Mental Manatee Mentors Part 3--CLOSED (Page 56)

Ok, I have a dilema. I've been really wondering if hiring my coach was the best thing for me. I believe one of the reasons I got such a bad IT Band problem was due to way too much added volume way too fast with no down weeks. Before I hired my coach I was taking a rest week every 4 weeks. When I hired my coach she doubled my volume and gave me no rest weeks.

My second dilema is she just uploaded my week for this week my last full week before Galveston and it is my biggest week since my injury.

So my immediate question is this? Should I be having my largest volume week the week before my A race? It's not a huge week only 9 hours but considering my avg training week is only 3 hours since the middle of January with the exception of the last 2 weeks (which were my first real weeks back) does this make sense? I guess I'm just scared and being too cautious but I've put alot of work into this race to do it wrong.

Summary, last 8 weeks have avg 2-3 hours due to injury. 2 weeks ago started back at 6-7 hours. This week 9 hours

Am I over thinking this and should I just trust my coach?

Edit: My avg week prior to injury was 12+ hours

Ok, I have a dilema. I've been really wondering if hiring my coach was the best thing for me. I believe one of the reasons I got such a bad IT Band problem was due to way too much added volume way too fast with no down weeks. Before I hired my coach I was taking a rest week every 4 weeks. When I hired my coach she doubled my volume and gave me no rest weeks.

My second dilema is she just uploaded my week for this week my last full week before Galveston and it is my biggest week since my injury.

So my immediate question is this? Should I be having my largest volume week the week before my A race? It's not a huge week only 9 hours but considering my avg training week is only 3 hours since the middle of January with the exception of the last 2 weeks (which were my first real weeks back) does this make sense? I guess I'm just scared and being too cautious but I've put alot of work into this race to do it wrong.

Summary, last 8 weeks have avg 2-3 hours due to injury. 2 weeks ago started back at 6-7 hours. This week 9 hours

Am I over thinking this and should I just trust my coach?

Edit: My avg week prior to injury was 12+ hours

I love this.

And anything involving butt time.

Oh, so THIS happened this weekend, too! HAHA you know you have a ton of cousins/run a lot when stuff like this happens:

OwoooOOOOoooooOOOooo

I'm also supposed to translate my dad's autobiography into English in time to have a bunch of copies printed for his official memorial on April 25th. (Muslim funerals here are very fast, gotta get 'em in the ground by sundown, so memorials are often held 40 days, an auspicious date, after the burial).

It's awesome, and a privilege. There are dignitaries coming in from all over the world, including two U.S. Senators. My dad was one of the founders of the country, the Indonesian intelligence organization, helped organize our armed forces, and was the point man for Indonesian-U.S. relations for most of his life, among many other things. That's not even to mention how--err--interesting his personal and family life were. (Those shall be included in my unauthorized, unedited version of his biography. )

But not so darn fast! aaaaaaaah

I'm thinking Google Translate is going to be my friend. It can do it a lot faster than I can, and my editing/proofing is REALLY fast. It doesn't have to be a tremendous linguistic rendition at this point--just generally accurate and readable. The events and stories are so powerful themselves; they really do the speaking for themselves.

No, just throw out the PR thing. Do what you can and work on that whole patience thing. Do your best to execute all of your training and don't push too hard chasing a time goal. If the PR comes, great, but with a limited schedule coming off a DNF from injury I don't think you are in a great position to be overly aggressive. 

The only thing I would change is what Yanti said about probably not needing that to be "recovery" pace at the beginning of the week.  You can just do it at a more general aerobic pace. And and add some HM pace stuff to that final week before the race. 

I'd highly recommend reading Jack Daniel's "Running Formula" and Pete Pfitzinger's "Advanced Marathoning" if you are really interested in finding your potential. 

So, last night I had the opportunity to go to a spring training game, my only one of the year. It was good, but I ended up reading updates from the Pod on my phone and missed Evan Longoria's home run blast. I thought it was kinda funny.

Ran with TW this morning. I had time to think about what I read last night, specifically Chad's questions. I think 2 of the hardest aspects to triathlon are the consistency and patience. There are some great logs to look through that can show this, TJ's, Janyne's and Salty's all give a good example of consistent, program based training. If you are looking for examples of top notch AGer's, a couple of others, outside of the Pod, are marcag's and bryancd's. These are high end athletes with big goals, abilities, and resumes. I barely scratched the surface on some of the folks that are here on BT. It really is a great community, and just a good resource to kinda read through and see what others are doing. If you can glean one thing from each one of these that you go through, you are way ahead of the curve!

Jonathan - If it were me, I'd kinda trust my instincts and body. But, I have never used a coach, so I am really not the guy to ask.  My thoughts on building volume has been documented here before, so I won't get into it.  My thoughts on the whole coach/athlete relationship is that it is indeed a relationship. I hope yours is tuned in to what you are going through, what has worked/not worked for you recently, and is building your program for you. I hope that she is not using a canned, one program fits all approach. Talk with her and figure out what is best for you.

bcraht - 2013-03-25 1:36 PM Just did my first ever Yoga class.  Is it normal afterwards to feel like I just smoked a fat one?

I got a similar feeling after my swim workout last night... seriously "wobbled" to my car.  My head was "fuzzy" all the way home... like I was buzzed.  It was weird and totally cool, all at the same time.

Hey TJ - Did you have any issues dealing with this company?  I checked out the website as I am interested in using this product for my next race but a couple of red flags went up... 

1. Their last post / update on their blog is about RAAM and was posted 6/15/2011
2. On their websites page about the rental prices, they have a notice that says "WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR ANY EVENTS THE WEEKEND OF AUGUST 25-26"  This was last August as this year the 25th and 26th are a Sunday and a Monday. 
3. I called the phone # on the contact page, and got a voice mail that sounded like a cell phone voice mail. 
4. Their shopping cart page looks nothing like their website. (it means they went the cheap route) 

I don't have an issue with the small business aspect of it (cell phone as business line) - but I get really concerned about websites with information that is outdated, and with signs that they took the cheap route and didn't even put a little effort into their website. It's pretty easy for businesses to update their websites these days.  

I will watch your race on the app this weekend... That will be the ultimate test.    Can't wait to see your race on this app.

Well my morning is off to quite a start...

First, I'm still in PMS/taper mood/mode

Second, the dog decided to occupy the same space I was using during our run so I now have some road rash and a sore hip

Third, the coffee machine decided to act a fool

So of course I decide to stop at Sbux on my way to the office. The one by the house had a HUGE line so I stopped at the one by the office and saw the following sign. Salty does Sbux have more offerings that we need to know about?

I have tracked people that I don't know during races the last couple of weekends and everything seems to work quite well. Of course I have no idea if what I was seeing was close to real time and won't have an opinion on that until after Saturday but I learned about this from a thread in TT and there were people quite pleased with it.

I've already received my tracker because the owner contacted me and wanted to send it to me early as they were going to be out of town. Seems pretty legit to me.