glevinso Member

IMAC. Nice. I will be there spectating (my wife and a number of my friends are racing it). I did it's predecessor race, Challenge AC twice (full both times)

What is your goal? Do you have a goal race to work towards? The answer to that question is needed before you can really pinpoint what kind of work you do. On the rough surface a decent training plan brings up your volume and intensity in a manner that is appropriate to the goal race. A good plan breaks things into blocks…

I am about 50/50 on whether or not a given marathon or Ironman will claim one of my toenails.

That formula is fairly useless. It gives me 51, but I can easily exceed the "calculated" max heart rate. My last measured VO2 Max test I put down a 64.

It is a rule of thumb, and is only useful for that. Everyone is different and recovers differently. The conventional wisdom is that at around that 3 hour mark you are going to start having longer and longer recovery times. So 10 minute miles x 18 miles = 3hrs, but if you go to 3:20 for 20 miles? I wouldn't worry about it.…

No cotton. Get rid of the gel seat and get a pair of bike shorts with a proper chamois in them. Also wear the bike shorts commando. They are designed to be worn that way.

The National Flag hangs in my Pain Cave. This was taken in the calm before the storm... a few of us were about to embark on The Local Hero

I am a proud Sufferlandrian. I use those videos in conjunction with TR all year. I would say 50% of my "nice weather season" riding still happens indoors. You get a better workout every time. Sure when it's really nice out I'll go outside, and I do all my long rides outside, but you can't beat the quality you get from…

Nothing... and I mean nothing... can prepare you for this. Even knowing it is going to happen (after every marathon/ironman for me), there is nothing you can do to prepare yourself for just how horrible this feeling is...

You can break the marathon down into two "halves". The first half is 20 miles long. The second half is 10k long. I remember my first one well. I was just getting in to running and decided to tackle the big challenge. Used the Hal Higdon Novice 2 plan and followed it faithfully. I only missed a handful of mid-week runs, and…

I'll be there as well. I'll be "participating" in the Olympic in all likelihood (vs racing it). It will only be three weeks post IMTexas, so I am not entirely sure I'll be in *kitten*-kicking shape for the Quassy Oly but I will at least be there.

I am not a doctor but the explanation I have always heard is that in order to provide enough fuel to the muscles for the extreme task, blood is shuttled away from less critical areas. One of those critical areas is your digestion. Your body also has a similar response to being poisoned in that it tries to shunt blood away…

As a triathlete there is no way I could fit in all the training I need to do in one session a day. At least 3, sometimes 4 days a week I end up with two sessions. AM swim, PM bike. Or AM run, PM swim, etc. Even on long run days I will usually get in the pool for a recovery session.

What exactly is this supposed to mean? This is a patently absurd statement.

While I will always choose to run outside if that is an option, it is not always an option due to conditions, or timing, or whatnot. I will also choose to run on a treadmill every time as opposed to not run at all. Those who choose to not run at all will be slower than me. I prefer being faster. Therefore I use a treadmill…

For what it's worth, a 50min 10k roughly translates to a 3:50 marathon assuming proper marathon training. Realistically, you will probably not hit that theoretical marathon time but it does give you an idea of what you can be capable of if you put your mind to it.

I agree with rybo here. You need to be running a lot more than 3x/week. Running a marathon is not about the run you do on race day, or any one long run you do in training. Successfully running a marathon (as opposed to running the first 30k, blowing up and suffering horribly for the last 12k) is all about how much running…

Whoops! Oops! I should make a habit of checking. Why do people drag up old threads?

I haven't seen the Garmin 225 mentioned but that is a solid option. Built in optical HRM is nice so you don't need a separate strap or anything. Auto-upload via bluetooth to whatever training software you like to use (garmin, training peaks, strava, mfp, etc). Personally I use a Garmin 920xt but it is overkill for someone…

This man... he bringeth the truth... (I know I said I was out but I can't help looking at dumpster fires)

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You are making assumptions that the differences are significant enough to nullify my point, which they are not. I am done here.

You misunderstood - I didn't say you couldn't ride well, but putting out the power numbers we are talking about are a bit out of reach for most people even if larger people are capable of putting out more power than smaller people. The argument here is one of degree. Someone is asserting it is possible to burn 1000kcal/hr…

For me, the line between awesome performance and utter ruin on the course is only a couple lbs. I am sitting at 150 right now but I race best at 145. If I get down to 143 though that's too low and I go slower. I am only 5'7" so it's not like 145 is all that light for someone my height but it is where I race best. I need to…

Are you purposely ignoring my assertion that at a certain size of human you have passed being just naturally larger and are crossing into "too out of shape to do it" territory?

Your table has nothing to do with novice riders. It is simply a table showing power to weight.

I am confusing nothing. The theory you state is sound. I am saying someone weighing 110-130kg is probably (not certainly, just probably) too out of shape to accomplish the task of sustaining 277 watts for an hour.

Personally I find it too hard to eat less on off days. Your off days are meant for rest and repairing your body. If you run a deficit on an off day you might be restricting vital nutrients your body needs to recover from training. Sadly the training required for long distance events like marathons, half and full ironman…

How many people weighting 110-130kg are capable of even riding a bike for an hour, let alone at 277 watts, let alone for more than an hour? I don't think I would even be going out on a limb to say that someone who is that heavy is going to even be capable of producing consistent power at any amount, let alone 277w, for…

I am guessing one doesn't exist. :)