Fred D Mentor Group Part III (Page 63)

Oh the fun is just beginning for you.  Wait until winter.  lol  Nothing like getting ready when it is 32 out.  Pool at 80 is nice but then it really sucks getting back out. 

I am the same way.  When I first moved to Payson all I really did was run short runs and strength train since my season was pretty much done.  As long as I am doing something active I'm fairly happy and like you I have to start my day that way I find.  I can skip a day every now and then but it really sets my mind right for the rest of the day 

I've had muscle twitches on my shoulder, quad, and forearm before.  Usually when the muscles are relaxed, but they never lasted more than a few minutes.  All day long would drive me nuts too.

In an ideal world, it would be running without a doubt. However, having busted my right knee in a bike crash, it would probably require a lot of surgery to get to a point where I could run as much as I'd want to if it was my only hobby.

So, I'd say the bike for sure. I spent the last year since my knee surgery mostly cycling and saw some pretty big gains. I don't think I am cut out for bike racing (not aggressive enough) but I love the challenge of hanging with the A group on my weekly ride or finding a new Strava segment to go after. I did a TT this summer and really enjoyed it, plan on doing a series of those and maybe state champ TT next year. I find I can ride a LOT and barely feel fatigued the way I would if I ran a lot.

I had to Google Teres Major/minor...

I get twitches in my tricep, bicep and the worst, my eyelid!  It comes and goes but I will go for periods of a few days where it does it off and on.  I've never found a way to make it stop, it just eventually does on it's own.

Never even thought to foam roll it.  I'll give that a try right now

Great news!

Just noticed that since starting endurance sports (training for my first marathon in 2009), I've just eclipsed 4000 miles of running. 4005.05 to be exact.  Thats in about 41 months, so almost 100 miles per month average.    Carry on...

That's good to know for future reference, thanks!  Anyone know how to foam roll an eyelid?

Very, very carefully?

Take video 

Which sport of the three? That's a tough one...

If I could OWS for longer than 3 months a year (nearly the same boat as Arend), I would love to do that...one of my favorite, favorite things to do is an early morning swim in a local pond as the sun is rising. There is an island in the middle and a loop from the dock around the island is just about a mile. I could swim that over and over again. However - with my current geographic constraints, the amount of pool swimming I (would) have to do as a single sport would make me mental.

I enjoy riding my bike, and agree - it is one of the easiest from a social standpoint (you can pretty much always find someone to go on a bike ride with you), and it is also a fantastic way to get a more intimate perspective of the countryside. And (this will be heresay for some of you), I actually look forward a tiny bit for winter when I can ride my trainer. We don't have television, and that becomes the time when I can watch videos/tv shows/movies from Netflix or Hulu.

Ultimately, if I could guarantee no injuries - I would chose running for the pure simplicity of it. I can get up and go with nothing more than a pair of sneakers. If I'm home, I get to bring my dog. I get to be outside (mostly). I live in the boonies (our town has a population of around 5,000 and we are one of the larger towns in the county I live in) - so running down the side of the road means running past farmland, pastures, forests, ponds, lakes, etc. Also, because it is such a rural area - I feel pretty safe running by myself. I know 80% of the people that drive past me while running, and 100% of the people running past me. I might have a different perspective if I lived in a big city.

Fortunately - I don't have to chose, so I'm sticking with triathlon.

If I ever manage to lose this pestersome triathlon/Ironman obsession ...

Which, sadly but fondly, I will within a year or two ...

I am definitely in it for the marathon swimming. I am never happier than when I'm out on or preferably in the open ocean.

I dread "regular" pool workouts, even up to 4K, but for some reason I'm totally okay if it's going to be 11-12K.

I don't understand it myself, but I hated running until I got into some double-digit mile runs.

I really fell in love with distance swimming when I did the 10K. Couldn't wait to do it again, ocean pool or combo, so I was right back in the soup the next day

I really do want to become a world-class marathon swimmer and do the Lombok Strait swim (to start with ), so that's in the pipeline to start earnest training for sometime in 2013, say, or 2014.

I can't explain it, but something mystical happens when I fully surrender to a long swim. It's like I get to live in a perfect space right between two worlds that I both love.

I'm all happy this morning.  Picked up my 910 across the border yesterday, and then spent the whole day shopping with my wife for Xmas gifts.  Didn't come away with as much as we hoped, but that's okay - it was a fun day out.

Got home and immediately had to try out the new toy on the bike.  It paired right up with the PT, so it was a double bonus since I've been without power for the past two months.  Power numbers seemed to be in the range of what I was seeing in the past, but I only played around for 15min.  Either way, I'm really happy to have both now.  I'll be trying out the 910 in the pool at lunch.

Question.  How do you zero torque your PT with a 910?  I did this before every ride with the yellow CPU.

Andy, you can start taking it seriously today.

Developing a more efficient, sustainable stroke may be a part of that, and you may not have easy access to a pool today, but today's always the best day to start taking anything seriously that you want to.

Also, long-migrating whales do best with a good layer of blubber. HA that's what I keep telling myself ...

There is a calibrate function that does that. Settings->Bike Settings->Bike 1->Ant+Power

Also make sure you have the latest firmware with TSS and NP support (2.6)