Ernie's Group - Closed (Page 7)

I forgot to ask, how did everyone's Feb go?  What did you learn?  Are you going to change your training? 

Feb was ok for me.  I hit my swimming mark and got in more road time on the bike than expected.  It was my lowest run volume in about a year.  I tried to add in Crossfit training and it killed my volume.  It's ok though as off season is for experimenting.

Ernie

Feb went well for me.  I have slowly started to increase my training minutes every week.  Current goal is around 350 per week.  I plan on uping this steadily until I hit around 500-600 per week.  I keep thinking slowly build the cake before putting on the frosting.  This is your fault Ernie 

I have learned that swimming is by far going to be the most boring/tedious part of training.  I try to keep my mind occupied by seeing how many laps it takes me to pass the 70 year old, with snorkel and fins, in the lane next to me.  Anyone else every smell old spice and moth balls at the pool before?  Anyway it is also nice to share the pool with the water aerobics group as they do provide some music and interesting underwater scenes.   Anyone ever bring a fish to the pool just to make life exciting? 

I now have a good problem to figure out.  I am taking a family vacation to the triathlon meca of the U.S....San Diego.  This will be in the heart of my training for my HIM and I have convinced my wife that I will of course need to rent a bike for a week, work in OWS when the family hits the beach and run up and down the coast for training.   I am very fortunate in that my wife has been very supportive of my training and insanity with tris lately.

 I am actually really excited.  I was stationed in San Dog, 94-98, at Miramar before the Navy turned the base over to the Marines.  I used to participate is some great group rides, and maybe I can find a group ride while I am out there.  Of course PCH is always great for training, a never ending stream of cyclists.  But after watching the Tour de California, Palomar mountain seems like it would be a very serious challenge, and one of those climbs where you can say I actually did that.  It might take 3 hours but who cares.

I hope everyone else is having a good time with there training.  I am jealous of the Phil and Grizzly as they got to compete in a tri already.     

Don't be jealous :-D It wasn't a real tri because it was mainly indoors on bikes. On another note check this out. http://www.superfrogtriathlon.com/

On another note. I too am training for base, as much as I want my runs down in the 6:30 min miles I realize that will take probably until next summer with 8 min miles being most likely by the end of this summer. I have 13 more weeks of base building then I switch over to my navy seal fitness program.

Feb went well for me.  I have slowly started to increase my training minutes every week.  Current goal is around 350 per week.  I plan on uping this steadily until I hit around 500-600 per week.  I keep thinking slowly build the cake before putting on the frosting.  This is your fault Ernie 

I have learned that swimming is by far going to be the most boring/tedious part of training.  I try to keep my mind occupied by seeing how many laps it takes me to pass the 70 year old, with snorkel and fins, in the lane next to me.  Anyone else every smell old spice and moth balls at the pool before?  Anyway it is also nice to share the pool with the water aerobics group as they do provide some music and interesting underwater scenes.   Anyone ever bring a fish to the pool just to make life exciting? 

I now have a good problem to figure out.  I am taking a family vacation to the triathlon meca of the U.S....San Diego.  This will be in the heart of my training for my HIM and I have convinced my wife that I will of course need to rent a bike for a week, work in OWS when the family hits the beach and run up and down the coast for training.   I am very fortunate in that my wife has been very supportive of my training and insanity with tris lately.

 I am actually really excited.  I was stationed in San Dog, 94-98, at Miramar before the Navy turned the base over to the Marines.  I used to participate is some great group rides, and maybe I can find a group ride while I am out there.  Of course PCH is always great for training, a never ending stream of cyclists.  But after watching the Tour de California, Palomar mountain seems like it would be a very serious challenge, and one of those climbs where you can say I actually did that.  It might take 3 hours but who cares.

I hope everyone else is having a good time with there training.  I am jealous of the Phil and Grizzly as they got to compete in a tri already.