Fred D Mentor Group Part III (Page 76)

I cannot imagine the mental fortitude that would have taken!  Do you ride with a fridge beside you stocked full of goodies!  

Crazy!  I think I would have freaked out and gone down for sure.

Huh? Say Wha? that has to be either a) a typo or b) they measure hours differently in Indonesia; are those metric hours you are talking about?

You are stone-cold crazy, Yanti. Stone cold...

Yes, I know I'm crazy, that was there long before the bike who was it advocating over-distance rides for Ironcram? Jason? Rusty? No, I think it was James!

Well, I'm just gonna make another plug for David Greenfield here (also Fred's fitter): no matter how much I tweak freak adjust micro-angle my fit, I always go back to his coordinates.

He seriously has me so comfortable on the bike that I often ride it naked (okay, sports bra absolutely necessary for aero though), especially for shorter rides. I wore the Speedo bottoms (in the avatar) today for 4 hours, then took a break and swapped out to LGs with a thin chamois pad.

You gonna rock the IM Faris style?

I'm seriously considering it. What I might do is start out in the Speedos and put my BT shorts (which are LG actually) which are nearly trashed anyway, but very comfy, in my Special Foods bike bag. If I want to swap out then I can; if not, those shorts are so on their last legs anyway.

Also, I own half a dozen of the Speedo bottoms so no big loss if I toss those, either.

this.  My.  God.  My taint hurts just reading this

Is there an address I can send about a case of lube and aquaphor to? You might need it!

I have never done an IM, so I'm not real up to date on the rules, but I think that might incur a variable time penalty.

Smart lady. Okay, I know I'm an alligator, so ...

2 chocolate Pop Tarts with 1c skim milk

2 cup coffee w/splashes skim and a few tbsp sugar

1 Gu Brew (just had some tabs around)

8 mini-individual-wrap Twix

1 package Power Chews

Several handfuls of multigrain Cheerios

And about two bidons of water per hour.

*WAY TOO MUCH INFO WARNING*

Hey, nobody can say they weren't warned

I only have to use lube if I'm wearing tri shorts. Some of the skin, especially around my joints (crotch where legs meet torso, around knees, etc.) is loose and very soft from losing so much weight, and now, with some weight drop (or at least resizing) again, more loose skin.

It's like the Speedo fits nicely into the groove between butt/leg and crotch/leg, while stuffing it all into a pair of tri shorts just makes the skinfolds rub against themselves.

Not TMI. Interesting, actually. Is that weird?

It's odd how different everyone is when it comes to cycling/running and chafing.

Me? Since I discovered Adamo saddles - I have rendered the majority of my cycling shorts useless.

Love love love the ISM I have on my roadie ... I have a Koobie on my tri bike which is very similar, but has a longer nose that's better for "perching" on in aero.

Shane - that's osme masterful bike handling.  Nice job saving yourself.

Yanti - to echo others - That's just an insane bad azz indoor session.  I would never be capable of doing that.

Wow Shane! Do you Mtn bike a lot? Glad you kept it upright.

Yanti- as always, you are amazing (with a little side of crazy)

Hope everyone has a super weekend. We have a warm, sunny weekend ahead here so I plan on riding both days. Its IMAZ here this weekend. I might go down on race day. I'm meeting up with some friends who are here in town for the event for dinner tonight

Thank you for making me laugh out loud during a very long, very boring conference call where I had to explain the gufaw.

Send some of that heat up the hill to Payson please.

Trainer ride this morning, but it ended early.  Tire is shredded.  I actually meant to change it before hand as I knew it had slim hopes of making it through a ride.  I have another tire I can use but I think I'll break down and get a trainer tire.  Still got 4 out of the 5 intervals in though so not a complete loss on the ride.

You guys are a bunch of freaks and I mean that in the nicest way possible.  haha  Yanti that's nuts.  You must have some kind of ninja mind strength.  I don't even sit in my nice leather office chair for 8hrs at a clip without having to move.  Come to think of it, I don't even lay down in my bed for 8hrs most of the time!  Never mind ride a bike.

What's on tap this weekend?

Got a 12 mile run in today.  First time running that far in a long time.  I felt fine but started to get a little thirsty or feel like I needed a Gu or something at the end.  I was going to ride, but it was chilly riding weather and perfect running weather so just went out and made up my route as I went.  Would like to get my run fitness up a little more and maybe run a half marathon in February for a little motivation.