Beer Drinker Appreciation Society (BDAS)--OPEN (Page 62)

Well, it probably got your heart rate up a bit, right? 

45 minutes on the trainer this morning, swim this afternoon.  I'm switching my training schedule around now that school is about to start and so is my daughter's swim practice.  About to start some light jogging soon, seven months past surgery.  Going to start REALLY slow and easy and go from there.                                                                                                                       

Even without spending money on a fit, you could tweak yours around.  I've been playing around with mine for years.  Sometimes your seat will move a little, too, without you noticing it (especially if you have a carbon seatpost).

Or you could just buy the tri bike and go from there. 

A little retail therapy.  Well done.

Originally posted by nicole14e No spoilers I promise That sucks you have to wait that long! It's rainy and gross here today so I didn't run this morning. Came in to work early so I can maybe leave a little early and get a run in this afternoon. Pretty sure my weekend plans will not include going to TX anymore. We were flying into Houston on Saturday. It's a bummer, but in the grand scheme of things this is such a minor problem to have. I feel terrible for all the people down there who have been trapped and lost everything. So sad. Nicole, I hope you are holding up down there. I've been thinking of you while watching the news and hope that somehow you did not get the brunt of the storm. Looking forward to hearing from you and hoping you are safe.

Yeah, relative to Houston we're getting a drizzle. 

@Nicole (Houston one...  ), hope you're doing OK through this mess.  I seriously can't believe the amount of rain.  It's not even something I can grasp.  We get 3-4 inches here and it's a disaster.

Did 30 minutes on the spin bike, 20 on the treadmill (almost ready to run...), then leg/core work and PT.

That must have been crazy - I have a hard enough time not whacking my hands on the lane lines in the best of conditions.

Planned day off for me, tomorrow is 5:30 AM spin class.  I'm REALLY sore from my lower body and core workout yesterday.  I suppose that's a good thing?

5:30 AM spin class this morning, lots of "climbing" so it was a good session.  Lunch treadmill.  Happy Thursday!

Hi, all!  Quick check in from Houston!

I fared very well through the storm -- my neighborhood was an "island" for a bit, but I don't think any of us had flood damage in the houses.  We live on a 500 year flood plain (must be 600 year, since this was a 500 year storm).  Had no power for a couple days and had the crap scared out of me for about an eight hour stretch Saturday night going into Sunday morning (with constant tornado warnings blaring on my phone.....hiding out in the bathroom with my two very-freaked-out dogs), but otherwise came out unscathed. 

It was a truly helpless feeling knowing that so many people were fighting for their lives, lost their homes, had massive damage to their property, and everything else....and I couldn't do anything to help.  Finally, on Tuesday night, I managed to get to one of the local shelters, picked up tons of laundry, did it overnight, and returned it to them yesterday morning.  It's not a lot, but it was something and I know people appreciated having clean, cozy blankets to sleep on. 

The rain finally stopped Tuesday night and we all breathed a collective sigh of relief.  The water levels are receding and people are picking up the pieces.  If anyone would like to aid in the relief effort, we have a virtual race where the proceeds go toward the disaster relief: 

https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/Woodbridge/RunForTexas

There are 5k and 10k options.  I hope to never experience something like this again in my life, but seeing people come together was a thing of beauty. 

So glad you're OK - I can't get my head around how much water fell from the sky down there.  A couple of comparisons were "imagine filling a backyard swimming pool, that is a thousand square miles big" or "Imagine dumping the entire Chesapeake Bay onto Eastern Texas". 

That was really nice thing for you to do laundry for folks.  Good luck in recovery.

Thank you!  Houston appreciates your contribution!  And it is very appropriate that you get to do it in TX   I wish I could offer up some cool, comfortable weather, but TX doesn't really do that in August

As for laundry, it wasn't something I would have thought of either, but when people started going to shelters (mostly places like recreation centers or churches or any other place that is large enough to house displaced people....not places that normally operate as shelters), they blasted on facebook things that they needed -- which varied from things like garbage bags, diapers, food/water, clean underwear, or for people to do laundry.  I didn't have any of the other things to offer, but I knew I could do laundry, which would help with morale, so I was so happy to be able to DO something!