IM Germany training thread

Iron Rose

for me, no running for 2 weeks and then very light, I will start spinning light in a week and I will be swimming this friday.

Everyone will react in different ways, one thing to watch is the excessive food that may start to appear in front of you as you eat your way back to fitness and then struggle to get going again in 4-6 weeks or so.

The other thing that gets people is the need to get back too soon, get injured and then stop for a while and the while becomes 4 months, if you hold off for a while longer and then get back into it slowly it won't seem like you have been training for 2 years non stop and you might get the enthusiasm back earlier.

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one thread, one loose collective

JD.

thanks rosey for all your advice in general on this thread. and for the recovery advice - pleased to hear a swim's ok soon as i'm going a bit spare.

i guess this thread has served it's purpose - thanks to everyone for their help and advice and occasional kick up the ar$e over the last year.

jd

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are you Borg Gumps?

IronMelissa

Glad I'm not the only one going up the wall - I nearly bought a bike today!

smiley lady (M.)

Rosey, maybe you could answer this. I've a voucher for a triathlon specific fitness test. I e-mailed them before IMDE and asked the best time to do it. They've given me an appointment on Monday but I'm kinda thinking this might be too soon for a guts out session. THen again they are the experts.

Iron Rose

depends what the tests are for and how you are going to use it. If you want it to set your maximums for next season to help with HR ranges etc I would dodge it for a month or two. Your body is fecked even if you don't think it is and you won't be giving it a true picture, maybe what they are hoping is you have this one and then come back in October for another one before you start training for next year.

If its just generic stuff like fat levels, BMI and nothing with exertion then a week or two probably will be fine.

Personally I would wait.

smiley lady (M.)

nope, I think it's one of those lactate thingies where they run/cycle you until you beg 'em to stop the treddie. Think I will wait.

M...eldy

I had a pretty fantastic run in the woods today :-))

well, I say fantastic but F'furts rain storm seemed to have followed me and I was drowned for 2 hours solid !!!

Bliddy good fun tho!

Godzilla

erm mummy i'm scared of the lightning

Jj

that was what put me offline, Meldy - wuz RIGHT over my house, it wuz!! VERY scary.

[quivers anew]

M...eldy

I was in the middle of the Chiltern Hills and just turned my ipod up a bit !!

debbo

It's lovely and sunny and hot in Scotland.

My new tattoo hurts. (

Firestar

where did you get it old lady? ;o)

M...eldy

a tattoo shop I suspect

debbo

They tried to say I was too old and it would be lost in a fold of permanent ankle oedema in the next year or so. I told them I was an ironwifey and they got scared.

Firestar

[guffaw]

Firestar

x-post.

On your ankle then? Very nice, and what colour?

debbo

lol Meldy! Actually I was in prison briefly today and did it myself.

And another couple of !!!!! about something else today too Meldy.

I've just realised I spelled wifey wrong in my befuddled state the other day.

debbo

I'm afraid it's red. I didn't know I was meant to get blue like Candy said.

Firestar

I can see myself answering such mundane questions as "excuse me have you got the time please?" with "I'm an Ironman you know"

What do you give toddlers who are overexcited to calm them down? I think I need some!

debbo

a lobotomy worked fine for Josh.

Firestar

red!?!?! are you sure it's not pink in the camp pirate tradition?

Mine is going to be black so that it doesn't look all fuzzy and weird when I'm really old............... Like, say 40 ;o)

Firestar

lol Debbo! I heard many people say what a very nice grotty teenager he was.

[Deleted User]

Nice to see everybody is over the love-in and back to normal!

Firestar

I'd like some lovin' but not from Debbo. Sorry Debbo ;o)

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I'm sure Carl is full of energy.

Firestar

[glares]

Right then, best get off to the vicious bitching session, errrrrrr I mean netball club commitee meeting.

Sees yous laters x

debbo

It's ok FS - I'm too busy training for any lovin' Anyway you're only about 12, so 40 is years away and your tattoo will fade. I'll be dead in 28 years so I don't care.

Firestar

I am exactly 12 actually )