kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 - CLOSED (Page 57)

So Cindy is a big ball of stress right now.  Can't really get herself to sleep at night because her mind is going a million miles a minute, can't stay asleep, and when she wakes it's back to a million miles a minute.  Not good for her or for my sleep.  I'm super cranky this morning and come to find out I left the filter from brain to mouth at home.  YAY!!  My employees are going to LOVE me today. 

Morning training was 30 minute run, leg strength and plyo circuits, 2 miles as fast as I could with whatever juice was left in my legs.  I'm fried.

I would go with a longer bar that you can cut down if you wanted to. Thats just my thoughts because there is no stretch to the Vision Mini

I'm freaky like that, too  I hate missing training sessions.  They set the tone for my entire day, and I've come to rely on them for stress relief.

Ok, I'm going to look around more.  Thank you for the feedback!

---sorry, my computer is doing bizarre things right now.

Jen - I would email Shaun and Rudy.  The bar itself doesnt really matter as long as it is set up properly.  However, 

rizer22 - 2012-02-10 8:59 AM Kelly. Sorry to hear things aren't going so well. Especially for you with IMTX coming up. Get well soon. Although I am no where at your level, my HIM plans were completely sidelined with this shoulder surgery so if you want my shoulder, I'll gladly take yours. . Secondly, I Amy be sidelined again with more sinus issues. Getting CT Scan at Yale today and then off to my surgeon to view and most likely schedule my 12th sinus surgery in as many years. This inflammation/sinus issue sucks. I've lost bone that lines and protects my right eye and also the bone that lines the brain area is also detioriorating. So I have to always be extremely careful with this. I'll tell you this though. Triathlon has changed my world tremendously and although for 12 years, I have the pressure of a sinus infection every single day of my life, this sport has brought me to a feeling I've never had. So thank you again triathlon and my friends here. Ok, I was trying to be sympathetic to Kelly, but that turned into sort of venting. Get better soon Kelly.

That sucks.

The other thing is you can't just put aero bars on a road bike and expect to be comfrotable or get fast.  Road bikes are disgned to put the rider in a specific position.  If you put aero bars on a road bike, you need to also change your position so that you can effectively use the aero bars. 

I would go to bike shop, let them know that you want aero bars and have then re-fit your bike and suggest the best aero bars based on your bike and your measurements.

Also realize that clip ons on a road bike will never make you as aero as aero bars on a TT bike.  On a road bike, you are actually more aero when you ride in the drops than when you go out on the aero bars, its just hard for lots of people to hold a position in the drops for 2 or 3 hours. 

Sounds like me (except Shaun doesn't notice that I can't sleep at night).  Somethime I have to jab him just so he can suffer for a little bit with me.

This is the issue.  I feel fine, its just that my HR is totally jacked. 

Problem is I can't just totally ignore my HR because there probably is some slowness from being sick for a week and I don't want to push too hard if my body's not ready.  Its just frustrating to be so off pace wise. 

She tries not to, but you know how it is.  Love her but she can't compartmentalize.  Like when she tries to calm her mind to do yoga a checklist of things she could be doing pops in.  I've never had this issue.  I'll admit my reaction to stress is to sleep though. 

sounds like there are many trying to get back into the swing of things and having to adjust to the painfully slow process of letting our bodies heal. I am there as well with this calf issue, and it is feeling better, but have not been allowed to push things. We have regrouped and are focusing on back strengthening and my PT pipes in while I was on the treddy running for warm up that if it is a disc issue I will have to lay off running. first bikiing and then running-really hard to do a tri that way. I am truely bummed, but going to hit the back exercises as hard as I can and see if I can avoid the laying off running and get back on the bike.

Has she tried Melatonin?  I have nights where my mind races and I cannot shut it off (usually related to work stress).  I don't take it often, but if I can't sleep for several days I will take some melatonin and it relaxes me enough to be able to fall asleep.

Here's what I was talking about with regarding to not "catching" in the pull:

If you are swimming in a pool and there's no interference with your stroke (e.g. if you in a swim race) its important to have a long stroke and it will make you faster.  The problem is a long stroke doesn't really help you in open water (think about how much your stroke can get cut off in the front because of feet, waves and turbulence). 

If you look at some of the best ITU swimmers out there they look like washing machines with a shorter stroke in the front because they begin to pull immediately.  It think that for OWS its important to start pulling immediately.  I think about having "robot arms" that is starting to pull right away and keeping my elbows close to the surface (almost a 90 degree angle with my arms).  The other thing to think about is having a strong back end of your stroke.  While your front end can get cut off in OWS, you'll always have a back end.

Also I thought this was really interesting the sugar in food represented by sugar cubes:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/the-amount-of-sugar-in-food-expressed-in-sugar-cu-281t

we finally have cold weather down here but i dont mind.  went for a trail run today and turned my ankle about 2.5 miles into it.  i do it often but this time i did it pretty good. 

i hope everyone else has a better weekend.

Cool, nice to see it visually like that