Ironman USA Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 73)

A solid x2 on that, cuse- I know a lot of folks that do such a thing, but for me personally that would be a recipe for a disastrous injury. For every workout I do I want to know specifically the reason I am doing it. The only reason I would see for doing those kind of big bricks is to boost confidence in completing the distance - not to build fitness, for me personally they just tear me down too much and turn the rest of the week into junk miles/hours. The risk is just not worth it to me personally, but YMMV.

Put my logs up for the past few months...   clearly i do not swim enough!!!!!!!   All my running and riding tends to be at (uh oh - please do not beat me up) at the same pace...   I push my HR up on the hills and when riding CP i push the hills.  Ave riding speed is about 18mph on the average 56mile route (2.54 for Rev 3 cause i was on a  tri bike) and i run 7.30m/m up to 10miles and 8m/m up to 20miles....  

I am a "little" inexperienced and cetainly do not do enough interval training.  3 HIMs last year and got better each one.  Was pretty happy with Rev 3 this year 35min / 2.54 / 1.44 total 5.24.  That is my only 4 tris....  

I think i have opened myself up to - mate, you have no idea how to train efficiently.  You just go out for long rides and runs to log up the hours when you should be doign more focused training.

We are training while they are posting. 170 pages of blah, blah, blah. Maybe they need all that hot air to stay warm during the swim.

That's right, I'm talkin' smack.

Maybe we should let them know we are talking smack about them in the LP group and trick them into retaliating in this thread. Totally help us get our post count up.

While we are all out training, of course.

This is officially my favorite Ironman Lake Placid video.  I reeeally hope cowbell Gumby and the Marshall Officer are at LP this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wv8C3_PGU

Have a good Sunday off, Rusty.

Hey Peeps...sound like you'll be busy this weekend.  I have reached the hardest week in this training in that it has to be a high volume week but I have to work all weekend  (and when I say work that might mean being up for three nights!!) BUT I am so proud of myself.... logs show 18.5 hours since Sunday, yippee!!!.. So psyched I got it done.  Took day off yesterday, so glad I did.

Good luck

I came over having seen 20 new posts.....turns out its just DC starting trouble...

no worries, CDA is like 2 weeks out...taper madness over there....

trafiic will be nuts on this thread in 2-3 weeks.

(PS, Im going to boulder tomorrow!!--one week to JFT.....i'll post some pics throughout the week....)

Bad luck.  You've done all you can but the rest is out of your hands for a while.

I've been struggling with long rides for the past few weeks.  I just can't seem to find saddle bliss.  I went from a stock Felt addle to an Adamo Road in Dec to a Cobb V-Flow Max 3 weeks ago to a Fizik Arione Tri 2 yesterday.  The Adamo and Max are just too wide and give me saddle sores right at my leg pit(running shorts ow cause friction in that spot as well).  I use quality chamois creams and I've got a decent fit.  I just ordered a pair of DeSoto 400 mile bibs yesterday based on countless good reviews.  I'm hoping that a combination of those and the Arione might make riding 100 miles at least in the realm of possibility.