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Your replies make sense, I am looking at ways to shoe horn some more and higher quality bike time in. I will probably keep the swims at 3x week. warmer weather will bring the prospect of lake swims-I can ride to the lake, get my swim in and ride again. Looking at 80+ degrees today about go go get 3 hours or so..maybe 50 miles on the bike and a short transition run.

Lost a litter or bunnies today-bummed out about that. Was getting 4-5 litters a season most surviving to fryer size, lately whole litters die at once-strange. Ill probably get out of the rabbit biz for a while that will free up a bit of time

I ended up with 56 miles and a very poor short run after that. Time to recover a bit and plant tomatoes.

Here is what came to me as I was a little lost on my ride today regarding some previous musings. I will go through April with some fairly high mileage rides on Saturday and short on Sunday and 2 1 hour week day rides-intervals and tempo work. This will address my concerns about bike volume without costing me much in the other 2 disciplines. In May I will scale it back a bit on Saturday to closer to the Oly distance but increase the intensity, more race specific, fool with the equipment and nutrition etc. That race is May 22, I will then have 3 1/2 months to focus specifically on Branson except those 2 centuries I threw in there. One of those rides I know is very hilly so that is good.

Do you think the energy gel made a difference?

Gene

Just got back from the Cinderella Classic 100K bike ride. It was so much fun! It's an all women's bike ride about 45 minutes from home. The furthest I had ridden before was 55 miles so I was wondering how I would do. I think my legs are still in shape from all the running and that helped a ton. There was 2000 ft of climbing but the hills were spread out. The best part was finishing feeling good. Yippee!

Sad about the bunnies Jeff. I wonder what's going on? I used to raise rabbits for food when I was a kid. It was my 4-H project.

Sarah, I was thinking about you today when I was imagining your son playing on his ramp with snow on the ground

Hope everyones having a great weekend. 

Johanne

I hear you.  I've had my bike out once.  We're supposed to get more snow tonight

I was sort of cold this morning, hi 60's and windy, I had to zip up my tri top

Great ride, the 100k is a fun distance.

My buck is about 4 years old, the doe only 2. I gave away another doe with similar issues, but I felt she was a bad mom-kindling on the wire instead of the box, eating her kits etc. I had inbred her with her father I read you could get away with one generation of that. but honestly I have not put the same attention and effort I used to with them and the novelty if rabbit meat has faded, we have about 10 in the freezer now along with 3 or 4 young roosters. My life and zip code may change in the very near future, if we move to The Farm in Kansas I'll re-visit rabbits again.

Jeff,

Yes, 100K is fun, long enough but not too long

What's the farm? Why the move? We used to live in Kansas City MO. Loved the area but when the job changed, California was home for both of us. 

When I raised rabbits, the buck and 2 does were my pets and the babies were food. It made it easier to deal with. My parents are from another country to they raised us to raise some of our food.

Johanne

My Grandparents had a farm in ks, The Farm. He just died a couple of weeks ago at 96. Mom is there, we may move there. I was born in KC

Ok, my first bike race and it was great. I had a wonderful time, the weather was great.  Before the race I sucked down a gel and then water.  I had 1 water bottle with water and another about 16oz of Heed.  Started the race in the middle of the pack but it broke off pretty fast.  About every 20  I would drink some heed or water. It was a flat course and my avg pace was 18.8mph.  Finished the 21.4 in 1hour and 8min.  Finshed 8 of 10 in age group and 80th of 160 overall.  Felt good, did not run out of energy like I have been in my 5k's.  The only complaint is the middle of my bottom right foot did hurt sometime after the race, I might need to adjust my clips on my right shoe, the left one was fine.  My' toes on both feet did get a little numb, but the shoes fit fine, not to tight or lose, I dont know if that also has something to do with where my clips on the shoes are, but it did not affect the racing. 

I do have a question, drafting, does it really help out.  I noticed there were a lot and I mean a lot of group riders that were drafting and the front guy would drop back and then let the next take the lead.  Me I was all alone fighting against the wind.  I thought about jumping in one of the groups but I didnt since I did not know them.  But I had a blast and it got me pumped to get back on my bike today, but I need the rest. Yest was a busy day.  Got up at 4:30am went to my race then drove back home, picked up my daughter and the both of us went to Baton Rouge LA for her cheer competition which is about 3 hours away.  The cheer was the finals and they came in 1st for their group.  We did not get home until about 10:30pm.

Well the next 2 weeks I will be getting ready for my 1st sprint tri. 4/16.  I hope everyone has a great day.. 

Hey all,

Sorry for my prolonged absence. I didn't realize I was gone so long until I actually looked at a calendar. Yikes!

All is well here. I've been running a bit, but biking a lot more. The weather's getting really nice (hit 80 F yesterday...today's it's snowing, though) so it's kind of hard going indoors to swim in the pool, which is why I haven't been doing too much of that.

I've also been having a hard time fitting in all my workouts and rugby practices and games and having a life, so I'm considering dropping out of my early season tris and starting formal training once the rugby season is done in early May. I want to be fully prepared for them and it's not looking like that's going to happen. I really want to do the Olympic distance tri I did last year, but it's in June and I'm not even close to where I should be fitness-wise for that. So instead of having a horrible time during the tri and rushing the training, I think I'm going to do some later season ones instead and focus on getting a good base and enjoying biking and running and swimming. The good thing is that there are a couple of tris in July, August, and September that I was really looking forward to doing, and probably would've done anyways, so it's not like I would have to settle for something I didn't want.

This is all still up in the air as I haven't registered for anything yet and none of the tris are sold out, so we'll see. But having the option to do a different tri relieves a lot of the pressure I've been feeling lately.

Anywhos, hope everyone's been doing well. I haven't read up too much because school and work are kicking my butt (it's exam season), but I've been lurking a bit here and there.

Kasia

Wow, George, great job on the race! You were fast! Glad it was fun. I don't draft because I'm just not comfortable doing it yet. I'm sure the more experienced bikers will chime in.

Congrats on your daughters team too. Cheer competitions are so much fun. Good luck with your next couple weeks of training. It's exciting that everyone's seasons are starting to get going.

Johanne

Kasia,

It sounds like you have a full plate! I remember you talking about last years oly and I'm with you in wanting to be ready for it. Why set yourself up? The good thing is you'll have your rugby fitness to fill in some of that base fitness and you'll be able to ease right back into your tri training. Sounds like you have some good options later in the summer too. 

Good luck with your rugby season and all that work/school business

Johanne

Ha!!! I probably won't see a morning low of high 60's til August! At this point, I'm waiting for the first day when the mercury hits anywhere close to 60

I didn't see a question in there but, yes, pace line skills will make a huge difference. Since it was a race you could probably have joined the group. But don't do that if you haven't worked on pacelines some. You won't last long. If they don't want you there they will probably let you cook out in front without pulling through or accelerate hard after each of your pulls. There are some strategies and tactics taking place in a paceline or even a peloton team dynamics at play. If is a fascinating sport when you begin to understand it below the surface

Rabbits do odd things for inexplicable reasons. They don't show illness very clearly either-a survival trait no doubt-not catching the ye of predators. I've often lost 1 or 2 and the occasional litter but to keep loosing them repeatedly is odd. I used to keep two does, probably should again, perhaps that will help. But will probably keep these two for now and stop breeding them. My chickens are productive keeping us in eggs and the garden looks good

The snow held off and so I gave it a shot.  Got twenty miles in, the last two were in "Gropple" a Pacific Northwest term for "Can't decide if it's Snow or Hail"  but it was great to be out of the basement.  The knee is recovering nicely from being scoped 2 weeks ago, got a five mile run in on top of the  bike ride.

Great job on the bike race George, you're tearing it up .