Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 139)

2024-09-08 8:50 PM

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Originally posted by drfoodlove

Schedule has a bike ride later, but I’m not enthusiastic about it. It may get moved to tomorrow, or I might get a burst of energy here when lunch kicks in. TBD…

Originally posted by drfoodlove

I relaxed myself right into signing up for a century ride on Saturday! See what happens when I’m not distracted by monster training volume? :D

Honestly, it just looks like fun. It is a flat route, which plays to my kind of riding…just lower your head and pedal. No shifting. No thinking. Just fun speed!

Well, that escalated quickly.

Hope you enjoyed your ride.

2024-09-08 9:15 PM

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@Mike, So you're a week post running crash, and your ankle is still bad enough it hurts to touch? Is there any chance you've got a broken bone or something going on there? I'm all for pretending we're not injured most of the time, but this is starting to sound more serious. Might be worth a visit to the Docs? Hope you had a good ride with your mini-me in the meantime.

@Nat, Hope you're enjoying the go-slow week

@Me. A good weekend down here. Mrs Bullfrog did well in her 5k, we managed to set another PB for her, about 30 seconds faster than the last one, on a hillier course. She's already told me to enter her in next years series. So the encouragement is working.

My bike volume increase continued, Sunday morning I channeled my inner Gretchen and was up at 4:30am to get a 2 hour zwift ride in before going to the 5k. May have been a bit ambitious with this one, it's the longest ride so far this season, but I still did 70.3 race effort intervals (based off last seasons FTP, so probably more like my current threshold levels) Made it through, but was a struggle. I have a long way to go to get that bike fitness back.

For the week,
Swim, x1, 25min, 1,000m
Bike, x4, 5hr, all zwift
Run, x3, 2hr 45 min.

S&M, x5 physio, x2 stretchy, 1hr 45min.

Total of 9 hr 55 minutes for the week. Decent volume for September, but plenty of work still to do.

drfoodlove

2024-09-09 9:42 AM

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Subject: RE: Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN

Originally posted by bulfrog

Well, that escalated quickly.

Hope you enjoyed your ride.

When doesn't it with me?

drfoodlove

2024-09-09 9:42 AM

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Subject: RE: Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN

@Mike--gotta say, I agree with Andrew! A week plus and still seems no better...is there bruising? You might have something called an avulsion fracture, which is when a tendon or ligament pulls a little bit of bone off the origin/insertion point. They mimic sprains but can be nasty little buggers to heal.

@Andrew--tell Mrs. Bullfrog congrats on her PR!! That is awesome! Also..."sign me up for next year"...I love it!

@Nicole--where you at?

For me, 3000yds in the pool this morning for my 1550yd workout. I love the off season! I don't have to manage my load nearly as carefully and so I can totally blow up a workout if I'm having fun, which I was. Our old coach was there today filling in for our new coach. He is much more into sprints and fast intervals than she is, so this was mostly a workout of fast 25s and 50s. Super hard, but fun nonetheless. I finished the prescribed workout at 2950yds...but then, of course I had to get that last 50 in to make it a nice, round number. Sacrifices had to be made though, because I was supposed to strength train after my swim, but I didn't have time with the longer swim. I will move it to later in the day. What would have been a quiet lift with the old ladies will be a nerve-janglingly loud lift with the 20 something fellas. Fortunately for me, neither group really wants the weights I use. I lift too heavy for the old ladies and too light for the boys.

2024-09-09 10:37 AM

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Subject: RE: Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN

@Andrew/Gretchen - it's improving a little but like I said a little tender just on the outside of that ankle bone where there isn't much to protect it. No bruising...no black and blue at all which really surprised me. My wife and I went for about a 5 walk this morning and I feel it the whole time but I wouldn't really call it pain, and it's no worse afterwards. Probably wouldn't hurt to run to the ortho to rule out a fracture of some sort.

Bike ride over the weekend was really nice, all Z2 more or less and the weather was like 60 degrees and sunny - absolutely perfect.

And my War Against the Yellowjackets continues today with another visit by the exterminator people. Unfortunately the perfect weather we have right now is also what those little bastards like as well.

@Gretchen: ha, you made it like a week - nice job!!!

@Nicole: ditto what Gretchen said - where you at??

drfoodlove

2024-09-10 11:52 AM

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Subject: RE: Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN

35' Z2 run this morning in the dark, focusing on high cadence. Nice run, faster than normal. All this eating of carbs thing seems to be giving me energy. who would have thought it? Later on this afternoon, I'm going to ride for an hour. Today is one of those weird days where the weather is just perfect for two different sports--run at 50F this morning, bike at 80-85F this afternoon. Can't get much better than that.

Anyone else having intermittent access issues with BT? Tried to post several times this morning (now lunchtime) and it just wouldn't load. App says I require an internet connection (which I have). Every time it does this stuff, I jump to worst case scenario and think this is it for BT...

2024-09-10 3:09 PM

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I typically use a PC (OK, Boomer...) or a Thinkpad to access BT (and most things). No issues here today, anyway.

2024-09-10 3:12 PM

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Pulled the plug on my sprint the end of the month and paid $10 to defer to next year. Not going to risk it and give this ankle thing time to get to 100%. It's definitely getting better as I barely felt it cycling today, even standing or in zone 4. i have the bike leg of a sprint race the first weekend in October so all-in on cycling for the next four weeks.

2024-09-10 6:15 PM

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Subject: RE: Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

I typically use a PC (OK, Boomer...) or a Thinkpad to access BT (and most things). No issues here today, anyway.

I also use a computer for most of my BT access, don't even have the app. No log in issues here.

2024-09-10 6:22 PM

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@Mike, Sorry that you had to defer your tri. But sounds like the best choice with your ankle currently. FWIW, I had an avulsion fracture on the side of my foot (like Gretchen referred to) a few years ago, caused from a rolled ankle. If I remember my timing right, it caused me to defer Ironman NZ from 2020 to 2021. And yes, it can take quite some healing.

@Gretchen, I 100% endorse doing an extra 50m to get to 3,000. What sort of sociopath would plan to end a workout on 2950. Good grief.

@Nicole. Where are you hiding?

@Me, Very balanced week so far. 1 hour easy ride Monday, 1 hour easy run on the treadmill Tuesday and 1,000m swimming this morning. Still short swims, but increasing to 2x per week. So doubling my time in the water. I'll increase the duration per workout in the coming weeks. Otherwise, nothing exciting happening here.

Rollergirl

2024-09-11 12:25 AM

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Subject: RE: Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN

Good move on deferring the sprint Mike, give that ankle time to heal. Glad it seems to go the right way.

Well done Mrs B, it’s awesome, she’s hooked!

Gretchen, nice work focusing on nothing! LOL!

Nicole, I’ll echo the others, where are you?

Still taking it easy over here, going for a ride+swim every day to burn calories but no training, no zones (not that there ever is), no rush. Enjoying that.

Re the BT app…. There’s an app????

Edited by Rollergirl 2024-09-11 12:26 AM

2024-09-11 8:59 AM

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Originally posted by Rollergirl Re the BT app…. There’s an app????

I never used it, either. I was on Android at the time and they only launched on iOS. I have used the mobile site which I thought was WAY better than the app. It's great for logging strength workouts real-time, though with my old man eyes now I can't read anything without my reading glasses to I've decided to not look like said old man and I just leave my phone in the car.