Let's Get It Started! with chrisbowers mentor group - CLOSED and ROLLING! (Page 24)

Great job on the bike/run!!!

I found out yesterday that the Air Force is sending me to Mississippi and then Texas for 6 mos this Thursday!!  Holy Crap have I got a lot to do!  I have a bad feeling that my training is going to slack off this week :-(.  Hopefully I can pick it back up once I get settled in next week.

Lessons learned:

1. Don't forget the wet suit has velcro (I needed help to get it off).

2. Work on transitions more.

3. I thought I swam fast because only one person passed me but I can definitely improve on swimming based on my time.

4. I was about the same ranking in each discipline so I have room to get better in them all (which I already knew).

5. Train harder, train smarter, train for longer distances.

Overall, I felt like I went at a pretty fast pace for me but my bike was only 18.0 pace (for 12 miles) and run was 7:58 pace (for 3.1 miles). I had cramps early in the run. I feel like I need to be much faster on the bike but I have a road bike not a tri bike. I know I can be much better on running if I work at it.

Jay, congratulations! That overall result is awesome, which says that there are a lot of fast 45-49 year olds. Way to go.

They had one of those in Little Rock last week... I really wanted to do it, but that was the day of my daughter's college graduation.  It was a toss up, but I went to the graduation instead.

Did a tough brick workout today.  37 mile ride and 6 mile run... temp in the high 80s by the time I was done.  Hardest workout I've done in a while, but I finished it!

Yes, down at Keesler for an Avionics school, then on to Wichita Falls, TX for 4 months for another school. 

Thought I'd give a local duathlon down here a try today.  There was a MTB category so I figured I enter in that one since out west all MTB Tri's and Duathlon's are actually on the dirt and I thought I'd have a better chance of a podium finish.  I came out of the bike portion in first place (out of the MTB's that is), but then got passed by 3ppl on the run.  I thought I was doing good on the run because the first 2 miles i had a 7:03/mile pace and the second 2 miles was a 7:32/mile pace.  Guess that shows me what I need to focus on.  It was a fun race though.

I would love to be able to hold that kind of pace on the run.  Great race... congrats.

I'm hoping to do a sprint tri in a couple of weeks.  It just popped up on the calendar, and I'll actually be in town for it.  I've got some Plantar Fasciitis problems with my right foot that have me grounded temporarily, but I'm hoping to be back running within a couple of days.