SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 69)

Yeh, can't imagine anything sounding more fun.  

Have a great time - good to be back racing, huh?

Looking forward to the RR.

Matt

Do it!  I'm in...

Quick update on the hammy whammy.  Can still ride and swim, as long as I stay away from low cadence/high power on the bike and breaststroke on the swim (no problem with the latter).  Still won't chance running, as it wakes me a night repositioning in bed sometimes still.

Self-diagnosed (physician heal thyself, right?) as a Grade 1 strain of the biceps femoris insertion to the pelvis.  Likely caused by running on fatigued legs (end of medium run, but after lots of running the previous 5 days), and not taking enough down time after the end of the main/first part of my racing season.  

Knew it was a risk, but thought I was OK after feeling really good on the 8, 17 miler and 5 miler preceding this - and even on the first 7.05 miles of the 8 mile run on which it happened.  Live and learn - I prolly needed another week of getting fat and happy before jumping back into structured training after the ~6 months of structure for the first half of the tri season.  

Funny - well, not really - as Kim mentioned after that she knew I had a gut level concern…  Should've listened, as usual, but really didn't know what to expect (first full season doing this, so didn't know how much rest to take and when, etc.).  So, painful way to learn, but good data.

Now on to a 3 week bike/swim focus, no running for at least another week and scrapping both my HM and full marry race plans.  Kind of bummed about not racing those, but I might be back on my feet for a couple local sprints later in the month.  We'll see, but I'm not going to risk all of next year (and this winter), so I'm at least pulling the plug on the longer stuff.

Wow - I'm actually planning in blocks of a year or two now.  That's kinda cool!  

Matt

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=499792

RR is up.  Fun swim.  Times were a bit slow this year, but not nearly as bad as some years where good swimmers are being pulled out of the water.  I think I got a good idea at what type of effort I can sustain for Kona.  I have to admit though, I have a new respect for a 2.4 mile swim.  While I didn't go as hard as I could and came out of the water feeling great, I still feel a little fatigue right now and I can see how that can kill your bike and run.

Very much, open water seems even more so.

Elevation gain: 104 ft (hehe)

Agreed, ocean swimming can really wear you down, great job Jason!

On that elevation gain, we used to have a race where the bike and run were pancake flat but the swim was in the ocean and we always said the swim had more elevation gain than the rest of the course.  

We've been in San Francisco/Santa Cruz/Monterey for the last few days.  Brought our bikes and tried out our Aerus Biospeed travel bags.  They seem to have worked really well (ie nothing was broken).  

Based on the hills I have seen though I am questioning the wisdom of having a standard crankset with an 11-23 cassette here...

How did it go?

It went well, paced it pretty darn good.  Most amazing spot to run a race but still waiting on results before I do the RR

You're more than just a little bit of a masochist aren't you...

We had been putting in 300's & 400's some recent workouts, so this actually wasn't *that* bad mentally.

Unfortunately, not what I want, but thanks.  They had it quite nicely formatted on the old site, but just seems to be missing on this one.

Think I see what you're saying, but how much value do you place in that? Months vary in size and start & stop on different days of the week. My bike mileage could vary by as much as 150 miles because of this. It might be worth more to grab the weeks and if you need a bigger picture, maybe add together every 4 weeks or so? Something more consistant and that matches up better with how you schedule things (as many do it weekly).

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Hesitant on whether to add my data point to this but here goes...I've been doing the endurance thing since high school so base was not a factor when I started doing tris in 2005.  I had one year in 2010 that was crazy busy as far as racing goes.....15 races leading up to IM Canada (10:57) and then IM WI a couple weeks later (14:16) (not recommended as far as the back to back IM  ).  A disclaimer is that 4 of those races were at Triple T Ohio.  I never tapered for any of my smaller races and in fact raced an Olympic the weekend before Racine 70.3 in July (4:39).  I loved racing as much as I did and simply treated smaller races as speed work.  I would never recommend such a season to a beginner that didn't have much experience. Also worth noting that I don't have kids.

Home (yay!) and back at work (boo!)

I've gone back and forth on an IM next year.  During training I said no way.  When I got to Whistler, started thinking maybe I'd like to again, the atmosphere is incredible.  Mile 15 of the run I was back to no way (actually, it was NO F'ING WAY).  a few days later, hmmmmm, that was a lot of fun, I think I'd like to do another.

Now, back to not so sure.  It's a huge commitment of time, and while I'd like to see how to improve my performance (and will have questions on this to the group, once i've had time to sit down and think about it more), don't know that I just want to turn in perennial hi 12 lo 13 hour times.