Happy June!

[ilanarama]

First Monday in June, so let's have a check-in. How goes your running? Any races planned for this month?

It's been rather hot in a lot of places in the Northern Hemisphere. What's your favorite cold beverage to drink after a run? (In lieu of answering, Antipodeans may instead mock us with their lovely cool temperatures.)

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[ell]

First tri of the year is on Sunday! It's a Tristar 111 so it's 1 km swimming, 100 km biking and 10 km running. I am feeling very seriously undertrained for it, but at long last I seem to be out of the injury/illness doghouse. Now I'm just fighting my inner Schweinhund.

So far this spring has been somewhat adventurous:

Started with very long recovery of a hip injury that came from doing yoga as a competitive sport (which is even funnier as I was doing it to a DVD of Rodney Yee in my living room with no one else around). That was followed by a pretty spectacular bike crash that almost two month later my tailbone still aches from. The last of it was the anemia diagnosis which was actually a relief as that meant I wasn't just a lazy out of shape whiner. Last week I finally felt close to normal on the bike again, yay! Sadly, that just didn't give me enough time to get back to biking shape for Sunday. Primary goal for this one is to not be last. And to not panic on the swim.

Also, I've attempted to start a tri blog but it only has two entries so far. I need to write up at least Sunday's race and the post about my failed experience with the online coach. For those of you following along, she was attempting to impose HR training on me without first finding my baseline and going with one of the age formulas. That...didn't work so well as I've managed to get my HR over 200 on all out hill efforts and supposedly at my advanced age my heart shouldn't be beating more than 184 bpm...so the upside is that I'm back to letting a person who knows my body dictate my training, and the bad part is that I really am a lazy Schweinhund who still hasn't made a proper plan for the next three months.

And despite the fact that I'm in the northern hemisphere, it's still way too cold for my Virginia blood, but back when I was training in the south (US, that is ) my favorite post run treat was fresh cold watermelon. Watermelon satisfies me and quenches my thirst like nothing else. Otherwise, right now I'm very partial to lychee lemonade with a few ice cubes.

[ilanarama]

Normans! Hee!

Good luck with the tri, and it's great you're recovering from all those setbacks. I am amazed a coach tried to use an age-based formula for HR - that's silly.

[ell]

OMG it's fun to be healthy again! Will have a race report tomorrow, a bit wiped out now, but everything went great!

Ps just saw your race report, Awesome! Congrats! \o/

[blnchflr]

Hope it went ok today, and you post on it :)

[ell]

It went pretty well :-)

I won't be getting any prizes for speed, but I kept good sustainable paces everywhere, despite a total garmin user error that left me without some of the usual metrics. It was a beautiful day to race, though, I can now say for sure that it's actually fun to do triathlon when it's not either raining or 98 and humid out.

Full report tomorrow, tired today.

[blnchflr]

It does sound fun to do triathlons - though they are now my new running: something that I couldn't possibly do! (Apart from that, I'm already spending enough money on running - throw in a bike and what-not on top, it's a good thing I think I can't do them :) !)

On mobile device, didn't pay attention to who actually left e comment, see tired note above...
Pfft, I can do that fully awake and on a pc, you're an amateur ;)