Fred D and Queen Zipp's SWIM, BIKE RUN consistency thread.... CLOSED (Page 59)

Congratulations!

I skipped the weigh in.  Limited exercise this week with my leg issues and poor eating, I KNOW I am up.

No response from Blue when I emailed them myself.  Not too happy about this.

It's more a quirk of my job (I'm not an employee, I'm a servant of the crown) than something like tenure.  And there was Sancerre (our wine of choice) this evening ;-)

It may sound obvious, but the key is to just relax.  Step in the water and just do a back float or a dead mans float for a little while to prove to your brain that you won't simply sink to the bottom.  Your brain is trained to react in a certain way to ensure survival at all costs.  Once you can convince your brain that there are no survival issues in the OW, then it can focus on actual swimming rather than a frantic splashing motion.

Good luck and have fun with it! I don't really have the opportunity to do any OWS training and I really like OWS. Try to just enjoy being out in nature, and being smooth. Don't try to go too fast. Remember: Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. I like to focus on having a real good reach and glide. And don't forget to breathe enough! Have fun!

You'll be fine.  I had a little freak in open water early in the season last year.  I got in open water as often as possible (mostly twice a week) and got over it really fast.  Just keep working at it.  It'll come.

Man Jason, not only are you wicked fast at S/B/R, but you're a fast poster as well

Sorry I've been a little out of the loop this week, but I have spent all my free time the last few days with my new bike. She's a Kestrel 4000, and I got her via mail order so I had to do a little assembly and tweaking the fit. Rode her a little this morning, and was very pleased, especially on a fast descent where I felt both faster and more stable which was the most important thing I was looking for. No picture of mine yet, but here's one from Kestrel's website:

Rachel, congrats on your your good job news!

Kristen, you've gotten good advice on shifting and getting your neck comfortable. After my first ride outdoors this year my neck was sore but now is much better. Riding lots is always good advice. Lots of riding now will help not only your ride at your HIM, it will make the run much better as well.

Have a great weekend everybody! Fun weekend for me, my 25 yo son will be visiting, plus we'll be meeting his girlfriend for the first time.

Sweet ride, Anthony!

Wanted to go ride after work but we have tornado warnings.  Not riding in that kind of wind.

Kristen,

I give you a lot of credit for getting in the river in those conditions.  I recall one time when we raced "Tavern" that the river current was that bad and you opted not to swim since they allowed people to do a brick for the day.  (Geez, I swam and it took me close to 45 minutes to go 750 meters with that crazy current)

So, while it wasn't the OWS practice you had in mind--it was a great practice for you to get in and not freak out in hard conditions. Definitely some good to tae from the session.

Back to down to 139.  Maybe I will be able to end this month where I started!

Disaster of a brick.

Flat tire about 8 miles in.  Both CO2 cartridges blew before inflating my tire.  Had the connector on the tire stem before putting the cartridge in because I have had issues with it before....Wound up waiting about 30 minutes for a man to bring me a pump.  Got maybe a mile in on the run and the ankle wanted no parts of it. 

Not happy.  I may wind up having to aqua bike the mini sprint and just walk the run course .....but I'm really wondering if the whole thing is going to cooperate for marathon training at this point.

How do we archive it?