What off-season? Early season racers Mentor Group - OPEN! (Page 7)

I'll get right on that.....he's 10, but he'll grow into it right? 

We've got two smaller tires for the kids to flip!

From what I've heard of Disney, no one should ever expect a PR there except first timers for exactly what you mentioned. Nice going! Time may have been off what you wanted, but just getting through a marathon is a significant accomplishment.

Rejoined Masters last night. Glad I went on my own Sunday after the week off as that would have been disastrous going with them then. Did manage to get the 100's down from 1:19 to 1:16, so was seeing improvement coming back in. But still some more seconds to go and it was a lot harder than it should have been. Somehow hit the fast 75's in :51-52, not sure how even after factoring in the large rest between them.

Originally posted by ccjr I've been having some really busy days - grad school is back on - but managed to exercise every day for a week now I've been to masters swimming a couple of times, and have never been so tired after a swim workout. The coach is giving me a lot of attention, and has already helped fix some balance issue in my stroke. I'm swimming during my lunch break, which is their least busy time slot, I've always had a lane to myself so far and haven't had to worry about other people yet. I'm doing drills 80% of the time, and have been having a real hard time with kick drills. When I do 200m sets, I already feel some improvement in the first 100m, but I'm so tired that I struggle the last 50m. I still have a lot to improve, but feel that master swimming will help me a lot.

So much swimming in this group - I love it

Rode outside for the first time in a while yesterday - I've been such a slave to the trainer and my power meter, it was nice to just ride Of course, my usual Tuesday is me working my butt off to keep up with friends riding at a conversational pace for them.

My first run since the one where I felt like I could have been developing shin splints is today!

Been icing, compressing, stretching, and I even tried Kinesiology Tape. I don't believe KT tape functions like it claims - i can make a muscle and move my skin around independent of my muscle - but maybe there's a placebo effect?

Taking a day of rest today, which will likely mean 30 minutes on the bike just spinning the legs out later, very easy pace.

Late night run last night, man i felt sluggish, HR was up, pace was down...at one point I was getting pain in the knee that laid me up for a large portion of last season....

It feels fine today, will run tomorrow morning and see how it goes, may have been all in the head

I did fine for quite awhile getting up for the morning workouts, but after adding masters it became rather difficult to do as it starts later in the evening. I don't do as well with varying wake-up times during the week and it was stretching the amount of sleep I was getting quite a bit, so just do everything after work. Whatever gets it in.

what's on the menu today for everyone?

I had a complete rest day yesterday, so much so I even enjoyed a couple of beers last night

Tonight I'll be doing 2 hours on the trainer....I'm not sure whether to hit the ISLAGIATT or double up on the HHNF on the sufferfest videos.  I really like the two 20 minute sessions on HHNF and think I can do the first run through at lower effort, then push harder on  the second run through.

currently looking at flights to the UK for the race at the end of March...already up around $1000   do I book now or risk it and get a late deal?  it's only me, no bike etc, don't need business class and I can take any available route if I book closer....has anyone, or does anyone regularly do the last minute thing for races?  I'm normally the plan way ahead and relax type.......

I've liked ISLAGIATT more so than repeating videos. Guess things just seem to fit better. Also like ramping it up more for the shorter (yet not that short) sections they have late. Think the punchy nature of the last one can help in showing how much I've pushed it as that can be a cramp inducer.

Fatigue is normal - pain isn't. Well, specific pain. If it's the SHUT UP LEGS kind of pain, you're ok. Listen to your body. 

Low HR is a sign of fatigue. When I'm wiped out, I'm unable to bring my HR up on runs.

What did you end up doing? I did a couple hours on the trainer. Mostly easy effort, but a pair of 5 min sections composed of 15/15's to open it up a bit. Also had Masters, and went much better than expected. Started with 150's and seeing 1:14/100 pacing on 1:30 si. Descending 50's from :37 down to :33-34. And hitting :14 on 25's. Also put a couple fly's in there and came in at :15. Never been timed with that before, so very happy to see.

ended up a steady 1:20 on the bike, ended up home alone looking after the kids so I'm pretty happy I got that in.

Those are some pretty impressive swimming #'s 

I ended up booking it, I tried the bing thing and for some reason the predictor it says is there wasn't there for me :-(

But, I did get the flights for just under a $1000, and it's with a partner airline I have gold membership with, so I can get an upgrade to the economy plus seats for ~$67.  I think I may need something along those lines on the way back

Swimming with faster people is very motivational to push the effort and in figuring out plus maintaining the technique.  Of the 8 people in the two lanes, I was one of the 2 slowest. I'm faster than one other at the longer stuff, but he's a better sprinter. Some of the other guys are doing :12 on the 25's. I was kind of glad to have :10 sec spacing on the 25's instead of the usual :05 as coach went last, putting me 3rd. She has a 2:22 in the 200 butterfly, so even if I do really well it's still OHMYGODSHE'SRIGHTBEHINDME!

On long sets, my motivation is often DON'T GET LAPPED!