SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 2)

A month in Europe sounds fun!  Where did you go and did you get to get any riding in?

Might be upsetting if I could remember anything about what it was! 

It's not that bad.

That's about how I described it to my wife.  I was expecting mental torture, I got "not that bad".  I wouldn't want to do it on a regular basis though.  

It would have to spitting fire from the sky, or freezing rain, for me to even get close to that.  60' on that infernal device and I'm less than pleased (until I get off the bike, and then I'm all happy).

Good on ya'!

I watched episodes of MasterChef and Top Chef Canada.  For some reason I haven't stopped eating since...

2:15 run tomorrow which will be my longest run since IMMT in August.

Congratulations, Melissa. Or should I just call you Doc?

Sorry you are sick, Rusty. I hope you were able to make your trip.

I am taking a rest day today and really struggling with that. Maybe yoga would make me feel like I did something today, but I really wish we had a hot tub.

Calf heart attack?  I need to spend some time with ST, but honestly it can be a bit much (at least for me, as I don't actually make a living racing tri's).

I admit, I *might* have felt a bit of a calf twinge the first week (or three) switching to Newtons.  Now that they sent me a bigger size (had a Newton person size me at the last HM we did a couple weeks ago, and turns out I need a 12.5 not the 12's I'd ordered - BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE STORY EVER - they just sent me the right size even though it was like 5 weeks after I bought them.  No shipping charges, nothing - they just wanted me in the right size shoe.).

Not sure it was a calf MI, though.    What the heck IS that?

Matt

I'm in for another round.

Jason -- good to hear your legs are finally feeling better!  Hope you get registered for that TT with no issues.

Melissa -- congrats, doctor!  Now for some fun in France, huh?

Rusty -- hope the cold gets better quickly!  It's really not fair to have one in the middle of summer.

Arend -- I once did a 3+ hour trainer ride (I did it with Sufferfest's Local Hero and Blender to keep the boredom away).  I also thought, "That wasn't that bad....but I really don't want to have to do that again!"

I think we're *finally* having something of a breakthrough with my knee injury.  I'm tentatively optimistic....and it's been almost a year since I felt like I might actually get to run again.  My physical therapist has been doing Graston on me and it seems to give me a couple good days of relief.  I'm hoping that if we keep at it, that'll be the answer and I'll actually be able to get back to doing what I want to do.  I keep feeling tempted to run, but I've promised myself that I need at least a week of feeling good (and my PT's approval) before I try.  She does have a treadmill called the Alter G that can unweight you by up to 80% that she'll probably have me start on.  But nice to feel like there might actually be a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel!

That alone sounds like pretty good news!

My bigger trainer rides tend to be a good deal of sweet spot riding. So a bunch of 20-30 min blocks at a decent effort. 

And I must be getting tired as this is how I read your response at first.