Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2022 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 23)

And get yourself outdoors on a bike!!  The fitness translates but riding outdoors has a different feel than a spin bike like The Peloton. 

BTW...I bought my practice pack for Masters, now I just have to get up tomorrow.  LOL

Today I slogged my way through a Ramp Test (have I mentioned that I hate these? ) and smoothed in a 246 FTP result which is at least in the ballpark.  I think I needed to last another 45 seconds or so to get both a 5-minute PR and beat my current FTP setting.  I just suck at doing them because I don't do them enough.  Maybe next time (two years from now ). 

Sounds like a fun day on the course, Nathalie.  I did something similar a few years ago where we walked around touring a college campus all day (walked like eight miles) then I had an aquabike the next day.  Legs were a little dead but not too bad.  Good luck at the backyard race tomorrow.

So, after 6+ years of Nicole and I being on this BDAS group together, living in the same town (and for a while belonging to the same gym), we finally "met" in person.  And by "met" I mean saying hello a few times in between me being yelled at by the Masters coach for a whole slew of things I was doing wrong.  What is this "breaststroke" thing?    Well I physically survived and the 2nd half of practice once we started doing human strokes like freestyle I did fine and probably could have moved up a lane.

As apparently Nicole comes a half hour late , no picture but maybe we'll get some proof at some point. 

I have a short bike/run brick tomorrow then a 5K race with my daughter on Sunday.  Happy Friday everyone!!

OK, I'm awake.  Well, how did it go Speedy? 

Happy you've slayed that run dragon, Nathalie, and way to finish strong.  Hey - close enough!

I've been an idiot with my Garmin from time to time as well, and there are times where it didn't do what it was supposed to anyway.  At least our modern units are waterproof and you don't need to put them in your swim cap like the old Forerunner 305.  LOL

Got my short bike/run brick in this morning in my new trisuit:

Note that I don't look like that in it (I'm taller and I have hair ...OK and maybe a little thicker on the waistline but it's really slimming).  Love love love Desoto gear.  Not cheap but it lasts forever.

Older, wiser, and faster.  And you have to fake out the sensors here to spell azz or LOL.    

Nice work, Nathalie.  

Originally posted by Rollergirl for your reading pleasure https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...

Sounds like a fun race, Nathalie - and nice work on the podium finish!

Finished up our 5K this morning, or as I call it "how to not pace a 5K".  First time in a run race since 2014, so had no idea what I was doing pace-wise and it was more of a fitness test anyway.  I would have liked to finish stronger but it was really humid and a hilly course.  That 26:58 finish puts me at a VDOT of 35, which feels a little low but hey you want a higher one then race faster.  LOL

I'll do an overbuilt race report at some point - being an only child and all I like writing about myself. 

Originally posted by Rollergirl

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

Finished up our 5K this morning, or as I call it "how to not pace a 5K".  First time in a run race since 2014, so had no idea what I was doing pace-wise and it was more of a fitness test anyway.  I would have liked to finish stronger but it was really humid and a hilly course.  That 26:58 finish puts me at a VDOT of 35, which feels a little low but hey you want a higher one then race faster.  LOL

I'll do an overbuilt race report at some point - being an only child and all I like writing about myself. 

Please do, I am middle child and love reading about others What’s VDOT?

VDOT is a measure of running fitness developed by Jack Daniels (well, I guess he didnt develop the measure but he coined the abbreviation).  It's associated with various race result paces across all distances.  You race, find your VDOT number, then you base your training paces in different zones based on that.  So with my VDOT of 35 I should be doing slow runs around 11:00/mile, tempo around 9 min/mile, intervals at 8:30 and speed work a little under 8:00/mile.  I've been training a bit quick than that but in that ballpark.

I think with a flatter course and not Florida-like weather I have a sub-26 in me right now.  

Originally posted by Rollergirl I like Jack Daniel’s with coke Found a VDOT calculator, entered my best 10k time and got 37.8 Interesting

LOL we joke about that all the time.  I can't stand mash whiskey...too sweet.  Here's the table from the book (he doesn't use decimals, just whole numbers):