Mad Manatees Mentor Group - VERY CLOSED!!! Sorry! (Page 53)

YES!!!!!

Wait, what was that about a run? Way to go getting it done ... 6 is fine.

Nice to see you up and around, Yanti!

I have a swim question for you -- I am trying to work short kicking drills into my warm up. I thought Sheila talked about kicking in her book, but I can't find it now. Can you (or other fish) help me out?

Thanks!

Schpanks, Felicia!

She talks about kicking for 2 pages in Appendix C; no specific drills.

What's the goal in working short kicking drills into the warm up?

Ah ha, I see. Did you read the last paragraph on kicking in the kick question/section of Appendix C? Working that visualization as a "drill" may help.

I would also barrel right over to swimsmooth.com and check out their Beginner section, the kicking part.

IF I do long course, it will be theirs. They do the family finish thing, are supportive of the locale they are in and if you saw anything on the finish at Cedar Point in 2012, well, you know they are a little different. I've seen an interview of the CEO and it is obvious that he has a family first outlook.

Seriously inspiring. Congrats on making a lifestlye change.  I can relate.    

I have a love / hate relationship with old pictures of myself.  Here's one that everytime I see it I say "I can't believe I let myself get that big".  I didn't realize I was that big.  

My change didn't come because of that though...originally, part of my motivation was to get in great shape and show my ex (who had just left me) what she was missing!  I LOL @ that mentality now.  Then my motivation became to get in great shape because I knew that girls weren't crazy about middle aged, overweight guys... LOL I finally arrived at "I want to be in great shape for ME"... I love being an Athlete now, and I love saying that I am a triathlete.  

Woo Hoo - congratulations.  

11.56 LSD today @ 8:25 pace.  This is a bump up from 10.1 miles last week.  Felt really good.  Coldest run I've done to date (28 degrees).  I actually put on gloves and a hat.  I NEVER do that.  

I have a greater respect now for our Jonathan with his BAD AZZ -15 degree runs.    

Upper body weights today, feeling easy, feeling lazy, thinking about spinning or running.   Not in a hurry at all.  

Spent yesterday working on the sailboat.    It's been a good weekend.   Warm weather is January is a gift.

Since a couple people have posted some before/after pics I will throw a couple in.

This is what I looked like in Spring of 09. I was 250lbs, wore size 38 jeans and was beyond out of shape.

This was around September 09. i had dropped down to 185lbs, size 32 jeans where loose. This is also my three kiddos.

This is me coming out of the swim in my first tri this past summer. I was about 200lbs here.

I would love to get back down to 185lbs or a little lower.

I got in the pool this morning for the first time in about a month. Decided that I would take it easy and do 10x100s on 2:30. I concentrated on my catch and pull trying to keep my entry wide, my elbow high and arm perpendicular to the bottom (like in Yanti's photo). I must say it took some major concentration as I was trying to over ride 20 years of muscle memory. But it felt good and even though I slowed right down I was still getting a good 30 seconds rest between each 100.

I did notice as soon as I stopped concentrating I went straight back to my old form. Going to take some time to imbed I think and then I will work on ridding the s pull from my stroke too.

have a great day everyone. I might even make it to work on time today.

Currently my long rides are at maximum 60-70 minutes and I am managing 25km during this time. Some work mates have invited me to join them for a ride on Sunday. The ride will be at least 75km long and the slow members of the group average about 20-25km per hour.

What do you think? I'm not sure that can manage this sort of distance or a 3 hour ride. I'm also a bit worried about how it will affect my training for the rest of the week. Should just say thanks, but no thanks, or should I suck it up and do it?

Ordinarily I might give it a 50/50 ... maybe, you're a sporty girl, is the fun/adventure quotient worth it ...

But considering you're just coming off a back pull, nope. Sorry!

I thought that your training plan included swim sets?

As others have posted, this is probably too big a jump.  If it were a 1.5-2 hour ride, sure.

The other thing to consider is that whatever speed you go on a trainer is the speed you go on a trainer.  This is probably not the speed that you will go outside.  From a speed standpoint, I think that you will be more than fine with the 20-25kpm group. 

Do they have any other routes that they do regularly?