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 2011-04-15 12:56 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Master  2236    Denison Texas |  Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSEDI have been issued my first swim cap-40+ wave is green, number 229 |
| 2011-04-15 3:10 PM in reply to: #3448879 |
Expert 1051 San Jose | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Av8rTx - 2011-04-15 10:56 AM I have been issued my first swim cap-40+ wave is green, number 229 Yea! Have a great race! |
| 2011-04-15 3:17 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Extreme Veteran 371 Mobile | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Good luck Jeff on your race. I guess I will not find out what my number is until tomorrow, I hope I get a cool color like Hot Pink. I was going to go get my race package today but my son's game is at 5:45 and will not be over until 7pm which is the closing of getting packages today. They open again at 6am and race starts at 7:30am, so i plan to be there about 5:45am. Well I set my self a goal of 1 hour and 12minutes. Ha ha that is how long it will take for the swim.. Good luck to anyone else that has a race this weekend. |
I'm gonna shoot for 2 Hours or less.. ( 15 minutes for the 440yd swim, 1 hour for 17mile bike and 45minutes for the 4 mile run). That is the goal and we will see how it goes. | 2011-04-15 3:28 PM in reply to: #3449179 |
Champion 10618  | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Hey! Nice to have a few of you back! I am back myself from a day in the city -- Yoga, A.R.T., and a swim. I am now off on a run, but wull return in a couple of hours. |
| 2011-04-15 3:32 PM in reply to: #3449179 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED GEORGE - Gotta run (literally), but I'll just say be ac careful what you wish for. Three times I have been in an all-male wave that was bestowed with hot-pink caps. First time it happened, the race announcer made a big deal of all of us 50+ males, who he said were "fetching". I thought it was quite amusing, but many of my brethren didn't take to kindly to it. The plus of having a hot-pink swim cap is that it is great for visibility on open-water swims. So, I actually use mine beyond the one-time race setting. And I can't help but wonder if people who see me think I am, um, fetching!  Edited by stevebradley 2011-04-15 5:54 PM |
| 2011-04-15 3:51 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Master 2236 Denison Texas | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Some musings and questions: Will this thing get easier after it has been wet? (wetsuit) 5 weeks till my A race in May. I am all into this run every day in April thing I started and I think I am noticing improvements. I'm going to make a concerted effort to get 4 rides a week at minimum. How about a plan for May 1 to May 22 (race day)? I visualize reducing to 5 runs a week and shortening my long run to about 8, sharpening up my 10k pace, would like to get it under 1 hour ('bout 1:08 best now). And adding at least one 1 mile OWS. I guess shorten but intensify my long rides a bit and lengthen the brick runs. I use ear plugs during pool swims because I find I get a strange dizzy feeling between sets without them. I haven't bothered during the pool swims at the 2 tri's though and didn't notice anything but a brief "out of body" moment running to T-1 last time. I am assuming I can skip them this weekend-600 yards OWS, but in May for the Oly-what say you? |
| 2011-04-15 4:56 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Veteran 663 Central Point | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Jeff and George, good luck in your races. I'll be waiting to hear how they went on Monday. |
| 2011-04-15 5:14 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Veteran 283 New York | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Jeff and George -- good luck in your races! Looks like my July race was just cancelled... they "merged" it with a race in August... looks like I need to find another race for that month... |
| 2011-04-15 7:16 PM in reply to: #3448122 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED JEFF - The stuff to avoid is anything that is petroleum-based, which includes Vaseline. Vaseline eats neoprene for dinner. Most wetsuits gain some degree of suppleness with increased wear. Some of the more sticky-tight places get looser, and within about 10-15 uses you should (maybe, possibly, conceivably....) find it easier to remove. Getting it on is weather- and sweat-dependent. As you have maybe noticed already, wrestling into it gets more difficult the more you sweat, and a bad-case scenario is when a deluge hits a race site before people have donned their wetsuits. The language! Tsk-tsk! I always wear my tri top under my wetsuit at races (and anytime I use the wetsuit, in fact), as getting into a tight-fitting top when wet is just about as difficult as getting into the wetsuit. Sure, one can take the time to dry off just about completely, but that's alotta time eaten up in T1. So, I just stay wet, and seeing as how I ride (and run, too) sockless, what I slip into my cleats are a pair of wet and often sandy feet. But the sand shawls away over the course of the ride, and I have never been bugged by sandy cycling shoes. I also wear my bib, attached to my race belt, under my wetsuit. This saves time, but often wreaks havoc on the bib before the bike has begun. The photo of me here is form the end of a n half-iron, and you can see that the bib is in tatters. Sometimes, for poorly-made bibs, much of the number wears off due to water and wetsuit-rubbing, so those are races in which I have to look manually for photos of me, as nothing is distinguishable to the photographers. But it saves time, not having to diddle with the belt and bib in T1 and T2!!! Many races don't require the bib during the bike, especially if there is a number that is affixed to the bike's frame. But because I wear mine during the swim anyhow, it's with mne for the duration. |
| 2011-04-15 7:30 PM in reply to: #3449272 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED JEFF again - So it's King Tut on Sunday, eh? And where in McKinney did THAT name come from?? As for the ear plugs, unless it bothers you to wear them, you maybe should this weekend? This kind of goes under the category of "don't try anything new on race day", except the reverse -- don't get rid of something that seems to work for you. Now, if in fact the ear plugs DO bug you, then for the distance of King Tut's swim it might be worth it to see how you do without them. And then if that goes well, you can try to wean yourself further from them for your swims leading up to K.C. But, I have seen many, many people duly plugged at races, so if you wear them on Sunday or at anytime in the future, you'll have lots of company. The "out-of-body" moment you experienced is very common, and is exacerbated by any sort of chop, or even jostling toards the end of the swim as people are struggling to get out of the water when still wearing their "sea-legs". A thought here is to NOT try to stand until your fingers clearly touch the bottom for two or three strokes on each side. It is very tempting to stand once the bottom looks to be close, but often it is still knee- to thigh-high, and trying to wade rapidly through water that deep is a real drain on one's energy. In many a race have I gained ground at the end of the swim, freestyling past people who got upright and vertical far too early and seem to be plodding along in extra slow-motion. So....are you suitably psyched??? Edited by stevebradley 2011-04-15 7:31 PM |
| 2011-04-15 7:39 PM in reply to: #3449421 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED ALEX - So no women's tri in Philly, then? Any reason given? The only thing I can think of is that it wasn't selling well, but that doesn't make sense, given how popular female-only races are. Well, I gues sit could also be a problem with road permits and such, especially if it is actually run in a true urban part of Philly. Anyhow, I will put on my thinking cap and see what I can conjure up for tyou at about that time. One thought is the Pat Griskus sprint, in west-central CT, maybe out of Quassy amusement park. In recent years it has been a few days before Musselman, which in recent years has been ~Junly 10. So, hat would put P.G. on about the 7th or 8th. The deal with it is that it is a weekday evening, or at least has been for years. It is very popular, as is its longer sib, an oly that occurs in mid-June. I think the website for both races is www.patgriskustri.com, but a googling should turn it up right away. Later on I will ferret it out myself and see if I'm right about the date and weekday evening occurrence. To get to Quassy for you would be about an hour, maybe? Lots closer than Philly, anyhow! |
| 2011-04-15 7:43 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Master 2236 Denison Texas | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED I am appropriately psyched, another little cold front rolled over us, I am a bit tired of cold starts but I know the real heat is coming and I will grow tired of that by Thanksgiving. A one hour drive home and I'll play with the wetsuit a few more times tonight |
| 2011-04-15 7:46 PM in reply to: #3448503 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED JOHANNE - What a great mom you are. Tell your daughter that I think she owes you big time, for a long time! A Sharks fan, eh? I'm of two minds about them. I was always a Joe Thornton fan and hated to see Boston get rid of him. DUMB!!!!! On the other hand, I live near Ottawa where Danny Heatley is still pretty much reviled, so it's hard to approve of them entirely with D.H. on the team. But if you are a big Shraks fan, I will start thinking more positively about them. As for my Bruins, it hurt on many different levels, them losing 2-0 to blankety-blank-blank Montreal. GRRRR! Fiannly, well done on squeezing in a swi so early in the morning on a day that loomed very large. You get 35 bonus points for such exemplary commitment! (Don't redeem them all in one place, though.) |
| 2011-04-15 7:56 PM in reply to: #3449272 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED JEFF once more - As for your question about refining your training leading into K.C., what you say sounds good. But, I will think on it a bit more. I can agree completely right now about aiming for at leat one one-mile OWS, seeing as how the listed swim distance for the race is 1640.42 -- which sounds like about a full mile to me (none of that 0.93mile stuff for K.C.!!). Working on speed as opposed to longer distances also makes sense -- especially since you know what it feels like to run more than 10km. I would think that you might not even nned another 10+ run leading into K.C.......although if you were itchin' for one a SINGLE 11 (or 12, I suppose....) miler wouldn't kill you. |
| 2011-04-15 10:25 PM in reply to: #3447774 |
Veteran 233 Spokane | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Av8rTx - 2011-04-14 7:03 PM Ok, the fourth sport of triathlon is not transitions, it's putting on your wetsuit! Amen! And if you don't do it right it will try to drown you. |
| 2011-04-15 10:32 PM in reply to: #3448879 |
Veteran 233 Spokane | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Av8rTx - 2011-04-15 10:56 AM I have been issued my first swim cap-40+ wave is green, number 229 .Very cool! Good luck and take time to enjoy the day |
| 2011-04-15 10:34 PM in reply to: #3449179 |
Veteran 233 Spokane | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED gdsemiller - 2011-04-15 1:17 PM Good luck Jeff on your race. I guess I will not find out what my number is until tomorrow, I hope I get a cool color like Hot Pink. I was going to go get my race package today but my son's game is at 5:45 and will not be over until 7pm which is the closing of getting packages today. They open again at 6am and race starts at 7:30am, so i plan to be there about 5:45am. Well I set my self a goal of 1 hour and 12minutes. Ha ha that is how long it will take for the swim.. Good luck to anyone else that has a race this weekend. Good luck George, enjoy the experience. |
| 2011-04-16 12:13 AM in reply to: #3448879 |
Veteran 487 McFarland, WI | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Av8rTx - 2011-04-15 12:56 PM I have been issued my first swim cap-40+ wave is green, number 229 Have a great race! |
| 2011-04-16 12:18 AM in reply to: #3449272 |
Veteran 487 McFarland, WI | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Av8rTx - 2011-04-15 3:51 PM I use ear plugs during pool swims because I find I get a strange dizzy feeling between sets without them. I haven't bothered during the pool swims at the 2 tri's though and didn't notice anything but a brief "out of body" moment running to T-1 last time. I am assuming I can skip them this weekend-600 yards OWS, but in May for the Oly-what say you? What is the water temperature for your OWS? Cold water can make that dizzy feeling even worse. |
| 2011-04-16 10:30 AM in reply to: #3449792 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED LORI - Amen to that! As if numb extremities weren't enough of a tip-off, I use those dramatic out-of-water-wobblies in October to tell me that it's really not in my best interest to continue OWS. So, with a tear in my eye and an ache in my heart, I pack the wetsuit away until the following May. Alas and woe!! |
| 2011-04-16 1:12 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Veteran 283 New York | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Steve, I have been thinking about replacing the Phili Tri with the Mossman sprint that is held around the same time... (I think that is the one...)
Alex |
| 2011-04-16 4:16 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Master 2236 Denison Texas | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED Test swim done, about 30 minutes. I have no idea how far. I re-discovered, I cannot swim straight..all over the place. I did experience some dizziness out there, the water was cold but not shockingly cold in the wetsuit. It did provide some buoyancy, not allot but enough. I will make Sunday a long swim day for the rest of the season and drop one of the week day swims. That will ease some pressure on my schedule. |
| 2011-04-16 7:55 PM in reply to: #3450199 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED ALEX - If Mossman sprint is on the same general course, as Mossman oly, it should be good. I have been tempted by the latter, but never done it. Lest I be mistaken, it's a swim in L.I. Sound, and the bike and run both entirely within the park; does that sound about right for the sprint? If so, great option for you!! |
| 2011-04-16 8:05 PM in reply to: #3450355 |
Champion 10618 | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED JEFF - When you say "all over the place", do you literally mean sometimes veering to the right and other times veering to the left? I can frequently veer to the left, and in races I breathe to the right. When the swim is counterclockwise, that means I veer towards the buoys. When the swim is clockwise, I veer away from them. Got the gist of both scenarios? On the clockwise swim, it is critical for me to position myself on the outside, so that if it's a veering day for me I am bumping into people on my left side, and that serves to "correct" my veering some. So, if any of the above applies to you, you might want to try a similar veer/bump strategy. How often do you sight? Sighting isn't my problem when I veer, but for people who have a problem with it, it is best to sight frequently -- about every 6 or 8 strokes. Moving on, I am pleased to NOT hear you say something like "I couldn't breathe due to wetsuit constriction!!!!!" This is good! One hint is to hit the water as early as you can, thus allowing that crucial fine layer of water bewteen your suit and your body heta up some. It may seem counter-intuitive in cold water, but the best thing you can do in such cases is gget acclimated AND allow the wetsuit to perform some of its magic, which is heating that water layer. I will "plug" your race shortly (George's, too)! |
| 2011-04-16 8:16 PM in reply to: #3256772 |
Master 2236 Denison Texas | Subject: RE: Got Your Mojo WORKIN'! group - CLOSED I mostly veered left, sometimes right but I have always been breathing to my right. :/ I do admit to not sighting well, I sort of got away from that when I started training in the pool, and working on keeping my head down-fixated on the black stripe. My sighting attempts featured me floundering briefly and swallowing water. However, where I swam there were very few landmarks either close or distant that stood out at surface level. there is a dam, but it is 1 mile long, and the trees all look the same. I am thinking the little neighborhood lake tomorrow will have more features, not to mention people to follow. The boundaries of this swim area are about 100 yards across-maybe more delineated by a floating barrier-like 6" yellow PVC pipe anchored at the corners. I set off to cross toward the end, fell into a nice rhythm-convinced I was swimming straight and was startled by hitting the barrier much sooner than expected...I swam in a large arc ending up basically 90 degrees off course and at the outer boundary. Had I not hit that I guess I might have made a large circle. I did manage to sight off my folding chair on the beach as I swam back in, and mostly stayed on course. The wetsuit came off nice and no breathing issues. Not sure if I should just stop for a moment, get my bearings and resume swimming or master some sort of heads up and spot my landmark technique without breaking my stroke. |
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