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So I may have to dust off the swim goggles and running shoes a little bit.  A friend of mine convinced me to do a tri this summer (750m/40k/10k).  He's always been slightly faster than me at bike races, but he's a crappy swimmer...ok runner.  I proposed to make a stage race out of it.  

Stage 1 - 40k TT on June 8th
Stage 2 - Cycle to the Sun (Haleakala) - June 28th
Stage 3 - Tinman Triathlon - July 27th

Should be fun.  Funny though that we just did some spring cleaning a couple days ago and I put my Garmin 910 away.  I told my GF to remind me where I put it because I may not be able to find it the next time I look for it.

Ok...so I decided to run a little this morning.  First time in 6 months and 2 days.  I ran 1.75 miles.  It felt like I ran 17 afterwards....LOL.  This is going to be a long road back.  HAH!

NOLA 70.3 race report up

and you chose the treadmill....  why don't you just stab yourself in the eyeball while you are at it.  

How has the weekend been for everyone?  Matt is in Paris so presumably he's enjoying himself!

My last week was pretty weak on the bike (1 workout) and swim (zippo) side of things due to some travel for work but I ran every day and hit 70 km for the week.  I'm pretty sure I've never done that before.

This weekend concludes my St. George build!  Had a great weekend (and, of course, I'm already feeling a bit of the taper madness!).  I had Friday off, so I swam with the Master's group first thing in the morning and immediately followed it up with an hour run.  Saturday had my longest run ever....13.1 miles (yeah, I totally ran 0.05 miles out and back at the end to get the extra 0.1!), followed by a short OWS.  And finished off the build with a 3.5 hour / 70 mile ride this morning, followed by a 4 mile run.  

For whatever reason, my ride felt absolutely awesome....which has me slightly confused as I know I'm carrying a lot of fatigue right now (or at least I should be!).  It almost makes me not want to taper!  But I know I should cut back some (while keeping intensity), so I'm going to try to follow my taper plan and not second guess my training.

At this point, it's about being smart and getting to the start line uninjured.  I'm really happy with how my build went, so we'll see how the race goes

I reckon you're going to have a great HM in a few weeks Arend.

I got in just over 18km today and I figure that + a previous long run will be all I can put together before racing in a couple of weeks.  I'm very unsure of how to approach the race itself since I don't know what pace to try and run.  PB from 2011 was 1:33:xx and that seems way out of reach given the spotty training.    I'm kind of leaning towards rolling the dice at the start of the race and setting off at a quick pace, and if I crumble, then so be it.  Not the wisest approach, but my money is paid, so do I really have anything to lose?  Any suggestions??

I think Adrienne has a little run or something today? I wonder what beer she had last night?

Good luck, Salty - we will be watching!!

Nicole - that is really exciting! From my experience you feel exactly how you are suppose to feel going in to your taper. Now you get to go stir-crazy! You have done all of the work, you are going to have. Great race. It is going to be a super way to kick off the summer.

Wow, Arend - that is good running - you may give James a run for his money if you keep that up! ;^)

a good weekend for me: first real climby ride of the season: 6700 feet in 55 miles on Friday, then a descending set of mile repeats where I went 6:20/6:00/5:50. It was cold and rainy so that was particularly good for me. Bout to jump in the pool for masters after only 3 hours of sleep though: this week has lots of work deadlines as we are finishing up the semester in about 10 days or so. Then about 15 weeks off for the summer, so that helps push through the sleepless days ahead.... Safe training everyone!

Go Salty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3:18:02 Finish - 7:34 average pace - amazing!

Way to go, Adrienne!!!!

That's fantastic!  I'll be anxiously waiting her RR....I know she had some specific (non-time) goals.

And for the record, I could do that pace....for a mile :P

LOL.  Believe it or not my hip flexors were a bit tender all weekend from that short run.  I suppose because a 10:00 mile on the treadmill was too fast for me.  Ran again this morning outside.  2.8 miles at 10:45 pace...LMFAO.  I literally felt like my legs didn't know how to run.  Cardio and HR were absolutely fine...my legs were just in "WTF" mode the whole time.

I wonder what it's going to be like to swim again???

The good news is that I'm sort of enjoying it again...at least in small doses.  A group of my training friends just finished Strongman Miyakojima this past weekend and I'm getting the itch to go if another group makes the trip in a year or two.

Awesome!

ETA: A buddy of mine went up and ran a PR of 3:12.  

[bowing]

Originally posted by Asalzwed I was sick yesterday The entire race was a struggle but I finished! Was a good exercise in modifying goals on the fly!

Aw, heck - really sorry to hear that Salty, but you really couldn't tell it from following the splits online - it looked like a great race right up until the end. Now I am very interested to hear what your goals actually were.... Hopefully you are not too bummed about it. When my last Ironman went unexpectedly bust I had a little epiphany while I was trying to decide what to do about it. In a weird way it is exactly BECAUSE of the relatively high likelihood that something may go wrong and a race go south despite your best planning and strategy that draws me personally to long course/ultra distance racing. While I like PRs, going fast, and having breakout performances as much as the next guy, the races in which the sh*t hits the fan and I have been able to gather myself up and deal with it well are amongst my most memorable and accomplished. Good on you for getting there healthy, dealing with your illness, and getting it done. On to the next one!

Rudy and Fred - that mirrors my own personal experience as well. If I am on the trainer, I am on my road bike, and a lot of my road riding is on my road bike. I really only do race-specific rides and intervals on the TT bike. I am fortunate (I guess?) in that I am able to move between the two with no problem and am extremely comfortable on both - On the road bike I am almost always in the drops and on the TT bike I am always in the aerobars. Like you said, my fit is virtually the same (intentionally) between these two positions, just rotated around the BB. We probably all agree that Jordan Rapp is fairly smart about such things and he wrote a really great post about it a while back. Here is the link for those that haven't seen it: http://blog.rappstar.com/2014/04/why-triathletes-need-road-bike.html