Team Amazing Atoms (Page 10)

Hi team!!  Today is the 16th, so we are 53.33% of the way through the month as of today. 

As a team, we are 47.12% of the way to our goals.  A little low, but nothing we can't make up.

Here's how each of us is doing.  I'm not trying to single people out, just give a little motivation.

Overachievers (>55%)

zipp1 (66.90%)
KathyG (64.21%)
mac3116 (64.15%)

Right on Track (50 - 55%)

ChicagoMan65 (51.31%)
skarl (49.92%)

Need a few long workouts (40 - 49%)

xterratri (45.69%)
orange223 (46.23%)
enders_shadow (46.15%)
Artemis (41.00%)

Get out and train!! (< 40%)

joemac3 (38.52%)
irongirl39 (33.51)
TriAya (32.93%)
TheSchwamm (25.68%)

Uh...yeah.   

Nice job Jen

I have a swim and a strength to fit in today to catch up w/ the month.  Is April flying by or what?!

Nice job overachievers!!!

I'll defend myself also.....I found out my sacroiliac joint was inflamed like the 3rd of the month so the doc told me to rest for 2 weeks and take a steroid treatment......well I still taught spinning and butts n guts class for the first week but didnt do anymore and things were 100% normal after just a week of steroids so I have been back on track since.  Another excuse.......our pool is green all the time....makes me lose the taste in my mouth,,,,turns my jewlery grey and now they finally closed it down on Monday to try to fix it.....but I wont use that one anymore since a friend of mine runs the college health club and gave me a membership there....so I am back in the pool and have done two 1 hour swims this week!!! YEAHHHHHHH  Gonna kayak after work today but will take my bike outside tomorrow. Actually since my son is on springbreak starting tomorrow thru monday I wont have to take him to school so I think I will just commute on my bike to teach classes in the am and then onto work afterwards.

1st week of open water swim camp.  I got an hour of practice in the river and focused on sighting this week.  I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with the flow of that now.

Also got in a strength workout. 

I did my longest swim in maybe 8 weeks since my shoulder acted up and it was great. Did tired TT in order to estimate IM swim pace/time.

Then did 30' bike TT on a course I do my summer TT with all the men. I was faster and had 13 watts more power than last month. Time doesn't matter as much as increasing my power so Lake Placid hills are easier.

I'm trying a new saddle so my husband put that on and I went with my 12 year old for a neighborhood spin..could tell right away saddle is about 1/4" to high and need a slight tilt downward.

Tomorrow 60 mile ride with 40 at IM race pace then run 3-4 miles. Hope saddle is okay otherwise I'll swap bikes mid way thru...so while all you are working, I'll be acting like a kid playing outside in the awesome weather.

Another fantabulous swim today with praise from my coach!  After all the adversarial relationship we had I'm kind of digging this encouragement

Umm, just updated the spread sheet.  I think I need to up my goal   Let me think on it for a while and I'll change the sheet when I decide.

Core / abs this evening.

What did we do with all of that free time before we had kids? 

Long ride for me today.  I'm probably not going to get a lot of workouts in this weekend because we are moving this weekend.  I'll make up for it as much as I can next week.

Free time without kids?  I don't have any, but I don't have much time either. 

It's 8:45 pm and I want to go to bed...my brick wore me out. When I came home from bike and went running, my husband made some comment like you ready to run a marathon...so not funny.

I rode all the hardest hills near me...pretty good pace for me given the terrain...

I'll hit my bike hours pretty soon as I've been riding extra...weather rocks here.

One of the cool/fun things about IM training is weekly I set new first as farthest I've run, biked or swam...it adds some fun to it!

Happy training tomorrow Atoms!

Morning swim.  Totally bonked at a mile.  Needed a carb drink or GU beforehand instead of one cup of coffee (5:40 AM).

On that note, as of this week, our pool is now open at 5AM on weekdays!  Will have more time on long swim days before going to the office.  I hate being rushed during a workout.

great job atoms!!

Got a strength w.o. in this morning, hope to swim after vball tonight.  Then long run and ride planned for the weekend, w/ swim and strength thrown in to try to get/stay even for the month.  I'd much rather ride/run only, but that's why we have these multisport challenges, eh?

Have a great productive weekend all!!   Good luck with the move Jen!! 

Long ride today.  Long run tomorrow.  Moderate pace today; 2 hrs.

Go Atoms!

Predators are hanging by a thread!  As usual.