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pearlandhorn

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  1. 1 minute ago, Clintonaldo said:


    You can spend hours swimming to gain 1 minute so to me it’s not worth it. Today was a rest day so I swam 1,400 at a 1:58 pace.

    I don’t remember how much you tapered last year but for a 70.3 I would just do race week.

    Correct, taper for Waco was just race week. I did one shorter session of each discipline Monday - Wednesday.

    Your rest/easy pace is my normal swim lol

  2. 13 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

    Felt good last week and then I ran faster than I should have yesterday and aggravated it. I’ve been doing some 2 hour spin sessions and swimming a lot. It sounds like you are ready for your race. 

    Not quite ready yet. I still need my long ride (3+ hours) and one more long brick, then I’ll be set. I’m about 6 weeks out and training is going a lot better this time around.

    I need to get into the pool as well. I’ve been concentrating the majority of my training on the bike this go around. I have neglected the pool, but I need to swim more. 

  3. I’ve been to over 40 DMB shows with my first in 2002. The band now is not the band it was back then (obviously). I don’t find the music they play now to be anywhere near as good as it was in the late 2000s. Buddy Strong is a terrible Boyd replacement. Jeff Coffin is OK but while Tim Reynolds can shred, they’ve used him and Buddy Strong to fill Boyd’s sound and it just doesn’t sound as good. I missed last years Woodlands show and wasn’t that disappointed. The 2003 show was awful. Probably one of the worst shows I’ve been to. My favorite live show right now is probably Piedmont Park. I could listen to that on repeat ALL day.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

    Like an idiot did speed work 2 days in a row and now pulled a hammy. I did run a 5:33 mile. 

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    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.

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    Edited by pearlandhorn

    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. 

  6. 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.

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    Edited by pearlandhorn

    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. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

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    Edited by pearlandhorn

    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?

  17. 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.

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    Edited by pearlandhorn

    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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