SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 94)

Trevor, cut the tease. Give us the details!

Everyone: Amazon has a deal on wetsuits today if you are in the market. I do not know anything more than what they post. Not  even if this is a goos deal. A lot of local store have a policy of matching low prices if you have a printed price. Well these can be printed and then you could bring it in, try the suit on and match the price knowing the suit fit.

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Doug

There went my intentions of being productive at work this morning.....all these great races to read about.  I can't believe all the podium finishers.  Well, yest I can, OUR GROUP ROCKS!!!!

BTW,  make sure you read Sarah's RR.  She is the first one I read and it was in unbelievable weather conditions. What an inspiration!!!

I will post a RR later, but my first tri went well.  It was 750m, 13.8, 3.1 and i finished in 1:30:31, which was 13/24 of my age group.  Great first experience and I am looking forward to improving on all of my times. 

RR is up.  Read if you want some good humor.  I'm off to the pool to start improving upon one of my shortcomings!

Looking forward to reading all of the other RRs soon, right guys?

Suzy

A HUGE congrats to all this weekend... I have spent the last couple hours reading everything!! Awesome all the way around...

Sarah-- Your a superfreak in those conditions!  Congrats
Doug-- Congrats on the race!  In regards to your 1/2 Ironman... If you sign up for it, YOU WILL change your training, and it will be fine.  You can do it, and do well.  It is just hard for you to imagine now, because your training is a little different.
Suzy-- Are you a sandbagger in your workout logs??? You swim (your entire race actually) was AWESOME! Congrats on 1st place.... That doesn't suck!
Tony-- Glad your back held up, and you had a good race.
Andy-- 100k ride?!   Hat's off to ya!
Kim-- I am not sure if anyone realizes this, but 16 MINUTES OFF AND OLYMPIC DISTANCE IS INSANE!!!! Awesome job!  If I could do that in an 1/2 Iron I would be stoked!
Rob-- Good race this weekend... Again like previous comments to Kim 3 minutes is some quick... Would you say that was mainly from your improvement in running?
Adam-- Congrats on your 1st race!  You ARE A TRIATHLETE!
Trevor-- Mr. Barney BadA$$.... Stop dangling the carrot and tell us what happen this weekend?

Izzy--- Not sure how often you are getting into OW, but PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!!  Tell yourself it is just like any other time in the pool.  Stay in your rythm, count your strokes, count your breath, stay on feet and try to stay relaxed (I know easy to say).  Suzy is right.... Once you hit the bike time to recover, focus, and settle in... If you start out of the gates slow FINE, you will make it up later.  Hang in there.

My weekend was pretty uneventful... Played REALLY bad golf Saturday, drank way too much Friday (nice "TAPER!!"), and slept all day Saturday afternoon.  Sunday went out for a ride, had a really nice ride, until we were almost to the parking lot!! FRICKIN' CARS UGH!!!  We were riding 2 abreast (4 of us total) and I was on the inside, and my buddy was next to me.  A car if front of us (of to the ride) can up pretty quickly to the stop sign to make a left stops way over the white lane and 1/2 way in the road.  My buddy to my left thought she was coming out, and he tried to bale out to the right (and go down the street she came from).  Well I was on the right side!! He runs into me, and I lean into him, he then tries to lean back to the left and drops himself down, and during this whole thing I had locked up my brakes (tires pumped to 120PSI) and my rear tire EXPLODES, and sends my back end swinging around.  Since I had managed to unclip one foot I didn't go down (AMEN FOR previous MTN BIKING SKILLS, this really helps my biking skills-Not speed---HANDLING).  Then the dumb BIT@@ drives round around us.. DOESN'T EVEN ASK IF WE ARE OK..... So Frustrating... What a way to end day....





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Congrats to both Trevor and Adam~  Trevor on the PODIUM!  Adam on completing your first tri.  I can't wait to read both RR. 

I am getting jealous of everyone who is racing!  I am just doing that training stuff!!!  I feel like a little kid saying" I want to race, please, please!"

RR for your viewing pleasure....

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=163022

Damn Steve...that sucks.  Are you OK?  Hows your friend?

A few comments here.....
Kim- Seinfeld --"Its Shrinkage I tell you" -- and you--great swim!

Andy - Corner Gas - I am amazed you know of this show. It just finished its run on TV after 6 years I think.

Sarah- It gets better!! We were in Edmonton on Friday night, but I had heard it was snowing on Saturday morning down in Calgary and though of you. 2 flats, and now crap weather you're a trooper.

Everyone else--- Lunch today will be reading everyone's RR!!! We had an active bunch this weekend.

I loved my race this weekend. The weather was crappy(not Sarah weather crappy, but cold and windy) I went for a swim on Saturday afternoon to get used to the OWS. Took 10 minutes to get climatized to it, but after that it didn't feel that cold(lows 50'sF) The first swim was out to one bouy and back. The second time I was going to go the one bouy and back again, I thought I sighted myself great but ended up going way over to the other bouy. That was crazy!! I was more aware on Sunday for sure.
Pulled a Tracy on Saturday and Sunday which warms it up nicely. A guy got pulled from the water from the Oly without a wetuit. Not sure what he was thinking!

Its funny....I've been chatting with people here at work today about the race. They were all saying things like " Are you crazy?"  or " I could never get in water that cold",etc,etc.  
One thing I am really starting to realize about myself is that I am tougher than I ever thought I could be. That is what makes people like us unique. We can push through the pain.  I am starting to see that alot times that pain is just mental pain. I had a bit of an epiphany this weekend as well. This is something that really carries over into our everyday lifes.
We are stronger than we give ourselves credit for. We realize the pain is short term. I used to quit when things got tough. Now, I realize that pain is only for another 2kms(figuratively speaking)
Why would I swim in water that cold? Why not? is starting to become my answer!


Edited by TrevorC 2009-06-08 11:15 AM

Congratulations, Doug! That is awesome!!!

Congrats, Suzy! Great time!!! Sounds like it was a rough day weather wise, but I'm glad it didn't rain on you. Can't wait to read the race report!

I am good, bike is good... (there is a small scratch from my friends pedal, but very minor)... My friend has some pretty good road rash on his upper leg, calve, and shoulder.... I talked to him today, and he is feeling fine..

Luckily my wife was at the tri shop picking up nutrition for this weekend, so she was able to get me a back tire pretty quickly (although the race wheels will go on tomorrow)....

Congratulations Kim!!! Fantastic!!!

Great job on the ride, Andy!!!

Awesome 5k, Janet!

Congratulations, Rob! ! A 3 minute improvement is awesome!

Nice job getting it done Izzy! x2 on Suzy's advice.

Congrats on the podium Trevor!

Adam- Congratulations Triathlete!!!

Glad you are all OK Steve!

I didn't race this weekend. When we got to Plains, MT it was pouring rain, and since I wasn't preregistered and a large portion of the course was dirt trails I decided it wasn't worth the risk of injury a week before Boise. So, instead we went to Hot Springs and soaked... great way to spend the day! Now I'm just trying to stay calm waiting for this weekend

I'm wondering if it would be possible to extend our virtual tri a few days? I don't think I'll be able to get a quick 5k in before Boise without compromising my taper, and the 14th is just the day after, so it probably won't happen then. I know we already extended it quite a bit, so if not I'll just take the quickest 5k run I've done in training since we started this and enter it on the spreadsheet (it'll be slow though).

Roni, just sprint the 1st 5k of Boise, and log it! !! Isn't that the game plan anyways??? !

That would also be a great cool down! 5k sprint the next day, before a nice long drive!

I need input from the group in two areas:

1. I have a road bike and while I used the drops a lot yesterday, I am wondering if it is worth getting aerobars installed? I want to be fast......  Will it take me very long to get used to them? i don't want to blow a lot of time getting up to speed given we are in the middle of the season. will my road geometry easily transfer to a tri set up?

2. Talk to me about how to ingest calories on the bike?  I swear anything I take down gives me stomach issues. My fav beverage, Infinit failed me yesterday and I barely drank anything. Gels make me want to puke, Heed and Perpetum are awful and Gatorade contains HFCS and I never do that. Do you think it is possible to take in something like Carb Pro which is straight carbs and use electrolyte tabs like Success or Endurolytes to supplement the sodium, etc?  

Suzy

Suzy:

I have nothing for you on item 2, but I can speak to item 1. Until this year I rode only road bikes. I now have a tri bike. I am getting more used to the aerobars every day. The bike geometry is different from road to bike. While it will take some miles (I am still in this phase0 to get completely comfortable in the tri-bike aero position, it will come with time. I might suggest an intermediate stp, if you have not done this already. Get a set of clip on aerobars and readust your seat height and position accordingly. Hopefully you have a preferred LBS can can help with the fit.

In this way you can get used to being more aero and then later get some dedicated aero bars. Bear in mind two things: 1 you will ahve to get used to the shifters and brakes beingin different places, and 2 aero bars do not have drops. The latter was hardest for me as I am used to riding in the drops and leaning into the turns from them.

Doug

P.S. If you do decide to go the full aerobar route I have a set of brand new still in their wrapper Bontrager XXX Lite aerobars. I put them up for sale here, but only had one bite. ITehy go for $699. I was asking $450. Seeing as I get so much from SWBKRUNMG, they're yours if you want them for $325 + shipping.

People around me are wondering why I just laughed out loud. That was good Andy!

I will let you know about the aerobars.  I was all set to buy a custom carbon Seven tri bike a few months ago.  Money was put down.  One month later I get the call no one wants, " we cannot make this bike small enough for you".  I was stuck which is why I am still riding my custom Seven road bike.  I do have a great mechanic who can fit aerobars to my road bike, but I have been hesitant because of the geometry issues and the time it will take to get used to them.  I'll talk to him to see what he has to say. 

Suzy

No problem. Out of curiousity, what size road bike frame ar you riding?

Suzy:

I have a question for you. You make reference to your different heart rate zones. How did you determine your numbers? How often do you retest those numbers? I know you have a CT. Did you use that?

I just got a great deal on a CT Pro 8001 for $425. I have to set it up. Any tips? Any add ons you particularly like? Software?

Anyone else feel free to jump in?

Doug