Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 107)

drfoodlove

2024-05-31 4:06 PM

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68 miles on the bike trail today. Averaged 16.8mph, which means I was speeding at all times (speed limit is 15mph). :D

Anyone who has seen me drive would not be surprised.

2024-05-31 7:08 PM

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Originally posted by bulfrog

Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Taper is on this week so off today (though we're doing a walking tour of historic Savannah this afternoon). Race weather is looking decent though a chance of some rain.

Have a good week, all.

After your 'dodgy ticker' time off, do you really need much of a taper? I'd think more 'race sharpening' is on the cards.

Yes...my five week taper. LOL

All short sharpy workouts went well this week. I debated training hard straight through, but I'd rather be a little under than over trained for a sprint.

2024-05-31 7:11 PM

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Originally posted by drfoodlove ! BT isn’t auto uploading workouts for me again. Anyone else?

Yes...every time Garmin does anything different the BT sync goes to hell in a handbasket.

2024-05-31 7:13 PM

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Originally posted by drfoodlove 68 miles on the bike trail today. Averaged 16.8mph, which means I was speeding at all times (speed limit is 15mph). :D Anyone who has seen me drive would not be surprised.

Well done, Gretchen. That power meter deserved to die.

2024-05-31 7:14 PM

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Originally posted by Rollergirl

Originally posted by bulfrog And of course try to find some time for some training. - Life with a young family

Enjoy it while you can, they’ll soon leave home and you’ll wonder what to do with all that spare time! So, race day tomorrow. As I wrote before, not my A race so it will be a training session with focus on run and transitions. It’s a new race so that’ll will count as a win for 2024 Nat (unless I DNF) Been practicing transitions yesterday and it felt great. Running went well this week too so I am hopeful. Goal S 390 m 8:19 @ 2:08 min/100 meters (same as last week) T1: 1:30 hard to tell because I don’t know how big the transition area is so hope I can grab a few seconds here B: 18k at 30kph : 36 minutes (if it’s hilly, I may lose time here) T2: 1:00 (see T1) R: 4.2k at 5:30/ km = 23:06 minutes (hoping for flat-ish course) Total 1:09:55. previous years' winning times where about one hour but 2nd and third about 1:08-1:09 so I'll have a shot at it. Although it's not my main goal, as it depends on who turns up or doesn't, it's always fun to be on the podium. Happy Friday!

Good luck tomorrow!

drfoodlove

2024-06-01 12:51 PM

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Mike and Nat—how did it go?

1:45 long run for me today. Felt good, even after 68 miles on the bike yesterday. I was surprised it fet that good. Z1/Z2 running is nice.

2024-06-01 2:53 PM

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@Gretchen: I'm tomorrow, Nat is/was today.

Predictions for tomorrow:

15-ish swim (should be wetsuit-legal so that helps), 14 would be better and well within my reach if I swim straight and don't panic
2:30-ish T1 (long run-out to the transition area included...I'm Nathalie-ing the ankles of my wetsuit to speed that up
sub-44 bike, sub-42 reach, hoping race wheels make some difference
1:15 T2 (pre-laced running shoes)
sub-26 run, sub-25 reach

I'm going to predict 1:29:30, I'd be super happy with Nat's time from last week 1:28. In theory that should get me into the top third of my AG and into Nationals, but as always it's who shows up.

ETA: Full-on taper madness going on here, bouncing off the walls and my skin hurts. I also seem to have lost my "crack pipe" (the thingy you control the CO2 cartridges with) so I had better not flat tomorrow. LOL

Edited by jmhpsu93 2024-06-01 3:23 PM

Rollergirl

2024-06-01 3:24 PM

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Good luck tomorrow Mike, hope you qualify!

One point for 2024 Nat. So that’s 2-1 now.

I am really pleased with my race, went totally according to plan. The total time ended up being much faster than my goal (by 4 minutes) but according to my watch, the course was shorter than advertised, only the run was the 4.2k they said. The swim was 40m shorter and the bike 1km shorter. But I nailed all my tempo goals.

Icing on the cake, I won the women’s race. As we know, it’s all about who shows up or not and the fast ones who won previous years with a time around one hour didn’t turn up, and no other fast ones either so my 1h05 was enough to win.

Icing on the icing, a mate from my running club won the men’s race.

Race report to follow

Edited by Rollergirl 2024-06-01 3:25 PM