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Ouch, take it easy coming back.   Few days won't take you too far off track.  

Vitamins, water and sleeeeeeep. Sick sucks.

Alright....

Time to answer the following for curious minds:

1) When is your first race this year?
2) Where, Which race and what distance?
2) What is your goal for race?    (just finish, warm up race, place in Age Group?) 

Here's mine
1) April 17th
2) Boca Raton, FL, Florida Atlantic Univiersity Wellness Triathlon, Sprint
3) Warm up for Florida 70.3 in May.  Work on transitions and have a good time.  Yeah, placing in AG would be nice 

1 & 2) Unsure - either Dexter/Ann Arbor Half Marathon (JUn 5th) or Big Fish Triathlon (Sprint Distance)(Jun 19th, 2011) - maybe both

3) Half Marathon - goal has to be that elusive (for me) 8:00 per mile pace; Sprint Triathlon overall time of 1:15 with bike avg speed north of 20mph

1) April 23
2) Raleigh, NC,  Triangle Orthopedic Tri - Sprint
3) My first tri - place in top 50% of age group and finish swim without breaks or resorting to breaststroke

Hello All,

I'm a little different to others as we're in the middle of our season (and my first triathlon season) and apologies as I don't do yards.

1) When is your first race this year? First Race was Raby Bay Sprint
2) Where, Which race and what distance? (400m, 15km, 4km)
2) What is your goal for race?    (just finish, warm up race, place in Age Group?) Goal was just to finish, which I did, but as I'm doing a few events in the Gatorade series, my aim is to place in Age Group, currently in 4th overall, podium wold be awesome, however, would have to place better in last 3 races to secure this.

Aim is to go up to Olympic Distance for Mooloolaba on 27 March, lots of hard training required, especially as it's an ocean swim, and bike and run courses have hills, hills and more hills. Ouch. This is gonna hurt!!

Happy training
Kate

This is Great!   4th overall is fantastic and I am sure you will do much better than you expect in that Olympic.  

I'm alive. 

1) When is your first race this year?   May 7th
2) Where, Which race and what distance?  Polar Bear Sprint Tri, Bowdoin College, ME
2) What is your goal for race?    (just finish, warm up race, place in Age Group?)   Warm up race & to assess my goals for the season.  My running pace is faster and I've been working on my technique (Chi running) so hopefully this will help me on the 3rd leg.

Jess 

Godo to hear!   your training log looks great and consistency will pay off come May!  

Had an unintentionally low volume week last week.  A combination of a new dog, early meetings, a cold, and a rainy day knocked me down to 3 hours total...yikes.  Back to it this week!

I know the feeling.   Valuable lesson I learned along the way though was don't try to make it up in volume.   Stick to your plam despite the dropped workouts.   All you will do otherwise if overstress the body and get sick again or hurt.   

Coming off intentionally light (recovery) week! It was great timing too as my whole family was sick with flu-like symptoms - I had the least of it...but it still ran be down a bit. This week is swim focused - I'm in the pool 6 days this week. 4 down, 2 to go. I smell like a chlorine stick.



Edited by mramazon0822 2011-02-10 11:33 AM

1) When is your first race this year? April 16 - Belews Sprint. My goal is to improve on last years overall time 1h:26m.

I'm hoping to shave 30s to 1m off the swim, 2-3m off the bike, and 2m off run. Also want to cut overall transition time by 30s. Being aggressive, I want to finish this years race in 1h:20m - breaking it down - here's my goals:

swim (750 meter) 13m:15s
T1 1m:30s
bike (14.5 mile) 40m (21.75 mph average)
T2 1m:15s
run (5k) 24m (7m:45s pace)

1h:20m - overall

Wish me luck - I'll need it!

i am back.  baby's birthday week turned into 3 weeks of being sick, multiple ped visits and an er visit.  mommy hasn't left the house until today!!

so since i left the house, i finally got us into the gym.  finally!  training. starts. tomorrow!!!!

we can't wait!! 

i don't have my race scheduled yet- we were hoping to find something close by, but everything we can find appears to be 2-3 hours away from where we live- that means scheduling a babysitter, overnight stays, etc.  hoping to find something closer, if not, we'll bite the bullet! 

so ready for this!

Looks great.   Always helps to have specific goals and the winter months to think about them...     Sounds doable to me and hope you are able to obtain it.  Confident you will, just install hand sanitizer in every room in your house 

Poor babe!  Hope the illness is finally on it's way out...    Hang in there and stay focused on the goals you've set.  I'm a few hours from my tris and we make a weekend out of it.  I have a family friend who I bring with me to watch the kids. 

Good luck with training!! 

Thanks for your support, it's appreciated!

thanks so much!!  that sounds like a great idea to make a weekend out of it!  might be a nice little vacation for us as well!! 

training has started.  i'm WAY more out of shape than I thought i was, so i am doing the "couch to triathlon" training instead of the 20 week.  it fits perfectly for me right now- and that's just what i need!

Edited by maddawgpig 2011-02-16 12:10 AM

Sorry for being so quiet lately -

So I've been cycling and not much else - just me and my bike/trainer in the basement - THRILLING!

This week began my second testing week for the Jorge Winter Cycling Plan.  I didn't get to my workout in the morning like I planned but at 9:30 last night my bike and I had a date for a 20' sufferfest.  The test begins with a 20' warm-up and then moves into a a 20' time trial all out effort.  I averaged 18.3 mph the last time I tested on 1/12/2011.  I started out too fast that time (around 20mph) and really struggled at the end.  This time, I calculated a 10% improvement in watts for my ride and that put me around a goal pace of 19 mph.  I was riding pretty comfy at 19.3 to 19.6 for the first 5 minutes and periodicaly shifted gears to move to a higher cadence and a bit of a break of resistance.  The last 7 minutes or so had to the toughest riding I have ever done.  (Previously the toughest had been the 3 min time trial I did the same week as the previous 20' time trial.)  I held on the best I could and ended up at 18.9 mph for the ride.  My HR avg was 183 vs 175 for the previous test.  Could be my LT has moved higher or that I had eaten dinner 3 hours prior.  Not sure. 

Tomorrow I have a trainer session and then Sat I will have the 3' sufferfest time trial.  I avg'd 21 mph he last time and am shooting for 22 mph this time. 

Regarding my other training.  Definitely running the Dexter-Ann Arbor half marathon on June 5th.  I struggled with what training plan to follow.  I really wanted to try the Hanson's plan but the volume is too high out the gate.  I will look to use the Higdon intermediate again and then hope to have enough volume going into the late summer to utilize the Hanson's plan for the Detroit Half in october.  I really want to get under the 8 min per mile pace in my half distance.  I still haven't setled on any tri's so I need to look at the calendar and life and figure out what I can realistically do.

On other matters, I will be in the Gatlinburg area this summer and am thinking of taking my bike.  We are staying out the urban areas way in the country on a rd called Pittman Center Rd.  Anyone familar with it and if it is somewhat safe to ride my road bike on?  I envision some early morning rides in the hills as a great way to start each day.

Edited by dangremond 2011-02-16 12:58 PM

You have to start somewhere, and that's all that matters.  If it works for you it's a good plan!

Skipping my workout today.  Donated blood - I imagine a soldier in Afghanistan needs my blood more than I need a swim workout.

That being said, tomorrow I will very much enjoy my commute/ride , jog to the pool, swim, and jog home in the 63 degree temps!

Jealous of your 63 degree temps - we are ecstatic here of temps in the 40's! 

Good for you!  Yes, there is always tomorrow.

Finished my 3' max power cycling test this afternoon.  Previously my avg speed for the test was 21.2 mph for approx 300 watts.  Today I gutted out 22mph avg for 3 min with watts approx 330.  I was pretty happy as that was the goal I established for myself.

In the 5 weeks that I have been following the jorge cycling plan my critical power has improved from 202 watts to 216 watts or about 7%.  Definitely seeing progress and that makes me happy.