Triguys Tri Team (all levels welcome) - CLOSED SORRY (Page 7)

Originally posted by triguy1043



I would find it very hard to eat a dry rice cake on a bike ini a areo position with a HR at 150ish on a hot day.
I went to a to Cliff Shot blocks and gel bottles on the bike during IM in was much easier for me to drink calories then to chew them up.

The Gel bottle was a huge hit for me!!

Originally posted by lsousa



Now that you say that, yeah, there are some differences between a normal cycling stage and a triathlon stage, since on a cycling stage you can drop to the middle or back of peloton and eat/drink more calmly.

What is a gel bottle by the way? Never heard of them before.

For the weekend I'll have my usual short tempo and long easy runs, with a bike ride in between

Originally posted by triguy1043 I use Ensure from Prerace calories for IM I drank one Ensure at 2:30 am and another at 4:30 am easy way to get in alot of caloires and protein Whats everyone have on tap for this weekend? I will hopefully get in a few hours of X-country and downhill skiing along with my LSD run

Originally posted by lsousa

I love/hate intervals. I'll reintroduce them to my running schedule next week. I usually do 10x400m or 800m-1200m-1600m-1200m-800m, I think it were these longer intervals that contributed the most to my running.

Yesterday on the swimming class we had our first butterfly session, ouch, my abs still hurt today!

Originally posted by triguy1043



After trainig for IM and 1/2 IM theres not a whole lot of interval work its more tempo

But preping for this F1 Duathlon

1.7mile run
10 mile bike
1.7 mile run
10 mile bike
1.7 run

I think I have to find soem speed or else i am going to get crushed.

Hence interval work Hence OUCH!!

Originally posted by lsousa



Wow, that duathlon sounds painfully fun!

Originally posted by runningmon

I need some advice on stretching out my bike fitness. I can do a really solid workout for the first half, but I usually hit a pretty big wall at about 30-45 minutes. I try and work on pacing myself, but even starting my first few intervals fairly easy, the act of repeating them will get my HR climbing big time on every successive one-- I just don't have the fitness to hammer intervals on the bike. I keep hearing intervals, intervals, intervals, but I'm wondering if I need to focus on some more low-intensity base miles to get my legs used to spinning for an hour plus?

I'm 3 mo out from my next A. I ride to work (25-30 min. each way) most days, and then I get 3-4 dedicated "bike workouts" a week. Should I focus those workouts on volume and longer intervals rather than high-intensity until I feel like I have some staying power, or is the key to keep at the high-interval work and figure that the 30-min. workouts will become 45 or 60 soon enough?

Thanks all!

Originally posted by runningmon

Yeah, I'm riding for a little less than an hour commute each day, although it's slow miles. On my commuter/beater bike, I have a hard time doing anything like intervals since a) I have to carry all of my stuff and b) lots of stop signs/crossings/etc. For comparison, my commute is about 3.2 miles, but it takes me 25 min on average.If I replaced my commuter with a road bike, which I've been looking at for a while, I thought about doing some intervals around work a couple of days a week and then picking up my stuff before I go home.

I know that the long slow grind of the commute is helpful, but since my weakness is sustaining effort for longer than 20/30 minutes, it feels like I should doing things more targeted at increasing my fitness/endurance, which my commuting ride certainly does not.

Originally posted by runningmon

Commutes are absolutely junk miles. My big issue is with trying to figure out what to do with the actual workout rides: knowing that I have the junk miles in already, but I can't consistently push effort past 30-45 min, do I just keep blasting intervals for short workouts for now, or do I need to add in some longer, but sustained lower intensity mileage to increase my distance/endurance?

No power, but I do HR for the workout rides, and I guess RPE for commutes-I've never used the HRM on them.