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You are right Carla, my bad!! I will do extra pushups as a penalty!

Here is the link Peasantman Tri

Good news is, the swim is flat!

Sounds like a good start Brian! 

I had a pretty good long weekend with a long run Sunday and a little bit of a ride yesterday. 

Everyone else have a good weekend?

Hello All,

I hope everyone had a great long weekend.

I completed a 2.4 mile ows on Saturday which is encouraging considering IMFL is two months away and the longest distance I had swam since IMAZ had been 1.5.   Carla and I went out for a long run on Sunday. She did great and I fell apart. Yesterday my coach videotaped my running. Interesting to look at. Carla also joined us for a short ride and then we spent some time working on my nutrition plan for FL. I have never really had a solid nutrition plan so it will be interesting to see how this works out.

So a busy weekend and another one coming up with volunteering at IMWI. My coach has a "rest" day written in on Sunday. I joked with her about that since volunteering and being at an IM all day is really tough!  I am doing body marking at 4:45 am if that gives you an idea of how early my day will start.

Overall it was good. I struggled a little on my run on Saturday but hit my goal on Sunday on the bike. I just have 2 more weeks to build a little more endurance then I start my taper. 

Yesterday we spent the day at the water park I could have squeezed in a run but I've been spending so much training that I thought I should spend the day with the family and help my wife get ready for the day. 

Also anyone else struggling w/ the lack of daylight hours in the morning? Tomorrow the kids start school so that adds in another time constraint for me. In some ways it's nice having a tri so late in the season but this week and next are always a struggle for me to get the training in. I hate riding my bike in the dark but it seems I end up having to do it a couple times.

Ah the summer is over!

KenJ - It's a good thing the Swim is Flat!!!  That hill at mile 9 on the bike looks like a "WALL!" !!!

@All - My appologies for being absent!

         *  Still Training

          * No Long Bikes - Just Power Intervals on Trainer

          * Run is really coming in!  30 sec per min/mile!!! WOOT!

           * Run - Added a little distance 10mi with Kathleen "Renshaw" Kellams

           * Work - Not feeling like a contribution... concerned... changing things there...

           * Love Life - I have one now!  SURPRISE! 

           * Physically - Starting Hot Flashes... seems unfair.   

           * 2013 Training/Racing - No race picked yet! (WTC/Challenge Politics, Money and

           * Love you guys, Love this Group, Love KenJ!!!  

Hello All,

I hope everyone had a great long weekend.

I completed a 2.4 mile ows on Saturday which is encouraging considering IMFL is two months away and the longest distance I had swam since IMAZ had been 1.5.   Carla and I went out for a long run on Sunday. She did great and I fell apart. Yesterday my coach videotaped my running. Interesting to look at. Carla also joined us for a short ride and then we spent some time working on my nutrition plan for FL. I have never really had a solid nutrition plan so it will be interesting to see how this works out.

So a busy weekend and another one coming up with volunteering at IMWI. My coach has a "rest" day written in on Sunday. I joked with her about that since volunteering and being at an IM all day is really tough!  I am doing body marking at 4:45 am if that gives you an idea of how early my day will start.

Overall it was good. I struggled a little on my run on Saturday but hit my goal on Sunday on the bike. I just have 2 more weeks to build a little more endurance then I start my taper. 

Yesterday we spent the day at the water park I could have squeezed in a run but I've been spending so much training that I thought I should spend the day with the family and help my wife get ready for the day. 

Also anyone else struggling w/ the lack of daylight hours in the morning? Tomorrow the kids start school so that adds in another time constraint for me. In some ways it's nice having a tri so late in the season but this week and next are always a struggle for me to get the training in. I hate riding my bike in the dark but it seems I end up having to do it a couple times.

Ah the summer is over!

Hey all.  Sounds like you are all training hard.  I'm doing well.  Doing long endurance rides now on Sundays.  3 hours in the rain Sunday with an hour on the CT to finish off.  I couldn't make the 80% he wanted outside without fear of sliding out so I finished indoors and got the intensity he wanted at the end.  Racing bikes tonight again, 25 miles, then a brick run.  I did 21.6 mph last week on the course, so that is coming along fine.  The new bike is awesome.

Swims have dropped times to the 1:45ish mark.  Better than that with a wet suit last week at the last openwater practice of the year.

Headed to Madison on Friday night.  Volunteer meeting on Saturday morning.  Then a run and maybe open water swim if they are letting any old body use the lake.  Signing up for 2013 on Monday.  Then Branson on 9/23.  Should do OK but I have not seen the bike course.  Heard the descents reach 50.  All free speed. Course getting up the other side will be an issue, but hell, ought to be fine.  Run is going well too.  I am running bricks, even just short ones, off every bike now. Racing the bike tonight, brick run, then the bike goes to the LBS to be tuned and to get upgraded shifters to SRAM Red.  I'll have enough time to practice with them before taper.

To anyone at Madison, phone is 309-275-7120. 

Got back to the pool last night.  It felt pretty good.  Shoulder starting getting noticeable at about 1500m's but way better than it has been.  Speed actually seemed ok too.  My 50's weren't much slower than where I left off.  Let's hope I can start running again soon!

Coach is really ramping up my bike volume.  Halfway through the week I'm already at more volume than I've been in a while!  Like I said "no more slacking!" LOL  I got some sprint testing tonight and tomorrow I've got FTP testing before a rest day on Fri.  He said I'd NEED the rest day, even though I mentioned I rarely take them. I'm starting to see whey!!!LOL!

Hey, anyone else here on twitter? 

Welcome to the weekend! 

I know we have 2 heading to Wisconsin to volunteer for IMWI next year, good luck and have fun Kathleen and Ice.

I have my first and last tri of the season on Sunday.  It is a sprint and I stayed in since I knew I could walk the entire swim if needed but the plan is to side stroke it and see how many I can pass on the bike and run.  The water is very shallow this year so I am not sure that I will be at much of a disadvantage. 

Anyone else racing?

TGIF!!

Welcome to the weekend! 

I know we have 2 heading to Wisconsin to volunteer for IMWI next year, good luck and have fun Kathleen and Ice.

I have my first and last tri of the season on Sunday.  It is a sprint and I stayed in since I knew I could walk the entire swim if needed but the plan is to side stroke it and see how many I can pass on the bike and run.  The water is very shallow this year so I am not sure that I will be at much of a disadvantage. 

Anyone else racing?

TGIF!!

That sounds like a solid plan for a fun time on the sprint. Just don't let the competitive voice in the back of your head convince you to do anything rash during the swim :-)

I am racing the Croton, NY Half on Sunday. The Toughman Tri (who comes up with these cheesy names?). Its my tuneup race for IMAZ. The bike only has one real climb, but you do it twice, so I should be able to get a good Idea of pacing. In normal training I have about zero opportunities to figure out my long race pace. This course is supposed to have a hell of a run, but that's fine. Running is more my thing and I plan on having a very laid back swim and bike.

Have a great weekend!

That sounds like a solid plan for a fun time on the sprint. Just don't let the competitive voice in the back of your head convince you to do anything rash during the swim :-)

I am racing the Croton, NY Half on Sunday. The Toughman Tri (who comes up with these cheesy names?). Its my tuneup race for IMAZ. The bike only has one real climb, but you do it twice, so I should be able to get a good Idea of pacing. In normal training I have about zero opportunities to figure out my long race pace. This course is supposed to have a hell of a run, but that's fine. Running is more my thing and I plan on having a very laid back swim and bike.

Have a great weekend!

Careful Ken!  Don't give in to temptation and do something you'll regret!

Good luck Bill!

Have fun in Madison Kathleen and Ice!  Hit me up if you stop in Chicagoland!  I'm 5 minutes off I55 and Weber rd!

OMG!!  Toughest week I've had in a while.  Coach had me riding 6 days straight.  These last two days started with sprint testing and yesterday ended with FTP testing.  I've never tested like this.  Usually, in computrainer classes, they've had me come in fresh from a couple days off and do a short warmup before a 20 minute TT.  Wednesday coach had me spend 1 1/2 hours on the trainer doing sprint testing!  Last night, he had me do a 3/5/and 8 minute TT before having me do a 20 minute all out TT for the FTP test!!!!!!  Needless to say my numbers were lower than the previous version testing, which was really a Critical Power #.  I think this was designed to more accurately predict a real FTP #.  Last year my 20min TT power #, or CP, ended the winter at 256 and climbed up near 290 by Racine and Naperville.  My number last night was 225!!!  Coach said my 20min TT was the smoothest he's EVER seen.  My normalized power was extremely tight and I had a solid build over the TT, and final surge.  So I was happy about that.  But, being a numbers geek, it's going to be hard to work with lower numbers mentally.  Not that I'm less strong than I was before in any way, infact quite the opposite.  But just different!

I'm excited for the weekend!  Going to talk to my PT to see if I can start some Kettle bell trianing and get back to running again!  Hopefully, he says SOON!!!

One downer though, is my coach isn't very optimistic about me doing a full IM this year.  He wants me to wait 6 months to see how I bounce back from the injuries before committing.  That leaves me with only one choice if it happens, and that's Louisville.  I did already sign up for Muncie 70.3, and am considering adding Kansas as well.  If not I'm going to make the move into doing some Xterra's.  My first real outdoor tri was an Xterra and I kinda miss it!  My coach won his Regional Xterra Series AG this year and has offered to help me out with my tech skills to keep me from getting injured so much out there on the MTB!  

One of my PT's is in the wave after me, he'll keep me in line! 

Interesting protocol for testing, but sounds like he knows what he is doing.  You'll probably struggle with the same thing I will if I coach up, trusting them when you are doing things that are different to what you are used to. 

I am also curious on the doubts about IM training.  Sounds like your shoulder is all but ready to go, I guess with the remaining question on the PF might be his thinking?

Great work this week!

I'm stopping in for a little horn tooting, because today everything is coming up Billy.

1) Raced today's HIM in 5:42 (I'll post a RR when official splits are out there) with a 1:50 run!  It wasn't too long ago that I would have been very happy with a 1:50 standalone HM.

2) Eileen took the kiddies to an amusement park today, so I'm relaxing with a giant glass of wine, about to take a nap :-)

Hope you are all having a great weekend.