SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 58)

Redknight - 2009-05-17 11:27 AM

Finally back to training today. The "Rashman" is gone and Redknight is hitting the roads. Although I didn't log anything while I was away we did keep very active with swimming, pool volleyball and watersliding. We had so many adults ont eh water slide at one time one day that they shut it off. I guess they were afraid someone was going to get hurt. They didn't understand that in my family it is only fun "until" someone gets hurt. Then it's a sport.

Very weird swimming in the ocean The waves were pretty strong and I swallowed some salt water until I got the hang of not breathing into the wave. Once I got out I had to have a few beers to get the taste of the salt out of my mouth. I tired running there but it was brutal. about 35 everyday and I couldn't keep enough water in me to run far. Only tried once and gave it up for the duration of the trip.

Plainsman AU - 2009-05-17 9:18 AM The FUNNIEST thing happened this morning on our group ride.  And I know, some of you will not think this was funny.  There were 9 of us and we were grouped up heading out of town when someone yelled "squirrel up" .  Well, the squirrel headed across the road right into the peleton.  Have you ever seen a squirrel do the "dance of death" in the middle of 9 bicycles?  Rider number 1 clipped him, and the squirrel did a 360 and ran right into number 2, then did the same 360 and hit the 3rd bike.  I am not sure how the squirrel faired in the end, but I know he did a couple more 360's and headed off the road...probably wondering how his day could have gone so bad so quickly.

Anyway,  had a good ride today after flatting in the first 2 minutes of the ride and having to change that.  A day of rest did me good as i had some good legs today for 37 miles.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.  Anyone else pulling for Mine That Bird in the Preakness yesterday?  That little guy has some get up and go!  I would like to have a high gear like that.

fattyfatfat - 2009-05-17 3:15 PM Had a blast today! Race wise...400m/10mile/3mile.  1:11:xx.  The good, T1 was 2:05.  The not so good...(sorry team) my 100 time was slower for this 400m swim than it was for the .6 mile swim at the last tri.    Log me in for a 9:05 please Tony. (ugh!) 

Sorry Suzy, Chet is already on The Deuce T-shirt.  BTW,  until your team gets professionally made t-shirts...well you really ain't a team are ya

Hey Tracy...the only question I got asked more than "How was your race" was "Why are you wearing two watches?".  Wore em' both the entire time.  Hopefully some good race pics in a few days.

RR up in a bit. 

ABrunner - 2009-05-17 10:09 AM

So I have been MIA for quite awhile, sorry about that.  I have decided to do the sprint tri in June as opposed to the Olympic.  The training for the past few weeks has been scarce with the new addition to the family and working keeping me busy.  That being said, I did get a chance to get out and race a 5K today (my first one in years).  I will do a full race report later today.

I signed up for the race just to see where my fitness was.  I had a few good months of training early on, but recently I haven’t been getting them in, so I wanted to see what I could do.  Going into the race I told myself that I was going to try to average 7 minute miles and see what happened from there.  I ended up running 21:07.  It was in the 40s and windy and the last half of the race was uphill, so I was happy with what I did.  The new goal for the season is to go sub-20 and then work down from there.  I’ll give a more detailed updated later.

 

Adam

fattyfatfat - 2009-05-17 2:15 PM Had a blast today! Race wise...400m/10mile/3mile.  1:11:xx.  The good, T1 was 2:05.  The not so good...(sorry team) my 100 time was slower for this 400m swim than it was for the .6 mile swim at the last tri.    Log me in for a 9:05 please Tony. (ugh!) 

Sorry Suzy, Chet is already on The Deuce T-shirt.  BTW,  until your team gets professionally made t-shirts...well you really ain't a team are ya

Hey Tracy,...the only question I got asked more than "How was your race" was "Why are you wearing two watches?".  Wore em' both the entire time.  Hopefully some good race pics in a few days.

RR up in a bit.

Redknight - 2009-05-17 11:27 AM

Finally back to training today. The "Rashman" is gone and Redknight is hitting the roads. Although I didn't log anything while I was away we did keep very active with swimming, pool volleyball and watersliding. We had so many adults ont eh water slide at one time one day that they shut it off. I guess they were afraid someone was going to get hurt. They didn't understand that in my family it is only fun "until" someone gets hurt. Then it's a sport.

Very weird swimming in the ocean The waves were pretty strong and I swallowed some salt water until I got the hang of not breathing into the wave. Once I got out I had to have a few beers to get the taste of the salt out of my mouth. I tired running there but it was brutal. about 35 everyday and I couldn't keep enough water in me to run far. Only tried once and gave it up for the duration of the trip.

JHagerman - 2009-05-17 9:58 PM Post Padding... but

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