Well hello friends. I hope you all great weekends! I am sure you will shocked to hear that I worked out. A lot. Did you know that triathlon clothing is trying to kill me?
Let me back up a bit, before I get into that story.
Friday night was a girl’s night out that took place at a tri shop and ended by 8:30 pm. My kind of Friday! We got to chat, eat some snacks, drink some wine, and check out all the goodies Top Gun Triathlon store has to offer. It was a super fun night!
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| Thanks for hosting us Keara! |
Saturday morning was a glorious six mile run, since I did my long run during the week, followed by a mile and a half open water swim. Both the swim and run felt great and it was so nice to get home before noon. The S.O. and I went to see the new monkey movie (Planet of the Apes something or other) and it was surprisingly good. Who’d have known?
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| Saturday’s run and swim group. |
On Sunday, I was ready to tackle my first 100 miler of my training plan. I had hit 90 miles on a ride last month so I knew I could do it, but I was still pretty nervous on Sunday morning. I planned my nutrition out so that I ate as much as I will eat during the ironman. My coach and I estimated the standard 250 calories per hour. I had a combo of gels, blocks, bars, and liquid calories. My friend Hugo was in for the full 100 with me and we had Tori and Patrick for 75 of it, plus quite a few others for about 30-50 based on where they headed back on the trail.
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| Pringles made an awesome late-ride treat! |
I wound up having a really great century ride. I ate all my calories and didn’t have any tummy issues. We had to stop a few times due to a flat tire and refilling water bottles and whatnot but I am happy to report that this ride felt good for the duration. Sure I was ready to be done toward the end but my rear end and legs seemed to hold up fine. The only issue was (see first paragraph) that my bike shorts gave me a rash along the rubber around the bottom of the leg. You know the part that keeps them from riding up?
After we finished riding, I told Hugo I thought I had some 3rd degree burns or something and he let me know that it was a rash from the bike shorts and he gets it too. I’ve worn these shorts countless times and this is the first time this has ever happened with them. However, this is the second skin rash I’ve gotten from triathlon clothing. I got a really bad rash from a swimsuit a few months ago. Oy. Triathlon clothing is trying to kill me.
Huge thanks to Hugo for sticking with me for the whole 100! He helped add on the 10 miles I needed when I wasn’t quite sure how to get those in on the trail. It worked out perfectly and I got to see a whole new section I’ve never ridden before. (And thanks to Team Kool-Aid and the A-Train for joining and coordinating!)
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| Post ride delirium with Hugo. |
I’m feeling really happy about my training right now. I have a sprint tri on Saturday so my long run may get a bit stunted but I’m ok with that for this week. Saturday’s race is my yearly sprint tri that marks my tri-versary. I can’t believe this will be my 5th year of triathlon!
I have a question for you ironman finishers about race day clothing. For those of you who completed the 140.6 in the same outfit, how did it go? Where did you hold all of your nutrition? I’m still debating the clothing change thing. I want to be comfortable and I don’t really care about time loss in transitions, but the girly-girl in me wants to wear my cute kit. What say you all?
Happy Monday!
We have some lovely shorts in the store that don't ride up and don't have the rubber 😉 You should check em out.
Plug over. Heart your face.
Given it's your first full distance IM, go for comfort! It's all about finishing and not so much about time. Also, you don't need that rubber strip as I've never seen anyone have tri short issues with them riding up the leg. Since IMFL is wetsuit legal, I wear what I'm going to wear on the bike (one extra set of comfy cycling shorts over my tri kit bottoms)to save some time there.
I wore bikini bottoms and sports bra under my wetsuit, then took off bikini bottoms and put on bike shorts and bike jersey for the ride, then changed into running shorts and ran in sports bra.
Well done on the century! I am a newbie so I have no clothing advice. I will ask your advice though…bike seats? Mine is killing me, so I am trying to get recommendations on some!
Nice job on ALLTHETHINGS this weekend! I cant believe how close the race is getting!
Triple Digits baby!
nice!
Same outfit all day long (and evening…..). No problems besides some obligatory chafing. Lots of body glide before the start helps cut down on that tho. For the bike I used a bento box and have extra food items in my special needs bag. I had my run nutrition in my T2 bag, as well as extras in my run special needs bag. If you can, train with what they'll have on the course, and if it works for you then you'll have to carry even less since you can get your nutrition from the aid stations. Just my $.02!
Lord knows I have no advice but what a weird thing to have happen. I've been having awful issues with my run clothing and I'm very glad I don't have to add swimming to the mix, unless you count swimming in my own sweat.
Mad props for finishing your first century! You earned some delirium 🙂
Congrats on 100 miles! quite the accomplishment! What is up with you and workout clothes giving you rashes? I know my friend has been getting heat rashes, but nothing from the clothing. Weird! I hope you get it figured out!!
So impressive! Unfortunately I don't have any great advice on biking clothing…sorry. But I did enjoy the sign behind you in the picture where the town felt the need to remind others that the water is for drinking purposes only 😀
Ummm amazing job chickie!!!! Sorry about the rash…no fun at all!!
Awesome job on your first century! As for race day, I swam in my tri shorts and a sports bra, and in T1 threw my tri top on over my bra and wore it for both the bike and run. Was super comfortable all day! I carried my nutrition in a bento box and used my top pockets for half eaten bars and wrappers. Do what works best for YOU! 🙂
Congratulations! The century ride is a milestone. It's totally the marathon of cycling, you can only do a couple of them a year and it's never easy. But once you're in century shape, you're good to go. Happy Ironman Training!
Congrats on the century!!!
I totally changed clothes for all 3 sports! I swam in tri shorts and a sports bra (plus wet suit), changed into DRY cycling shorts and jersey (CDA was a freezing swim which was my main reason for this but also wanted more padding for my butt) and then into a cute running outfit that I had bought myself as a gift for finishing my training on the run. I highly recommend changing – the minutes you lose are worth the comfort!
EEEKKKK so proud of you. Congrats on the first century ride!! 🙂 I feel like when (someday) I do an ironman I will want to change between. I feel like fresh outfit fresh start for each leg of the race. I don't know if that's how it will go but yeah. Other than that when I did my half IM last year, I wore my favorite pair of tri shorts the whole time.. find something you like that works (lord this took a lot of trial and error…)
Love your gifs in this post! LMAO. And congrats on your century!
As for the race day clothing, I wore a tri kit the whole race, but if I had it to do over again, I would've changed into bike shorts in T1 and then into either tri shorts or run shorts in T2. The chamois pad in my tri shorts just wasn't padded enough and the last third of the bike I was wishing I had more cushion (and I even re-applied chamois cream at bike special needs). It probably didn't help that I trained all of my long rides in bike shorts and not tri shorts, though.
For nutrition, I was able to stuff my eats in my tri top pockets and then refill the pockets at special needs. That worked well for me.