Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 7)

This is good advice, and some I should heed from time to time as well.  My training paces on the run are a full minute per mile slower than nine years ago, and I still catch myself thinking about Grandpa Used to Be. 

I should get one of those to laser measure the swim courses I race.  But then I wouldn't be able to claim that they're a little long. 

That's a great swim month, Gretchen.  Nice work!

Good morning, all (or evening, Andrew, and afternoon, Nathalie and Gretchen).  Happy Friday!

Still shedding off the last lingering bleh of my cold, but it's not impacting my training or anything now.  Yesterday was a tempo run after a short warm up bike ride and then what was supposed to be a Z2 swim, but I had to push it to today after getting there and the lifeguard closing the pool for chemical issues.  The "closed pool" thing seems to be a trend here in BDAS of late.  Pushed it to the this morning and added a strength session afterwards, and I'll do a tempo bike ride at lunch followed by helping the wife clean out her MIL's apartment now that she's in assisted living (about six months to a year too late, so her place was a disaster). 

Headed to New York this weekend to meet some old friends, which will result in my undoing all of my training from this week. 

Next week is a recovery week with fitness tests in all three sports (swim TT, short bike race, and then a 5K race next Saturday).

@Jay/Gretchen:  Training Peaks is really great for those adjustments in schedule; like you Gretchen I'm really captive to a schedule and I try hard not to do back-to-back days of running with my injury history; Jay- nice work adjusting and getting the Zwift rides in especially during this wacko weather

@Gretchen:  your plan ramps up?  Good grief that'll be interesting, but you thrive on the consistency

@Nathalie:  great job on your dry January with the consistency (and the resulting weight loss); I had a successful "damp" or "dry-ish" January which as noted above I just blew to hell in a handbasket this weekend in NYC

@Andrew:  how's summer?    I've been watching the Australian Open and the Tour Down Under and wish I were in the southern hemisphere right about now; mid-February is about when we start to go crazy here in the mid-Atlantic...it's actually been a pretty warm winter but it's just blah all the time

@Nicole:  what Gretchen said - Jamaican Us Crazy

@DQ:  be sure to check in with us, good or bad

Spent roughly 30 hours in NYC and spent an insane amount of money and calories on really good food and drink and another chunk of money on Uber as it was in the teens (*F) on Saturday.  No training but the hotel did have a nice gym if we come back.

Three fitness tests this week:  1K pull swim TT and then a 100 free sprint today (hoping sub-17 and 1:25ish); short bike race on Wednesday which will be about a 20 minute test (hoping to hold around 275/280), then a 5K run race on Saturday (pancake flat - so a good fitness test and hoping to break 25:00); recovery week so not too much else planned.

One down.  Both intervals were a success...16:43 in the 1K pull TT (30 second PR) then 1:24.6 in the 100, also a PR by about two seconds.  That 100 hurt.