kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 60)

OK, I thought I was the most injury prone person, but you give me a good run for my money.  That is why I don't wear heals anymore, I would constantly be spraining my ankle ... or breaking.  However, I can do that in flats too, just not nearly as often.

I hope you feel better soon ... are you tossing the heels?  You have terrible ankles like I do .. get rid of them.

As to the expense....... Welcome to triathlon.  LOL.

Yes it's normal at first.  How does it feel on the road?  If you start creeping up on IMMT and are still uncomfortable you may need to look at a new fit.  Booo, I know.  If you want to swap out identical saddles, go for it.  Just make sure the new saddle is mounted in the exact same place as the old.  Hopefully your fitter gave you a list of measurements so you can double check.

There's also very little reason to ride in the aero position on the trainer.  You'll have plenty of time to ride aero on the road come spring.  Because the trainer doesn't move and its at weird angles because of risers it can be particularly uncomfortable. Don't worry about it and sit up during the winter months.

But the heels are super cute -- Kate Spade, cobalt blue patten leather. 

Finally got everything logged in for Janaury:

Oh, Kate Spade - nice! Sorry to hear about your fall, hope your knee feels better soon.

Jen - I cannot ride in aero on the trainer. I don't know what it is, but it's very uncomfortable so I just don't do it.

My new saddle cannot get here soon enough! That racing version of adamo is so hard, it's killing me!

On another note - our new president and CEO is here today. What a speaker, very dynamic. Great meeting, very positive look into where we are headed. He's been with the company for 20 years, so not new. He's extremely personable, I can't say enough good thing about him.

We also have a new VP in charge of our building. Replacing the prior person (remember the "stress" last year, investigation...) and she's fabulous too.

I'm pretty happy with my January especially since I'm not doing one of my A races until the end of June.

Man, I feel like a slacker...

LOL!!!!

You do have to adjust the seat in aero, but I would not be able to not ride aero for this long.  It would kill my back and hands to ride a road bike all winter.

Karen - what seat are you getting?

Question for the tech-gadget folks:  I use a Garmin Speed & Cadence sensor on my trainer setup in the basement for speed, cadence and distance.  The trainer is a new Kurt Kenetics fluid trainer and it appears to work pretty good, but for some reason I just cannot get the speed and distances up to where they would be if I was out on the roads using the Garmin GPS for speed & distance.  Over a 3 hour spin, it can be off as much as 12+ miles. 

Is the trainer "harder" than the real road? 

Is there a calibration for the GSC-10 that I haven't seen? 

There's no impact from the magnet placement on the spokes relative to speed as long as the sensor picks out the input, right? (it's based off rpm's).  Cadence seems okay.

It's not critical in my training, just seems so odd that there is a large discrepency between my perceived trainer effort and riding on the roads.  I know I live in a very hilly area and can coast, fly down them for miles, but I still have to ride back up them to get home.  The net ride data for a 3 hour duration should be somewhat closer - I think.  I guess the reality will show when I get back outside and the regular routes are either easier this Spring, or I realize that I am getting old...

I'm not posting my totals for this month because they're sad.  Fatigue over New Year's weekend, bronchitis, and endoscopy took a lot out of me.  I hope Feb. is better!!!  

Nice job, folks! 

We got an offer on our house today.  It was low, so we counter offered.  We'll see where that takes us......fingers crossed!

Oh, snap!  

Shaun posted about this very topic a couple days ago.  I will try to find the post and bump it for you.

I'm bumping this for Todd.  I know you aren't asking about mag vs. fluid, but you are questioning speed on trainer.  

Couple of quick thoughts.

1.  Check the wheel diameter setting of the bike profile in your Garmin.  That is what the system uses to validated distance traveled based on counting the number of wheel rotations.  Even a small discrepancy will add up quickly over a 3 hour ride.

You can find wheel diameters on page 52 of this Garmin owner's manual.

2.  Speed on a trainer is a more direct function of the power you are putting out over time because it is not influenced by external factors like wind, elevation changes, road surfaces, etc.  Even if you ride a hill that is a parabolic arc, your downhill/uphill average would not be the same as flat road average due to the power function being a cubic change of velocity.  [the engineering geek in me just woke up ]  In order to double your speed, you have to increase your power output 8-fold to overcome air resistance on the same surface area.

That's just my quick thinking on the matter.  I'll think about it a bit more over the afternoon and chime in again later.

I use a KK road machine and it is awesome. Generally I've found my HR to be minus 15-20 BPM to the road for the same perceived while at the same time the speed is about 1-1.5 MPH slower. So for instance if I'm on the trainer and average 114 BPM and 18 MPH I'll hop on the road and that will become a 129-134 BPM and 19-19.5 MPH workout. Everybody is different but that should give you a good baseline. The other posts showing the higher wattage on the KK for a lower speed do a better job than I could describing it and the graph is excellent.

Sorry I've been off the grid much of the last week - real life has gotten in the way.  Everyone has been so busy!  Kelly - hope your ankle and knee feel better soon.  Karen, congrats on your successful 30 days.  Scott - congrats on your run time - you're giving me something to shoot for.  Jen - even if the surgery and recovery have been difficult, what a relief to finally have a clear path to getting back to normal.  Doc Chris - glad to hear you weren't hurt.  Keep it 'tween the ditches! 

I did feel very virtuous this morning.  We had masters in the (heated) outdoor pool, and while we were going back and forth, it started snowing, hard!  It's an unusual sensation to turn your head to take a breath and have a big fat snowflake land on your tongue! 

I also looked at my totals for January, and realized I didn't bike at all.  That wasn't the plan; it just worked out that those were the days that something came up.  In another week or so, I'm switching from a swim-emphasis phase to a run-emphasis phase.  I can tell that focusing on the swim has really improved me, though.  As the weather starts to get better I'll probably do the bike workouts by bike-commuting to work.  Anyway, here are January's numbers.  Hopefully B, S, and Str will be better for February.

S:  28316.32 Yd - 10h 41m
R:  3h 49m
Str:  25m

Cheers, everyone.  Have a good weekend.

There's no reason you can't hit your metrics on the IMTX course.