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Haha... no worries... keep it up and you'll feel this way soon too!  If only every workout was so sweet!

Welcome Monica.  I look forward to hearing more from you.  Sounds like you are well on your way!

Hey Chris... Welcome.

If you are biking and running like you said, I think a sprint should be pretty easy to complete for you.  Assuming the swim isn't a problem.

You said you run 7 ~ 10 miles on the weekend.  Is this your only running?  Or do you do other runs durning the week? (Cardio???)  I would assume that if you wanted to maintain weight, that sprint training shouldn't affect that too much, but I'm no expert.

Double post... so I guess, since I'm done responding to people, I'll add my own morning workout.

I managed to get our for a good ride today.  I went to a designated bike path (which I dissapointingly found out is only 14.5km long in the first direction) with almost no need to ever stop... Yeah!!! no traffic lights, speeding scooters and other fun things that come with road riding in Taiwan.

I decided I would try doing 40km on the bike at a good pace.  I started out feeling GREAT.  Was maintaining 33km/h for pretty much the entire 14km out, but when I turned around I realized I had a tail wind... which ment I now had a head wind.  Coming back was pretty brutal.  When I finished (got in 38.3km) my pace was 26km/h which I guess ain't bad, but was hoping for more.  I then threw my bike in the car, put on sneakers and tried to run... OUCH!  I managed about 2.25kms, which is all I was really aiming for, but boy oh boy did it hurt.

Anyway, not a bad sunday morning workout.  So nice to have Sunday off... I've been working for the last 27 days straight so its really nice not to see my school today!!!

Mesteren - 2011-05-01 9:39 PM I know I complain a lot about the weather and I am sorry, but it is with good reason.
This what i woke up to this morning !!!!!!

I mean, I miss snow.  I was home 2 years ago for Christmas, and LOVED the snow... but May first!!!   Wow, that sucks Mesteren!!!

Looks like home, Mesteren. Today at least we did not wake up to snow, but to sunshine and it is warming up nicely now.

I did a short/easy ride with someone else - it is the first time I've ridden with someone who isn't one of the children. It's interesting how different things are than they were for me a year and a half ago. That six miles was a training ride for her, and she was sweaty/tired at the end. It was a recovery/pleasure cruise for me; my heart rate *average* was 103 for the ride and max was 126. If nothing else can convince me of how far I've come already, it's that. And if I need to know how far I have to go, all I have to do is look at other BTers' logs!

Belated hello and welcome to Christi, Chris, and Monica! Let us know about your upcoming races so we can send inspirations and smiley faces  

@Mesteren, wow snow in May! Its supposed to be Spring! In Austin, its the opposite. Its like we bypassed Spring and went straight into Summer. Its been really humid lately... until a few hours ago. A much needed cold front is blowing through, and the temp dropped close to 20 degrees F. Only in Austin where the weather likes to change its mind. 

Even though a few of you are snow/cold-bound, its really awesome that you still get in miles on the bike on the trainer and go out to run. I don't know if I could do it. So when its warm again in your respective locales, you will be so excited you will set PBs! 

I will be in a wedding as a bridesmaid this weekend in California. Hope I'll still be able to get some runs and maybe a swim in between. But if I don't that is why! Not trying to slack, and will likely get grumpy because I can't swim/bike/run. Have a good week everyone!

Hey everyone! Welcome to the group. It sure filled up fast.

That snow looks rough. Especially this late. I thought I was gonna die here in Ohio. I couldn't wait. Now it just seems to rain every second.

Although, it wasn't raining during Saturday's RACE! I ran my first 10k on saturday. I missed my goal time of sub 60min probably because at mile 3 I HAD to stop and pee. Drove me crazy. Couldn't have finished another 30min of running without stopping. I still feel like I did well though. My final time was 62:20 and it was the most hilly course I have ever run. I have been sore all day today because of it. I didn't realize.

I was there early but probably wasn't careful enough with my fluids and the lines at the port-a-johns were so long that I gave up.

So, after a little recovery I am on to the next race.

I was so proud of finishing well though. I wore my finishers metal all day today. To Church and everything. Cool little "flying pig" metal

Thanks everyone for all the help and support. I may not have been able to finish without the help of this group.

Congrats Joel! You finished and finished well. Even though you may not have reached your goal, you still did pretty freaking good. Now, you have even more reason to keep training and racing! And you got some run practice in for your first tri! Wear that little piggy proudly! 

Christi

Nice snow.  If it's January.  Guess I'll stop complaining about the rain.  

This weekend was great weather and of course I was out of town with no opportunity to get out and play.  Fingers crossed for more nice weather for all of us.

Christi

To all the final entrants to this group: Welcome!

Mesteren: Snow in May is brutal and unexpected. At most I could expect some Ice over there. But that's it. Maybe next time miss the plain back from Germany. Speaking of Germany: How did it go?

Rebecca: I big woop woop on a huge PB.

Christi: Don't worry on the distances. The fun of tri in my opinion that everyone has his own goals. Wether you Chrissie Wellington of a fortunate member of Mesterens group. And don't look at my bike rides. Cause in my defense it is not a fair comparison. Over here we have way more bikes than citizins. It's like second nature to us to bike.

Joel: Woop woop on you PB. 62:20 sounds like a great time on a first tri. especially with some peeing in the mix. BTw I want to join that race next year: Flying pig medals rock.

In regard to my weekend: with some extra delay I actually swam again yesterday. Right before I went down to imitate a Zebra (we have American Football season over here at the moment) I did a 3 * 500m with 1 minute rest workout. Special focus on pacing and relaxing. It felt great.

On saturday I did a 100K bike ride with all head wind. Respect for the girlfriend who I joined on that ride. She is a powerhouse and did the most work by leading. To bad she is really small so I still had not much to shelter in. In total I did 100K sub 4 hours. Though with 2 main breaks. One to get coffee with apple pie. And one because I had 2 flat tires after hitting a small rock on the road.

On the flat tires I have a big woop woop for my new hero Lubo. First I quickly noticed I brought a wrong inner tire with me so I wasn't able to fix my bike. As the friend had a total of 120K left to go we decided it was better if I just figured out myself on how to get home.

While doing a relaxing walk towards the main road an unknown biker passed and noticed my flat tire. He immediately stopped insisting I would except a spare tire of him. And I wasn't allowed to pay him for it. At that moment I was only aware of my front tire being flat.

As he continued his route I fixed the tire to figure out my other one was flat as well. (gotta love the stiff continental tires). And as this couldn't be fixed with a patch either I was in need of another tire. And my luck: Lubo was on an out and back route. So he even gave up his second spare to me.

And as he still didn't want anything in return. We agreed on exchanging numbers. I will probably invite him on a race in my home town and make sure I repay him.

Lubo: THANKS!!

Welcome to the final members of our group from Alaska, US as well.

Niezels, hurray for nice people! But boo for 2 flats...that stinks just impossibly badly. Glad that it came out okay and maybe you'll have made a friend out of it.

Today is a gorgeous day and I will do long slow run after work.

Good Job on that 10 k Joel....If you had let it run down your leg you would have made it

Niezels I know I grew up there and still have my old batavus bike in my parents basement. We rode our bikes everywhere school which was 10 k away,swimming lessons everything including grammas house it think that was 40 k. Move here and i got told within a week on our way home on a bike got pulled over by a cop on the way home asking me what the bleep I was doing. My answer going home what else. Biking slowed down lots with the big yellow school bus coming to pick us up.

Mesteren did the snow melt yet?? And how did thing in Germany go??