Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 143)

@Andrew:  I'd say more like a B+ - that's a lot of stuff in a week.

@Gretchen:  we're getting warm January gloom here, too.  It's been sunny for a total of three hours in the last nine days. 

Solid week for me, considering fighting off a cold. 

2x swim, 3300 yards
5x bike, 3 1/2 hours, 70 or so miles
2x "run", 5 miles at about average 14' pace, but had some steeper hills so HR tracked like a run
5x strength/core, 3 hours total

Looking at the race results that I deferred, either it was a super slow field or conditions must have been really bad in the water - top swimmers were around 14 minutes and 17-flat would have led my age group (as would have an average bike speed and a decent 5K, so I have no idea what was going on down there).  Also for Ironman Maryland the previous weekend the runners had to run through over a foot of water in some spots the tide flooding was so high. 

@Nathalie:  I doubt this little site with almost no traffic gathers many lurker eyeballs, and besides I'm a bot anyway.    I still use the site for my workouts and self-blogging as well, and if someone random person wants to hear me complain about the weather so be it.  I agree we do need to be careful about what we share publicly - I share very little on social media, including here. 

A little quiet for me this week too as I kinda-sorta taper for Sunday's bike leg.  I have a hard 45 minute ride at lunch today after a couple of good days of training.  My foot finally feels close to normal and I'm running a little.

The Orioles (baseball team for you non-'Mericans) flamed out spectacularly for the 4th time in a row in playoffs (now have lost ten straight games).  Back to football.  And Swedish hockey - I see we have a game tonight - go Lakers!!!

Most of those were me, re-reading your report so I learn how to do transitions correctly. 

Some of the recent reports have been viewed several hundred times - I think there are still hundreds of old BTers that just lurk now with all the forum traffic all but gone.  I know there are at least 20-30 people who regularly show up in the BT Blogger.  This site once had several thousand users at one time - I'm sure a few still linger and reading race reports is fun.  Race results are all public anyway, at least here in the U.S., and those have way more personal information than anything we post here on BT. 

@Gretchen...6 AM Masters in cold water is bad enough (but like you said just fine once you get rolling), but sitting while people drone on and on...ugh.

@Andrew...ugh sick season - hopefully over soon for you and we're just heading into it.  I have a feeling it will not be good cold-wise around here this year.

Without getting into the politics of it (because somehow in the US it became political), are any of you getting a COVID booster this fall?  My doctor told me don't bother last year as it really didn't do much for healthy people, but this year's variant seems to be a jerk so I'm on the fence. 

Race day tomorrow...hopefully a perfect taper with a 25 minute punchy ride around the neighborhood on the race wheels.  My rear valve extender is giving me fits but my daughter and I force fed it air to get enough for racing.  Anywhere from 80-95 psi is fine for me with my 28 tires...some of the road is a tad rough so probably fine a little low anyway. 

My daughter is wearing her pool race suit tomorrow (knee-skin) LOL.  I told her if she's like 8th out of the water she's fired.   

Bike plan is to hold like 85% FTP (my real one, not the imaginary one I pretend to have) on the first 7 flat miles, ride hard the mile uphill, then get back to 85% the next two miles before it gets a little technical and I just need to hammer out of the turns and redline it for 10-12 minutes.  Oh and if anyone passes me get mad and hold their pace regardless off The Plan. 

EDITED TO FIX LIKE 50 TYPOS - good grief I'm old and getting sloppy fast-typing.