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Ah Yes, this is some good weather!!!!!!!!

Rest day today

Saturday- swim in the AM after morning practice. 2500-3000yds, bike in the PM probably 30-35 miles, then watch the Nationwide Race.

Sunday- Swim meet in Clearwater in the AM, Record Daytona 500, get in a 6-7 mile run then watch the race.

It will be a good weekend if it all goes just like that, and if it doesn't it's still a good weekend.

Happy Training,

Greetings to everyone, hope your weekend was well? Got all of the intended workouts in this weekend, got the yard mowed and did a little cleaning. So all is well.

Let us know how your weekend went, Courtney I rode most of the Bartow Blarney course on Saturday PM. Nice ride, there is a little elevation to deal with but nothing to bad. A couple of rough areas on the road 640 south of Bartow, and then a little rough here and there on Old Homeland Rd. But its a nice ride.

Everyone staying healthy? I know a couple of you have been dealing with a cold, hopefully that is now in the past.

If you are following a plan or just simply beginning to increase volume, stay hydrated, keep your calories up(even if your trying to drop a bit of weight) but eat the right foods. If you feel fatigued, it's OK to miss a workout to get some recoup time in. That way going forward your workouts will be more productive.

Good Day, hope everyone is well. Courtney I'll check on motels in Bartow for you. Bartow is kind of a pass through town, so there won't be much there. But I know there is a couple in town and you wont' be but just a few minutes from the event.

Brian it is likely that you did have an "endurance breakthrough". You've been training long enough now that there has been some aerobic adaptation that has taken place and that what you saw in your run is correct. So keep it up and you'll begin to see more at time passes by.

Following a plan has phases built into them so as your training progresses you shoud see this type of improvement.

Well Done!!!

In one of my post the other day I talked a little about fatigue and its effects on training. I am an example of my own the last few days. The workouts have been hard to get done at the proper pacing-efforts. And it is simply a bit of fatigue. The workouts themselves are not extreme, but I've just hit one of those little phases. These phase are where are strength and endurance gains are made but you have to be careful and not drag yourself down to much. Injuries, sickness can creep in. One more week until an recovery week that I think will be very nice. I skipped a trainer ride last night, and today I'm not going to do the planned run( I've had a bit of plantar's fasciitis since my marathon not extreme but nagging) so I'll do some elliptical and weights instead.

Just some thoughts.

 Vin sorry to hear about the mishap, but I did get a chuckle when I read your description of the crash. I think we can all visualize what an epic crash might be. Hope things heal quickly. Keep us updated.

Good Day to you all,  well kind of quite week last week. Hopefully all went well last week. We had beautiful weekend of weather here in Florida it was great to be out. Got in all of the planned work, including yardwork. So all is well.

We've heard from a couple of ya, lets here whats been going on?

Sean good to hear from you. Glad you all had a good ride in San An. Sounds like an excellent cruise coming up. Enjoy!!!!

Courtney, your not going find much on motels in Bartow. I don't know the name but there is one at the corner of State Rd. 60 and 98. There is a Denny's in front of it. There is a Super 8 in Mulberry on 60 about 8 miles to the west. Lots of choices in Lakeland but nothing real close. But at that your looking at 20 min. or so. Try the Hampton Suites at Lakeside Village off of the Polk Parkway.

Corey where are you????

Recovery week for me, so pretty simple workouts this week.

Hi Mike good to have you back and with no EPIC crash stories. Hope your doing well Vin? Anyway I've used Yankz for 3+ years, no problems at all. It might take a couple of adjustments to get your shoe to fit the way you want it to feel on your foot. But once you have that feeling you should be good to go. You need to do your adjustments with the socks or not that your going to run in. It will make a difference in feel if your using different socks frequently. It will definitely speed up your transitions.

Agree with Sean, very doable. Nutrition becomes much more an issue when you get to this distance and getting in the necessary bike miles, which makes the run more enjoyable. The Beach2Battleship event gets good press, I think that might be a good choice for you.

Hey Brian, be careful with achilles type of pain. Take it easy if you need to, but hopefully it was a temporary thing and you'll resume your training at full effort.

Roy,

Thanks for the reply.  I have come to grips with the fact that I might have to take a few weeks off from running.  With the base I have I still should be OK for My "A" race June.  Hopefully I do not have any issues on the bike.  I did swim this afternoon and concentrated on not pushing off the wall with the left foot.  (The swim went pretty good did 1450yds straight)  Luckily, if I have to take a few weeks off of running, I think I can find a couple of activities I enjoy to keep myself busy.

Brian