clipless baby

so today i asked hubby to put my clipless pedals back on and i went around the block a few times and i practiced getting in and out and i did it. sooooo happy, looking forward to my first ride (probably monday am) with them on. wahoooooooo

after googling clipless pedals i found this and i love it. isn't this family GREAT !!!!

Goals

After my 9 mile run in the heat where I nearly cried, I was feeling real down about my racing. I had written an email to ironlady explaining that, as well as explaining my wondering mind during the recent DU I did.

I saw her and she had some advice for me. She said first I need to set some goals for a race BUT I also need to set some goals for my training. I thought that was really smart. As a lot of my training is go out and run 3 miles, go out and bike 10 miles. I do intervals when I am with her but that is about it.

Now I am thinking I need a more structured REAL training plan for my sprint tris. Anyone have a training plan of a sprint tri, it would not be a beginner plan but more of an intermediate plan.

taking a race number

There is a big race a bit south of me, every memorial day weekend, it gets 10k runners, it is a 5 mile run in a beautiful NJ shore town. We forgot to sign up this year and won't be running. What happens a bunch with this race is folks get a number way back in Feb, then maybe they realize they can't run (for any number of reasons) so there are folks like me who didn't get a number and would take someone's number and run under their name.

I don't like this, i want to run under my name so i don't do it. would you ?

swimsuit wash

What do you wash your swimsuit in ?

Do you use any special hair care of skin care b/c of being in the pool a lot ??

planks

i hate planks.

they are hard.

i try to hold for 1 minute.

it is hard.

talk to me about planks, what do you do, what can you do, what do you try to do.

to talk or not to talk

This am I arranged to meet up with someone from my tri group to bike before the group run. I had never meet the woman. We meet up and started biking. I use to hate running with other folks b/c I didn't like to talk and run. However, I enjoy it now. It makes the run go faster. But biking. Biking is just too hard, when we slowed down we wound up talking and then i felt like we were on a sunday beach cruise as opposed to a workout. I really think I will pass on any future bikes one on one, at least in a group it is more about just keeping up with the first person. Plus I really want to figure out this biking thing and get better at it. Learn how to shift better, focus on speed more etc. I wound up buying the cadence computer - a wireless one for 100 bucks. I need the hubby to put it on and then I can work on cadence as well.

The run with the group was good, all different levels of folks, love watching the folks who aren't runners get out there and do it. very inspiring.

We had 3 showings today, house went on market today, just to add to the normal stress of daily life. fun fun fun.

Tomorrow the plan is a spin class.

cadence

Today the bike is in the shop for a tune up. I have some old computer thingy on my bike that tells me how fast i am going as well as how far. but it does not have cadence on it. Iron lady was talking about cadence while we rode and said we should be in btw certain numbers. I asked about getting a cadence computer on my bike and it would be 100 bucks....yikes, the tune up itself is 100 bucks so forget that. this tri stuff gets expensive.

do you have a cadence computer ? do you love it ? need it ?