kaburns1214 and UHCoog's Mentor Group-Closed (Page 5)

Yep, currently in Athens, although have lived and worked all over Metro Atlanta.

I love Athens, UGA is a great place.

I did the Monticelloman Olympic near Charlottesville today.  It was hard, I'm pleased with the way it came out.  I finished in 2:48 - 3 minutes slower than my goal of 2:45, but then I didn't have anything really concrete to base the goal on so who knows if it was realistic to start out with.  It was a nice course - rolling hills on both the bike and the run, and a cold (66 degrees) but scenic lake swim.  As I guess I should've expected, I felt reasonably strong on the bike, and sort of useless on both the swim and the run.  Overall, it was a fun, manageably-sized, well-organized event.

I spent all of yesterday obsessing about how to prepare my transitions so I didn't forget anything.  I didn't end up forgetting anything, but I felt like I could've done them faster. 

I'll post a full race report as soon as they post the results so I know my times for the three events and the transitions, but I did want to let the group know that I made it (no longer a TOTAL noob!) and to thank everyone for your advice.  I can only get faster from here!  Cheers!

P.S. - I rewarded myself with a bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a big ol' beer.  That's the reason we do this, after all, isn't it?  

Hi Scott & Kelly, I would like to join your group please!

Name - Christian

Story - About 6yrs ago with a failing marriage, I began running as an outlet (much cheaper than therapy).  At first it was just that, an outlet, but after a few yrs of running no more than 5miles, a friend asked me to train for a half marathon with her.  Unfortunately she got injured and was unable to complete the training or race, but I did.  It wasn't a pretty race, but I finished, so I decided to see if I could do a full marathon.  I joined a running group and was quickly hooked.  I have completed 3 Full Marathons and 4 Half Marathons in the last 2yrs and I am now an assistant full marathon coach for my running group.

I had been kicking around attempting a Tri and was hanging out with a friend one night talking about this and she said I could totally do TRi's.  At that moment I decided I needed to set a lofty goal if I was going to push myself to do it, so I made the goal of completing a Full Ironman before I turn 50, that gives me 4yrs.  The plan is to do a couple sprint or olympic Tri's late summer early fall with the goal of the Austin Half IM in late Oct.  Then work on the Madison Full IM for Sept 2014!  I'm not fast, but I don't know the word quit, so I will get to the starting line and somehow I will cross the finish line no matter how long it takes!

Family Status - Divorced with two beautiful daughters (16/13).  I do have a very large extended family since my mom was the 5th of 15 kids and a majority live in the Northern Illinois / Southern Wisconsin area hence my choice to do the Madison Full IM!  I will have one huge cheering section!

Current Training - Running about 3 days a week, riding 2 - 3 days a week, and starting a Masters Swim Class at the local YMCA this week.  Also going to be setting up my official BT Training Plan for the Half IM this week.

This Years Races - So far this year I have ran the Austin 3M Half Marathon (PR - 1:50), the Austin LiveStrong Marathon (PR - 4:17), the Austin 1020 (10mi in 1:24), and my 2nd ToughMudder (just for fun).

2013 Races - Running in the Palo Duro Hot Dog 15K (July) with a bunch of other coaches from my running group, the Shiner Half Marathon (Nov), at least two Sprint or Olympic distance Tri's in Aug and Sept as practice for my main goal race for this year which is the Austin Half IM (Oct).

So running and riding I can do.  Was a big cyclist years ago and recently bought a new bike and started riding again (forgot how much I really loved riding)!  My big problem area is swimming!  I can't seem to figure out how to breathe.  Hoping that the Masters Swim Class can teach me how to do this!

Looking forward to being part of this group and entering into the wonderful world of Tri's!

G'night all!

Christian

Here's the updated list:

Scott - UHCoog

Kelly - kaburns1214

Michele - DDVMM

Kristen - enders_shadow

Larkin - Kidtri33

Matt - mleech77

Chris - ccmpsyd

Jen - jarvy01

Matt - Kuma

Deb - cheekymonkeys1

David - tdl1972

Katie - kr140.6

Chad - HoLiCao 

Corbet - corbetjackson50

Scott - everlong

Todd - cobratodd

Colleen - collyd123

Christian - cmohr623

I think we're going to shut the group down now.  If you haven't posted a bio, please do so.

Also if you would like to find me on Facebook, you can here -- https://www.facebook.com/kelburns?ref=tn_tnmn

Welcome aboard! 

This is a really interesting statement: "I am new at this but want to train as aggressive as I safely can."

I want Scott to weigh in first on this one.

I would encourage everyone to add the list to your friends section of your training log.  It makes it much easier to view logs and leave comments.  For anyone new to the site, it should be on the left side of your training log page (there is a plus sign to add friends).  

I did the Monticelloman Olympic near Charlottesville today.  It was hard, I'm pleased with the way it came out.  I finished in 2:48 - 3 minutes slower than my goal of 2:45, but then I didn't have anything really concrete to base the goal on so who knows if it was realistic to start out with.  It was a nice course - rolling hills on both the bike and the run, and a cold (66 degrees) but scenic lake swim.  As I guess I should've expected, I felt reasonably strong on the bike, and sort of useless on both the swim and the run.  Overall, it was a fun, manageably-sized, well-organized event.

I spent all of yesterday obsessing about how to prepare my transitions so I didn't forget anything.  I didn't end up forgetting anything, but I felt like I could've done them faster. 

I'll post a full race report as soon as they post the results so I know my times for the three events and the transitions, but I did want to let the group know that I made it (no longer a TOTAL noob!) and to thank everyone for your advice.  I can only get faster from here!  Cheers!

P.S. - I rewarded myself with a bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a big ol' beer.  That's the reason we do this, after all, isn't it?  

I did the Monticelloman Olympic near Charlottesville today.  It was hard, I'm pleased with the way it came out.  I finished in 2:48 - 3 minutes slower than my goal of 2:45, but then I didn't have anything really concrete to base the goal on so who knows if it was realistic to start out with.  It was a nice course - rolling hills on both the bike and the run, and a cold (66 degrees) but scenic lake swim.  As I guess I should've expected, I felt reasonably strong on the bike, and sort of useless on both the swim and the run.  Overall, it was a fun, manageably-sized, well-organized event.

I spent all of yesterday obsessing about how to prepare my transitions so I didn't forget anything.  I didn't end up forgetting anything, but I felt like I could've done them faster. 

I'll post a full race report as soon as they post the results so I know my times for the three events and the transitions, but I did want to let the group know that I made it (no longer a TOTAL noob!) and to thank everyone for your advice.  I can only get faster from here!  Cheers!

P.S. - I rewarded myself with a bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a big ol' beer.  That's the reason we do this, after all, isn't it?  

I did the Monticelloman Olympic near Charlottesville today.  It was hard, I'm pleased with the way it came out.  I finished in 2:48 - 3 minutes slower than my goal of 2:45, but then I didn't have anything really concrete to base the goal on so who knows if it was realistic to start out with.  It was a nice course - rolling hills on both the bike and the run, and a cold (66 degrees) but scenic lake swim.  As I guess I should've expected, I felt reasonably strong on the bike, and sort of useless on both the swim and the run.  Overall, it was a fun, manageably-sized, well-organized event.

I spent all of yesterday obsessing about how to prepare my transitions so I didn't forget anything.  I didn't end up forgetting anything, but I felt like I could've done them faster. 

I'll post a full race report as soon as they post the results so I know my times for the three events and the transitions, but I did want to let the group know that I made it (no longer a TOTAL noob!) and to thank everyone for your advice.  I can only get faster from here!  Cheers!

P.S. - I rewarded myself with a bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a big ol' beer.  That's the reason we do this, after all, isn't it?  

Current Training: Took 9 days off to go to Disney with the family. Keeping the wife happy for all the training she lets me get away with.

Current Training: Took 9 days off to go to Disney with the family. Keeping the wife happy for all the training she lets me get away with.

Once the race season gets into full swing I'm curious what my trade offs will be with my wife.  She's already putting up with a lot considering I work part time for a road racing organization.  One weekend a month I'm at a track playing with race cars.  Now I'm adding my own race season on top of this.  This year it's all "local" so within 2 hours drive, but I'm already storing up as many brownie points as I can.

I do nearly all my training before 8AM even on the weekends. So to pull that off I was up at 4:35 this morning and got in 1:15 on the trainer plus an hour run. I take Saturdays off so she can sleep in and I take care of any issues with the toddler or 6 month old and even Sundays I'm up at 4-5AM depending on the workout. During the week I'll run or swim on my lunch hour. You learn how to squeeze it in to keep the home life happy which at the end of the day it's more important than our hobby we love.

Okay so this weekend didn't go exactly as planned with training but I did learn some things. Over/Unders are brutal! enough said on that one. Make a larger window for long training rides...and I am one awesome BBQ man! Daughter was very happy with here smoked wings and ribs for her birthday. On top of that her team go their first win of the season Saturday. My son scored the winning goal for his team. I'll take all that any day over a 3 hour training ride Now my focus is on this week:

2200 w/Catch drills done this morning. 40 mins OLPs(One Legged Pedaling) later today. 13 days till first race of season.

So this is kind of a newb question and it may help out the many new folks we have in here as well. When the swim calls for 8x100 best sustainable effort. I assume you are doing 100s and "resting" for about 5-10s before the next 100? At least that is what I have been doing.

I do nearly all my training before 8AM even on the weekends. So to pull that off I was up at 4:35 this morning and got in 1:15 on the trainer plus an hour run. I take Saturdays off so she can sleep in and I take care of any issues with the toddler or 6 month old and even Sundays I'm up at 4-5AM depending on the workout. During the week I'll run or swim on my lunch hour. You learn how to squeeze it in to keep the home life happy which at the end of the day it's more important than our hobby we love.

So this is kind of a newb question and it may help out the many new folks we have in here as well. When the swim calls for 8x100 best sustainable effort. I assume you are doing 100s and "resting" for about 5-10s before the next 100? At least that is what I have been doing.

No. Generally what I do is warm up and then I do my first 100 at a fast but not all out pace. Depending on how I feel that's generally somewhere between 1:25 to 1:35 when I hit the wall. I take ten seconds of rest and that is my sustainable effort. So let's say I bring it in at 1:33 I'll round up to keep it even and take 12 seconds on the first one and my intervals are at 1:45. By the 8th one you start to fatigue and the rest might only be 5 seconds. Other days I'll actually get faster and if that happens I may drop to a 1:40 interval but I don't let myself add onto the interval.

There's some trial and error but after doing it a few times you'll learn your paces and it will become instinctual. I can within a second tell you how fast I brought in an interval 98% of the time and the other two percent I'm usually pretty close as well.

I think we can safely say when Kelly defers it's to you but in general there have been times I haven't been sure either.