Manatee Mentors 2015.2 CLOSED (Poptarts? Pet pics?) (Page 59)

Bird attack?!  Geez, crazy!

Happy birthday peeps!

Salty you normally have experiences that some (most) of us will never have, but that's getting a bit extreme.

Salty, you certainly don't deserve to be hen-pecked!!  What a fowl experience.   Seriously, hope you didn't get any lasting damage.  You've had to deal with enough assault to last a lifetime.

Congrats on the awesome race.  You just keep getting better and better! 

Glad you were able to spend some good time with your family, sharing some laughter as well as tears.

I haven't done Sheila's, but had wanted to. Had used another workout booklet, but the intervals were most always too big for my liking. I often broke them up into smaller ones, but that'd be a lot for Mary to figure out just yet. I'd suspect Yanti's work wouldn't be terribly different from Sheila's.

For the workouts themselves, get used to putting in a good warm-up. Swimming is rather technical and tends to really push people to the edge of their range of motion, so you want to make sure you're ready to go. Also agree on shortening the main set just a bit to where you can handle it. A little bit of the kicking wouldn't be a bad idea except there is a hip issue to take care of first. I've tended to like getting in a couple hundred for a cool down as well. Some people will just get out.

I think all that bellyaching shows that runners don't really know how to work hard.  But really, many people do get a rude awakening as to what it takes to really improve swimming in general. Much complaining has been done when first joining a masters too, but some of us didn't really have that trouble. More of an adaptation to what it to focus on for swimming. A big thing was how the mental focus goes up quite a bit compared to anything else. Not so much in pushing hard, but in maintaining that focus for every stroke.

Well there goes your dinner ...

Touche'  

 Have you thought of something more like this? Add a helmet for safety, of course. 

Nicely done! Earned some nice schtuff, too. Great way to get started with not many mpw

RR for the Cap10k is here.  Was a great morning (if a bit foggy/drizzly).  Fit the race in to the long run of the day and used it as my planned intensity (10k vs 8x9' intervals at just slower than 10k, so close but a bit over... totally worth it to get to race!).

Ran within about 30" of my PR - a surprise considering I neither targeted nor tapered for this one (carried fatigue into it).  Was such a great morning, though, getting to run through downtown with all the roads closed.  Way cool!  Very happy with time and placement in a gigantic field.  222/~14,500 and 16/~680 in my AG. 

Also, a couple old RR's that I forgot to hit the "make public" buttons on are here and here.  An race in Plymouth last summer and the 3M HM here in Austin in January, respectively.

Matt

I, too, like Sheila's workouts.  Covered well above, so I'll not add more than an endorsement for them and her way of explaining things (so, more than just that book of workouts).

Another to consider is Swim Workouts For Triathletes, by Bernhardt and Hansen.  Waterproof book of workouts divided by what you want to work on (endurance, force, speed, etc.).  I used it effectively most of last year as an "adult onset" swimmer looking for structure in my swim workouts.  Options for how hard you want to make each workout, as well, based on ability.

Happy birthday and enjoy the sublime submerged suffering!

Matt

Happy Birthday, Mary!

Cake guy makes it look easy. Bet he uses Sheila workouts

I've been doing my incline training for a couple of weeks now. Ouch. Wears on my body a whole new way. Ordering the book this week

Hurray y'all (obligatory southernism )  What a great experience - I am jealous!!

Ben, this is a good reminder, thanks a bunch.  I am consistently impressed with some of the stuff I pick up in here.

Today is TW's B-Day. We did dinner last night, becasue we have way too much on the schedule today, doc visits, meetings, etc.  Hopefully, we can get settled back in and return to reality.

Enjoy whatever today brings you everyone.

I know!  Only Salty.  Oh wait, JoJo had that happen to her as well, didn't she?

My colleague went to Ridgetown.  I went to school at TRU here in BC, although it was UCC at the time.  Wow, that is fantastic.  Tech school is not easy without kids, never mind with three.  A great accomplishment, with some obviously great support!  Best of luck to her as she starts her new career.

I think I'm glad my training partner is not an 8 year old girl

I had a hawk dive bomb me on two runs in Calgary a couple years ago; never made contact tho'.  For which I am eternally grateful--it felt powerful as it swooped past my head.

Happy Birthday to TW!

Way too much to catch up on.  I've been on vacation in Las Vegas.  Laying in the sun around the pool.  My goal for the week was to get bored after months of non-stop activity.  First planned recovery week in a long time. 

Since he's not moving at all, he's clearly even slower than I am.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes and swim advice, everybody.  DH has the Swim Workouts For Triathletes book so I'll check that out before buying Sheila T's book and/or workout cards.  Now I just need him to dig it out.