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Kasia,

Your living a very active lifestyle and enjoying it!  Give your self a break and adjust your tri schedule.  Whatever  you do on any given day will cost you exactly one day of your life, sounds like you are getting your money's worth.

We had Slain today... cross between sleet and rain. Hail? YIkes!

I can't believe you are already out biking AND running after having your knee scoped only 2 weeks ago! Wow! I take it that is fine with the doc so I can marvel in modern medicine. Now if only they can find a cure of cancer.... But that's another subject. Nice job in getting out there!

Johanne, congrats on finishing the 100k bike ride. Wow that is a long ways in the saddle.  There is a 50k bike next month down here I think I will do.  The end ride is at LuLu's Restaurant which is owned by Jimmy Buffet's sister down here in Gulf Shores.  It should be a lot of fun and you never know he might show up. The Buffets are from Mobile.

Jeff, please keep an eye out on the bunnies.  If you see one that can poop Jelly Beans then do not kill it and put it in your freezer, it's the next Easter Bunny when the current one retires.  (I learned this from the movie preview HOP).  I have eaten Wabbit twice and I do have to say it does taste good, but I dont have the heart to kill one. (Im a huge animal lover). Heck just yesterday I was taking the family down to Academy Sports to get my son a new Baseball glove and I saw this turtle in the road trying to get across.  I pulled over and went to help it, but by the time I got to it a car ran over it. I thought about that turtle for about 2 hours.  With that said if you want to mail me some that are in the freezer then I will give you the address.  Also if you have any deer meat you can send that down also.  My brother went hunting this year and only killed one and all that meat is now gone.

I hope everyone has a great day.  Time to go biking and then to the gym for a swim.

H,

Sounds like you guys are doing great. 

I thought I would chime in and just to  say I am still alive and doing whatever it takes to keep on keeping on. I ran and rode this weekend. I ran outside on Saturday (50 degrees)  stayed inside to bike since it was still pretty cold here on Sunday.  I don't have all that fancy cold weather gear so going out with the real riders might be embarrasing and I would slow them down if  I wore a ski jacket and tried to be areo.

I did go yesterday and ordered another wheel for my trainer.  Then of course you need a training tire (bright orange) and a tube.  By the time they added everything up I need to take out a loan or sell some blood.  While I was there I also ordered a stand to hold my bike while I change the tires or just do routiine maintenance.  I have always wanted one so I am going to set it up in the back room of our basement and make a place to work on bikes.  I don't know much about what to do at the moment but I figure I need to learn so I don't have to keep going back to the bike shop with every little problem or routine stuff.  I saw a list of the things I would need, but I think I will start small and gradually add tools as I need them.

I am still working on how to set the tension on the trainer so I can really replicate riding outdoors.  I wish I had a trainer that I could adjust the tension without getting off the bike but for now it is still trial and error.  I painted a line on the wheel to mark where I start so I know what a revolution is. I guess tire inflation is a pretty critical part also.  Actually, the process of figuring out what to do is kind of fun. It is jsut a little late in the season to be so uninformed.  But there will be other seasons when I will be smarter.

A lot of what I am learning comes from this group.  For example, I never knew so much about rabbits before.  If you are not into that sort of thing then you are surprised by people who are . Pretty cool!

Back to work so I can get to the pool at lunch.

Ellen

George,

First, Congratz on the bike race.

Second, Does drafting work? Yes, it does. However it has already been said that you have to be a relatively strong and confident rider to hang. 

Imagine you had to fight the wind only 1/X of the race! The X being the number of people in your line.  You would have been able to finish the race with a much faster time and also feeling alot fresher.

On my old team we would take 1 min pulls (turn up front) before hopping off and jumping to the back of the line.  Needless to say it is just above a comfortable effort you give while up front. Your legs are usually really tired after your pull, so when the line passes you you almost have to sprint to catch back up to the line.  Once you are back in the draft you can do one of 2 things. first you can keep your gearing the same and just soft pedal or secondly you can keep you cadence high and drop your gearing.  Both of which allow you to keep up with the line and allow your legs to do less work.

On one of your older posts you said something about your feet going numb or having hotspots.  Were you sitting on your seat the whole ride? Doing so can cause this because you are pinching the veins that are under your sit bone.  You can try standing up for a few seconds every 5-10 min this will allow your blood to circulate better and also allow for different muscles to be used.  You could also try loosening your shoes a bit when your feet start to hurt, this is what I do after about 10-15 miles, I like tight shoes and my feet start to swell from the ride so I just loosen them a bit while riding, but be careful as you can easily crash. Trust me I know.

Hope this helps!!

Hey Steve, those are some good do's and dont's.  I want to thank everyone for all the post of the do's and dont's and also the gels and heed.  The gels and heed worked great last weekend on the bike race and will help on 4/16 for my sprint tri along with all the do's and dont's.

Drafting, I guess I will not try it since I train alone and I dont feel comfortable riding on the back of someone's tire.  Also starting off in the race we were all together and some groups I was behind would pedal and then coast and then pedal. Well that drove me crazy so I passed them.  I like to pedal and keep pedaling. 

Does anyone know the cost of the double bottle cage that goes at the rear of the saddle and are they easy to install.  I went to the website for all3sports and found 2 which were from $170 - $190. Is this the normal price for them? if so WOW. I might have to stick to the ones mounted on my frame.

http://www.trisports.com/tasacl.html

Riding in  a large pack will always be a little spastic It is safer toward the front and smoother, remain  calm don't do anything drastic. My only race crashes were from being caught in the back of a group that slowed and got squirly. Find a group of 5 or 6 to ride with who have some paceline experience and you will learn allot. Fast group rides are a great way to develop raw speed. I regret that I don't have easy access to these rides anymore.

I think some aluminum flat stock and a couple of standard water bottles you could fabricate something useful. I think I would design it to attach to the saddle rails instead of the seat post. But it looks like there are options for well under $50, and one I just saw for $17. It would be hard to build it for that price.

Maybe I'll dabble with making one in my secret laboratory

Ok, I'll wait with baited breath for that PM Thanks!

Secret laboratory???  Hmmmm.

Steve,  Do you still plan to keep this group going in the archives?  If so, is there a reason you don' t combine them and start a new one?  I only mean that, if you want to because I see that it is a lot of your time since you take such care with your answers.  I guess different groups have diffferent chemistry also. Is that true?

So what is an owl survey Steve!? We have a great horned owl that hooo hooo hooots can be easily heard early in the am (5ish) and I've seen him in a tree when running at that time. Love their 'ears'. Once was staying at a resort in the Poconos and they did this educational series about local animals - one of which was a Screech Owl. She was injured when she crashed into the side of a car and basically was recouperating - thus the ability for us to see her up close. I must say, they are the cutest little owls of them all! But I really do like the call of the great horned owl...sort of soothing to hear one of them.

Anyhow...totally waaaaay off tri topics I know. 

But...I do have a race in less than a month and I've yet to ride outside. YIKES! I may have to double up on indoor riding in the next week or 2. I think we may hit 50 this weekend and I may brave that temperature. I won't be teaching cycling come June thru August because most folks won't show and I wanted the time off to get outside instead...but until then, its tough to get another ride in with teaching. I just need another 2-3 hours in a day to fit all this training in LOL

stevebradley - 2011-04-04 10:31 PM ELLEN again - I'm not sure I mentioned this before, but it's not so much that you need a different wheel for the trainer, as it is to have designated tires for trainer usage. however, havcing an extra wheel is always useful, just in case. For me that "just in case" has involved two (or is it three?) episodes of snapping a spoke during a ride (once during a race...arrrggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!) . At the very least this involves a visit to a bike shop to have a new spoke installed and the whole wheel "trued", while at the very most it involves sending the wheel back to the manufacturer to have it done because it is a very arcane system they use to attach the spokes. (This happened to me with my first set of Hed race wheels.) So, having an extra wheel (or two? three?) never hurts, except the wallet and the budget!

You can learn to replace 1 or 2 spokes if they break, the old school method involved carrying a couple extra in the seat tube, taped together and a spoke wrench in the seat bag. That works with regular spoked wheels 3 cross, 2 cross whatever...other wheels not.

I built a pair of wheels a long time ago for another bike but am still riding one of them on my Litespeed

............and just when I had a question

Have a great getaway!

I actually do have a question. This is for anyone and for Steve when he gets back. I'm following the BT 20 week HIM plan and I'm on week 6. Most of the weeks have a long run Saturday and a long bike Sunday or the other way around. Is that to work on building up overall endurance or is it designed for working people who don't have the time during the week for the longer workouts? I moved things around this week and did the long run today because I want to have good energy for the long bike this week and when I do them back to back, something always suffers. If it's to build overall endurance I guess I'm going to have to deal.

Johanne

Is it this one? http://beginnertriathlete.com/Scott%20Herrick/halfim/Week06.pdf

Good Morning Everyone,

Question about the Gold and Silver plans again.  I was looking at cant rally figure out what is the best plan to get.  I did see that silver has minutes only vs gold has detailed plans.  Does anyone know what they mean by detail plans.  I want to get a plan that has like the swim (swim Xtimes doing this, and then xtimes doing this and so on) not just swim 45min.  I created my plan that im using off a free one and it only gave minutes but it did not tell me what to do in those minutes.  So my training has been Run Xmin, Swim xmin and Bike Xmin, but I dont do any drills because I dont know what drills to do and how long to do them.  Maybe that is why my numbers are not increasing.  Also once you pick a plan, I see where Ellen and Johanne talked about moving things around during the week.  Do you actually move the plan in BT or do you just make a mental note that you switched days.  Last question I hear yall talk about taper during race week.  In the plan do you put the races you are having during the year and it works around those races.  The plan I have on excel does not taper during the races, so I just lower the volume of the wrkout that week, but I dont know if Im lowering it enough or to much.  Any suggestions will be great.  Have a great day.

George,

I use the 20 week half iron plan (same as Johanne). However she seems to be much more dedicated to the plan than I.  She posed some very good questions regarding the positioning of workouts within a single week. I'm sure Steve can speak to that.

As for moving things around it is easy. You just click and drag.  It works quite well.  My pool is not open on Sundays so i can't swim then.  I also can't do long stuff during the week so I generally move workouts to Staurday and Sunday to load up on the weekend.

I did the gold plan because it was not very expensive and it is more flexible. I also want to support the site since I get a lot of information here (and I was introduced to the Mojoistas).  I went to a multisport expo and Beginner Tri was there so I asked the person at the booth what the best way to use the site was.  He had me walk around the table, sit down. log in and he showed me how to log workouts etc.  Very nice. It turned out to be Marmadaddy, one of the developers.

I think their plans are probably as good as any. Again, Steve has looked at the plan and he is the expert.

Let us know what you decide.

Ellen