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Great to see you back at it Matt, I noticed your reappearance on Strava.  

Threshold trainer ride on Saturday and a 90 minute run on Sunday for me.  If I had been smart I would have done them in the opposite order as Saturday had temps above freezing while Sunday was a couple of degrees below and windy.  Made for a bit of a miserable final 6k into the wind on the return home. 

Salty, can't wait to hear about the marathon!

I'll probably enter it for fun but no chance of 100/100.  I think I got somewhere around 80 last year and would expect something similar this year depending on how cooperative the weather is.

Oh yeah, in fact I am feeling that whole distance pain right now But it's interesting that it's a little different than the soreness I experience from running fast reps or whatever. 

In general though, I think if you are really gradual about upping distance (and not trying to increase speed as well) you can keep that pain to a minimum.

Thank you!!!

Yes, I am SO happy! It is the first time I have successfully executed a marathon. I can't wait to build up my speed! 

Of course I will write a RR soon and fill you in on the details. I learned a lot and would love to share that.

I think it's an interesting challenge as well, but is also not for me. I might end up accomplishing it on my own. It's just with all the other things I'm trying to learn and incorporate, adding in the minimums for this could get in the way more than help. I already have a high run frequency. What I've been working on is getting in more and better rest. Having an easier day that's very easy. This part in particular is likely to be below the 30' min and I need the freedom to do that. I have a history plugging away too much on these days to make such goals. While I have improved, I think such goals and mindsets have kept me from gaining as much as I could have otherwise. I'm hardly most people though, and this is still a rather useful training tool for many. They need to learn how to do this.

Yeah, I like some of these types of challenges as it helps you make habit of training every day. However, I think some people get a little too committed to the streak though and end up ignoring their body and running when they really shouldn't, just to keep a streak alive.

I finally tested out my foot (stress fracture of sesamoid of big toe about 7 weeks ago) on the treadmill with a couple of 15-20 min sessions and things seem to be fine.  It will be nice getting running back on to the weekly training schedule.  In the interim I did manage to get to the pool a lot more and finally got around to using my GoPro to take some stroke analysis video for use by Jorge using me as an example so that I can do the same with my athletes.  I was pleased with the quality of the GoPro video.   If someone wants to post a hotlink to MP4 video here what would be the easiest way to do it?  Google drive?

I usually upload to Youtube but set the privacy so that you can only see it if you have the direct link.  I had a really hard time with the Google drive videos that Fred posted - it seemed like every time I went back it would fully reload it instead of using a cached version.  My internet connection sucks too bad to be able to view something like that.

The difficulties of outdoor riding in Hawaii this time of year...  

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This makes no sense. Why don't you jump it or go around?

Definitely need to work on the bunnyhop

Yeah, the 30 runs in 30 days one here is a great start for people trying to do this sort of thing. Too bad it morphed into making the biggest streak possible and has too many people at like 500 -700+ kind of dominating the discussion. I mean, good for them in going that long, but it's lost sight of the original goal of that challenge and I'm guessing may intimidate some of the more shy/quiet people from doing it.

Thankfully, they usually put these barriers right after a corner, and on an uphill so I don't even get tempted to try.  Not to say that others haven't done it, but I kind of like my teeth they way they are.

Is there an active lava flow just off camera?

OK, here goes my first YouTube upload attempt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gzr69DUhJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEl9mQEoWLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y1Ift-J5Ww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCof3AO7wnM

These all should have the title "OMG I never dreamed I looked that bad".  Some of the initial input is that I definitely need to work on balance and rotation before I even start working on my pull and kick.  Head slightly up (carryover from sighting in races I think) drops the hips, need to level things out instead of swimming uphill, stop the serpentine motions (seen from overhead) and keep my shoulders, hips and feet within a tighter cyclinder, initiate rotation from hips rather than when I take a breath, and the embarassingly exaggerated scissors-kick.....lots of stuff to work on.  Quest for 1:05 is on.

Originally posted by BrotherTri

Originally posted by Jason N

The difficulties of outdoor riding in Hawaii this time of year...  

 

Something is wrong with the photo................. you are carrying your bike

Something is wrong when the better strategy in a bike race is to get off the bike.