Baowolf's Mentor Group- Closed (Page 5)

great news, Pam!  Not selfish at all, its great to share good news.

I made it out on the road with my bike tonight, and it was fantastic!!! Warm night, beautiful roads along the ocean, low traffic. Just went out and had a blast. That is until some old guy a-hole in his crappy pickup decided it would be fun to pull up behind me and blow his horn, then rip by me about 2 feet away. I let him know what I thought of him, but he was already down the road. What a f'in jackarse. What a great way to get someone body killed. I was (AM) so PO'ed about it, I turned around, and just hammered home on the bike thinking I'd get in my car and go find him (I saw the street he pulled down). I even pulled out my phone and had the video ready to go in case he decided to repeat his performance. He never did, and I'd cooled down a bit by the time I got home, but wtf? First real incident I've had with a jackarse like that. GGrrrrrrr.... Runined a truly awesome time I was having. My bike felt SO good. It was Awesome.

Pam, so glad you got a good report from the doc!  That makes my day!  And thanks for sharing re: the weird responses to vitamins.  It's good to have company in weirdness!  As for figuring out what to do when we grow up...I am less sure of that today than I ever have been .

Elena, yay, so glad the nasty stomach bug has left your house!  You guys are really getting me fired up about strength stuff...now to actually DO it.

Mike, dang what a creepazoid!  Was I reading that correctly that he has done this before?  Having someone do that to you when you are vulnerable on the bike is really unnerving and sure has brought out the middle finger I thought was safely tucked away.  Glad you are able to hang on to the awesomeness of being outside after that.

Mitzi, agree with the others...making up workouts is a losing game.  Every day is a new beginning, and a new day on the training plan.  Hope you are enjoying Shavout!

Steve, I have no idea how you have jumped back into training so many hours so quickly.  I would be in a coma if I tried to do that.  Very glad you are back and setting the bar high for the rest of us.

No workout today...sore neck last night and today, and I was short on time anyway.  My FIL has been a handful this week, mentally and physically.  Vacation coming up, and hubby & I really, really need it.  I hope to come back ready to set some goals in terms of tri's and overall health. 

I wish I could do a better job on keeping up with everyone, but so very glad to be part of this active group!  You are all inspiring!

Pam no problem at all glad things are looking overall well for you.  Training for a  sprint if you just want to have fun shouldn't eat  up all of your time.  It looks like a full sprint to me. 

The monthly numbers just helps me see where people are and what races they are training for so I know if they are slacking or on the money for their event.  It is also nice to see numbers go up from the previous month.  Not at all anything to worry about and you don't actually have to put  up your numbers if you don't want to. 

Shin splints are often related to old shoes, too much speedwork too soon, or unusual impact type stuff (boot camp?).  To recover you don't run in the pain, avoid speedwork, new shoes are good.  It sounds like you got past the 1 month of walking painfree and the walk/jog build.  It sounds like you are in the residual stage.  So ya avoid speedwork and hills, keep your pace z2 ish with a comfortable (not overstriding) gate, do not use minimalist shoes, ice after every run, use a foam roller or better yet a marathon stick or piece of pbc on the affected area, stretch.  I like the one where you stand against a wall, put one foot tonails down (carpet not hardwood floor) and bend your foot a bit like a bow moving the heal closer to the toes.  Then you have other standard stretches that may include a reverse toe raise.  (once you are better toe raises will help).  You start on a step with your toes extended and then lower your weight until your heals are below your toes on the step and stretch that, repeat.  Also if you can run on dirt or gravel that will help vs concrete and blacktop.  A rubberized track might be nice if you have one.  I am not sure if compression tights will help shin splints or not.

People in cars an be jerks.  But they are driving 3500 pound of metal that squishes 18 pounds of metal.  Yelling at emotionally disturbed people with a 3482 pound advantage will not help the other person to stabilize.  If you are scuba diving and an orca cuts you off, do you press your right of way or do you let him pass and consider yourself lucky?  Please don't encourage roadraged folks to act more psychotic.  Be safe out there and don't ride near sunset, ask me and my old bike with lots of broken metal how I know.   

Ya well my first 2 weeks were perhaps not the recommended build cycle, but I used frequent short workouts rather than long workouts.  I started my bike at 15 miles, run at 2 miles and swim at 1500 yards which is what I was doing 2 weeks before the surgery.  I started with all walk and worked up to all jog and  I increased my long run by 1 mile per week, bike by 10 miles per week, long swim by 200 yards per week.  And ya I did take a nap between my bike and swim yesterday.  Next week is a recovery week and then I should be in sync for the rest of the build.  I am doing no intensity and no hills, just building endurance currently.  Ideally that first 2 weeks would have been a month... but was hoping I still had some residual fitness from prior to the surgery. 

Glad to say that many of your suggestions I have done/or am doing now!  (patting my own back )  Will try some of the stretches.  Shoes: I have a favorite shoe....a minimalist...Kinvara 2's that I LOVE! Before the Kinvara, I was in Nike Frees, also a minamalist.  Unfortunately or (maybe fortunately) when shoes change w the seasons the same shoe just does not feel like the old one did!  I hate the Kinvara 3's and the new Frees.  Good news is that I only run in the Kinvaras on shorter runs, under 5 mi.  Longer runs I wear a more cusioned shoe..a Mizuno Waverunner. Its definitely not my favorite!!  But the extra cushion is helping.  Been in the market for new shoes for over a month now!!!!  

Dont know if you all saw this thread about a scheduled upgrade  ......fyi,,,

We will be upgrading the site Friday morning, May 17th.  This will take anywhere from 1-2 hours.  

Friday was chosen as we anticipate several 'issues' that we and our beta testers haven't caught yet, and pages will need optimized for speed.  This will give us the weekend (fewer online users) to iron out any remaining bugs and performance issues so come Monday, we should be back to normal.

Thank you for your patience!

PS - The new site will most definitely not be 'perfect', it's going to be buggy and slow.  The faint-at-heart may want to spend Friday and the weekend away from BT...maybe even swimming, biking or running.  It's going to be big change with plenty of 'going-live' issues - both anticipated and unanticipated.  I definitely don't want your expectations too high this weekend

Just finished a nice 4.25 mile run at sunrise, and I felt good. And for the first time in ages, it didn't hurt when I ran or when I stopped. Fingers crossed.

I  was a beta tester for the new site, and you won't believe what it looks like. Its great!!!

Mike - Don't let them take your mojo! The adreniline is more than understandable. I have had some close calls running but not as purposeful as your incident seems to be. Sometime I feel like throwing a waterbottle, or hat at them because they are usually going to fast, or not paying attention anyway. Yeah for warmer weather.

Samantha - Not sure what speed you are used to but 15.5 would not suprise me give all the miles you are putting it. I have notice a fairly steady progression in speed as more time is spent in the saddle. You need a good tapper to feel a bit more rested and you will do great!

Mitch - You look like you are recovering well. Hoefully you are getting more sleep these days.

Pam - Always good to here the Doc say everything is ok. I think the key to swimming like everything else is relax and enjoy.

Race day tomorrow and sooo much to do. Packet pick up on the way home, fuel the truck for the early morning ride, make sure the bike tires are pumped up, get some more gel/shot blocks, soo much stuff. I am very excited to see the results. The wetsuit test in the pool subtracted aboput 10 seconds off my 50yrds times. Very Cool. My bike speed is up. Went for a short tune up ride last night and even with some hills that I used to consider challenging managed 16.5 mph. Plan an easy 5K tonight but the run has progressed pretty well. Overall for the .6m/20m/4m I think a 2:08 might be in my future.

Yea - it's Friday!  My husband has been away with my laptop, but he's back now so I've got my logs mostly updated.  I used to punch in each workout right after I got back (I typically run at lunchtime from the gym that's just a mile down the road from where I work).  Now, I upload workouts from my Garmin, but I don't have the software to do that here at work.   I still have a couple of race reports still to do...

Pam - glad you got good news!  It's always nice to hear when people get good news.  And no, I still haven't figured out what I want to do when I grow up either!

Carol - hope your neck feels better.  Glad you have a vacation to look forward to.

Mike - be careful out there!  I yell at cars a lot when running, probably shouldn't but I get crankier the further I've run and people really don't pay attention.  I try not to make any "gestures" when running at lunch because there are too many people that I know from work. 

Samanatha - you go girl! 

Joe - Good luck tomorrow!

Anybody else racing this weekend? 

Have a good weekend everybody!