Beer Drinker Appreciation Society (BDAS)--OPEN (Page 50)

Matt - glad the little one is ok!!!  Mike is right that's more important than anything else, including training.

Also - what's the deal with car accidents lately?  

The TT wasn't great....had a really bad day (can read about it here: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=547298&posts=1#M5221229).  The beer was good, but not great.....but have high expectations for the tastings I'll do on Sunday!

As part of my lessons learned from my TT, I'm going to try to do some more frequent racing (of shorter races) and will be starting with a sprint on Sunday morning.  It's shorter than a "typical sprint", so I figure it'll be about an hour of redlining, painful fun!  Anyone else racing?

Oh, and I'm also doing a 20' TT on Saturday to get a good estimate on my bike fitness, since last weekend was not a good gauge!  Hope everyone has a great weekend (and Happy Memorial Day to those in the US). 

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Nicole - sorry to hear you had a rough TT. Don't be too hard on yourself though. You nailed it in the end of the RR - sometimes body and mind don't cooperate. Hopefully it's on a training day but sometimes it's on race day. Hopefully you learn something but if nothing else let this one drive your next race as motivation.

Thanks!  I actually raced a sprint triathlon today and took the overall female win  

I truly am learning that one bad day does not define you or your fitness.  Very grateful for the opportunity to race, learn, and put those lessons to good use. 

Nice work!  That's a great place to be nine weeks out from a race  

Race report from yesterday's race:  http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=547319&posts=1#M5221347 

Looks like activity has picked up around here.  Nice race, Nicole!  Sometimes a bad race gives you the information you need to be even more successful.

I was in New Orleans for a conference last week, and of course I enjoyed the local cuisine probably a little too much.  (Mike likes him some gumbo  ).  Got in a pretty hard trainer ride (defined as - couldn't finish the prescribed 9' over/under and almost threw up LOL) plus a light swim yesterday.  Spin bike and PT today.

I pretty much have my core strength back but still can't do much in the way of twisting, so I'm pretty limited in the pool (don't ask me how I know ).  Biking is 100%, just building volume/fitness over time.  First outdoor ride planned for Saturday.

We start our yearly corporate fitness challenge later this week, so I will now be logging my workouts on BT, Garmin Connect, Strava, TrainerRoad, TP, AND my corporate contest site.

@Jenn - how's the hip thing?

75' on the trainer today, supposed to be Z2/Z3, wound up being more into Z3/Z4.  Just an ugly workout but I plugged through it while watching the Tour de California time trial stage from earlier this month.  I still have to watch the final stage.

Swim tomorrow with what passes for strength training for me these days.

Life got really busy for me over the couple of months and I've been unable to stay up to date with workouts, let alone BDAS. Fortunately I've at least been getting a couple runs (road and trail) in each week. Good to see there is still activity and races going on with everyone here! I did have one cool highlight, as I was able to see Amgen Tour of California as it came through my town. I took a long lunch and saw the end of the last sprint. Attached is me sporting my BDAS jersey at the sprint finish pylon.

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Hey all just checking in.  Took an extended Memorial Day Weekend trip to FL to hang out with family.  Fantastic weekend, but only one workout over 5 days, a long run in the heat and humidity.  Not a bad run at all.  Almost wish it was a week later (or my tri was a week earlier) so I could call it a taper and be all set.  Instead I need to catch up a bit this weekend, get that last brick in, and then taper a bit next week.  

Weather finally cleared up here in MA so I should be able to get the bike back out on the road today.  Pretty excited for that!

Nicole - read your RR about your freehub not freewheeling and, while I'm no bike expert, neither of my bikes nor my wife's bikes have done that.  Push the bike along, and ticktickticktick goes the freehub, pedals stay put.

Ok just over a week until my first tri of 2017.  Bunch of new stuff for me this season - new bike, new racing shoes (never done those before), aero bars, new full sleeve wetsuit...

Questions - Bike.  Course is a 13.5 mile loop, looks like 7 actual road intersection turns. Just over 20k, very up and down elevation but only over 120ft or so.  Aero bars or no aero bars?  I've used them on the road on 20k rides but can't stay in them the whole time...

Wetsuit - I have the cool DeSoto T1 setup, so I can go any combination of shorts/pants/vest/full sleeve.  Water temps are mid-upper 60s (BRRR!).  I will wear the bibs to have leg coverage, but in practice I have a really hard time getting out of my full sleeve top.  Which I bought just for this race BTW...  The 'cold' pool I train in at the Y is 80 deg.  I'm thinking I can't get away with the vest in those temps but wondering how much being trapped in my full sleeve top in transition is going to cost me...  To vest or to sleeve?