Asphalt Junkies Spring 2013 - Closed (Page 76)

I saw the news clip (as did a bunch of my friends who texted me about it.)  I'm pretty convinced that my time is all buggered up.  I'm going to go down to the shop today and try to get them to eliminate my time.  Something went wrong with their timing.  I was right around 30 minutes, give or take a few seconds.  That would put me 15 seconds off my record time from last year.  No worries.  I did great considering I haven't been doing any tough sessions!  Look out October Time Trial!

BTW.....I've been looking for the news clip online but I can't find it.  I might have to email the sports guy.

I am jealous.  I ordered, but haven't gotten mine yet!  Those are my favorite girl scout cookies!

Dirk I agree with you in regards to the wind. I don't miss that at all when riding since it seems like I have to deal with it on every outdoor ride I do. I am glad to hear it's not just me either with the sit bones on the trainer. It seems I can ride much longer outdoors without issue but on the trainer I need to get up every 60 to 90 minutes. Outdoors I don't really have that problem and last year it seemed a lot worse on the trainer. This year it's not so bad but not as comfortable as an outdoor ride. I wonder why that is?

Congratulations!

That has to be a great feeling! Great workout, I'm impressed at an hour on the treadmill.

 I debated this but I finally thought I should just go because I could drink coffee in the van all the way to Ohio if I wanted but if I sit down in the recliner I might not get up again!

Back from out little adventure to Ohio. We had a really great time. We visited some fun museums and the kids were so busy they didn't even pester one another . The hotel had a nice 3 lane lap pool instead of the standard tiny size hotel pool, so I was able to get a decent swim in this morning while the family was sleeping. Fun and boy did we really need this as a family.

Got some Q's.  Feel free to answer some or all:

1. Do you use a separate tire or wheel for trainer tides?

2. Do you take any daily vitamins?

3. For those of you with training knowledge, what do you think about this weekly plan for continuing to build base:

Mon- long run  Tue- S & B  Wed- short run  Thur- bike  Fri- swim  Sat- long bike  Sun- off

1. I use old road tires that are on their last leg.  That way the purchase of a specific trainer tire isn't an extra one, so to speak.
2. I just take a daily multivitamin as a normal supplement.  I also take glucosamine chondroitin and omega 3's
3. If that schedule works well for you than it should work well.  The big thing to me, as we discussed earlier, is the run.  Over then next several months the days running will need to increase.

Will, i just use the tire on my bike, i will take it off when I start riding more outsie and get a new one and save this one for nexgt winter.

I take a multi vitamin, vit d, glucosamine, fish oil.

Tony you are training like an Ironman...you are a stud!  Ok enough is enough, take your cold weather back..it was 29 here today!  I'm not as tough as ya'll

Tracy, congrats on the race!!!!!

Dirk, we have a min dachshund too!!!  Great training for you too.

Jeff, you are a tough guy, that is a LOT of miles even w/ good heels.  Be careful!

Wel this week has to be a rest week, not by my liking but due to obligations.  Son has  doubleheader baseball games Monday and Thursday) so that means we'll be getting home LATE and only getting 1 w/o in a day, if that.  The good thing is we'll get to see Jen hopefully since the games are in her hometown.   Ok enough is enough, my northern friends, take your cold weather back..it was 29 here today!  I'm not as tough as ya'll.  I felt like the Pillsbury dough boy running today.

Every, ya'll are had awesome training for Feb.  GREAT job!  Stain injury free and Keep er Gassed!

Congrats on the ride and beating the record (again possibly)! That's awesome. Did you see yourself on the news?

February Totals:

Not too bad considering the second half of the month I missed several workouts. I lost a week in February b/c things got too busy at the end of the month and I lost a week in January b/c I was in California. My numbers are higher for February than January so I am pleased with that. But, if I am going to sign up for the Olympic Distance Madison Tri in May, I do need to start increasing and being more diligent about the cycling.

I dread getting up and doing 4:00 a.m. sessions on the bike trainer.

I'm on there, find me -Jennifer Bendewish

1. I bought an old used tire from my LBS for $10 and have been using that on my trainer all winter.

2. I take SAM-e but that is more for a mood stabilizer. I tried Glucosamine Chondriotin + MSM earlier this winter but it made me lethargic and extremely sleepy so I had to quit. But if anyone is interested I have 2 full bottles just sitting in my cabinet!

3. I'll leave the training for the mentors .

Will answer's inline.

I take a multivitamin for insurance purposes as I feel it can't hurt!  Just in case I'm depleted of some vitamins and minerals.  I have been using the costco (kirkland) version of the "performance" multivitamin for a few years now.  If I'm not active, I was taking one every other day, but nowadays since I'm more active I'll take one every day.  I also take fish oil, thinking it can't hurt. (I do eat fish on a regular basis too.)  And then I'm still finishing off the glucosamine I bought when Karl recommended that when my elbow pain was at its max.

I had another PT session this morning.  I asked that he look at my elbows today, so the evaluation was today, and we'll start working on some specific stuff next week. (I'm down to going once a week now- I feel that's much easier to mentally accept so I don't have to be waking up really early twice a week.)  Today I was basically told I lack muscle mass.  The upper body doesn't really surprise me so much since I'm a relatively small person, but he said the lower body is lacking too.  So that was interesting.  I haven't really lifted upper body in awhile because it had seemed like the lifting was not good for the elbows, but it seems like there could be some added benefits to lifting because the elbow issues could also be because of lack of strength in the arms (or rather, that is not helping the situation)... but we'll be talking more about that next week.  But basically he says he wants me to add "bulk" to upper and lower body.  I've got many problems!  Just even generally he will make comments about this or that in the way I move and such too.  lol.

I have always ridden with my training wheels.  But I seldom ride my trainer and if I did so regularly I would make sure I'm on a cheap rear tire (my training tires aren't cheap actually, but they are cheaper than my racing tires).

I recently began taking Magnesium and L-lysine because I think they may be beneficial due to the huge amount of training I'm doing.  I will take C and E when I think of it, but not religiously.

Your training looks OK.  You are doing something each day except for your rest day, that's good.  I don't think that just 2 runs per week is enough in the longer term unless you've always found running relatively easy or have a background in running.

Go ahead with what you are doing now and we can re-evaluate in a few months or when you have your first triathlon and we can see how it goes.

February Training Totals

• Bike - 17 hr, 39 min, 19 sec - 271.3 miles
• Run - 1 hr - 4.35 miles (Yay!)
• Swim - 3 hr, 14 min, 58 sec - 10200 yards (a little low, no worries)
• Strength - 2 hr, 25 min (almost all legs)
• Aqua Jogging - 5 min
• Elliptical - 3 hr, 5 min
• Walking - 50 min

This may have been asked, cant remember... are any of you taking liquid calories?  Thinking about giving infinit a try...

Will I have used infinit and I like. I like the fact you can customize it and I don't have issues with it. I really like using that for the bike and pretty much used that for me Oly and HIM last season and will be using that for my IM this year.

I just wanted to warn everyone doing Jorge's WCP that the week 14 day 1 workout which I did this evening was by far the worse one I have done to date. I apologize for spoiling it for everyone and other factors may have played into this workout sucking so bad like having to work 10 hours on Sunday morning and getting very little sleep.

I thought the 2x18's I did last Friday were bad but tonight's 4x10's @ 95-100% were far worse. I was cursing Jorge out the whole hour. When I finished this work out you could have gotten the butter and jam because I was toast man. I also made the mistake of looking ahead and I believe there is a 2x20 workout on Friday. Not looking forward to that.