Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 89)

Hey, all.  After a completely uneventful 14+ hour drive over two days we're now in Florida for three weeks.  Weather is all over the place but hoping to get a few outdoor rides and runs in.  Last week's recovery week went well, including an extra short run thrown in for frequency's sake.  Today was supposed to be an off day but after sitting in a car for two days I decided to jump on the trainer for 20 minutes and do some core work - tomorrow begins Phase 3 of running training (focusing on VO2 max intervals) plus upping the running volume.  We have a nice lap pool here but it's outdoors and some of the mornings are chilly and it's dark until like 7:15 now after daylight savings time.

@Andrew:  nice work - back-to-back 50km weeks is awesome; I never did triathlon with little kids so I can imagine it's tough

@Gretchen:  love the cold water pools (to a point) - shock the first five minutes then it feels great; good luck with parenting for a week

@Nathalie:  assumed you recovered from goalie-ing

@Nicole:  how did the run go?????  I know it was pretty crappy weather-wise in Baltimore over the weekend so that's a test

@DQ:  where are ya, man?  how's the new ride?

Originally posted by nicole14e Ok...so I didn't run. It was miserably rainy Saturday and super windy yesterday and today. BUT!! I made it to masters practice Saturday morning! Got in about 1400 yds. There's a meet this weekend so they were doing speed with lots of rest. I have just one speed, and my shoulders were struggling after doing strength the day before, and since I haven't been in the pool in ages. I was in for about an hour. But the first is always the hardest! Need to do some stretching this week, and I really will get my run on this week. It's supposed to get up into the 70s F here so I won't have much of an excuse at that point

Well done, Nicole.  I might wind up back there again in May.

@Nathalie...my daughter, my wife, and I all have Garmins that either fat-shame us or tell us we're going to die if we don't rest.  Meanwhile my daughter is doing a half marathon plan based completely on what the Garmin training plan says. 

Seriously, Coach Gretchen needs some talking to. 

Good start to the week down here in Florida - weather is perfect right now...high 50s in the early morning and around 80 by 3 PM.  Got in a nice interval run yesterday morning with some strength work, then will do a double today with a short swim (done - resort pool was pretty warm so I'm going to tame down the swimming plans a touch) and I'll grab an hour on the Kinetic (I drag that down with us, my Tacx is too heavy and bulky) at lunch.  My daughter flies down for a week (she can also work from home) so we're going to get a long ride in on Saturday on the bike trails north of here. 

During my run yesterday morning (around 6:45 AM) I saw quite a few cars here at the resort packing all the kids to head over to the amusement parks (Disney and Universal - I much prefer the latter).  Everyone had this look of equal parts exhaustion and excitement.  This place has just a really cool vibe in March. 

Oh, and the pollen (cough, cough, sneeze). 

@Gretchen/Andrew:  I'll say this for dumb trainers, the Kurt Kinetic Road Machine that I bought close to 15 years ago is still doing its job exactly as designed, and it folds up nicely behind a seat in the car.  The single best investment I've ever made in triathlon training (and likely general workout/health as converts any bike to an indoor one). 

To be fair, I'm working probably 70% of the time I'm traveling here and I actually have a work trip to Dallas next week.  Thankfully my daughter will be here to keep The Wife company so I'm not in trouble.  We travel down here 4-6 weeks every spring and I take like 5-7 days off for vacation but it's definitely not all holiday.  And I love riding the trails about a half hour north of here.  

Yeah, riding my bike on the trainer into a tornado was not on my list of likely triathlon training stories. 

We need a top ten "Gretchen Training Stories" at some point.  LOL

Oh, and I worked out this morning.  It was at a gym, it was just me and The Wife.  I did 35' or so on the treadmill with 10' @ tempo and then we did some strength work where the dumbbells organized and tried to kidnap us.  And it was dark outside!!!  And other people came to the gym!  (OK the dumbbell part didn't happen, but it was really tense when the other people showed up...I mean, there's only one Peloton bike).

Seriously, Gretchen...glad you and Trixie and the kids on your watch are OK.