Slornow's and Wannabefaster's Summer Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 50)

Jason-glad the run went well. Hope the neck continues to improve. Bet you have a great race at Boulder.

Randee/Scott-those are some nice rides. Elevation gain is not even in my vocabulary down here on the coast.....always makes races with some hills "interesting".

Jamie-that's a heck of a week. Like Jason said you are almost there. After the hard work of training a taper will be nice....until taperitis sets in and you feel tired, twitchy and lazy because you didn't train 20 hours the previous week .

Some of the local guys here have signed up for IM Los Cabos for next March and are trying to talk me into doing it......standing by my mantra of "no Ironman for me".  Yeah I'm weak but not that weak.  Despite their best efforts of clouding my judgment with alcohol I held firm!

What's up team? Looks like you guys keep busy. I finished my Sprint triathlon this morning and came in 5th out of 32 in my AG. I missed my first podium by 90 seconds ... can you believe it? 90 seconds? Kills me! Oh well ... one day I will get my podium spot ... :-)

I had a rough two weeks. Its interesting how the mind plays tricks on you. After my crash two weeks ago I kept on having dreams of DNF'ing my races. It got worse the closer I got to today. It shows that a big part of racing is mental. I was only able to get 3.5 hours and had an ok race but could have done better but for some reason I couldn't get my breathing under control in both the bike and the run.

On a good note ... out of 32 triathletes in my AG I came in 2nd on the swim. Overall I was the 16th fastest swimmer. (Out of 203 male triathletes.) 

Now I have a 5 week build up to my next Sprint Tri and then I am going full steam into my preparation for Austin 70.3.

Here is my race report from today.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=496410

Originally posted by wannabefaster

Originally posted by WoodrowCall

Originally posted by wannabefaster First real run since I hurt myself and it went perfect. I was afraid I would feel bad but I felt great. I went farther and ran faster than I was supposed to but I couldn't help myself. Of course it didn't hurt that it was 60 degrees, overcast, light breeze. Weather made for running. Of course some sort of front blew in during my run and it was really windy and even a bit cold by the time I was done. All in all, a great return to running

Glad to hear your first run back went well! I'd be nervous too! Just got finished with a 2:45 long run...and I am feeling beaten up right now. My HR was fine, but I can tell my legs are just trashed right now. Luckily, nothing is really wrong, as in injury-wise, so I just need to relax today and tomorrow, then it's one more peak week before tapering starts for Louisville. I just need to make one more big push to get there...

Jamie, You are right where you need to be. In my last couple big weeks last year I felt as fragile as a newborn fawn. I felt like I was so close to falling apart but held it together and after a nice taper, everything got better. It sounds like you are in the same spot. Stick to the plan and you will be right on target for a great race.

I thought of this phrase today as I was doing a long swim and another longer bike.  Last weekend was probably very beneficial-10 hours of riding in two days followed by a long pace run, but boy am I wiped today.  Like Jamie, I have two really big important weeks left before things start to ease off a bit.  Hope I can hold up!

The weather has turned around in Wisconsin, sunny and upper 60s.  Can't tell you how happy that makes me!

Two days after IM WI, I am heading to Africa for a 2 week safari so no tris or runs and that's the way I like it. I feel like i need a big break after the IM build up.   Five of my BT girlfriends and I are headed to Vegas in November though to run the half marathon.  Big A race will be Boston in April!

Nancy-hard to believe school is about to start. I thought they started early down here..usually around Aug. 10-12. Hope things get off to a smooth start.

Suzy-sounds like a fun Fall. Lots of incentive to push through IMWI.

Jamie-I suspect you will need a bit of a rest after the year you have had so far with training for your first IM. I'm with you though...sometimes I'm looking for another race so I don't "waste" my fitness.

Not sure what I'll do over the Winter. Last year I planned on trying to run a couple of HM's but a lingering calf problem kept me from doing any running for about 6-8 weeks. Unfortunately, I seem to always have some ailment pop up when I ramp up to run a HM. I still might do one over the Winter though. Might try to do some quirky short term things like "30 swims in 30 days" or something like that to keep things interesting.