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Wishing you and yours a Happy and Prosperous New Years!!

2007 Resolutions

Become a Ironman

Compete and not just race in my other competitions

Say goodbye(but still have lots of love) to team Clydesdale. 

caelinpaul - 2007-01-07 11:37 AM Anyone have any tips for riding in the wind. I was almost blown off my bike several times during yesterday's ride. To be honest it scared me half to death. Tips would be appreciated

I do not think there are any tips. I have ridden when it felt like I had to lean into the wind....which is scary. I just try to stay on the least traveled roads when it is that windy, low gear, and high cadence!!

Here is something that might be helpful to each of us what is your nutrition regimen on long rides and runs??

I do each workout as if it is my 112 mile bike or my marathon excluding only workouts of just 45 minutes but each I stick to my plan and it works for me:

Bike: Hammer Gel every 45 minutes and then drink on the 15s my drink mix which is a GU2O carbo pro combo. And of course water after the gels and throughout.

Run: I run with hammer gels every 45 minutes and water. I wear a fuel belt that carries a flask and a full size water bottle.

On the bike I try and consume 200-250 calories per hour and on the run I have only used about 150 calories per hour.

Well, first of all I would recommend keeping your cadence around 90 rpm if you are not climbing. Also, another great way to help your pedal stroke is one-legged drills. I do them on the trainer or stationary bike b/c it could get dangerous on the road. Do those for 1-2 minutes each leg 4-5 times and you will see the difference. You want to make perfect circles obviously.

As far as cycling technique, get to a bike shop and let them look at your technique. There could be something that you are doing in your pedal stroke that we don't see, and what we don't see, we cannnot correct.

Be Civil, and anyone else interested, here is that link to the swimming website with all of the workouts. Go to the top forum group and you will see them.

 Here she is:

http://www.usms.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=95

I have always heard warmup slowly and make sure you stretch after at the end thats the most important. I have heard that you dont want to be too loose before you start. But I do stretch every day I workout.