Slornow's and Wannabefaster's Summer Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 56)

I am awake ... almost overslept myself. :-)

My coach has a challenge out there ... its called the Dreadmill 1 mile challenge. We all met at the local bike shop last night. He got a treadmill that goes up to an incline of 14%. Winner is the person who can run the mile at 14% incline the fastest. It took me 14:40 minutes to finish. That was a rough one. Last years winner and current 1st place runner completed it in 8:42 minutes. He usually runs a 5.30 something min/mile at a Sprint Tri. 

Other than that ... nothing new to report here. 

Randee-that sounds like quite a ride with that much elevation gain. I'd still be sleeping.

Michael/d3-that sounds brutally fun. What a challenge. Would be fun to try......once.

Nothing exciting here. Really tough bike workout done.....well, it did me in. Since I have shifted to short course racing my bike workouts have more short hard intervals. Definitely have to train my brain to handle the intensity as well as my legs.

OK, I may have asked the group before, if so I'm sorry, but I'm at a real lull with my Netflix programming on the bike right now. Waiting for some of my series favorites (Homeland and Breaking Bad) to come out with their new season.  Any suggestions for good movies or TV series to consider. I'm working on House of Cards right now and its pretty good but my queue is looking pretty thin. Thanks

Hello everyone-just got back from a spectacularly crappy swim. Made it through warm up and first set of intervals then kind of bonked and struggled through the last 1000 or so yards. I usually take a bottle with a really light mix of sports drink with me to the pool but forgot today. That plus several hours since eating and I guess I was low on gas. More bike intervals tonight then an early run tomorrow on the treadmill before getting on the road to take our youngest to college.

Next year?  I've started giving it some thought. I liked doing a couple of early season HIM events as it gives me some focus over the Winter and the training for those events really builds a nice base. May look at doing the Galveston HIM in early April or possibly New Orleans. Will do several local sprints in the Spring that are team events. Planning on going back to Milwaukee for Nationals in early August to try to earn a spot for the WC in Chicago in 2015. Have not ruled out the WC in Edmonton in late August. Got the email from USAT and it was $50 to hold my spot so I figured it was worth $50 to hold the spot, get an idea on cost and see if its worthwhile.

The rest of 2013 has me doing an olympic at the Gulf on Sept. 7 and maybe another sprint in October. Maybe a few running races over the Winter. Its been a good year so far!  

My last long run and long ride are officially behind me as of today.  Still have a key double brick this weekend, but I'm actually looking forward to it.  The temps in WI have heated up, 92F for my ride today which is a good 20F warmer than last week's BIG DAY.  Good practice just in case IM WI is warm once again.

I won't start thinking seriously about '14 until we get back from Africa post IM.  I do know that I won't be doing IM WI this year, 5 in a row is a little much even when you live on the course.  The only sure thing is Boston at this point.  

I know of one person racing this weekend , anyone else?

Well, that's a lucky break, ha ha!

Rachel, the timing of the HIM seems perfect leading up to an IM.  I've done it that way and it allows you test out a bunch of things before the A race.

Raining cats and dogs here.  So glad I was able to do my long ride yesterday!