5 for Fighting (Page 10)

Sorry, no cross dressing pictures to share with you.

3 hours until the kick off in the big game. Scotland V Italy - a nation holds its breath.

I'm ok on most things, but slipping behind on the core excersises. Todays workouts all done. The plan for tomorrow is to drag my wife out for a longish bike ride.

Quick update.

Scotland managed to lose, Scotland 1 - Italy 2. Italy scoring in the first and last minute.

My wife was successfully dragged out for a cycle (It's my birthday today and she had asked me what I wanted to do). I had written a short birthday wish list and I now have three different sets of bike brushes for cleaning the bike. Cracked open one of the sets and spent the afternoon cleaning our bikes. Shiney shiney.

Happy birthday Pulch!

Here's how I am doing as of today :

Bike 135/150 miles (88%)

Run 49.86/80 miles (62%)

Swim 7000/12000 yds (58%)

Weight loss 1.5/3lbs (50%)

I'll update the google sheet if I can find the link. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Yeah Happy Birthday Pulch!!! 

Here's my totals for the month as well.  I've also updated the Google spreadsheet so my percentages are there too.

Trainer:  64.40%
Situps:  80.50%
Running/walking:  85.00%
Kissing:  216.67%  (I knew I'd be good at that.)  

Happy Happy Birthday, Pulch!

My end-of-week check-in:

Lame lame lame.  I'm woefully behind on my running and it's very unlikely I'll make it to 100% by the end of the month.  I'll do the best I can, naturally.  But I'm limited by how much I can run and how many days in a row I can run.  *sigh*

As it stands, the only thing I'm even close to the mark on is my crunches.  In fact, if I keep going at my projected rate, I'll beat 1000 easily.

If I do three weight workouts this week and the next, I'll be ok on that.

The swim... looks like I'll be spending some time in the pool over the next two week.  Blech.  I guess that's why I put it on the challenge list.  If it was something I enjoyed doing, I wouldn't need the push, right?

That leaves the bike.  I'm hoping to get out for a social ride with a friend sometime this week.  And if the weather holds, Eric and I are taking our bikes up to Redding for the T-day weekend, and will get in a nice ride on Friday.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!  Sorry if I was a bit uncommunicative last week.  We've been having online connection issues, and I kept getting booted off.  I think it's fixed now.
 

Thanks for all the birthday wishes.

I guess it's time to start supporting Finland. Looks like they can qualify if they beat Portugal on Wednesday.

Have a great weeks training everyone.

Still looks good Karen...no apologies needed.  It's the challenge that keeps us going!  I entered your info into the Google spreadsheet as well, since you posted the totals here. 

Well, this month isn't exactly going as planned - had a self-imposed 5-day downtime due to an injury sustained while not paying attention, I'm sharp like that. Bottom line...I'm down about 10 workouts.   At this point I've got to re-cast my goals...I've got a stretch goal of 30...

Great training from everyone, though.

Happy Belated Birthday, Pulch!!

Max, how did the race go?

Charge: nice #'s...especailly on the run!

dcon: way to go on the weight goal.  Do you feel like a "whole new you"?

Rio: your numbers look great...you're more than 1/2 way on all your goals.  Just thought that I would point that out .

Madcat: you were so worried about hitting your abs goal in the beginning of the challenge, and now you're going to smash them. .  Nothing pathetic about that!

Rzz: I'll be spending lots of time in the pool this as well...in case that helps at all. 

Van P: do you include swimming yardage in your totals?

Rick: glad that you are feeling better! 

As for me, my cold is gone.  So, I have no excuses not to be in the water A LOT this week.  I'm going to do my best to reach that swimming goal.  Core, too, for that matter.  I'm not so sure about the running.  I can throw a couple of extra miles in here and there, but am hesitant to throw too many in as I'm supposed to be tapering now.  

Hope all is well...where ever you are. 

Actually, not bad.  I went in with minimal training and only the Marine Corps 10-K 3 weeks ago where I averaged just over 10 mins per mile.  I was hoping for anything under that pace for yesterday's 5 miler, and I ended up doing 45:47 for a 9:09 pace.  I briefly had delusions that I could go under 45:00 but a big hill at the end took it's toll and I had no shot.  Still, I'm happy with the effort!

Sounds a little better than "not bad" to me  

Yeah I'm over 200% in the kissing department with 11 more days to go.  No one said it would be easy...I figured I had to take one for the team!