Beer Drinker Appreciation Society - Closed (Page 86)

Question: Did you log that bottle of wine?  Answer: No HAHA

Questions: Did you log that good eating? Answer No, LOL

I am a fortune teller and I see a visit from Lenny and a size 14 boot in your future.  You know I'm kidding but this is just a friendly reminder to pick back up the logging.  You have done so well and got so far with the weight loss don't slack off now.  So close to the final goal.  Plus you have like a million LoseIt badges

Mini-duathlon today, with my wife:  3 mile run to the gym, 1,000 yard swim (got kicked out of the pool by a class they were having), 3 mile run back home.  My wife is still struggling on the run, so the pace was pretty slow, but she did really well, and I am proud of her.

Yesterday I broke a spoke on my long ride, so now I am awaiting a new tool kit from performance bike so I can pull the cassette and change the spoke.  Yay, tools, yay, greasy.  

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I have an honest question for everyone, or perhaps a topic for discussion.  Listing to everyone, and reading the posts, it seems that everyone here regularly has medium- or high-level physical issues the prevent or substantially hinder training.  

For me, 95% of my issues are purely psychological - some life stress triggers depression / apathy / anger / f*%& the world / etc., and I just don't feel like working out.  I have had exactly two physical problems that caused training issues - a shoulder strain from overuse when I was starting swimming, and a strained ankle.

Now, my question or debate topic is this:  are we training too hard?  I have read a ton of articles on this subject, and I strive to and struggle with keeping my workouts easy - zones 1 and 2, for the most part, with occasional zone 4 and 5 intervals in very small amounts, largely to keep things interesting (i.e., a short standing climb in a big gear up this hill, a half mile sprint in the middle of my medium run,etc.).

Especially in triathlon, where the sport is so much about endurance, are we training too hard?

Another example:  on Trainer Road, my virtual power FTP is 180 watts, so for the long workouts, the average wattage is between 110 and maybe 125, which leaves my heart rate around 120bpm - which is around 600 calories per hour and a pace I could spend all day at - I'm not even all that sweaty afterward.

So, how do you train, and why?

For me, the only struggle in my workouts is checking my ego at the door and going slow, and building aerobic base - zones 1 and 2, keeping it light, and trying to not get bored, and trying to fit everything in to my schedule.  On the run, it's all z2 running.  On the bike, I'm following a trainer road plan, which is probably 85% z1/z2 stuff.  On the swim, I just try to find time to hit the water and focus on form.

Message received.  Many thanks.  A size 14 shoe - really?

Good thing to shoot for Lenny.  Way to turn it around and focus on something positive.  

Get your boot ready if David slacks on the food logging 

I really like Charle's recent question about training and injury.

I think all of us do too much too soon with little balance. Why is that? Well, I think we are attracted to tri because we are nuts. I am only kinda joking on that one. Seriously, don't your friends think you are crazy for doing them? So, we are kinda crazy, come at it and attack it. We get committed and go at it too quickly.

Our bodies are pretty good machines. Unlike no other. If you really listen to your body, you will usually get a warning sign that something is happening. As triathletes, we push through it instead of listening to our bodies and either back off, figure out the cause or do things differently (strength training to decrease overcompensation issues, form issues). So we get injured. You guys are likely sick of hearing about my IT band issue, but it was because I did not have the base strength (glutes) to attach HIM with a new tri bike (aero). My body said stop. Not running for two weeks and then going back slowly was painful mentally. I was somewhat nervous about running 13.1 yesterday since I had not run over 5 miles in 7 weeks. That is where a slow base will kick in (and I beat my stand alone HM time to boot).

So, listen to the body. Spend the time doing some strength work. Listen to others/read about form (swim/run). We are going to have pains/injuries.  Just try to make sure you get them taken care of before they burst. The worst thing we can do is sideline ourselves for months and months. I think I was lucky that I was able to race yesterday.  Now I am going to hit strength training, do a little s/b/r before I plan the next adventure.

******please note that I find out about the KONA lottery in 7 days. If I get selected I will unfortunately have to disregard everything I just said.

I will respond this for me and no one else. My current injury...well is really my first issue. It is probably more from hockey then triathlon. Personally I don't think I over train. I went from closing in on 300lbs with high blood pressure etc. to closing in on 200 lbs and in great shape so i will take the tradeoff!

as far as the numerous issues we have, I believe part of it is age. I think most of us are not spring chickens. Especially David, if you go by the pictures i have see of him...