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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Traveling with Bike in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 3 years, 11 months ago
Next up: Resting for 2-3 weeks with no structured training
I may get out do a ride and run to qualify for the Dumpster Fire Triathlon going on through the club.
Then, the Richmond Marathon & Half are still a go in November. They are setting up a course along a paved trail that will be open to racers for three weeks and it’ll still be chip…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Traveling with Bike in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 3 years, 11 months ago
Thanks Jason & Coach AJ. My practice race up in Michigan was a success with some good pre-race anxiety, start line adrenaline, some mental battles on the bike, and some hamstring cramps on the run. Lessons were learned and at the end of the day it was a 20 min PB at the 70.3 distance for me. Now that I’ve had a week to come down from the ex…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Travel Bike Case / Bag to borrow or purchase? in the forum General Discussions 3 years, 11 months ago
James – I recently flew with my TT bike and had to research this thoroughly before flying with Delta. I rented a Scicon TSA 3.0 case from Transition Triathlon bikeshop in Leesburg, VA. The cost was $100 for 1 week and $6/day after that. The case was perfect and only weighs about 15#. My bike flew for free as a checked bag on Delta and no dam…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Dumpster Fire Virtual Triathlon – Free Entry! in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 3 years, 11 months ago
Awesome idea. I thought their would be a “code”, but you just select HIP participate and it’s $free.99 for us 🙂 I look forward to putting the training to work with completing the distance in the month of Sept.
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Brett Werblow started the topic Traveling with Bike in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years ago
I am planning on traveling with my bike for the first time at the end of this month. Looking to see if any of you have done so for a race or vacation and can weigh in prior experience. I am weighing two options.
1.) Ship the bike through Bikeflights . com. I’d need to get a bike box (first shop i called didn’t have any extras due to the cu…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Bike case to borrow or buy in the forum Wanted 4 years ago
Hi pgfde121 –
Are you still renting bike cases?
Thanks,
brett
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Brett Werblow started the topic Wanted – Travel Bike Case in the forum Wanted 4 years, 1 month ago
Seeking a used travel bike case to fly my TT bike. Something similar to the Scicon aerocomfort bag is ideal but let me know what you have. Hoping someone has one that they no longer need. Thanks!
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Virtual Race? in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 1 month ago
Congrats on completing your practice races Romain & Julia. Learning from what you guys have done will certainly help me when I do mine at the end of August. My race, the Traverse City 70.3 was just cancelled last week. I am still going to finish out the training program & complete the race that day with my family being the support crew in no…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Returning to swimming in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 2 months ago
I’ve experienced similar results. Since pools closed I took those days and worked with stretch cords and on core activation drills. This past week I’ve been at my hometown in Michigan and have been Doing OWS each day. While the water is cold, I’ve been surprised that I haven’t lost much swimming endurance over the past three months of no swimmin…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Is Hains Point open? in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 3 months ago
Hains point is “kind of” open. The Gates are closed on both ends so there is no car traffic allowed, but I’ve been biking there during the week and saw a DC police officer in there last week and he didn’t have any issues with me doing back and forth laps. With the gates closed, I was just turning around at each end instead of the normal loop.
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Training Plan Alternatives in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 4 months ago
That is helpful guidance Coach AJ. You interpreted my poorly worded question just fine :). I am on week 1 of the training program and was wondering where to start swimming once we are able to swim again, but as expected there is no right answer here. Starting where I would out of off-season sounds like the right idea to give me a benchmark to…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic Training Plan Alternatives in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 4 months ago
AJ, thanks for starting the conversation around swimming alternative workouts. I’ve been doing ~20 mins of stretch cords & core work in place of my swimming workouts. Really anything to just get the traps to fire and activate for a given period of time.
I am on a little different schedule that most in the group, since my race isn’t until the e…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow started the topic Heart Rate Training (off season focus?) in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 6 months ago
My training program does not start for another 10 (ish) weeks since I am doing a late August race. Coming out of the kick-off meeting the other day, I looked at my Heart Rate stats over the past three months and realized that most of my running workouts feel into my (no mans land zone) Z3.
For off-season, do you have any thoughts to share on h…[Read more]
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Brett Werblow replied to the topic download workouts to your watch in the forum Half Ironman Program (HIP) for Paid Participants 4 years, 6 months ago
Thanks for sharing the video on building workouts in TP. It was quite helpful.