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Glad to hear that you got your bike!!  Now once you pick it up, ride, ride, ride!!   As much of a discount as you can get on-line, sometimes it just pays to pay a little extra and make sure you are getting the right thing/size...good choice on the bike! 

As far as motivation, my favorite one is below...everytime I think I have run out of gas I think of Bevan Docheraty, and know that sometimes fumes are all you need!!  Check it out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-nbnw8zSI

Ben

Sandy-

When it comes to Brick workouts like that, you should keep your HR and PE (Percieved Effort) as high as you can.  The main reason is this is what a race situation will feel like.  If you were able to get 2 full miles out of yourself AFTER you biked that is AWESOME!!  I would continue to do this type of workout once per week, and when you are on the bike, make sure to make a point of pushing hard and making the lactic acid build up in them so that they are fatigued as much as possible when you hop on the treamill.  Also, try to limit the transition time from one to the other...this will also help the mind to realize what running after biking feels like and that it is normal.

As far as biking indoors on the stationary bike, I don't believe that it harms you...It is far better than you are doing something now and then once you get your bike you will be able to jump right into the miles without a hicup!

Great job on the workout yesterday!!

Great job Jason! 

Can you give me a little more information about what happened leadin gup to you feeling sick?  HR on bike?  Did you swallow any water in the pool?  What time of day was it, morning I assume?  what did you have for breakfast?  How long was it from breakfast until you started your race?  How much water did you drink?

The reason that I ask all of these questions is that while nutrition plays a large part in most races, normally our bodies have enough in their glycogen stores to cover us for an hour or so...

Welcome back!

Everything looks good, with the exception of your HR on the bike (and of course not driking)...that seems really high.  Do you know what your Bike Lactate Threshold is?  Everyone is different, and even differnt at different sports. 

For example, My run LT is ~170, and my bike LT is ~ 155

Great job in finishing though...this should give you some good ideas of what to expect come June1st!

what up guys?  How is everything going for the past week...?  Everyone getting those workouts in and getting ready for the race season? 

Just so I can mark them, can everyone tell me again when their races are?

For those of you that "LOVE" swimming as much as I do, I would HIGHLY reccomend getting the latest (April...I think) "Inside Triathlon" magazine (with Hunter Kemper on the cover).  There is an article that I found to be GOLD about swimming form...I can't say enough about it...I INSTANTLY took 10 sec's off my 100 yard times, with out doing ANYTHING different...$5 is a lot cheaper than a coach!

Boomer - You are in a tough spot, but both races will give you a great idea of where you are at.  My reccomendation would be to do the Tri, that way you will have that one extra race under your belt when it comes to swimming and transition from swimming to biking.  Also, it will give you a really good reason to get your butt back in the pool...which I find sometimes to be something near immpossible to do, but everytime you get in there, you get better, and if you want to have a decent gauge come Sept, I would really suggest honing your skills right now

Sandy - You are going to do great at your 5K...AND it is almost April, so us suckers in the midwest should be able to bike outside soon!!!!!  In the mean time, make sure that you continue to get all of your workouts in over then next 4 weeks...the ones leading up to the race are some of the most important ones.

Ben

Hey, I need to check back here more often.  It's been awhile.

Right now all I have is IM Arizona - 4/13.  Yeah, only 13 freakin' days!  (if there was an emoticon for scared it would be right here)

I intend on doing an HIM sometime in the fall, with some sprints along the way.

FYI, my fiance (grvfrog) and I closed on our house last Wednesday! 

Looks like several of you are pretty close to racing as well.  I look forward to you all sharing your experiences.  What about you Ben?  What's your schedule looking like again?

My races for this year are as follows

4/29 - Ironman Bike Ride - C Race/ride- century ride, not much of a race but great way to get your in gear and be forced to log the bike miles

5/3 - Chain of Lakes Sprint - B Race - Most likely the legs will be a little tired from the ride on 4/29, but hiope to make the best of it

5/24 - Apple Duathlon -A Race - Short Course World Qualifier...although I have NO chance to Q for worlds, I just think it will be really cool to see who shows up

6/1 - Our Daughter is due, so not racing for a while

6/27 - Waconia Sprint -B Race - Best of The US Qualifier - Again, not a chance to Q, but always a good race

7/13 - GraniteMan - B Race- Sprint

7/20 - Heart Of the Lakes - A Race - Close to an Oly (swim is off by a little) was my very first Triathlon a few years back, and I always plan to do this one in the future....just a great race

7/27 - Chisagao Half Iron - A Race - Did this one last year, and I have a Bike and run course to destroy this year - sub 5 hours is the Goal 

8/24 - Baxter - B Race - Sprint

10/5 - Twin Cities Marathon - A Race - Sub 3:20 is the goal....we will see how the training stacks up coming down the stretch

I know, I am busy!!  But this is still a few races less than what I did last year!!

Yeah, I LOVE the racing part of this sport, and I am kind of a freak....I am lucky to have so many nice races near (within 3 hours) of me and a great Tri club 

As far as falling goes...

remember, it is not a question of IF you will wipe out, but a questions of WHen and HOW HARD....it is something that I used to few almost more than fear itself, but now have gotten accustomed to the fact that it IS going to happen some day, knowing and accepting that won't make it hurt any less, but it makes me less stressed out when I ride....One thing I ALWAYS make sure to do is to ride smart, meaning always ride where there is the least amount of traffic and don't try to take corners at Mach 3...maybe just Mach 1-2

OH, yeah...ALWAYS WEAR YOUR HELMET!!!