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  1. 18 hours ago, Basil said:

    I guess it’s painful? I’ve lost at least five nails in the last few years and not really missed them.

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    Since that injury 3 weeks ago, I’ve done very little running. A few treadmill runs and a couple of trail runs, nothing over 3.5 miles. Ankle was feeling decent but not great. I had a ski trip in which it did fine inside my boot, but unfortunately I also had an episode of shingles which affected sleep and my willingness to exercise for a while.

    I tried to switch my registration to the half marathon but it was too late to do that. I then decided to show up and run as far as I could until I sensed pain and then I would stop, really not expecting much at all. I like the spectacle and vibes of the race environment and I had already paid so I had nothing to lose. My expectations were so low that I drank 3 glasses of red wine last night because today was just a casual jog.

    Turns out, my ankle held up surprisingly well and my stamina from January was still mostly there. The half marathon turnoff came and I became perturbed at the idea of finishing a half and not even getting a medal, but instead a DNF, and I decided screw that, I would finish the full if I had to walk it. My other foot blistered up which never happens, but I think it was a shoe thing.

    I powered through and finished with a 4:11 time. Not my fastest but I surprised myself and I’m pretty proud of this one. I’ll rest up and hopefully try again in the fall.

     

    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.

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  5. 17 hours ago, Basil said:

    Ive never ridden a tri bike. How much faster are they solo than riding a road bike on the hoods?

    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.

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  6. On 2/18/2025 at 6:04 PM, Basil said:

    I would just like to announce that the whole pissing blood after long runs thing was just a benign runner’s condition. But I had to have a camera shoved up my dick to confirm it. Avoid at all costs.

    Probably the best advice in this thread that I’ve ever seen.

  7. 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.

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  8. 20 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

    I think one long of 11 a month is probably enough now for your upcoming race. Work on bricks and also you need a speed day doing 400 or 800’s with 1 minute rest in between. 

    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.

  9. 7:30 miles “not a fast run”. 
     

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    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.

  10. 30 minutes ago, Basil said:

    Too much. I do not like the amount of sugar it takes to fuel a three hour run.  Sounds like its similar on a bike.

    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.

  11. 1 hour ago, Basil said:

    300 calories per hour seems miserable over 4 hours.  What do you use?  I usually use gatorade and granola bars on rides but I'm not training for anything.

    Nerd clusters. I have a sweet tooth.

    Miserable as in you think it’s too much or too little?

  12. 2 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

    Glad to hear it’s getting better. Your 70.3 is 1 week before mine. It’s so close but so far away. 

    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.

  13. 5 hours ago, Basil said:

    That sucks (and I find it hilarious) you felt the need to buy your own water in the middle of a half.  Sounds like some shit planning on their part. Congrats - that's a long way to run.

    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.

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  14. On 2/1/2025 at 3:49 PM, wild_turkey said:

     


    I registered for the Cowtown full marathon (Feb 23) and my training has been going really well, had a great 20 miler last week and planned for a 21-22 miler today, and then I sprained my ankle during my run this morning.

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    There was a car sticking out a little bit at an intersection and I ran slightly out of my path to go around it and my foot planted awkwardly where the asphalt met the curb. It was maybe a 1” lip but somehow my foot/ankle fully rolled over and now I can’t put any weight on it. It’s fairly painful and swollen so I’m doing the whole RICE thing. The Cowtown seems out of the question and I’m moderately concerned that my ski trip next weekend will be screwed.

    Nothing much I can do about it except let it heal and hopefully find another race later in the year. It sucks to feel marathon ready and not get to run the race.

     

    How’s the ankle?

  15. On 2/7/2025 at 9:06 AM, Basil said:

    Question: In most marathons there's a bunch of folks running 5-6 hours.  Are there a lot of these types of athlete's in a 70.3 or, by the time you get to that types of race, with the expenses, the multiple disciplines and training schedule, is it mainly a bunch of nutters?

    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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  16. 23 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

    Yes. There are many from all walks of life and fitness level. I remember my first 70.3 I was nervous and saw a bigger guy with his wetsuit pulled halfway down ripping a cig waiting to swim. 

    😂 that’s fantastic 

  17. 2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    How did you handle Lake Brazos? I took sailing on that stretch in college, and we had to capsize on purpose to learn to recover and everyone ended up covered in fire ants from the 10 minutes we were in the water. 

    It wasn’t bad at all. Granted we weren’t in lake Waco but in the river to the east of the dam. It was very smooth and probably the best swim I’ve had not in the ocean.

  18. 2 hours ago, lonestarsooner said:

    The swim part of any tri, sprint, Olympic, 70.3, is the part that concerns me. Grew up in the water on lakes skiing and swimming so comfortable in the water. But even swimming the 750 meters in the sprint seems daunting. That seems like it would be challenging. Like anything though, it’s all about the training. 

     

    1 hour ago, Clintonaldo said:

    I was the same way growing up and thought swimming would be easy and boy was I wrong. What I learned is I had a breathing problem in the water.

    Couldn’t agree more with @Clintonaldo on this. Once you learn how to breathe properly, it gets a lot easier.

  19. 4 hours ago, lonestarsooner said:

    Finished day 1 of getting back at it. @Clintonaldo you gave me too much credit, lol. Did a full 10k but combination walk briskly/jog lightly. Did jog a straight 2 miles in 22 minutes at one point. Way off of my old 27 minute 5k pace. I have a lot of work to do and a lot of sedentary to undo. Fortunately we habe 10 weeks to get ready. You guys that do the Ironman stuff are awesome. Don’t know that I’ll ever have that desire. Right now I’d be happy with getting in good enough shape to run a half marathon. 

    55 is the new 25. Once you get a good fitness base, even at 55, you could do a 70.3. Just start slow. Do a sprint, then an Olympic distance.

  20. Cadence on the bike is in the lower 70s. I think I averaged around 19 mph in Waco. I was completely unprepared for the fresh chip seal they had put on the main road in Waco for about 25 miles of the bike course. It completely wrecked me. 
     

    Back is feeling a lot better and I’m slowly getting back into the training. I’ve ridden twice and ran once this week. Off today and probably run tomorrow, brick Saturday and swim Sunday.

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