change of plans

jodigreg

Rich, Kathi Blais and I are running a 30K or 50 K this Saturday, then we really need to coordinate our two schedules. Please make hers match with mine so we have January outseason together. Meanwhile, I still have nothing planned from 11/23 til then. Any suggestions?

 

Coach Rich

Ok, me confused . Let's do this:

• Enjoy your race this weekend
• Enjoy next week, Turkey Day, etc. You're running a big race this weekend right before a holiday, no sense in starting anything next week as you'll need to recover. 
• Next week take the Season Planning Survey here
• Early the following week, Dec 1 or whatever, I'll deliver to your Season RoadMap that will lay everything out for you. 

Sorry, I'm offline hard next week beginning Wed afternoon. Thanks!

jodigreg

OK, Rich, I finally logged on last night and updated my season plan. Its notoriously empty except for ironman CHATT and the chatt camp. I am trying to save money and spend as much family time as I can as my youngest is in her senior year and it needs to be all about her. She and I have visited 4 colleges and she is running for her life, literally, to try and get an out of state scholarship. Seems she wants to get as far away from Mom as possible. I think I raised her this way! Anyway, it is what it is. I am dragging along my friend Kathi Blais and am not the best with the EN site, so she is frustrated. If you give us the same plan I will keep her motivated. I want to be in JOS but I am lost until then. I just bought some mountain bike shoes and pedals so I would like to try and build some leg strength on the mtn bike. I have embarrassingly low power meter numbers. I am using the PM to keep me from exploding and am pleased with that aspect, but I know I am not using the PM to its fullest. I'd like to get my numbers up and learn how to study my data. As a note, I bought a used wired PM and when I download I cannot merge data from one ride where I may have stopped. I am using the free power agent software. Is this the problem? The help area says there should ne a merge option but it is not there. Thoughts? Thanks, Jodi  BTW, just finished my first 50K in the North Ga mtns. Loved it, but it took 10 and 1/2 hours.

jodigreg

OK, I got my new plan and I like what I see. I also found out that there will be an Olympic triathlon in Chatt on 6/29, which falls in the transition week between get faster and the first week of ironman training. Do you think it would be a good idea to cut a week off of get faster, then do the transition week, then the Olympic, then the ironman plan? I am a terrible swimmer and I think having a go in the river will help me. I know the bike and run courses are probably not on the same routes as IM.

Coach Rich

Yes, that Olympic would be good timing for you.

jodigreg

Rich, I am just not focused in the JOS. I was thinking about throwing in a half iron in North Georgia. It's ridiculously mountainous, but it would scare me enough to get my butt in gear. It is May 4th, and I would go to pre-ride the course March 16. Can you work this into my schedule? This means I have to swim. I haven't been in the pool since July. And I am a terrible swimmer. I still want to do the Chattanooga Olympic tri on June 29th and of course, Ironman Chatt and its camp.

Coach Rich

Jodi,

Sure thing. Please take the Season Planning Survey, under the Training tab above, so we can capture everything I need to do this for you. Thanks. 

jodigreg

Thanks, I just did the survey.

Coach Rich

Ok, will do this today

jodigreg

Thanks Rich, but one question. I haven't been swimming ANY and I am a horrible swimmer. I am afraid if I do a normal swim workout three days the first week, I will think I have died. I know frequency is more important. Is there a suggestion about how I can ease into the swimming?

Coach Rich

Posted By Jodi Harbin on 07 Mar 2014 03:44 PM


Thanks Rich, but one question. I haven't been swimming ANY and I am a horrible swimmer. I am afraid if I do a normal swim workout three days the first week, I will think I have died. I know frequency is more important. Is there a suggestion about how I can ease into the swimming?

You could check out the first week of the Swim Camp training plan and to those workouts, for a week or two, before kinda getting back into the swim workouts of the HIM plan. And you may need to turn those HIM swim workouts down to better suit you.