Mental Manatee Mentors Part 3--CLOSED (Page 50)

I shall hope and live vicariously through you.

Most of the schools are closed.  My University is opening two hours late.  Guess it's better than nothing but not as good as sitting at home on the couch all day.

The snow is really coming down.  None of the roads are plowed.  As I was coming home from a friend's place I lost control and smacked a curb hard a couple times.  I might wake up to a flat tire on that side.  Hopefully no bent wheels or anything.  Praising God I didn't end up worse off.  There are going to be a lot of accidents tonight.

Scary! Glad you got home with nothing worse.

The snow is really coming down.  None of the roads are plowed.  As I was coming home from a friend's place I lost control and smacked a curb hard a couple times.  I might wake up to a flat tire on that side.  Hopefully no bent wheels or anything.  Praising God I didn't end up worse off.  There are going to be a lot of accidents tonight.

Congratulations Jonathan!

Great ride, way to get in the miles and sort some stuff out.

Not sure about aero. What's your entire hydration setup? Do you have a downtube bottle as well? A lot of people slow down when they take the bottle out of the cage, drink, put back in. Kind of like a break. You may not get that "break" if drinking in aero.

Do you have to change any part of your position at all except maybe tilting your head down a little to drink?

OK Manatees - here's my day.

OK Manatees - here's my day.

The swim - it's on it's off was the talk of the day with announcements coming every five minutes over the loudspeaker.  Finally we got the information - swim delayed til 8.25 for age groupers - one lap - start to left of pier - turn right then left and back past the pier and into the beach.  A beach start well knee deep  I suppose.  We got near to the front...we watched the pros go off - it looked soooooooo bad!

I wasn't nervous, I saw Coach Johnny beforehand he said - Jo this is your swim, you love these conditions, you're gonna smash it.

My thoughts were to try and stick with Nicki - pretty hard with 2000 of us.  Anyway - no siren, Mike Reilly just shouted GO!  and we went.  We had to swim diagonally right really hard to go in a straight line the current was a ripper.  When we reached the end of the pier - guys (those alpha male types!) were getting smashed into the pier!  Not me I was way off course  

Past the pier the waves were about 10-15ft.  I would get to the top sight the buoys then crash down the other side whooping and cheering like I was on a roller coaster - I raised a few smiles!  The wall of water in front of me was amazing, it would rise up about 10ft and I could see hundreds of black suited red capped swimmers in suspended animation before it was my turn. 

At the buoys I caught up with the president of my tri club who was having a hard time - gave him some encouragement, I think it helped.  Then I spotted Nicki breaststroking, grabbed her, told her to follow me (my sighting was better).

Turning the buoys was a challenge with many athletes actually on top of them!  Then once past them, those 10ft walls of water were at my back and i had toes to hang onto in front (a big guy in speedos - clearly a swimmer!)

The lifeguards were shouting swim straight to shore - hahahah, I just couldn't I was carried away with a couple of hundred others to the other end of the beach - I body surfed to shore about 400m from the finish line.  I stood and waited for  Nicki then we ran out together.  She hit her watch at 34mins, so I think I was nearer 31 or so for me.  But the timing mat was at transition of course so that's another 10mins after we've chatted and caught up with friends etc!

With that wind I wasn't sorry not to be going on.  Nicki and Alan who have done 12 IM said it was their worst ride EVER.

BUT man what a swim - I loved every minute - bring on another lap!

You are bad azz! Sorry if you've lost your passion for IM, hopefully you haven't lost your passion for stalking

Hey all, Janyne does not seem to be one to toot her own horn, so I will. She won her age group on Sunday, and that was while facing 20 mph headwinds for the last 20 miles of the bike.

WooHoo, great job!!!!!!

Hey all, Janyne does not seem to be one to toot her own horn, so I will. She won her age group on Sunday, and that was while facing 20 mph headwinds for the last 20 miles of the bike.

WooHoo, great job!!!!!!

Slow and steady increase.   Conventional wisdom says no more than a 10% increase per week.  Distance is what is usually considered but time wise should also be applicable.   4:15 run/ 1:00 walk would be safest.   

Hey all, Janyne does not seem to be one to toot her own horn, so I will. She won her age group on Sunday, and that was while facing 20 mph headwinds for the last 20 miles of the bike.

WooHoo, great job!!!!!!

Hey all, Janyne does not seem to be one to toot her own horn, so I will. She won her age group on Sunday, and that was while facing 20 mph headwinds for the last 20 miles of the bike.

WooHoo, great job!!!!!!

Hey all, Janyne does not seem to be one to toot her own horn, so I will. She won her age group on Sunday, and that was while facing 20 mph headwinds for the last 20 miles of the bike.

WooHoo, great job!!!!!!

I agree. Slower is better, especially when on the mend from injury. Reassess on a weekly basis, add volume slowly. I'm sure you'd love to be back where you were preinjury, but it's gonna take time.

Yup.

10% is a totally random kinda-average ballpark figure which may or may not apply to you, and it's probably wiser to err on the lower side of "may not."

And as my mad polymath pointed out, increases apply both to intensity as well as volume/distance. So if you're bumping up one, be very cautious about the other.

That said, run-walk is simply a pacing strategy, nothing more. Keep a sharp eye on your effort level and time expended--that should govern your ratio and any changes therein. There's no "formula" here but caution and vigilance.