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

Well, that escalated quickly.

Hope you enjoyed your ride.

@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.

When doesn't it with me?

@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.