After day 10, what I am finding is that the days after I swim more, I have the most fatigue. I tend to do my hardest intensity in the water. The run, I am mainly jogging. Bike is a mix of easy stuff and intervals or TT's on the trainer. But swimming there is always lots of hard stuff, and then I can barely move he next morning.

1/2 : swim: 1650yd, bike 32.5 mi, run 11.16
2/5 : swim: 1800yd, bike 25 mi, run 11.01
3/9 : swim: 1800yd. bike 25 mi, run 12
4/11: swim: 1807yd, bike 25mi, run 8.03

im not spilling "roll over yards" for swim. (ex 850 one day, 800 next). if i dont hit 1650yd in the day it doesnt count for me

as of day 12,

• Swim 20,500m
• Bike 480km
• Run 125km

Today, got a full reverse Olympic into a forward tri

10km run, then 5km warmup and 40km TT on the Kona course on Rouvy in 1:06, then got my bike out, cycled to pool, did a hard 2800m swim, did some bike spinning on the way home and finished up with 1km of jogging on treadmill. I am 2500m ahead on the swim and 5km ahead on run. Bike is dead even

Tomorrow morning should be a 15km hill run followed by a 50km ride . Then an evening 3000m swim

I am generally trying to do run as first workout of the day on freshest possible legs and swim as last workout going from most weight bearing to least weight bearing which sets me up best for the next day.

1/2 : swim: 1650yd, bike 32.5 mi, run 11.16
2/5 : swim: 1800yd, bike 25 mi, run 11.01
3/9 : swim: 1800yd. bike 25 mi, run 12
4/11: swim: 1807yd, bike 25mi, run 8.03
5/13: swim: 1602yd, bike 25mi, run 10

i was 20k short on bike yesterday which could have been 6. But I am thankful this challenge is forcing me to get swim volume in by reaching for 1500m. I feel my swim times are improving :)

As of day 13, I am at

• 23200m swim
• 531km bike
• 141km run

This morning was a 16km run with 6 hill climbs of ~3 min each and 34km bike with same hill also 6x. Total climbing was 650m vertical. This afternoon was a 2700m swim and 17km commuting on the bike. I got roughly 3 days of buffer on the swim, none on the bike and one day on the run.

I am hoping to get vaccinated later this month, so I will need to build up a bit of a buffer to get to my target given that I expect to have to dial back. Or just resume this silliness when I recover from the vaccine.

Just checking in. Calves have been having "sudden onset" issues (could do nothing on the 8th and not able to complete the 7th or 9th), so having to do the dreaded (and much slower) treadmill, at least at incline, until they're much more solid.

Hanging in there and staying in range. In particular:
Swim: 19619 meters (19500 to be on pace)
Bike: 332.95 miles (323.13 to be on pace)
"Run": 89.91 miles (80.78 to be on pace)

Or, as synthetic likes it (NOTE: outdoor pool in meters, indoor in yards)
1/2: swim 1700m, bike 25.6mi, run 6.41mi
2/4: swim 2250m, bike 26.12mi, run 6.26mi
3/5: swim 2500m, bike 27.80mi, run 7.81mi
4/6: swim 1500m, bike 27.61mi, run 6.78mi
5/11: swim 2500yd, bike 27.69mi, run 10.0mi
6/12: swim 2500yd, bike 25.08mi, run 8.0mi
7/13: swim 1500m, bike 27.68mi, run 8.0mi

I'll have some questions for you guys about "smart" trainers later (mine is old and from Performance Bike), as I'm getting tired of negotiating the geese and numerous (human) obstacles on the bike path, and haven't put it in the big ring just 'cause I don't want to scare anybody (or run them over).

Good luck on getting the vaccine, dev; I took a preemptive Tylenol about 15 hours after the 2nd based on what people on this board were reporting and had minimal "distress", although I'm sure swimming would be impacted by each of the two doses.

Until later.

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

I think I cranked up the intensity too high this weekend between two hard swims (all 4 strokes, lots of fly and dolphin kick), a bike TT on the Kona Rouvy Course and yesterday's 12x run + bike 650m vertical on a steep hill


Bike: https://connect.garmin.com/.../activity/6953339883


Run: https://connect.garmin.com/.../activity/6953339732

My body did not want to get going for a 7am run yet today. I wish I could have done a 7 am swim.

OK day 14 starts. Almost half way there.

Edit: I had a window of an hour mid morning and I needed to go to the office (which has been closed for 14 months) to pick up company mail, so I used the opportunity to force myself to jog over rather than go by car, which then resulted in 9km of today's 10km quote bagged. Sometimes the challenge is not listening to your brain and getting the body out the door. Work task and fitness task completed. Bike over to pool at lunch and hopefully some energy to tack on some additional bike miles after.

thanks for following the format... gives a clearer picture on the daily effort.

my update:

1/2 : swim: 1650yd, bike 32.5 mi, run 11.16
2/5 : swim: 1800yd, bike 25 mi, run 11.01
3/9 : swim: 1800yd. bike 25 mi, run 12
4/11: swim: 1807yd, bike 25mi, run 8.03
5/13: swim: 1602yd, bike 25mi, run 10
6/14: swim: 2000yd, bike 25mi, run 11.02

my pool swim will have exact yardage.... ows not. (i have alarm set for every 250m)

sorry, I am not getting your format at all on 1/2, 2/4, 3/5, 4/6.

What are these numbers?

1/2: First day complete Olympic distance was done was June 2
2/4: Second day complete Olympic distance was done was June 4
...
(Only days with >=1500m swim, >=40km bike, and >=10km run counted)

(It took me a while to figure out.)

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

Checking back in.
So again the weekend took a hit with family activities - my kids still want us to do stuff together even though they are teenagers, so I enjoy that time.
The main benefit I'm getting out of this so far is the impetus to get in the pool and swim as that has always been the least consistent part of my training - but when you are not used to swimming everyday this is beginning to fatigue the shoulders.
I have completed the following:
eight days of Olympic Tris
three days of various Olympic Du's (variations of swim-bike, swim-run, bike-run)
three days of single sport activity

now if only I didn't have to go to work..........

There was a cancellation and I am getting Pfizer dosage 2 tomorrow. I am thinking, I need to pause this for a week after that and then get back on to finish the final 15 days.

As of today I am at 28.2km swim, 611k bike, 158k. so I am perfectly on track for my goal for the month at the halfway point. So I will see how I feel after vaccine, but its probably not a great idea to push 3 hrs per training per day right after a vaccine. Maybe start another 15 days starting 21 June to July 4 with a target to hit 25km swim, 600km bike, 300km run (basically half the target for the month).

Dev

My family is 50/50 for the vaccine.
Myself and my daughter had no effects from either of our doses - I trained, lightly, the day of and straight after. My wife and son both spent the day after their second dose in bed with fevers and chills. Hopefully you are in the no-effects group, but it seems to be a crap shoot as to each persons response.

Didn't have too much trouble after either except for arm/shoulder. But I wasn't doing anything at that time either. I expect you would be able to do a level 1 effort for the land parts at least. (And I took a Tylenol about 12 hours after my second shot.)

As far as progress:
8/14: swim 2600m, bike 30.62mi, "run" 8.00mi
9/15: swim 4000m, bike 40.39mi, "run" 10.00mi (land part with the same numbers but miles, not km, and I got to 40 pts for all 3, a first for me)

As far as total distances this gets me an additional cushion of 3600m for the swim, a little over 20 miles on the bike, and a little less than 6 miles on the run.

(I have a 24-hour programming contest later this month going from 9am-9am later this month, and I hope it only knocks out one day, but I may be bushed after the 24 hours. At least I tied (but with a bunch of others) for the high qualifying score.)

Now I have to prepare for a homeschool portfolio review for 4 of my kids (7, 10, 12, and 14 yo) in the state that hates homeschoolers most (Maryland, thanks to their overly powerful NEA) (or maybe it's the county, Prince George's). (They have to have 6 pieces of documentation showing "regular instruction" for each of 8 subjects. And the kids being nationally ranked in a subject means nothing to them, I still have to collect 6 pages of paperwork for the subject!) (192 pages total!)

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

My reaction was really bad during first round...in bed, missed work, 3 weeks of off and on fevers and headaches (fever at night, headaches most of the day). I had Astrazeneca on round one and getting Pfizer on round two. Last time was was jogging a few days later, but I kept intensity really low for 3 weeks until that stuff cleared. I don't think it should be so bad this time (let's see). I may have had very mild Covid19 in early March 2020 before lockdowns but never got tested which would explain my reaction.

If I recall on my first vaccine, I was unable to push my intensity on the rowing machine and on treadmill or track for quite a while. I felt off so I never messed around. So I want to play it conservatively. Lets see.

Good luck.

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

Going into vaccine two on day 16, my workout was 10km running, then an hour on Rouvy with a 33 min 20km TT, then bike commute to pool, 3000m swim, bike commute home (total 3000m swim, 48km bike, 10km running). I'll decide after a few days if I want to resume light training and then ramp up big time in the last 5 days of the month to finish on 30 June or finish my last 14 days after a vaccine break and finish around July 5.

I certainly don’t want to derail, but I am briefly. Pardon my interruption.
1. Best wishes with the vaccine #2. Hope you don’t have side effects. Glad you (and so many of my Canadian brethren) are getting their 2nd doses.
2. AstraZeneca and the Pfizer. Interesting. I’ve never heard of that and have questions regarding the varying types of vaccines.
3. An Olympic a day is so tough. For all of you doing that, we’ll done!!!
4. #communityimmunity
5. Carry on.

1/2 : swim: 1650yd, bike 32.5 mi, run 11.16
2/5 : swim: 1800yd, bike 25 mi, run 11.01
3/9 : swim: 1800yd. bike 25 mi, run 12
4/11: swim: 1807yd, bike 25mi, run 8.03
5/13: swim: 1602yd, bike 25mi, run 10
6/14: swim: 2000yd, bike 25mi, run 11.02
7/16: swim: 2000yd, bike 26mi, run 11

regarding my run today... https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...diagnosis__P7535772/[/font]

I'm glad to see it looks like you're back. (But if you want to be careful and hold off I'll try to stick with you if the Mrs. will allow it.)

I've been getting a little over-excited, so please bear with me (like at least 30 Kahuna points in each discipline, and 100 for the day for each of the last 2 days before today.)

10/16: swim: 3200m, bike 30.19mi, run 9.11mi (3 on treadmill to protect my calves, and the rest at the track because I can't stand the treadmill any more)
11/17: swim: 4000m, bike 30.47mi, run 7.50mi (on the track)

So far, today (18th) I did about 18 miles cycling (I had no legs) before I crashed avoiding an errant pedestrian. (They changed line forcing me off the path.) Some people walked me home (It might have been them who I was avoiding crashing into). At the beginning I didn't remember I was in an accident, but now I remember most of it. Anyway, I have a nice hematoma next to the ball of my left foot and my jaw is pretty sore, but no scrapes or significant injuries. To finish waiting out the "concussion protocol" I started walking on the treadmill. Since it was much easier to continue than to start walking, I decided to do 6.25 miles at once to get it over with. Anyway, missed the morning pool session, but I'm also scheduled for afternoon, so I'm going in a few minutes. I just hope I'm swimming better than the Evergreen (boat).
(I just had to get this off my chest. Thanks for bearing with me.)
I'll report on totals at the end of the day.

(Hey Houston: Don't follow our lead!)

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

Took a full day off second vaccine. Unlike first vaccine limited reaction after 48 hrs other than a fever last night. Today felt quite normal. Did a 1500m swim stopping every 25m for 5 breaths to keep heart rate down. It was actually quite nice. I have not done such as easy swim since my last ironman 6 years ago.

I will take a few more days easy and assess when I should resume this madness. I think it makes the most sense to do whatever feels easy for three more days and after that 5 day gap gradually ramp back and try to get the mileage target done by July 5

12/18: swim 3200m, bike 32.14mi (in 2 parts), "run" 6.25mi

Crash points pretty sore tonight. I'll see how I'm doing tomorrow.
Totals for month:
Swim: 36619m (vs 27000m needed) (6 days ahead)
Bike: 496.88mi (vs 447.41mi needed) (about 2 days ahead)
"Run": 130.77mi (vs 111.85mi needed) (about 3 days ahead)

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

well I was feeling pretty good last night and got on the Kickr bike for the equivalent of 20km of riding (I did not ride a course, just 45 min easy) and 2x1.5km jogging on treadmill with stretching in between. Kept heart rate down but could not keep myself on sidelines.

Heading to pool later today.

Continuing:
13/19: swim 3600yd, bike 33.47mi, "run" 6.53mi
14/20: swim 4000m, bike 33.44mi, "run" 8.06mi

Running on fumes today. Had to "ride" the kids last night until 3am to get them to sleep, and then my wife was wide awake, so we talked until 5am.
Finding a few painful reminders of the fall from the bike: (1) as usual, the ball of the left foot (hematoma) making it painful to run/walk (2) some muscle on the right side of the neck is very painful when I use it, so I have to use my hand to help lift my head from the pillow (3) just above the left elbow, and (4) something with an abdominal muscle.

Totals for month:
Swim: 43911m (vs 30000m needed) (9 days ahead)
Bike: 563.79mi (vs 497.12mi needed) (nearing 3 days ahead)
"Run": 145.36mi (vs 124.48mi needed) (more than 3 days ahead)

Since you're probably wondering who the hell is this 64-year-old who's doing this and probably have doubts about the stuff I'm posting I should probably give a little background.

My name is Mike Roberts and I used to do a lot of long races. The website hosted by Jorge Andonie (organizer of the Deca etc. in Monterrey) that announced me as the first to complete 100 Irons (32 singles, 10 doubles, 2 triples, 2 quads, 2 decas, 1 15x by November 1995) is gone, but that indicates what I used to do. In 1990 I completed all 4 of the continuous ultras (including a triple and double back-to-back weekends). From 1987-1990 I had back-to-back-to-back races of Ironman Canada the weekend before Labor Day, the Double in Huntsville on Labor Day weekend, and the Endurance Triathlon (Iron distance) the weekend after that. (I must add that none of the times were fast.)

In 1994 I was racing in Lensahn, Germany when an a**hole drove off the road to get around my support van who was blocking the road (about 100 miles into the bike) so I could make a left. The guy was screaming at me for quite a while I was lying on the ground, apparently because he was upset I broke his windshield. The only thing I understood of his tirade was "Oh, scheiss" when he found out I was an American. The skin on my right shin was sliced for about 3/4 of its length, but I didn't even feel it because my left knee was killing me. (It was painful enough I couldn't move.) The German police wouldn't talk to me even though there was a fluent translator there. They completely screwed up what my injuries were (they said I had a concussion, even though I didn't even have a headache.) Then, when the German doctors said I was going to be fine, I asked them whose leg they had been looking at. (While nothing was broken, I had even had hematomas in the bones and lots of fluid running free in my leg.) Needless to say, the bike (and the trip) were destroyed. The guy was only fined $30 (equivalent) for reckless driving because he was unemployed, but they sent me a bill of about $60 for the ambulance. (No, I did not pay.) But since this was the year after Monica Seles got stabbed and this a**hole lived in a town neighboring to that of her stabber, I knew there was no point in trying to follow up. (Her stabber got probation only.) But in spite of losing out on the last 2 IUTA races of the year (and the breaking of a 7 year streak of doing the double in Huntsville) I still ended up in 2nd on the IUTA standings. (That website IS still around.)

Since the accident I haven't done much. I used my prior training to get me through a few races. I completed an Iron-distance and the 15X after that. In 1997 and 1998 I participated in the (continuous) Deca (Monterrey) but had a problem that a nurse said were ulcers in my feet. (In both races I completed the swim and bike, but stopped after 7 marathons in 1997 and 4 in 1998.) By then I was working on my doctorate with an advisor who was against my doing triathlon (or taking time to play violin), and in 2000 I got married and the kids (6 total, all by C-section) started sprouting. I did a little something around 2006 even though I was out of shape, going down twice to Monterrey to take part in a 10x1 Iron event. In the first I completed 6 and in the second only 4, although in the second I focused more on my wife's race (5x1) after I lost mine. (She missed the 3rd day start since she thought she was having a thyroid attack (it wasn't), but completed 3 in 4 days. We decided to take a vacation day on the last day since neither one of us was completing the race.) After one of these trips I got home and found I had been dealing with a torn meniscus, which got scoped.

Anyway, haven't done too much since then because the 3rd-6th kids are all spaced about 2 years apart (youngest is 7), and everything I've been doing has been at their pace.

So that brings us to now. Pretty much nothing for about 13 years (although some long (4 hour) uphill walking workouts on the treadmill earlier this year to lose weight) and dev comes up with this great idea. So I thought, "This will jump-start me if it doesn't kill me." At the beginning the bike and "run" were very difficult and not enjoyable, as it all was very labored, I couldn't hit aero position (because of my big gut), and my times were depressing. I also had mechanicals on days 1, 3, and 5 on the bike. I injured my calf on a very easy run on day 7 to the point where I needed to take the next day off entirely. (My swim, I should note, has always felt relaxing, although it is still at the point where I don't want to know what my times are.) Anyway, using dev's "training plan", I've dropped 7 pounds (although I still need to drop 25 more to get to my old racing weight), my pulse (60->54) and diaphragm have improved, I can hold aero position for quite a while now (although neck and shoulders start to complain), and with the improving muscular response I feel the vascular network is being relaid. So thanks, dev, for getting me kicked into gear again.

Now, I have a few questions. (Remember, I'm still stuck in the 1990's.) Do you have some trainer (not too pricey) that you really like? I don't ride on roads since the accident (except for one I found that only carries cemetery traffic) and I don't like to have to worry about having to wipe out (like on the 18th) to avoid the Helen Kellers (blind and deaf because of the smart devices) and unchaperoned kids in the park, and that's ignoring all the massive slow-downs for families covering the entire path. I have a very old Performance Bike Shop trainer, but I have to work MUCH harder on it than in real life and it gets depressing. So that info (or a pointer to an appropriate thread) would be very helpful.

At another time I'll have more questions, but this is already way too long and it's 4:30am, so I better get to sleep. Hopefully I've given you an idea of where this new, unknown guy (me) is coming from, and I hope all of you (esp. dev and synthetic) are doing well.

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

Mike sorry for not replying yet. Now all this makes more sense. I will reply back in some more detail. After getting vaccinated 5 days ago, I played it pretty conservative, but I am still around 3 days ahead on swimming (that is what I started out with), and half a day behind on bike, and 2.5 days behind on the run. My energy levels have been good and aside from one night, no major symptoms, but I have been keeping heart rate low. Today was essentially my first real run back (10km). Up till today, I was doing short 2x1km jogs or 2x2km jogs per day. My theory is that running needs the most recovery so between backing off the heart rate in training and backing off run volume, I give the vaccine the best chance to work my immune system.

Now with 9 days left, I have to decide if I want to ramp it all back up. I lean towards catching up and getting it all done by 30 June as I am not too far behind. Three 15km running days and I have caught up 1.5 days, and then on the last day, I can do a 20km.....so I would need to do something like this 10/15/10/15/10/15/10/10/20 to get it done. Or just 12.5km per day which may be easier.