JeepFleeb's 2008 group - FULL! (Page 7)

teacher_tri - 2008-02-01 12:29 PM

It’s official! I just registered for my first triathlon. Now I have no more excuses.

kappie72 - 2008-02-04 11:55 AM

Ok. I'm back. I don't think I ever want to be sick again. I figure since I've already had a cold and the flu, I'm golden for a while. I'm restarting my week 3 training tomorrow since I haven't been in the gym for over a week. See if I can keep on track this time.

JeepFleeb - 2008-02-11 8:43 AM

Absurdly fun!  And horribly painful.

1-2 hour swim to start each morning.  The majority of which was swim start simulations which were really worse than real life because we were all using the same strategy and hitting each other over the head to get to the front pack.

Rides were outstanding and it felt great to get sun burned for a change.  The headwinds were brutal each day but our long ride to Hawi and back gave us a 40mph, hour and a half long tailwind.  The Wednesday ride was a hill.  One hill.  One 6.2 mile, 1 hour long hill.  It would jump back and forth between 20-24% and 10-15% grades.  I was the only one who made it in under an hour, and I had to walk one hill.

Runs.... they were in Hawaii, so they were awesome.

I'm already signed up for next year.  Check my log the last two weeks for pics.

sleslie - 2008-02-11 9:22 AM

Well now I am really back into things. I am kind of regretting taking so much time off. It wasn't so bad when it came to the bike because I am pretty confident in that, but this morning swimming and running was a little more difficult than I thought it would be.

2 kind of difficulties that I have now pondered.

-In taking so many weeks off should I continue on to where I should be, or go back to where I left off? I set up up this program so that the end of it matched up with my first race, so if I go back then I won't have the program finished by the first race. On the other hand I have some catch up to do in order to make sure I am where I need to be. I am thinking it might just have to do with the fact I havent been in the gym for a couple weeks and if I just keep with it I will be fine by next week.

-I have a little time crunch. For instance this morning I was supposed to swim 400 yrds and then do a walk/run combo for 35 mins. So my gym opens up at 5:00am and I really need to be out of there by 6:00 so I can get to work before 7:00. So the only way to really make that happen is to do the swim really fast and do a quick change and hope that looking forward the program doesnt really expand anymore times. So I am not really sure what to do in handling the balancing of time an needing to do the workouts.

Overall it is good to be back.

kellc09 - 2008-02-11 9:27 AM



Aaron may have better insight on where to start back off. But how many weeks did you have completely off?? normally if it was over 1 or 2, you need to take a step back. I dont know what your base was before that though. What plan are you using?
if you give us those three things maybe we can help.