2016 IM CDA- Week 11- Another BIG DAY! GET READY!
Week 11 - Another "Big Day"
LOVEEE the index card trick Mark!! Thanks for always having some awesome advice and mojo!! SO how did everyone do last week?? How's training?? Whats goin on?? Let's hear it!
Time for your Second “Big Day”
Things to pay attention to
Nutrition
Watching your pacing (are you making mistakes early on?)
Don’t “rest” in-between but no need to go full fledge tri geek and set up transitions where you sprint from event to event
What coaches want to see this week is us talking about how we are going to prepare. Post your “big day” check list here, a chance to even practice your “race plan” and “race report”
Let’s not wait until after the big day to start discussing what we did or didn’t do. Lets plan it out, write it out and discuss it now so we can help each other. Then debrief the awesome CDA Crew after the big day on what worked and what didn’t.
This will set you up for your race rehearsals closer to race day.
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Ya’ll are EN rock stars…. soooo what’s on your mind?
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Hey Everyone, Last week was pretty a much a bust for me in terms of training. There was something going around at work (in addition to the deadline for a major project that I've been working on for about a year) and I felt like I was catching it for several days so I skipped several workouts to keep from getting sick. Happily that worked for that purpose. Two other things were going on as well. My hamstring tightened up again and so I couldn't run and I was working with my LBS to get my bike repair sorted out. Neither of those two things were progressing fast enough for my impatient self. I had the day off on Friday but I went into work for a while and got a lot done so that felt good. Then I took our bikes (Susan's was the subject of a recall) up to Tacoma to the bike store. He was able to get Felt to agree that he could handle the warranty and recall even though he is no longer a Felt dealer and he really went to bat for us. I still don't know if they're going to send me a new frame or repair the old one, but at least things are moving. I was also able to get a massage Friday evening and though it hurt, it broke up some of the scar tissue in my hammy and it's getting better.
I did take the road bike out on Saturday and get in a 3+ hour ABP ride. That was a good thing to be out riding but I certainly found out how much harder it is to ride a road bike against a headwind. A segment that normally takes me ~55 minutes on the tribike took 66 minutes. Ouch. That's gonna hurt if I have to ride it at CDA 70.3 in less than two weeks. I was thinking of riding again on Sunday, but my hamstring was still a little tight and I did feel a few twinges when I was riding on Saturday so I didn't want to stress it too much. So when Susan was out training I stayed home and did house and yard work. It was good to get caught up on some of that and it reduced other stress of having a to-do list hanging over my head. I made a resolution to get back to work today and set up things up to facilitate that. I did get back in the pool today and had a good 2700 yard workout where I kept the times steady in the 8X100 and 8X50 sets and then descended the 3X300 set. Tomorrow is another swim and I want to get out and try to run.
I'll post more later as we get closer to the Big Day. The swim and the bike should be easily doable, but the hour run is a question. Train smart and get psyched up for the day.
Intimidated yes ... Gaining confidence definitely ... Hope I'm ready 8/21/16. 16:59.59 or bust!
Got my second swim of the week in this morning about 12 hours after l finished yesterday's swim. My lats and shoulders were still a little sore when I started, but l pretty much matched the split times I did yesterday with the same workout so I'll take that and move on. I'll try a run this afternoon to test the hammy.
Marc
Glad to hear about the HR coming down. It means that your fitness is going up. Soon you'll have to work harder to get the same aerobic benefits, which means you'll go faster.<img src='http://members.endurancenation.ushttp://members.endurancenation.us/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/biggrin.gif' align="absmiddle" border="0" class="afEmoticon" />
Marc