Fred D Mentor Group - Part II (Page 104)

What is this "winter" that you speak of? It's 101 degrees here today

Sounds like everyone had a good weekend of training. I am slowly feeling better. My legs feel sooo fresh but my lungs do not, I'm still coughing a lot. I did the usual Sat group ride but only the first half, I cut it short to get to my kid's games (soccer and football) but also because I just wasn't close to 100% yet. Today I checked out a ride at a new tri store in Tempe (Trisports), it was a nice flat, social ride but too far a drive to make it a habit (I usually refuse to drive to go on a ride).  

Looking forward to the new thread

Sally

If you keep posting rides like that, I'm going to need a new bike.  I would appreciate it if you would slow down just a bit!  

Kim,
 
On the side of the Speed/Cadence bike sensor unit there is a white button.  Press it in to reset the unit.  I think you need to hold it for a few seconds.  Also check the wheel magnet alignment and spacing.  That white button should flash red and green alternating as you peddle the bike.  You may have to darken the room to see the red and green lights as the crank arm magnet and wheel magnet pass the sensor.  The lights will tell you if the sensor is working per magnetic field interruption.

Hey guys - hope everyone had a great weekend!  I see all the discussion about the winter thread and I am not sure I'll be in but i know it will be as lively as ever. 

Fred, that's awesome that your bike is so very fast!

As for me, I did a 25k trail race on Saturday. It was a really beautiful setting but i wasn't really prepared for the trails. I still had a great time with my running buddy and we treated it as a low-pressure event.  I felt really good at the beginning but definitely burned myself out a little with all the running and passing people at the start.  I had lots of walks on the second half.  We had fun by stopping at a camp site on the second loop for bacon that was being cooked for breakfast! We chatted with a couple of people - one guy doing the 50k from Petawawa (military), another in a kilt. We sang along as one guy was belting out 'Roxanne' near to the end.  all in all, a great experience. I definitely recommend this race to people in my neck of the woods.  They even do a really tasty catered lunch after the race ...

I guess next year it will be the Canadian 50k championship.

Any news from Elaine and Superfrog ?

Good timing!

I did the swim - 2nd in my AG, not sure about overall. The waves were pretty rough and I had a ton of fun. I spent the rest of the day walking around and watching my friends finish the race. Managed to not just feel sorry for myself

My friend doing her first Half Iron finished in 5:50, and another friend got 6th overall with a 5:17.

And, of course, Lance was there. In a speedo.

Today - I'm going to run 20-30 minutes to test out the knee.

I did the swim - 2nd in my AG, not sure about overall. .

And, of course, Lance was there. In a speedo.

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Thank you for the voice of reason. I'll be ready to bail if necessary.

Nice job on the swim

Was it a zoo with his presence

Did you get his autograph ?

Neil, are you doing any PT?  I know I had to really strengthen my hips to get it to not come back.  And I had to stay with those exercises.  Still took about 6 months total I think to get 100% better but I could at least run through it all with regular ART visits.

It's like Florida 70.3. We were standing there and this big guy with two bags walked by, then Lance, then a guy carrying the bike. He was more watching people to make sure he didn't get mobbed although he was so discrete nobody really noticed him. He did acknowledge people at least.

It's funny. I did my first round of coaching certification this weekend. we had to work on 4 "ethical" scenarios. Two of the 4 became conversations about him. Doping was one, racing in unsanctioned events was the other. Coaching is a lot more that knowing when to taper and handing out workouts.

Hi all. Happy Monday...started ortho this morning...Back to early bedtimes to get up early for rounds...

Just some pictures from my weekend bike ride! Its taper week for me! Yay!. Its getting cold here now...they were talking about the bad "s" word today....they said hopefully we would make it through the next few days without any....I hope so....I don't think it is quite cold enough but I tend to fall asleep and then wake up to a blanket of white stuff sometimes...

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ITBS has to be the most frustrating injury. When I first started getting into tris and running I had ITBS. I tried all the usual stuff and PT, what finally helped was taking a month off and when I started back running I ran no more than 2-3 miles at a time, that would be 4-5 km to you . I really wished I had just taken the month off in the start instead of suffering through it for 6 months.

Hope yours heals quickly! 

I saw an article where he discussed his bike out there:

"I looked at my power meter and halfway through I was at a 331 average and figured I don’t want to go any harder anyways so I’ll stay here and roll the dice on the run."

Ouch.

Good day everyone! Busy day for me, I'll have to get caught up later but I noticed the Part III thread is active now.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=462853&posts=3&start=1

Great job Elaine!

I am spent after today's swim..............

Kim did you see my reply on page 129?

Race report for my last race of the year!

Going to be taking this week off completely (have the week off work and I'll be going round the country with the GF seeing sites we haven't got round to seeing yet) and then it's on to winter maintenance/improve my 5/10k running times mode.