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Carol on August 23rd, 2009   Tags: , 3 Comments »

A few weeks prior to the Rev 3 Tri half iron race in Connecticut, I did a 15 mile long run.    At the 10 mile point of that run, I had a severe pain in my butt that felt alot like Hemorrhoids  (I had those during my pregnant years).    I toughed it out and kept [...]

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Carol on August 12th, 2009   Tags: , , , 2 Comments »

One of the things Stacey Richardson told me to do was to build up my core and glute muscles to help support my running form. Here are the hard core things she told me to do. The Plank: This does not look hard, but I can only do it for like 20 seconds. Holy Crap! [...]

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I put the Sugoi Velocity Tri Suit through some more testing. Part 1 is a video blog about swimming in the suit. I really loved the suit in the water. It was very hydrodynamic, comfortable and felt like a second skin. I tried the suit a couple times on bike/run bricks, and it felt hot. [...]

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Carol on May 19th, 2009   Tags: , , , , , , 6 Comments »

I took two days off working out to give my mind and body much needed rest. Mentally, I did not feel any better. Physically I felt as though the rest did my body good. I like to do an over-distance run three weeks before a Half iron race, so I didn’t want to wait any [...]

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One of my tweeples posted a link to this article about cycling cadence and running efficiency. Here is a snippet from that: In addition, Bernard et al (2003) showed that subsequent 3000m running time improved as cycling cadence was reduced from 100 RPM down to 80 RPM and then reduced further to 60 RPM for [...]

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