Fred D's Ironman/Half-Ironman focused Mentor Group --CLOSED (Page 59)

Kim, i am really sorry to hear about your cat.  That is never easy and they become such a part of our lives.  It is so okay to be sad and grieve. It is losing a member of your family ...

Very excited for two things:

1. Lunch at the new Panera bread across the street from work - it's been open for a few weeks but will be the first time i've visited one - ever.  Not too many locations in Canada.  And I am meeting up with a colleague who's been off on mat leave for a year so it should be nice!

2.  Going on vacation in THREE DAYS.  Just checked the forecast and i can't wait!!!! All-inclusive laziness - here i come!

As for workouts, i am with Elaine and just not motivated this week.  For vanity's sake mostly i did a strength workout this morning.  I wasn't super into it to start but managed to get into a good head space once started and it was a good workout.   I should run after work but temps are dipping so i need to HTFU and just do it!

Where are you heading????? 

Really sorry to hear it Kim.  Our cat turns 20 this month (yeah, 20), and I know the day is coming sooner rather than later, and i am going to be a wreck when it happens.  You gave her a good life...  

The Dominican Republic to a resort near La Romana.  Sunshine, here i come! 

And I just had to buy non-sport sunglasses ... i broke my last pair and hadn't replaced them

I've got a 4 hour ride on tap for tomorrow and my long run on Sunday.  Tomorrow's conditions are looking great for a long ride, although it will start chilly. 

Thanks everyone for the kind words regarding Shadow. 

Long ride (50-60) tomorrow, long run (9-10) Sunday.  maybe a swim in there somewhere.

Don't feel like I have enough "long" rides in for the Calif. 70.3  

I know everyone is different, but I had a coach once who said she thought that a 3 hour ride was long for a HIM.   What do you think is a "long" ride and run for HIM?  Miles or time.

My weekend is mainly going to consist of deciding whether it's going to warm up (it was -14c/7f last night and is currently -7c/19f) to go outside. If it does (or I decided to see if I own enough layers) I'll be doing yesterday's short run which had to be cancelled and tomorrow will be a 50min run and a swim in the afternoon.

Good thing about this freezing weather is that, for some reason, people don't go to the pool and it's nice and empty .

Good morning all.

I am waiting a little this AM to go running, then maybe a short swim tonight. 
 
While this week will be far my biggest volume week in a long time, I feel good.  I am a little tired, sore and bit lacking in zip over all, but good.  I am pushing my self to that point and this seems very normal for me.  What I mean by pushing is not hard but just enough to get to this point. 
 
Next week 12-18 Feb I plan to go back to around 10 hrs of training with the same intensity as I have been training.  I want to see if I feel any zippier after next week.  Then I want to move into some intensity the week of 19-25 Feb.    
 
Do you think doing a bike FTP test on the 19th Feb is OK?  Should I do some intensity work fist prior to the test ? 

Tom you are getting some crazy winter weather this year. 

btw Tom is in England part of the UK.

Trying to decide how little to wear on my ride today so I wander over to NOAA to check the current conditions and see this "Observation Quality is Suspect".   WTF?  I don't know what that means.  It's ok, I still have time to decide, and the sun should be fully out by the time I venture outdoors.

I have a friend in town this week and that has meant more eating out and more drinking then usual.  My body never appreciates that.  I don't mind it once in a while but a week of it is getting to be too much.  Monday life returns to normal though.  Love having friends visit but I am always super glad when life returns to normal.  I am the same way about traveling.  Doesn't take long before I want my routine again.  I prefer my own home cooked meals.

ETA: I also have to decide how many cookies I need to bring. 

You have a 4hr ride...........

GO RIDE! 

When I still worked in IT I would get up 3:30’ish in the am for a 4am ride with lights.  This way I could get a max of 4hr ride in.  Mostly on rural country roads and in very dark conditions.  Late fall early spring I was dogging all kind of animals, raccoons, possums, fox, dear, turkey and rabbits.   
 
Light ordinance?  What is that you can’t use lights at night. 

WOW that sounds like fun. 
 
 
10 miler done with the last 3 miles @ a pickup pace.  I am glad I waited because I would have missed the sleet and rain.