SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 82)

Just read your race report JEREMY.  Nice job!  Fast run at 22 minutes...That kind of speed is only in my dreams.

June Plan:

Monthly totals:
S: 0.00 Yd - 6h 00m
B: 0.00 Mi - 19h 30m
R: 0.00 Mi - 6h 50m

I have one super sprint planned and three rides of 100k, 100k, and 75 mi.

Here is the whole list of finishing orders....

----Edited to include the following:

Win - Obvious and beyond my reach at this point

AG Win - Age group win, once again for me that ship has sailed

AG Place - In the top three for your age group - usually gets some sort of award at the post race ceremony

Finish edit-----

FOP - Front of the Pack - which would be you and Jeremy and Trevor

MOP - average, Middle of the Pack - that to which I aspire...

BOP - back of the pack - that would be me

DFL - Dead F*** Last

DNF - Did not finish

DNS - Did not start

S: 8500.00 Yd - 3h 17m 27s
B: 183.00 Mi - 12h 43m
R: 20.25 Mi - 4h 58m 30s

May results.  Overall, I missed some workouts, but had a lot on the plate for the month between full time job, 3 hr night classes M-Th for the first half of the month and 3 hr M-W-F night classes for the last week.  Still managed to make it to church and to family time!  Time to turn it up a notch for June...

BTW - lost 8 lbs in May, total of 30 since beginning of March - Woo Hoo!!! Still many more to go though...

Wow, our group was super busy posting for a Sunday!  Lots of talk about food!

Congrats to Sarah, Jeremy, and Trevor and hoping that Holly did okay.

Left my house at 9 am this morning for my monster ride (4.5 hours) and short run (20 min) brick and got home at 3:30pm.  Yikes, where did the day go???  I chose this route because a friend of mine had done it and told me it changed her life!  There were 3 Major climbs totalling 5500 ft of ascent over the course of 59 miles.  Total elevation of the 3rd "mountain" was 2200 ft over a 5 mile distance.  And it started at mile 42.  My quads started to scream mommy but I used this technique of not looking much further than 20 feet ahead and it helped.  There were a gazillion switchbacks and I swear I was in my easiest gear 34/25? a lot of the way and cadence at about 60 and I was only going 3.5 mph at times! The good news is, I never had to get out of my saddle.  I suppose rides like this make you stronger.  It was beautiful and much of it was on quiet roads with beautiful redwoods shading the sun.  4.5 hours for 59 miles is a bit depressing to look at on paper but I swear, I was really happy with the effort.  

One thing that happened when I did my run is that my stomach was pretty crampy for the first mile and I had to walk a bit.  I'm wondering if anyone has tips on nutrition.  I drank through my two bottles of cytomax/endurox and had a bag of shot blocks, but unfortunately with only 2 cages, I had no water on the bike.  I didn't feel like I bonked at all.  I didn't really stop at all except to take a bathroom break.  I swigged some water when I got to the car but had a few minutes before I went out to run.  Is it better to stop drinking at a certain point on the bike to reduce stomach cramps?

Kim. Totally awesome ride, especially with that kind of climbing. I don't have anything anywhere near that kind of climbing around where I live. Can't help you out on the nutrition as I haven't run into that yet.

I'm not going to post my May training stats as I missed so much training I would be embarassed to say the least. I didn't get my ride in yesterday for the virtual. I lost the crown on one of my teeth (molar) and was in pain most of the day. Going to the dentist this morning...I hope..

Kim, great workout - hard to find a hill over 500 yds long around here.  You should see some great results from that ride.

-Andy

Wow I have a lot to catch-up on, last time I read we were only on page 99!

my race report is up Iron Clad Tri

Learned a ton in this race.. 
1) Practice more race time situations ie: organizing the transition.  Clipping in on the run and positioning of my bike pedals.  Race pacing
2) Trust your instincts.  ie: during the swim I started at the back of my wave due to my panic attack during my first race.  I'm a much stronger swimmer now and should have started in front of the wave.  It cost me big time..
3) Running cross country and through hilly woods is very hard!
4) maybe buy a tri-bike sooner rather than later (anyone know of a size 56 used tri-bike for sale?  for some reason i always like buying used.)

Nicely run race that had great volunteers and they provided a full out breakfast buffet right when you crossed the finish line! 
 

Thanks Tony!  

I updated the link. 

BTW- Tracy, I held my pee in before the race so i would have plenty of warmth during the swim but for some reason I must of had stage fright and couldn't go..  I held it for the whole race!  Your baby power suggestion works wonders!