kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 99)

If you have hills (and those hills get your HR up) those work as effective intervals. 

THAT says it all!

Yep.  Banned in several countries due to the fact their GMO crap is dangerous, but we protect them here.  Go figure.  BTW they grow 90+% of the soy sold in the US.  DO NOT EAT SOY, don't take soy protein powders, no soy period unless it's fermented.

Thank you for posting about this!  I had not heard about it until you posted.  There is so much going on that it is hard to keep up with.  I just read about it, and it is very disconcerting and scarey that this was slipped in. I use to eat some soy products then stopped.  Is edame bad, too?  I eat it occasionally.

They're soy beans in the pod.  I'd assume so.  I'd also imagine that a snack of soy beans here and there isn't going to be a problem. 

morning everyone!  

I had a good training day Thursday.  Got called into the hospital between 3am to 8 am but then was done for the day work wise. I slept 2 hours and then got my first ride outside... yippee... followed by run... followed by bikram yoga.  Kids were still out of town with the hubby and was why I had total-guilt-free-time .  

A pretty ideal day: I feel so blessed and lucky to have the health for this kind of day!

Happy Easter all. Hope you have fun with your families today. I managed to get in 2 of the 3 hours I planned on the trainer this morning before the kids got up. I kind of figured that was going to happen so I went pretty hard so I'm happy with the effort and the family is more important than the hobby.

Funny perspective story. This guy Pat I'm friends with is a really good triathlete. He did Oceanside in 4:54 last year and that's a tough corse. 48 minutes better than my fastest last year. So another friend was doing it yesterday and I was monitoring his results and Andy Potts did the event and finished in 3:49!!!!! There's always a bigger fish. Stories like that keep me focused on myself and remembering that's who I'm competing with.

March is done. Pretty happy where I'm at.

My March mileage.  And I missed a weekend due to Quinn's birth.  Not too shabby.

Happy Easter everyone.

Crazy weekend for me.  Last big training weekend before Galveston and yesterday was the 1/4 Marathon.  Looks like we raised over $6000 for the Blazeman Foundation this year bringing the total donation to well over $30,000. 

Phew!!

Been off the grid for the week. I had a 3x15 run test last week. It did not go well. Unbeknownst to me at the time, it was the abrupt onset of a stomach bug that lingered throughout the week. As a result, I was in bed early this week. I had also been worried about my run times - that I had regressed somehow. But, I did a 5k yesterday and I did 22.28 (7:14 pace). Very happy with it. So, I am chalking up my run test to the stomach flu.

March

Bike - 18:44

Run 12:14

Swim 11:24

Strength 3:14

So I feel as if I am making gains all around. Shaved a minute off my 500 swim and bike is getting stronger. Am tired and pleased. 

That's just great! Ur awesome

As my boy Toby just posted on FB: "Taper week has two main goals. 1) Try not to stab anyone. 2) Keep the tapertantrums to a minimum.  I don't know if I'll accomplish either one."

1600 of fist drills in the books.  It's amazing how short that feels these days.

1:15 on the trainer and a 10.05 mile run in the books. The run was the first time I've averaged under 9-minute miles for 10+ miles where none of the mile had an average heart rate of 150 or greater and my max heart rate never hit 160 and minus the first mile all the miles were sub-9 and the course was not flat.

With my recent gains I'm trying to reel in my grandiose expectations for my races that my ego is writing checks for and hoping my body can cash them, LOL.

Still did my core work after the run.

That is great Scott!!

What do you do for your core work?

My staples are hyper-extensions, leg raises (where your back is against a pad and so are your arms and you're straight up and elevated), plank, side plank, bridge, crab, a modified warrior pose where one leg is straight back and the opposite arm straightforward parallel to your body, running balance drills on a core board, mini band side raises, mini band walks and this is the best one I own a thigh master and do hip abductor squeezes!!! LOL Suzanne Summers should be so proud. If you told me in the 20's I'd be doing that I'd laugh and call you a liar. My wife loves dropping that one to people we know but I don't care. I swear it works. I also do some side raises and extension drills on my roller to start the day.

Much better March than February for me. 

Your volume is ridiculous BTW

X2. That is some serious time on the trainer.