brick94513-GoGoGo Mentor Group - Closed For Now! (Page 73)

brick94513 - 2010-07-08 4:45 PM Jay are you planning on doing the Palm Springs Half Marathon in February?  My wife did it last year and had a good time.  I'm thinking about doing the Tour d' Palm Springs Century then the half marathon the next day.

BTW, wheres the 126 degrees outside?  I looked up the weaher for 29 Palms.  While it was hot, it wasn't that damn hot!

brick94513 - 2010-07-08 5:10 PM David, since I will be traveling tomorrow, I want to say good luck and good times this weekend!  I assume your daughter is racing again too, so pass on my best wishes to her also!

norcal_SAHD - 2010-07-09 2:30 AM



Thanks, I'm afraid I'll need all the luck you can send...  I pretty well screwed up this week, and didn't do much last week either.  Oh well, at least I'll set an Oly baseline that I can beat next time!   Hopefully it will just translate as well rested...

Yes, my daughter is racing again.  She spent the afternoon practicing transitions in the backyard.  Her swim has really improved, I'm trying to talk her into lining up waaay outside and swimming a little further, but in clean water.  Last time she freaked out a bit with all the contact.  We'll see!

Meulen - 2010-07-09 5:36 AM I bet you'll actually be surprised how well you do being good and rested. If there's one thing I learned here in this group it's not to get hung up on a little slacking every once in a while. You've trained hard, you'll be fine.

Oh yeah!! and I bought some new bling for my road bike. I'll take some pics when they come!!

norcal_SAHD - 2010-07-09 9:37 AM



Thanks, yeah I'm not really worried, after all I do this for fun.   The big bummer is my wife's friend just broke her hand this week and so she can't do the tri.  So my wife pulled out too.  Which means I won't be doing the swim portion for her on Saturday.  I was looking forward to that!  



sweet, are they round and carbon?

On the bike front, I came accross an older (2003) Cervelo P2K on craigslist this week for $725.  Close to me too, only 15 minutes away.  Unfortunately I don't know enough about my fit yet to actually buy.  It's a 56, which I'm guessing is close, but maybe a touch too big.  I don't want to spend big bucks on a pro fit right now before even having a bike, but I'm not sure how to make sure I buy a bike that can be fit to me.  Any low cost tips out there for approximate sizing of tri bikes?

If he still has the bike next week I may go look at it, but that's doubtful since it seems like a pretty good price (at least in our local crazy bike market around here).

norcal_SAHD - 2010-07-09 7:37 AM Any low cost tips out there for approximate sizing of tri bikes?

If he still has the bike next week I may go look at it, but that's doubtful since it seems like a pretty good price (at least in our local crazy bike market around here).

norcal_SAHD - 2010-07-11 6:48 PM just got home from my first olympic tri!  I did it, and I think I met my basic goals (except for the 9 minute miles, I ended up averaging 9:30, and the last mile was more like 10:30).  I gotta say, the swim was fine, other than swimming significantly off line on the backstretch.  We were dead into the sun, and I was a little fogged up, I just flat out couldn't see the bouy!  The bike was fine, though slow (16.5mph on the ONLY mountain bike in the entire race), and the run was great up until mile 3.  Mile 4 was iffy, mile 5 hurt, and I was DONE.  My mantra for the final mile was, "I can do anything for one mile..."  I made it, but I've never pushed myself physically beyond my abilities like that before.  I was pretty dizzy and had to sit for some time after the finish.  BUT, I ran the whole way and finished!

I don't know my overall time, other than I'm close to 3 hours if not just under.  I'll have to wait till it's posted on the web site to see for sure.

I'll post an official race report in the next day or two.

think I'm going to bed early tonight...

brick94513 - 2010-07-11 4:40 PM Another triathlon in the books. This was my first triathlon in the ocean too! The event was a sprint with a 1k swim, 25k bike, and 5k run. No splits or results available yet, but I believe my finish time was roughly 1:23. I was really shooting for sub 1:20, but it just didn't happen. Couple things that cost me time: the run from the ocean to transition was a couple hundred yards through sand; missed my rack spot in T2 and had to back out and move over to the correct aisle; and the run course had a couple of little hills I wasn't expecting.As for my goals, I don't think I hit any PRs. 1k swim plus beach run was roughly 18 minutes, averaged about 22.5 mph on the bike, and ran 20 for the 5k.I'll put up an official race report when the standings are available.

dhopman - 2010-07-11 7:43 PMNice work Tim! That's a QUICK 5k! I know you do lots of training in the ocean but what did you think of racing in the ocean?My gf's friend did this race for her first tri ever and I'm pretty anxious to hear how she did.

brick94513 - 2010-07-12 8:42 PM Hmm... I can't make up my mind. I'm not sure if I should do an 8 hour endurance MTB race or an oly tri next weekend? Decisions, decisions.