SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 84)

DougRob - 2009-06-01 1:36 PM

BigReub - 2009-06-01 2:54 PM BTW, what's the award for the slowest time in any single event in our virt tri 

How about Kim's broken old "wedge pack"?

Maybe they can hang it on John's old frame

Plainsman AU - 2009-06-01 4:14 PM HOLY COW...I AM NOT A RUNNER!  And I already knew that, but just went out to try to get a TT in.  First off, who am I to think that I can pace 7.5 minute miles.  Well, I did for about 2 miles  Got my first two miles in about 15 minutes, and got my last mile in about 15 minutes.  Totally blew an engine!  How in the HE!l do you people run like that?

I will post a time for team DEUCE at 28.6 which includes walking all the hills in the last mile and stopping at the water fountain at the tennis courts  I will try to give it another go before the deadline, but I have a race on the 13th, so I don't want to blow a gasket before.  I guess that is why they call it race PACE...knowing damnned well I can't run 8 minute miles.

Lesson learned.

Barry- hate to let you in on a little secret, but you ARE a runner! And, not to try to tempt you to go out and do another TT before your race, this is for fun after all, BUT, if you can run 2 miles in 15 minutes, you are physically capable of doing a 5k in 24:08 with proper pacing and training.  (my best 2 mile run is probably just a little faster than that)

It says so right here   http://www.runbayou.com/jackd.htm 

I used this after I did my 10K last year and it's pretty much spot on for my fastest mile, 5K, half marathon and it gives good training ranges.  Check it out.  I think it was something Jorge posted on Tri talk in the fall.

Sorry I hope that provides a link or you'll have to copy and paste...sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. 

You sure seem to be rough on equipment...  I would hate to see your lab...

My other big hobby is woodworking. I am on the Board of Directors of NCWoodworker.net. What started as virtual is now real. I have met many, many, many of the members. It is great. I hope to meet tahrens and Havin'Fun as we are practically neighbors. I get up to the greater DC area regularly, so maybe there is a chance to meet Tony too.

Maybe there are a couple of tris one year where we could try and get a group of to enter. If your thinking of entering one in the NC triangle area, let me know. I will be your support (if I am not in the tri too.)

Lets face it, this is real because it is hard to find people as fanatical as us on the street!

Welcome to the virtual tri Sarah! I swam my 400 twice the AM, same time both times! I have got to do this in a larger pool!

Tony--take care of the bod!  If you think something isn't right, bag the race and plan for the next one.  As a recovered runner, I know the consequences of not doing taking that course of action.

Barry--I was thinking about you today during my Tempo run and had another idea on pacing.  I had 2 20 minutes intervals at a 7:45 pace.  I started goosing the first one up to around 7:35 and then asked myself, "can I hold this for the full 20 minutes?".  The answer was NO, so I slowed down, staying just below my anerobic threshold and held the 7:45 well. Wasn't totally easy, but I was pretty sure I could do it.  You might try that on the next TT attempt.

Suzy

Good morning fellow SWBKRN'ers....  have a pedal question. for illustration here they are...http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content/global_cycle/en/us/index/products/pedals/road/product.-code-PD-5610-L.-type-.html

I think when I first got them I was adjusting the tension on the clip and may have broken it. I was new to clips and to be honest didn't really know what I was doing. My right shoe is really hard to clip out of now. Which isn't very much fun. I have played around with it the last few days, and I don't really think adjusting it makes much difference. So can I fix it? Or what others solutions are there?

Our little monthly community magazine came out yesterday, and had a big section about sharing the road with cyclists. It was very interesting read(majority of it common sense to us cyclists), but for others they could probably learn alot from it.
The problem is, if you are a non-cyclist why would you read the article right?
It didn't address people swinging tennis raquets at you, or opening car doors though! I couldnt imagine if something like that would happen to me. I honestly don't think I would know how to react.

I have tried to be a considerate rider, but learned some new etiquette a couple of years ago. When riding in an area with heavy traffic, do not ride all the way up on the right side to a red light. Rather stop behind the last car to pass you, just as if you were driving a car.

Why?

Because a lot of drivers are very nervous around bikes. Having passed you once, if you pass them on the right to get up to the light, you make them pass you again. Depending on the traffic you be making the same cars pass you repeatedly. Stopping like this will go a long way to improving our relationship with drivers. Share the road goes both ways.

Having said that, let it be known that there will ALWAYS be A-holes! I was in a very rural area riding the Beaver Dam Tri bike course, no cars around, when a big pick up comes barreling along, gets up next to me and slams on his dumb-a** trucker's horn while the passenger gives me the finger! I was riding to the right of the white line. Go figure.

Doug