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pearlandhorn

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  1. Good luck. When I pulled a hamstring, it took me 2+ weeks to get back to normal. 11 mile run today, long bike and run tomorrow.
  2. Oof. I was telling my wife yesterday that I feel like I’m back in the zone for training after my back and toe issue. I’m in a good spot and making progress. Bike is getting better. I did some speed intervals for the first time a few days ago and did speed work running yesterday. Easy bike this morning for 1:15. Big weekend coming up for a long ride and run.
  3. Only when one of us is sick so we don’t keep the other up. I used to be a fat fuck and would snore like crazy. I lost a ton of weight and we both sleep a lot better. My parents have slept separately for the last 5 years at least because of my dads snoring.
  4. Great training weekend - 2k swim after work Friday, 11 mile run Saturday, 2:15 bike + 7 mile run Sunday. Sunday workout felt great - no fatigue at all. Salt and nutrition is a lot better this time around. Taking it easy today. I hit 3 bike workouts, 2 runs, 1 swim and 1 brick last week. This race prep is different than Waco. I’m a lot less nervous about it. It’s weird because I don’t think I’m doing enough training because I’m not exhausted all the time but I know that if I stick to the plan, I’ll be ready.
  5. Toe is healed. Two months to finish prep.
  6. It’s painful due to how it happened. Nail was hanging on by a few threads and sticking almost straight up. I couldn’t put on my bike shoes without having significant pain. I’ll be back in a few days.
  7. I ended up having my toenail removed yesterday. I can’t catch a break. My favorite race of the year is tomorrow and I can’t run it. This is the first race I have ever missed.
  8. My dumbass wasn’t wearing shoes on Sunday and my son rolled his baseball bag into my foot because he doesn’t listen when I tell him to put it on the ground when he’s looking for something. My toenail got split in half and I’ve been hobbling the last 2 days since. Finally starting to feel better for the 15k race this weekend. This is the last event before Panama City. I think I ran a 1:11:00 last year for the same race and don’t think I’ll be beating that this time around. We will see though.
  9. Congrats on the finish. Time doesn’t matter, especially when your training gets screwed up due to injury. Happy for you. 12 mile run this morning. Tomorrow may be a day off, depending on how I feel tonight and in the morning. May do a 45 minute spin or something easy.
  10. It’s a trade off. If it’s flat, you’ll be faster on a tri bike as it’s a more natural aerodynamic position. If you’re going up hills, a road bike will win all day long.
  11. 2:02 on the bike, 6 mile run. 60g carbs per hour, two salt tabs prior to ride. Took a gel before run, did great. 8:20 avg on run.
  12. Probably the best advice in this thread that I’ve ever seen.
  13. Update on my dad. He has a rare form of cancer called a Chordoma (Gary Senise’s son had it as well but his was in his brain stem/upper spinal cord). My dad’s chordoma is in his tailbone. He’s been going down to MD Anderson every three months or so for MRI, CT Scan, and blood work, monitoring the size and growth of the tumor. It’s sitting right inside his tailbone and pushing on his sciatic nerve, causing terrible pain in his lower back and traveling down the back of his leg along his hamstring and into his feet. He went down to MDA about a month ago and found it hadn’t grown. Two weeks later, he had been hiding from my mom and I that he’d been in terrible pain, couldn’t sleep, etc. He went to an urgent care and took some shot that I can’t remember the name of and is able to sleep now. He’s been taking so many different meds (muscle relaxers, pain meds). I told my mom that she needs to take all the meds and be the pharmacist. I’m afraid he’ll take some stuff and not know what he’s taking. Hell, 3 weeks ago, I threw my back out and was laid up for a week and I didn’t even need to go get a prescription because he had everything the doctor I went to see told me he was going to write me a script for. That’s when I knew it was bad. Anywho, he’s supposed to be going back down in April and starting Keytruda. The cancer is so rare that no one really knows how to treat it. They want him to be the guinea pig. He’s also unimpressed with how MDA is running now compared to what it was in 2016 when he was last there. Sorry for the long post. Y’all keep up the good fight.
  14. Thats what I have planned out. Anything longer than 12 and I feel like I have to take a day off the next day for recovery.
  15. 7:30 miles “not a fast run”. I had a two hour spin this morning. Long run tomorrow, probably around 13 or 14 miles. After this weekend, I’ll be doing weekly Saturday bike/run and Sunday long runs. I think I did 4 bike sessions in the last 8 days.
  16. I think it’s more about being able to run a half marathon after a 3 hour bike ride. I was at 200 per hour last training cycle and bonked at mile 5 of the run in Waco. At 300 per hour, that’s about 75 grams of carbs per hour on the bike. I may even get up to 90 if my stomach can handle it. The last thing I want to do while running is to feel under fueled because you can never catch up on fueling during the running portion.
  17. Nerd clusters. I have a sweet tooth. Miserable as in you think it’s too much or too little?
  18. I made my formal training schedule yesterday evening. May 10th seems so far away. Goal for me is more runs after long rides and more calories and hydration on the bike. I’m going to bump up to 300 calories per hour on the bike during training. And a ton more salt.
  19. Had a decent 9 miler this morning at 8:30ish pace. It was rainy and wet. First morning in two weeks I was able to get out of bed and not wince in pain from my back.
  20. Shoot. I ran the Pearland half last year and the provider of port-a-potties didn’t drop the shitters off until I was crossing the finish line. Needless to say I found some bushes that needed a wizzing on before the race. Houston Running Co. is a terrible race sponsor. They misspelled ‘Marathon’ on the race medal and only remade them after a bunch of people called them out on their shit (no shitters, misspelled medals). I thought the misspelling was funny. A half marathon isn’t a big deal for me but it’s a big deal to a lot of people. People are super proud of that medal and it can make someone disappointed if their medal is misspelled. I didn’t think the port a potty thing was a big deal because I shit like clockwork when I wake up in the mornings but a lot of folks aren’t like me. My wife was pisssssed and swore them off even after they sent a $5 off coupon for this years race. She needed to use it before, during and after the race. Fuck Houston Running Co.
  21. 70.3 Gulf Coast just posted the race day schedule. Ocean swim starts at 5:40 in the morning. Jeez that’s early
  22. Swam Saturday. Yesterday I did a 1:45 bike and a 5 mile run after. Made it to the gym this morning for a light lifting session. My back is getting better slowly but surely.
  23. How’s the ankle?
  24. Definitely. I think the cutoff is 8:30 from when you enter the water for a 70.3. There are people who can finish in 4:30 and people who barely make cutoff.
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