Ironman Texas (Page 93)

LOL!That's hilarious!

"but I haven't been in zone 3 in 17 days!"

Damn! More the reason for me to put off cutting the yard tomorrow then.  I was thinking about it today, but left it alone.  This is enough reason for me to let it go tomorrow again.

Handling a lawn mower, weed eater, shrub trimmer and blower....hmmmm.. to many possibilities.

Your usual suspects are dangerous. However, what about things like: holes/uneven ground, bees, poison ivy, allergies. dehydration, toomuchwalking/workingonyourmesseduphip, something flying up from the mower or weed eater and scratching your cornea...SO MANY THINGS! 

Stay on the couch!

My wife thought that, since I wouldn't be spending all day yesterday on the bike, it would be a good day to have 20-yds of mulch delivered. I can confirm that 20-yds is a huge pile. I told here that work like that was not in my taper plan. She told me, "HTFU....that mulch isn't going to spead itself!" Took me 8-1/2 hours of shovel/wheel barrow time to get it all spread. If I had to work like that for a living, there's no way I'd be able to maintain my figure!

M*ther F8@3ers Residence Inn. I am FED UP with them. About to cancel completely.

First after bumping my TWO rooms to the other hotel (that were prepaid), I "negotiated" with them in March to let me keep one room. Now I get the confirmation email and they have me checking out on Saturday instead of Sunday. Of course I have the original email confirming my TWO rooms checking out on Sunday. 

I am LIVID. Absolutely livid. I called the front desk and they are checking into it and into who changed it. I told her the name of the person, the General Manager. I want to cancel completely, but I know they'll fill the room anyway, it won't hurt them a bit. 

What do I do? Yelling at the front desk person won't help, it wasn't her fault. 

GGGRRRRR>

This is happening way to much from what I have been seeing on this thread.  I am going to check my damn reservation at the Woodlands Restort, just to make sure.  Can they really just do this to so many people?  It's really ridiculous.

Went a bit against the grain today.  Did a short 30.60 mile ride on the wheels just to see at what pace I can handle now, without to much pain.  I didn't want to just start blind on race day.  I managed without any real pain, this is a pace I can hold pretty comfortable.  But now my intake will be thrown off.  I trained at higher speeds, but am adjusting. 

Any advice as to dropping intake according to the new rate of speed and HR, or stick with my original?

30.60 mile ride in 1hr 42min - 18mph average - this was very, very comfortable and easy, average HR was 116 and I never once broke 123, that was my max going into serious headwind.

I was orginally training/preparing for 20mph + average and haveing the bike done in around 5:30 - 5:45 hrs.  But that was then.  Run I will play by ear when it comes, I am not even going to try that.

Yeah pre-injury I was pushing between 20-22 mph average and HR was between 130 - 160.  Looking back at my Garmin logs, average HR would land around 135 - 137.  That was my range I was planning on staying in.  I pretty much  stayed in that range through out training and spiked sometimes into 166, but that was pushing 24mph at that point.  I was throwing in some stints at that speed. 

But today at 18mph and averaging 116 with HR and spiking at the most 123, felt way, way  easy, there were times that HR was 108 - 112 for a while.  Very little discomfort with the injury, but I didn't want to push it.  I may push at the race a bit more, but didnt want to today, just in case. 

I think I'll carry the nutrition as in training in case I open it up and get back to the plan, I'll gauge it by pain.  That is the only thing holding my pace back. 

Damn I cant wait till next weekend! 

NICE!!!  Well done!   I dominated the formal dinning room table, nothing but TRI gear.  Actually I took the whole darn room.  My bike is in there on the bike mechanic stand, oil, lube, tool kit towels the whole shop.  It will be there this whole week, I want it to rest and hydrate, too hot in the garage, it needs to recover and taper as well.

Dont take how you feel right now as an indicator for adjusting your race plan. Your 5 days out and feeling strong from the taper. Making adjustments due to the injury and making adjustments based on feeling strong are two different things. Dont let the taper lure you into a trap....a trap that will leave you on the side of the marathon course. 

Coming in with the injury you need to be conservative and plan accordingly. If your original plan was built on a healthy knee, and your knee is not healthy.....why try and execute the original. 

Its a long day and you will come to many forks in the road. To perform well you must have a road map, but also the mindset and lack of ego to deviate when needed. 

Sounds to me like you need to plan on being in the saddle a bit longer and be OK with that!

Just my two cents.

Agree!  Original plan was with all pistons firing.  After all, what's another hour and change more in the saddle, like you said, it's going to be a looong one anyways.  Good luck to everyone! 

Your solid Will!  I believe you are going to do better than you think.  Your freash after the rides bro.  Can't wait to get after it!

I agree with andrew, ride as you trained. If pain creeps in, back it down to pain-free if possible.