19 weeks to IMWI
Instead of calling this week 2 of 20, I am renaming it to a countdown in hopes of including everybody 20 or 12 week plans. some of you have HIMs and other events and hopefully you will chime in too about your training and events and life even! 
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Adding another abbreviation to our growing list. For me it's a NLD (no legs day), so that means AIP.
Masters swim later this morning. That will wrap up the training for today.
Following up with the doc today. Still not quite right, and I don't like his answer. Time for me to "grow a pair" and go after some answers. Happy monday errbody!
Day off today = running errands, pack up road bike for ToC, doing laundry.
Lynne
Marianne- LOVE the new name and way of counting down, not up!!
Lynne- We would love for you to join us!! Rest up and I hope you've recovered from the hypothermia.
NLD for me as well....Swam yesterday, will take today off.
I was AIP @ 5:30. Yeeeeeha! Got the swim and the run done before work. Can't tell you how good it feels to put that big CHECK in the box before hitting my desk.
Travel this past weekend limited me to a trainer ride on Sat and running around looking for spectating spots, with some TP intervals thrown in for work when time allowed, at my fiancee's half-marathon in Frederick on Sunday. I wanted to get on the bike when we got home Sunday, but we dilly-dallied after the race and got home late. So kind of a crappy weekend for me training-wise.
Today will be a HMP/TP run at lunch.
I need to AIP really soon since I'm scheduled to do the Kinetic HIM this weekend and I haven't swum once since IMC last August. At this point I just need to remind my body what muscles to use to swim, not really expecting much more than that from the race anyway. My swim times, even with limited/no training beforehand have stayed relatively the same the last 3 years so I'm not really worried about the swim. When your technique sucks, you go slow, period - it doesn't matter how many hours of thrashing in the pool with sucky technique you've done. Even with no swimming this year I'll probably end up with a 43-47' swim time, about the same as if I'd been swimming.
Trying not to let the race impact the rest of the week's workouts much since the DF and I are heading to Belize next week to look for wedding locations, so that'll be 6 days of run only. However I'll probably take Friday off from any workouts to prep for the race, and likely dial back the intensity on Thursday's bike/run.
why don't you just get married next week since you are already down there? smile.
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NEW FTP! NEW FTP. I just went from 167 to 178. Wasn't expecting that! I am so happy, I am actually putting on my shoes to do the brick run I never do at ftp tests.
Woo-hoo!
Today was supposed to be a swim day. But I pulled a muscle in my shoulder yesterday doing pushups and it was so bad it kept me up all night. Its still painful so I decided to take the day off. Lots of Ice for me today!
Beth - that's SAH-WEEEEET!!! Congrats! Enjoy your new interval workouts!
Marianne - oh how I WISH we just do that! When I think of the money and hassle we would save ourselves, but I don't think that's going to fly.
Kitima - I've been there once before and loved it, so I'm glad it made it to the final selection of sites. I love scuba diving, so Belize is awesome for that. Did a cave tubing trip that was fantastic too. Not much for the Mayan ruins in the jungle thing, but it's cool to do once. I'll have to look for the zip line thing though, that sounds pretty cool! I'm expecting to be sweating like crazy when running down there, my main goal though IS to run - I don't want to get caught in 'vacay' mode!
Yesterday's run was pretty good on the first half, but I slowed way down on the second half - not entirely sure why. Ended up out with friends last night so didn't get up early enough to do the bike this morning (but I usually don't anyway, so that's not too surprising). I'll be hitting it after work, but my legs are feeling pretty tired recently so I'm wondering if maybe I should build an extra down day into this week's schedule before the race on Saturday. I suffered through the bike portion last year, primarily due (I believe) to dehydration caused by some medication I was on, but I don't really want to suffer through the bike (and drop out of the run again) this year if I can avoid it - especially since I'm actually swimming (last year I did the B-R portion of the race as a relay team member). I know the race isn't a focus of mine, but by the same token I want to at least be able to put forth a good effort. So I'm thinking that if I don't cut it completely, I might just really dial back Thursday's run or replace it with an easier bike ride. Obviously don't want to cut too much out since I'm losing all biking opportunities for 6 days (12-17). We'll see how the rest of the week shakes out.
Day of rest. And yes, Tony, I'm a little skeered of the new zones I wrote on the white board last night. But that's a good thing, right?
Wedding in Belize sounds amazing. If you want to elope, I can send you my masters' thesis, which is all about wedding chapels and the culture of eloping to Vegas.
Oh Beth, that'sjust great! I can remember those wonderful increases two years ago. Ahhhh, memories.
May I feel the love again soon myself! Congrats, GF! You worked for it and earned it for sure.
Beth, CON-GRATS on the new watts!!! You will have a love/hate the next workout
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I forgot how AOB, in the dark-thirty hours, makes you a wee bit tired midday. Was on the road by 510 this am
. LOVE, LOVE having the work done and it not staring me in the face all day.
Beth rocks ftp!!! Your hard work is paying off!
AIP this morning, 3400 in the books. Now, feet on the ground and running (family action) all day
Beth - Great work. A new FTP and a new level of pain. For me it is always a love/hate relationship.
I was really trying to be more active in the forum since we started the 20 week countdown, but for the last week I have been sidelined with a case of the shingles. Even saying it makes me feel old. The worst part was that it was in an area of my head. My ear felt like a combination of the worst swimmer's ear ever and someone ramming a knife into it at sporadic intervals. I could barely hold my head up. To be honest, it was awful. Today if my first day really up and at it. I hope to get bak to exercise sometime later this week. It has been really frustrating for me.
Always good to hear that people are out there gettin' after it.
Todd
Yeah, the new zones take a few rides to grow into.
Shamefully, I was NOT AOB this morning. It was dark and I didn't want to ride the trainer. So I pouted briefly and went back to bed. Gina, do you ride in the dark at 5:30am? Soooo, I shall be AOB tonight.
Thought I would add a little testerone to this cowgirl forum along with Tony and Todd.
The shilngles is something I hope I never have to deal with, get better soon Todd. Awesome recent FTP test Beth, that's a nice jump for a veteran member.
Ran Yesterday for the first time in 3 weeks after tweaking my calf ( tried 2 other times after giving it a week @ but repeated the injury) Actually did it on my last FTP test, pushed so hard that the calf gave out. I hate injuries, but it did allow me to do a big bike week and ramp up the swimming ( lemons into lemonade thing).
Hit the roads this morning at 4:25 am, did my intervals for 1 hour by myself then met up with my group ride for another hour. Have been doing this Tuesdays and Thurdays. Makes for a great workout and still keeps me in the social mix.
Meeting a group of EN'rs (Coach P being one of them) Friday morning for a 6 hour ride of the Mooseman 70.3 course. Can't wait to check it out simce it is a new course this year.
Off to a Lacrosse game. Train hard !!
It's hard to plan enough time to get legs up and ice bath AND download data. I am leaving for work later and later. I need to drop the OCD for data and do it when I get home!
Everyone sounds like they are mostly enjoying the training so far.
@ Tony- we were debating Costa Rica or Belize for scuba diving. We are going to Cocos off Costa Rica in June for 2 weeks. Very excited. That will be part of my "transition" before I start the 12 week IM plan.
Thanks, everyone. And I've never been called an EN veteran before. (need cute blushing smiley). I may finally be getting the hang of my powermeter!
I'm doing a vdot test tomorrow solo because there are no 5ks scheduled nearby this weekend. I'm viewing it as a practice test. But think happy, fast thoughts for me around lunch time!
AOB--1X8; 1x12, 1x10, 1x8 @ ;FT. 25' brick. AIP ~2000m @ 10:30.
The above cracks me up! Would anybody else have clue what that means? Pool is a little iffy b/cwork, but I think I can get it in.
Im doing the HIM plan which called for a Brick with 30/30s. But the fog was thick as pea soup this morning and it just would not have been safe to be out on the road. Top that off with the pulled shoulder muscle that's still healing and I just decided to swap today for tomorrow. So I did a long run of 90 minutes for 9.5 miles. Normally I'd get in at least 10 miles in that time, but I'm trying really hard to be patient about my speed returning.
One of the girls I work with, came up to me and asked, "WHAT is all this AOB, AIS,etc stuff?"
Going to do my brick run tonight with some running drills.
Plan for tomorrow: AIP at 5:30am