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PennState - 2010-05-28 9:35 AM Still really hot here, hoping for some training but pretty physically beat up from my deep tissue massage therapy. Maybe a run later? Anybody else training?

PennState - 2010-05-28 10:35 AM Still really hot here, hoping for some training but pretty physically beat up from my deep tissue massage therapy. Maybe a run later? Anybody else training?

PennState - 2010-05-28 8:35 AM Still really hot here, hoping for some training but pretty physically beat up from my deep tissue massage therapy. Maybe a run later? Anybody else training?

calimavs - 2010-05-28 12:31 PM

Nothing today, but a big day tomorrow. Riding the whole Vineman 70.3 course (will be my longest ride ever) followed by a 3-6 mile run (I'll probably try to do around 4). Should be quite the training day!

zionvier - 2010-05-28 9:20 AM

Trying to take it easy for the next week before the mary, but I'm going for a 7-10mile trail run up some hills after work. 

calimavs - 2010-05-28 9:31 AM

Nothing today, but a big day tomorrow. Riding the whole Vineman 70.3 course (will be my longest ride ever) followed by a 3-6 mile run (I'll probably try to do around 4). Should be quite the training day!

PennState - 2010-05-28 8:35 AM Still really hot here, hoping for some training but pretty physically beat up from my deep tissue massage therapy. Maybe a run later? Anybody else training?

furiousferret - 2010-05-28 1:33 PM

Yeah, I'd stick to those easy 7-10 mile uphill trail runs this week; you want to go in fresh for your mary. :P 

Wooden Bell - 2010-05-28 5:37 PM My training has really suffered this month.  Besides the deal with the walkway, we decided that we have had enough of our house, and we started looking to move.  We found something pretty great really quickly, and made an offer.  After a few days of negotiations, our offer was accepted, and we've been putting all of our free time into making our current house presentable to show.  We might have a showing here tomorrow, so maybe all of this will be over soon.  In the mean time, I have a sprint duathlon next week that I am definitely not prepared for.  I plan on a 40-150km bike ride tomorrow, a long run on Sunday, and a few runs/rides between then and next Sunday.  We're supposed to have some nice weather over the next couple of days, so I really need to make it happen!

Wooden Bell - 2010-05-28 8:37 PM My training has really suffered this month.  Besides the deal with the walkway, we decided that we have had enough of our house, and we started looking to move.  We found something pretty great really quickly, and made an offer.  After a few days of negotiations, our offer was accepted, and we've been putting all of our free time into making our current house presentable to show.  We might have a showing here tomorrow, so maybe all of this will be over soon.  In the mean time, I have a sprint duathlon next week that I am definitely not prepared for.  I plan on a 40-50km bike ride tomorrow, a long run on Sunday, and a few runs/rides between then and next Sunday.  We're supposed to have some nice weather over the next couple of days, so I really need to make it happen!

calimavs - 2010-05-29 5:22 PM Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! Just got back from my first ride over 50 miles - we ended up doing 55 today before a quick transition run. Since this was my longest ride ever I wrote a novel about it in my blog which I thought I'd share here. The short version is that my bike fitness is better than I thought for this course, but I desperately need a new saddle for my bike. 

Happy training everyone, hope you are all having a great long weekend! 


Here's the long version:
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Wow. First ride over 50 miles! 

So I roll up to Windsor high school (the site of T2 for Vineman 70.3) at 7:45 and start to get my stuff ready for the ride and I go to turn on my Garmin and - nothing. It won't turn on. I charged it last night and it looked fine when I went to bed, today nothing. So the ride starts out with me throwing a mini-tantrum about my Garmin not working. 

Then I realized that it was probably God's way of telling me that I have been focused too much on speed (and beating myself up about it) lately and that I need to just ride my bike and have fun. I figured I could get the total ride time from my cell phone clock and the distance from one of the other people riding in the group with me. So off we went. 

The first 35 miles or so were awesome. The course is a bunch of rolling hills and felt pretty easy after Wildflower and some of the hill repeats I've been doing lately. 

Around mile 35ish my butt/saddle area started to hurt. Bad. My tri shorts kept bunching up and it seemed like all the chamois butter I put on wasn't helping. I kept squirming but could not get comfortable. We got to Chalk hill around mile 42 and I was able to just power up it without much problem. It did spike my heart rate a lot but it was ok. 

After Chalk hill things went to hell. My butt hurt so bad that every time I went over a bump (and there were lots since the roads were in bad shape) I would cry out in pain. I basically gritted my teeth the last 10 miles or so and tried not to cry. My legs felt strong, and I could have been riding a lot faster, but the pain just made moving excruciating. Long story short, I need a new saddle, badly. The problem isn't chafing, it's more the pressure on my saddle area, so I think I'll be looking for one with a cut out to take some of the pressure off. 

Fueling went really well on this ride. I was a bit hungry at the start of it since I ate breakfast at 5:45 and we didn't start riding till 8:20. During the ride I ate 3 packages of honey stingers, one packet of Accelerade (which I won't buy again, didn't like it) and had lots of water. Looks like 620 calories total which is only 155/hour but it seemed to be ok. I'll try to eat more next time to get it up above 200 and see if that is better. 

All in all a tough ride mentally but I'm really happy with where I am fitness wise. Today my fitness wasn't the limiter, my saddle was.