It's been a while since I made a post about this, not sure if its of interest anymore, but here goes just because: I've been seriously trying to learn how to use the Evolution Running style for the last 9 months or so. I think I've had some success in putting it all together, and seem to be making good progress now.

I've been riding almost exclusively on my Trainer since January and added a PowerTap in March. I've been dutifully collecting and analyzing my data since I added the PT and can certainly see how helpful its going to be in changing my workouts.

I just began my 16 week build up to my A race in July. I took a 1 week layoff between base training and starting this to really recover nicely. So far so good, except, well, I'm a little bored with the beginning of my 16 week plan. It starts with 3 weeks of "build-up" period that has be doing essentially very short workouts to build up to relatively longer workouts.

So I've recently changed workouts from one that was made from a local coach, to a program from Rich Strauss (online) because the coach only gave me half of the training plan. This new plan has my doing long ride on saturday, and a shorter, more varied ride on sunday, with short easy run tacked on there. Then I usually get Monday as a rest day, depending on the week.

3 Months down. I know many of you have been stuck on trainers and treadmills, but let's see the logs. Whatever data you've got. Sort of a "quarterly earnings statement," if you will :P Anyways, I'll begin. Swim: 1160 minutes (19:20) 52,600 meters (pool closed 1 month ago) Bike: 3262 minutes (54:22)

I wanted to run this by some of you pros out there- I'm a beginner, ran my first Olympic last summer in Chicago, and was hooked. Now training for Steelhead half IM this August. I've always been more of a runner- run a couple marathons, but only now am I starting to train smarter and more efficiently- at least I think I am.

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I'm trying to sell my CAT Atitude tent. It has just over 2500 hours on it. It will fit a queen size bed, with room for night stand and space to walk around or a King size with absolutly no room (trust me, I did it). It is a walk in style. I would love to keep it, but I've just run into some financial trouble and need the money more than I need the tent.

As a former cyclist and rookie triathlete, I'm very familiar with the importance of establishing a proper BASE early in the season. When I was training 10 or 15 hours a week to be a competitive collegiate cyclist, it made sense to do 4-hour base rides at a Zone 2 pace.

I'm thinking about trying to shed a few more pounds before I start competing in a few weeks. My concern is that I certainly don't want to cut out too many calories because I'm also continuing to ramp up my training and I already sometimes feel like I don't have enough gas in the tank for hard workouts.