kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 73)

One week out to one of my two A races. Rode 24 miles for my final workout of any consequence this morning. This coming week's plan in minutes.

Sun swim 40
Mon bike 30,
Tue swim 40, run 30
wed bike 30
Thur off
fri off

SAT: RACE!

Weather projection is 75 and cloudy. I hope it stays that way. The days after that are projected to move into the 90's so slllllllooooooowwwwwwwww down weather patterns.

I'll see you on Saturday!!!

Looking forward to it! I'm off from work Friday so I'll pick up my race bib early and post it here so it makes it easier. I might stop by Rudy's Fireside get together as well but probably won't hang out too long since I'm commuting down 45 minutes in the morning.

Back from LP early.  Swam Friday night before the storm. Headed out Saturday morning got 13.1 miles into the ride headed down the Keene descent and and had a front wheel blow out at 30 mph. After a huge wreck I visited the LP ER and ended up with 9 stitches in my hand, alot of road rash and a severely brusied hip. No swimming for a week the doctor said. I as able to do 1 hr on the trainer after the crash just to keep my hip moblie. Taking today off and hopefully will be back at something tomorrow.

What was funny is the crash was not my fault a flat is a flat but at 30 mph on the front wheel there was no saving it.

A EN Camp member came by saw the police and ambulance and I heard him say "That will sure make you slow down!" 

I was riding the shoulder as I was supposed to be and had on Specialized Armadillo tires and still flated the roads are bad. Its to bad this happened by "God works all things for Good."

If you are riding in LP the police are starting to ticket people if they are riding 2 and 3 abreast or in the middle of the rode. Triathletes are going us a bad name up there because they come in and think they rule the roads. 

Good luck training

Back from LP early.  Swam Friday night before the storm. Headed out Saturday morning got 13.1 miles into the ride headed down the Keene descent and and had a front wheel blow out at 30 mph. After a huge wreck I visited the LP ER and ended up with 9 stitches in my hand, alot of road rash and a severely brusied hip. No swimming for a week the doctor said. I as able to do 1 hr on the trainer after the crash just to keep my hip moblie. Taking today off and hopefully will be back at something tomorrow.

What was funny is the crash was not my fault a flat is a flat but at 30 mph on the front wheel there was no saving it.

A EN Camp member came by saw the police and ambulance and I heard him say "That will sure make you slow down!" 

I was riding the shoulder as I was supposed to be and had on Specialized Armadillo tires and still flated the roads are bad. Its to bad this happened by "God works all things for Good."

If you are riding in LP the police are starting to ticket people if they are riding 2 and 3 abreast or in the middle of the rode. Triathletes are going us a bad name up there because they come in and think they rule the roads. 

Good luck training

Back from LP early.  Swam Friday night before the storm. Headed out Saturday morning got 13.1 miles into the ride headed down the Keene descent and and had a front wheel blow out at 30 mph. After a huge wreck I visited the LP ER and ended up with 9 stitches in my hand, alot of road rash and a severely brusied hip. No swimming for a week the doctor said. I as able to do 1 hr on the trainer after the crash just to keep my hip moblie. Taking today off and hopefully will be back at something tomorrow.

What was funny is the crash was not my fault a flat is a flat but at 30 mph on the front wheel there was no saving it.

A EN Camp member came by saw the police and ambulance and I heard him say "That will sure make you slow down!" 

I was riding the shoulder as I was supposed to be and had on Specialized Armadillo tires and still flated the roads are bad. Its to bad this happened by "God works all things for Good."

If you are riding in LP the police are starting to ticket people if they are riding 2 and 3 abreast or in the middle of the rode. Triathletes are going us a bad name up there because they come in and think they rule the roads. 

Good luck training

Back from LP early.  Swam Friday night before the storm. Headed out Saturday morning got 13.1 miles into the ride headed down the Keene descent and and had a front wheel blow out at 30 mph. After a huge wreck I visited the LP ER and ended up with 9 stitches in my hand, alot of road rash and a severely brusied hip. No swimming for a week the doctor said. I as able to do 1 hr on the trainer after the crash just to keep my hip moblie. Taking today off and hopefully will be back at something tomorrow.

What was funny is the crash was not my fault a flat is a flat but at 30 mph on the front wheel there was no saving it.

A EN Camp member came by saw the police and ambulance and I heard him say "That will sure make you slow down!" 

I was riding the shoulder as I was supposed to be and had on Specialized Armadillo tires and still flated the roads are bad. Its to bad this happened by "God works all things for Good."

If you are riding in LP the police are starting to ticket people if they are riding 2 and 3 abreast or in the middle of the rode. Triathletes are going us a bad name up there because they come in and think they rule the roads. 

Good luck training

Long bike yesterday - first half with a friend training for Louisville, second half solo. It was a good but tough ride. Very hilly route, not much resting. Heading back home I had 3 options and choose the hardest hilliest option. My legs were not happy, but mentally it was good for me to know I didn't take the easy way back. Got a flat 2 miles from home. I called my husband to come get me, but knew I'd kick myself for not finishing, so I changed the flat and rode it in. All by myself! =)

Hello all thanks for your kind words of encouragement and positive thoughts and of course prayers. i do not know how to post pictures on BT. But I put pictures of the crash on my Blog if you are interested in the carnage. Feeling better tonight hip is staying loose and hand is becoming more mobile. On the traiiner tomorrow.

http://ironjeremy.blogspot.com/

Oh man that looks miserable, heal up quickly

Hey there everyone ... I know I have been out of touch for the last month and I wanted to apologize to everyone.  

Long story short, I have been out of work for several months and the hunt is hard and frustrating. 

To add to that stress, I finally got real with myself last weekend and it was determined that I have a stress fracture in the 4th metatarsal of my right foot.  What most don't know (actually pretty much everyone until about a week ago, although Kelly knew something was going on early May) was that I have been running on this stress fracture since last November.  How you say?  Very painfully.  I never really hurt when I run, but was horribly painful right after and for the rest of the day.  Why did I continue?  I was performing very well since I started working with Kelly and didn't want to derail that.  Stupid?  Maybe, but I did have a really good first part of my season.  I PR's every race I set out to PR, some with significant improvements ... yes, at a cost.

What this means is I am not running for another 5-7 weeks, which since I am focusing on running, is very hard!  I am frustrated about the injury itself, but also because I have races paid  for, and especially since the Chicago Marathon is likely not going to happen.  I will evaluate with Kelly in July and we will see what the rest of the year holds. 

So I wanted to let you all know what was going on.  I am not normally a person that reaches out.  I am pretty quiet about most everything and keep most things to myself.  So this has been a very rough time.

On a positive note ... I have been stalking the group and keeping up with everyone.  So hope races went well this weekend (Scott more OW practice), Michelle I would've walked home, I saw a crash ... hoping for a quick recovery.