few days, come back and the group has filled up.  Welcome Brady, Chris and Jimmy.  There are several 1st timers in the group ... myself included ... who can share experiences on gear, training, frustrations, and other so ask away. 

Liz ... sounds like the shoes.  Just a thought - Runnersworld.com has a shoe fit finder on the home page, so you might take a look at this.  Zappos has pretty good pricing as well.  I would not recommend buying a 'strange' shoe on line.  I would buy one on-line which I've previously owned ... same shoe, size and brand, etc.

I was going to mention a similar issue - with my increase in running I've began to have some soreness in my feet in the heel area.  Shoes have

I didn't Gary. I'm supposed to be getting my tail in gear and picking races but I just haven't had the time. However, a 5150 is just not doable for me. I am just getting to where I can do 800-1200m in the pool without too much difficulty and I definitely can't do a 10k. It really is just too much on my heart. I may volunteer though. I love being there and being a part of it, I just can't be a participant. Who knows maybe after I get my 910 and tailor my training to my heart rate it will get better. We'll see- but not in the cards for now.

Shelly

P.S. Good luck Sunday- are you still running?

Sorry, I have no idea why it would flare up. I'll share what worked for my pf a couple years ago.  Get a couple softballs from Walmart and roll your feet around on them finding the knots and applying pressure on the sore spots.  If you are really brave, try standing on them (supporting most of your weight on a counter or table).  Start with just a few seconds because it will hurt bad (like almost crying bad), but slowly build up.  I got to the point I could stand on them and roll my feet around for a couple minutes (it took weeks to build up to that).  After that, my pf was gone.

Nope, turns out wife will be out of town and no sitter.  @#$@#$@#$!!!!!

As for the 5150 I completely understand, especially the 10k, but you may consider a relay team.   Just a thought.

As for joining you must chant "Gary is great" three times and promise a free (root) beer for me in the future, then you are done.  Obligations are post to the group when you can, answer questions when you can, always remember that once you join the group you are a member.  Even if you disappear for awhile you can come back (that goes for anyone who has ever joined this group).

Ran for 5k today in 29:28, which was nice considering the body wasn't feeling so good a 1/4 mile in and I felt like shutting it down.

The pace is about the norm for me (I've never really trained to run before).  I'm just more impressed with the motivation I had to actually finish what I started.

Already looking for to that swim at 5:15am tomorrow.

Also was able to go in and figure out how to manage the training log function.  Have it updated starting this past Sunday and will keep it updated going forward.

Hi!

Name: Dragos

Country: Romania (Europe)

I am a total newbie but I hope I can join.

I am reading a lot lately about triathlon racing and started preparing for my first triathlon. 

I always loved all kinds of sports and after doing a half marathon last autumn (1h 58')I decided to get prepared for triathlon races. I started training almost two weeks ago. I am 24 years old, 5'10" and 152 lbs and I am highly competitive and plan to train as hard as I can.

I would like to do a half marathon at end of may, a sprint triathlon in mid july, and then move on up to an olympic in august and september. Meanwhile I plan to compete in some cycling events to get familiar to racing and all kinds of other events but I need coaching as I don't know for how much I should aim in my first year.

This is the starting point, I am confident I can improve fast!

Dragos, Welcome!!!! You will fit in quite nicely here.  Please make sure to read the emails over that last few days to catch up on some of the house keeping items.

Jimmy - I saw your comment about "marathons and centuries before doing a Tri".   Now if you are referring to a full (ironman) that might be the case but you really should consider doing a short distance tri first.  Either way you should checkout the plans on this site (and others) to help you with your training.  People tend to overtrain and forget the power of rest days and the plans on this site will help with that.

Brady - are you in Wisconsin?

Tracy - my two cents on TM's.  Necessary evil, I had heard they were actually easier on the joints then running on the road so I am interested to hear if that is not true.  I have also heard to better simulate the road also set the incline to 1-2%.

Got a short swim in at lunch and then almost 6 miles tonight.  Now off to bed, later all!!

Stephanie - Welcome!  Join in and ask any and all questions.  If you get a chance to read this thread from the beginning you will find lots of great tips and tricks.  As for swimming, when I decided to do tris I could not swim 25 yards.  Took lessons and 3 months later finished my first tri (granted I was very slow).  Getting into that water scared me to death but I am in firm belief that facing your fears is probably one of the toughest part of triathlons.  I am so glad that I faced my fear and beat it and I am definitely the poster boy if I can do it anyone can.

Also, PM me your email address and I will add you to our calendar where you can add your races.

BTW, Everyone wish Shelly good luck on her 5k tomorrow!  Go Shelly!!!

Hi Stephanie.

I'm as new to this as you are, well, it looks like I have a two week head start.

The last 15 years of my life or so, my idea of swimming has been floating in the lake drinking as many beers as possible, or some wakeboarding and skiing.  I just decided about a month ago to start doing tri's, and like most, I worried about not being able to finish the swim.  I found a really nice beginner's swim workout (3x's per week) on this site that I have been following.  It hasn't been near as difficult as I thought it would be and I'm already noticing some very positive results only 4 workouts in.  If you're interested, I can dig up the link and you can have a look at it.

Gary is right too.  I went back and read all the previous threads when I first joined the group and found many helpful tips, especially regarding swimming.

Good luck!

Got an 800m interval swim in this morning.  Will be working on these massive arms this afternoon.  And by massive, I mean, chicken wings.

Good luck in that 5k Shelly!  If you run faster than everyone else, you'll have no problems...