Lucy's Group- FULL :)

ba-bump.

BUMP!!! 

My group is really quiet.  I was sort of waiting for it to fill up.... the previous poster got bored and has found another group.   

Anyone??  Bueller??

yay! and then there were two!! 

Amy and Elise:  check your training logs and PM's  (inbox, upper left corner under the BT logo).

How 'bout a third person??

I'm Kori, 36 years old, married 10 years with 2 kids: an autsitic son who is 9, and a 6 1/2 year old daughter. After being a stay-at-home mom for 8 + years I recently went back to work at an elementary school working in the special ed. program for autistic kids. I love it!!

I've always been active but was a dancer before I was an "athlete." I gave up dancing a looong time ago, stayed active running and working out at the gym for the most part doing step and weights.  My husband used to do triathlons over a decade ago so I was always intrigued with the idea but thought "never." A friend of mine approached me about doing a sprint two summers ago so I said "why not?" We are members at a club with a ton of triathletes so it was sort of infectious and a logical next step since I was getting bored with the regular routine of mine. It was the most fun I'd had working out since my dancing days, and for me that says a lot. Dancing was my life for many years. I trained and did an all-women's sprint (my only tri) and had a total blast! I loved it...all aspects of it. I am hooked!

Current training/Goals: My husband and I are training for a half marathon on the 21st (of THIS month! YIKES!) and I am planning another 1/2 marathon in May. I also want to do an olympic distance triathlon this summer (June) and re-visit the all-women's sprint tri I did to blow my time out of the water! Maybe I'll add in another run or cycling event.

Weight loss goals: I could stand to lose 10-15 pounds. It might make the runing hurt less! I am mainly looking for support in my training but an additional "atta girl" or "drop the cookie...NOW!" would be a total BONUS!

So...am I in??

Look forward to this training season!!

WE have Three!!  Welcome, Kori!!

i used to love going to the country clubs when I was younger and dance all night.  However, now i"m older, married with kids and my hubby can't two step to save his life.  My jeans would stick to my legs, which made going to the bathroom an adventure.   I miss it!! 

anyways...  I'm sure that's not your type of dancing! 

Two more and we'll really get things moving. 

Hey Elise,

When I started cycling I was really nervous about riding outside in traffic. It didn't take long to get used to it, and find routes where there were few cars. It was fun in the beginning just cruising around mapping out routes. Now I love it, and I am not scared at all. But I am also lucky to live in a very biker friendly community.

 I look forward to training together!

Kori

of corse!  Sounds like the Danskin race would be up your alley, or the Moss Point sprints...  Running seems like your strong point, you will be the runner of this group! 

You could get a beginner training program off of here, import it to your training log.  Easy cheezy.

I'm not 40 yet....  but soonnnn......ahhh!!

Do you have a bike?

Woot!!  So far we got

Amy erow
Elise amc82199
Kori NightOwl
Kerryanne  kerryanne

one more. 

Let me put some more about myself here.  

I work part time in a hospital laboratory.  I work an 8 hr shift 3x/week.  I'm also seeking other employment as I have for the past couple years but no luck.   When I'm off, I post every now and then as I putter about the house.  I'm occassionally in BT chat at night.  If I'm working, we have NO BT access so I won't be on line that day till at least 5 or 6pm EST. 

I don't do Weight Watchers or FitDay.  I tried FitDay but it was a pain figuring it out.   What I really do is try to follow Joel's (TH3_FRB)  "diet" philosophy.   (click here to read it)
I have two boys, both in middle school.....  yeah.   One of them is very not athletic and the other one likes basketball and flag football.  He's a BIG dude.  Almost as big as me.  They both really like Scouts, though, and this is the little one's last year as a Cub before he crosses over to Boy Scouts and my role will be less demanding, the MEN take over! (yesss!!)

I hate running.  Most of the time.  I am always looking for excuses not to run and this really has got to stop. 

I"m a quiet person in real life.  I think I'm the invisible Central FL BT'er.  Always seen but never heard..... 

Basically the Mentor Program (which is a new thing this year, btw) is to guide the brand spanking new folks on BT through the site, give them encouragement and answer any questions they may have.  Our Grand Poobah, Ron, suggested we take up a few folks and take them under our wing and help them out. 

If you go to the homepage, there's a whole mess of training plans, depending on the level of membership you get.  The Gold plans are more detailed, but you can do just as well with a simple plan.  They have "Couch-to-Sprint" programs as well as more advanced programs for all levels of fitness and distances up to Ironman.  Also programs for running, couch to 5K, half marathon, marathon.    ummmm... take a gander at it by clicking here . 

and, check out your training logs.   They are free.  There's a link on the top of the page 

 and the button that says "logs".       It will take you to that person's log (or yours).  Record your training there, you can even import plans to tell you what to do that day.  That way, you can look back and see how far you've come in time.  I need a plan to tell me what to do, otherwise I won't train.   I'm weird that way.

As how do we become a group?  We already are.  As you can see, there's a bunch of groups already set up.  If distance allows, I may even go to a race and get to meet ya'll!  Or we can just get together one night in BT chat. 

any more questions?  Im of to pick up my kids from school....

WOOT! we're filled up!

Len...I'll get back to you later this evening.  In the meantime, tell us a lil bit about yourself.

welcome

Christine