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Dwayne - 2010-02-09 4:06 PM

Mark- Thoughts are with you and the rest of your family.Tracey- I am about the same stage you are, if not a little farther behind. Sorry I can't help you, but thanks for the help I have been getting from your experiences and Steve's replies to the questions.

TriD64 - 2010-02-09 5:19 PM


Tracey
I am going to strongly encourage you to watch the DVD for 2 reasons. First, it is newer and I think they have refined the techniques and methods. Some of the drills and ways drills are performed have changed. Second, and for me most helpful, is to see the technique being performed. I am much better at doing something if I can see it and try and mimic the behavior vs. trying to visualize it from a description and then implement it.
As a reminder, there is a free manual that you can download from the website that is a companion to the DVD. Here's the link, but I think you have to set up an account to access it (the account is free): http://www.totalimmersion.net/images/pdfs/easy-freestyle-manual.pdf
Good luck. Please let me know if this does or doesn't help. Mark

TriD64 - 2010-02-09 1:39 PM Hi all Sorry I haven't been a very active participant. Unfortunately, I will probably continue to be minimally active. My mother-in-law has had some chronic health issues for the last 8-9 years and it looks like they are finally nearing an end-stage. My wife (who is a nurse and due to her own desires and the expectations of the family) is very involved in her care. Over the weekend the decision was made to end aggressive interventions and pursue hospice care. The nature of her heath issues means this could be a few weeks or several months. As a result, things are topsy-turvy (as those who have had similar experiences can attest, I'm sure) and my training time and other non-essentials time is very limited. As well, there are some work needs that are demanding a lot of time right now. I know you all understand, and some have/had similar situations. Just wanted to let you know that I have found the mentoring experience enjoyable and informative. I will participate as I can. Tracy, what guide are you using for the drills you are practicing, Is it the Easy Freestyle DVD or the book? Mark

stevebradley - 2010-02-09 5:17 PM TRACEY once more - You wrote: "This is why I admire people like SteveB, SteveA, and others who can push their bodies to the limit and do IMS." Well, I know what you are saying, but I've got to tell you that someone who trains seriously for a sprint is working just as hard and showing just as much strength and fortitude and commitment and someone who is training for a ironman. In fact, probably the hardest training I have done is for olympic distance races, where there is the gnarly combination of intensity and endurance. And while I was quite wiped after my two IMs, those were not the races in which I pushed my body to the limit. There have been a handful of shorter races, sprints and olys, in which I felt like I'd maybe gone over to the Other Side at the end of the race! I'm not diminishing the training required for an ironman, because it's lots of looooong lonely hours, but the pushing of my body to its limits comes in the red-line efforts of the shorter races. On the surface it is "only", say a 800meter swim and a 25km bike and a 5km run, but how it plays out can be exceedingly demanding. And that's just the physical side of it. As for the mental aspects, to do half-irons and irons you have to dig deep and not let the miles and the cumulative fatigue erode your soul down to a nubbin. But then there is the red-line sprint or oly, where the mind is screaming to STOP! or at least SLOW THE HELL DOWN!, and you need to fight that for all you're worth. I mean, it's a dilemma -- which State of Mind is less debilitataing and crippling? The real kicker in all of this is that the tests DO NOT have to come from only ultra-distance challenges or red-line efforts -- they are present anytime anybody exceeds what they previously thought was possible. I have witnessed many, many emotional moments at finish lines from people who are back-of-the-pack, and what they're displaying is sheer joy for the task they have accomplished. I have seen it at IM and marathons, and I've seen it at super-sprints and try-a-tri events. It's always incredibly moving for me to see this, as it just demonstrates the scope of the challenges that we can view as worthy. I spent a bunch of years thinking that IM was The Holy Grail, and while it does in fact remain a significant accomplishment for me, there are several others that loom larger, with the sum effect being that I view any serious goal as being of grail-like significance. I really and truly mean that. I fully understand how and why people view ironman the way they do, and I would never dissuade anybody for aiming in that direction when they had enough experience to do it justice. But, ultimately, it's just another challenge, and even though its physical and mental requirements are unique, they don't necessarily confer any greater degree of commitment and fortitude than it takes to race a shorter event -- or even to show up at the starting line with two troublesome neuromae and a wonky hip flexor! Ya wanna see "tough"? Have someone take a photo of you at the race on Sunday. You're one tough cookie in my book, Tracey! YES YOU CAN!!

SAquavia - 2010-02-10 10:38 AM

X 1 billion!  Right on Steve!

LadyNorth - 2010-02-10 9:55 AM

I have yet to experience the total joy I felt when I finished my 1st 5k - and I came in 2nd to last.  Not even finishing a marathon was as satisfying - almost but not quite.
Denise

stevebradley - 2010-02-10 10:45 AM





Darren. It was Darren ("BigDH") who had spent time with TI. He hasn't been here in a while - another one I worry about. It's like herding cats!

stevebradley - 2010-02-11 6:18 AM DIANE - Any word from the bike shop yet? Huh? Huh? Any word? Is it ready yet? Huh? Life has to be pretty slow here in eastern Ontario to make it so that the biggest thrill in my life these days is living vicariously through you and your bike! How's your shoulder? Mine has been acting up some, not sure why. (Maybe it's a 2-for-1, wherein if I assume some of the joy of your new bike I also have to assume some of your shoulder woe. Yikes!) Bike ready? Huh?

stevebradley - 2010-02-10 9:52 PM



TRACEY -

Where was your husband in my life about 15 years ago? To wit:

I went through a period that was characterized by bad earaches and bad headaches. So, to combat these I started taking more aspirin. I didn't bother to keep track of them, but I took them when it was needed. If it was needed at midnight, on an empty stomach, I took them. The short story can jump ahead to constant stomach-gnawing, and then one evening a "pop" in my gut, followed by some unseemly bleeding, then an emergency, and about three days in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer. Surprise!!

I just had no idea. I have an exceedingly un-addictive personality, so it was a real shock to me to see how easily something can get away from a person. I have not used straight aspirin since then, and for years stuck with acetominophen-based products. I can handle Advil okay, it seems, but in all instances I'm just very leery of taking anything at all. I do it.....but with one figurative eye peering over my figurative shoulder, checking out what might be gaining on me!

It's odd how things happen. Lynn is having a "routine" endoscopy tomorrow, which I guess is what prompted that wise-guy comment about endoscopy tubes in my earlier post. But I had one in '95 or whenever it was that I was ulcerated, and somehow that has entered into the discussion here with talk of overusing anti-inflams. Holy-moly, I sure am glad that that miserable episode is way, way behind me!

stevebradley - 2010-02-11 7:21 AM



TRACEY -

And the three-miler??

stevebradley - 2010-02-11 7:23 AM ANNE - Skulking at your log, I see what looks to be a promising run there! 30 minutes? Were those in the more rigid shoes? Has a posssible remedy been unearthed?? Details, please! Also, great-lookin' swim!

FoxfireTX - 2010-02-11 9:06 AM

Did not have a chance to test ride it yet.  It was dark by the time I got home and it is SNOWING here in North Texas today.  Given the forecast and temps, most likely won't be until Sunday at the earliest.