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Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Really looking forward to warmer weather..... I.must.get.on.my.bike. outside. (this is my promise to myself as soon as it hits 40's to 50's outside.... unlike many of you I just have not been able to stomach much trainer this winter) |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Hey Kelly, Glad you are figuring it out! I am sure it makes you feel a little better to know what is going on. Not a great month but it was a ok month. I am on a roll now with my workouts and getting them in. So the new block should look better. 4x1mile repeats tomorrow. Should be fun. I just hope the wind isn't has bad as it has been today. |
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Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Has been an exahusting week. Going out to buy a new car today. So, a bit late but Feb Totals: Bike - 16.25 hours Run- 9.06 hours Swim - 7.26 hours Strength - 4.1 hours Volume is increasing.
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Kelly - I know this has been super hard for you. I get it. Lean on us and let us support you. I am glad you are getting it figured out. |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() DDVMM - 2013-03-02 7:45 AM Kelly - I know this has been super hard for you. I get it. Lean on us and let us support you. I am glad you are getting it figured out. x2. I'm glad you felt comfortable enough to share with the group, and we are here if you need support.
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Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Kelly, I echo the support and thanks that others have shared as well. If you would like any professional suggestions/recommendations or if you have any questions, please consider me to be a resource. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 4 hours on the bike and a 30 minute T run this morning. Wind was 20-30 mph all day here. Not fun. |
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Expert ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 2:36 on the trainer at 241 average watts. The last 1:06 at race intensity. My legs were fried on Friday and rather than fight through it I hopped off after 15 minutes thinking all I'm doing is breaking myself down further. Thus blowing off 45 minutes on the trainer and 6 miles of running. I went and swam a light 15 minutes. I got on this morning and the first ten minutes my legs were tight and I was thinking I might still be toast and then like magic they loosened up and I had a great workout. I think a lot of the errors I was making last year I learned from and it's helping me this year. I definitely would have fought through Friday's workout. So I would have ended up with a crappy workout Friday and another today vs resting and building. |
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Regular ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() I'm signed up for the St. Patrick's Day 8k in DC next Sunday. That's about the distance I've been running, so it should give me a chance to check my progress in a race environment. Keeping fingers crossed for good weather. |
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Expert ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 5 (8K) mile runs are tough to pace. For a 10K I'd run the first half at half marathon pace and then go as fast as I can the second half. For a 5K it's pretty much 95% the entire way. I can run an HIM at about 7:50 and a 5K at about 6:50 so maybe I'd split the difference and go 7:20 pace and see where I'm at come the half way point. Interested to see what others have to say. Good luck I'm sure you'll rock it. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() kr140.6 - 2013-03-01 10:32 PM kaburns1214 - 2013-03-01 1:16 PM Febraury was a tough month for me. Banged up my knee, dealt with chest cold and athsma issues and have also been struggling with weight issues. After lots of testing, I finally (hopefully) figured out that I have been more or less significantly under eating for the last few years, have crashed my metabolism and my body, in response to the significant under eating, is storing everything as fat. so rather than loosing weight, I've been steadily gaining 1-2 lbs per week for the past few months. Not good. I'm working with a RD and a psychiatrist (I was also diagnosed with an eating disorder) trying to get everything back into perspective. I am glad you are figuring things out Kelly. We are here for you and thanks for sharing. I definitely see patients of mine fall into these patterns all the time.... you are sooo not alone. Its just tough. I feel like I do everything right and keep gaining weight. Its tough to accept that I need to eat more to hopefully loose weight. Right now I make no decisions for myself food wise and eat as directed. Its much easier to put everything in someone else's hands and just execute. Like most things, its difficult to be objective about yourself -- as the saying goes the self represented attorney has a fool for a client. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() everlong - 2013-03-03 9:38 AM 5 (8K) mile runs are tough to pace. For a 10K I'd run the first half at half marathon pace and then go as fast as I can the second half. For a 5K it's pretty much 95% the entire way. I can run an HIM at about 7:50 and a 5K at about 6:50 so maybe I'd split the difference and go 7:20 pace and see where I'm at come the half way point. Interested to see what others have to say. Good luck I'm sure you'll rock it. A 5 mile run is going to be very close to all out. Using pace isn't the best indicator because pace can vary widely depending on the course, wind, temperature, etc. For 5 miles you want to start about LT and keep pushing as hard as you can as the miles progress. |
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Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() kaburns1214 - 2013-03-03 4:14 PM kr140.6 - 2013-03-01 10:32 PM kaburns1214 - 2013-03-01 1:16 PM Febraury was a tough month for me. Banged up my knee, dealt with chest cold and athsma issues and have also been struggling with weight issues. After lots of testing, I finally (hopefully) figured out that I have been more or less significantly under eating for the last few years, have crashed my metabolism and my body, in response to the significant under eating, is storing everything as fat. so rather than loosing weight, I've been steadily gaining 1-2 lbs per week for the past few months. Not good. I'm working with a RD and a psychiatrist (I was also diagnosed with an eating disorder) trying to get everything back into perspective. I am glad you are figuring things out Kelly. We are here for you and thanks for sharing. I definitely see patients of mine fall into these patterns all the time.... you are sooo not alone. Its just tough. I feel like I do everything right and keep gaining weight. Its tough to accept that I need to eat more to hopefully loose weight. Right now I make no decisions for myself food wise and eat as directed. Its much easier to put everything in someone else's hands and just execute. Like most things, its difficult to be objective about yourself -- as the saying goes the self represented attorney has a fool for a client. Kind of like running slowly to one day run faster |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Drills in the pool this morning. I wanted to swim more than 2000 yards but I stuck to the plan. It's a rest and recovery week for me. I don't feel as if I need it, which is a first (though it will be nice not to have to get up at 4 every day this week to get in uber long weekday sessions). At my son's birthday party on Saturday I must have consumed some hidden gluten. I spent Saturday night and the better part of Sunday in agony. Thankfully I'm much better today. I have sick kids here in the house, so the rest of the day will be spent caring for them. I leave for Las Vegas on Friday. So excited to spend 3 days with my youngest sister and my mom Edited by jarvy01 2013-03-04 6:42 AM |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Long run today. Nothing much going on with me. |
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Regular ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Rest day today. Zzzzz.... |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() 2k in the pool with front end drills, then 1hr Z1 ride done. Now bring on the coffee. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() kidtri33 - 2013-03-04 9:02 AM 2k in the pool with front end drills, then 1hr Z1 ride done. Now bring on the coffee. Mmmmm....... coffee. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() jarvy01 - 2013-03-04 7:42 AM Drills in the pool this morning. I wanted to swim more than 2000 yards but I stuck to the plan. It's a rest and recovery week for me. I don't feel as if I need it, which is a first (though it will be nice not to have to get up at 4 every day this week to get in uber long weekday sessions). "Rest Weeks" are not totally about rest. They're about adaptation. Your body needs some lower volume / lower intensity time to adapt to the physiological changes you've been working on over the previous few weeks. Once you've reached a general level of conditioning, if you don't take downtime / "rest weeks" your body won't be able to adapt to the training stresses and you'll end up plateauing. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() kaburns1214 - 2013-03-04 9:33 AM jarvy01 - 2013-03-04 7:42 AM Drills in the pool this morning. I wanted to swim more than 2000 yards but I stuck to the plan. It's a rest and recovery week for me. I don't feel as if I need it, which is a first (though it will be nice not to have to get up at 4 every day this week to get in uber long weekday sessions). "Rest Weeks" are not totally about rest. They're about adaptation. Your body needs some lower volume / lower intensity time to adapt to the physiological changes you've been working on over the previous few weeks. Once you've reached a general level of conditioning, if you don't take downtime / "rest weeks" your body won't be able to adapt to the training stresses and you'll end up plateauing. Love this answer. Gym rats will tell you that you grow outside of the gym. Basically giving your body time to repair itself and make the adaptations to the stimulus you've exposed it to. Most power lifting and body building programming have you going 3 weeks of progressively getting heavier and then one deload week were you pair the weights and the volume back about half. Same principles apply here. Even if you don't "feel" like you need a down week there is sooo much data out there showing that you can only expose your muscular and CNS to so much before you start moving backwards. Those of you that schedule rest weeks, or have them scheduled for you, use those weeks to rest. It's a hard lesson to learn, but it sets up your body to progress through the next block of training. |
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Expert ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Nice follow up to yesterday's ride with 1:10 on the trainer and an 8 mile run. Good level of intensity coming off a big day. Tomorrow super easy. |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() uhcoog - 2013-03-04 11:03 AM kaburns1214 - 2013-03-04 9:33 AM jarvy01 - 2013-03-04 7:42 AM Drills in the pool this morning. I wanted to swim more than 2000 yards but I stuck to the plan. It's a rest and recovery week for me. I don't feel as if I need it, which is a first (though it will be nice not to have to get up at 4 every day this week to get in uber long weekday sessions). "Rest Weeks" are not totally about rest. They're about adaptation. Your body needs some lower volume / lower intensity time to adapt to the physiological changes you've been working on over the previous few weeks. Once you've reached a general level of conditioning, if you don't take downtime / "rest weeks" your body won't be able to adapt to the training stresses and you'll end up plateauing. Love this answer. Gym rats will tell you that you grow outside of the gym. Basically giving your body time to repair itself and make the adaptations to the stimulus you've exposed it to. Most power lifting and body building programming have you going 3 weeks of progressively getting heavier and then one deload week were you pair the weights and the volume back about half. Same principles apply here. Even if you don't "feel" like you need a down week there is sooo much data out there showing that you can only expose your muscular and CNS to so much before you start moving backwards. Those of you that schedule rest weeks, or have them scheduled for you, use those weeks to rest. It's a hard lesson to learn, but it sets up your body to progress through the next block of training. I understand and think it makes sense (which is why I only swam the planned 2000 yards when I wanted to swim 4000). I guess I should have said that I don't feel as broken down as I've felt at this point in previous blocks. It probably means I'm getting stronger, and that's a good thing. |
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Pro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Definitely a good thing Jen. |
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Extreme Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Saturday was a 5 mike run; Sunday I spent 40 minutes in the pool. So, what are some simple drills I can do myself that may help my swim? I know that is an ambiguous question since no one knows how I swim, but I have no access to a masters class. Since I really just want to swim the .93 distance in a reasonable time, I need to keep my head down. I just feel like I can't get enough breath. Does anyone know what I mean? |
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Expert ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Check YouTube for closed fist, shark fin, catch-up, one arm, balance and other swimming drills. They are much easier to do once you've seen them and very hard to describe. |
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