Beer Drinkers' Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2020 Version - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 2)

Hi, Nathalie.  What sort of injury is it?  LIgament/bones/tendons?  I had some problems back 2013 and some PT, different shoes, and always wearing a supportive sock helped a bunch.

I could not agree more...so looking forward to a routine.

Welcome back, Kate.  Consistency is the main factor in any success I've had.  One of the things that has helped me is putting together a REALLY detailed training plan that fits in with my normal schedule, and then just tweak things as life/work dictates.  I have every workout in non-recovery weeks planned out through my first batch of races in May, and at least the training load spec'd out through August.

NAME: sappho96 

LOCATION: Birmingham, UK. 

EXPERIENCE: Super-sprint tri ages ago; realised I am allergic to running so do the first two sensible sports instead! 

FAMILY: Auntie to a magnificent 9 y.o. niece  

TRAINING: Bike commuting and trying to increase my swimming. Hoping to rejoin my local LGBTQ swim club in the spring. 

RACING: Well a charity ride on March 15th - 25 mile ride for a local hospice. 

MY MENTOR/MENTEE EXPERIENCE: Joined the beer group last year and hopefully provide some funny spellings and different contact hours than the lot across the pond. Slightly upset Pats fan atm

FAVOURITE BEER (BONUS SECTION): Loving Vermont Hazy's at the moment, but have two local breweries that I enjoy the produce of too

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NAME: Kate 

LOCATION: Colorado

EXPERIENCE: A few Xterras and a few sprints, swam in a bunch of HIM relays. I swam D1 for my state U for two years of college.

FAMILY: Married, 10yo daughter and elderly mother

TRAINING: Pretty poor been doing three 20 minute cardio sessions and three weight sessions a week with weekend warrior playing thrown in.

RACING: Signed up for one Xterra could add a second. Might do a road race but really hate riding next to cars.

MY MENTOR/MENTEE EXPERIENCE: Was in BDAS years ago and check back every once in a while.

FAVOURITE BEER (BONUS SECTION): Guinness - I lived in Dublin for a few fabulous year and it just makes me happy

I do use Strava but that's more of a social media thing, though there are some training metrics on the site.

Predominantly I use a paid Training Peaks account for planning and tracking, plus I also track here on BT as I have almost 10 years of workout data here.  I used to do my planning here on BT but the interface is too hard to work with and you have to click down to see details.

I use a Garmin watch with a HRM, and then I have a power meter on my bike (didn't always have one...TrainerRoad does a good power estimate called Virtual Power which is close enough for training).  I'm not a step tracker so I don't use my watch in that capacity unless I'm specifically going for a long (like 3+ miles) walk or hike or something like that.

The HRM and power meter data combines to track my "training stress", which Training Peaks uses to calculate fitness and fatigue and recommends a training plan accordingly based on when you want to peak for A races.  You could spend days reading up on the science behind it.

TP won't get rid of your data - even if you have just a free account it'll still be there you just won't get all of the analytics that a paid account brings.