Loving every mile aka L.E.M. (Page 10)

CONGRATULATIONS!

Great job!!

I've got another week or so before triple digits. 8 miles today. 18 miles tomorrow.

Long day at work today, have my 60 pages of reports done for Monday though. And got home just almost in time to finish a run before it got dark. The snow had melted off the road enough to make it not icy for the run. It is a pretty nice loop steep uphill for 3/4 mile and then gradual slope back down for the next 4 miles or so. Or ya can reverse it and spend most of the run going gradually up hill and then control the run down the steep hill.

Chock up another 10 miles for me puts me at 59/90.

The bike calls me for tomorrow and then next week I am out of town a few days so my miles will likely not be as good with all the driving. I kind of took that into consideration with the total though. Anyway off to watch a movie with the kids.

Oh my Christmas cold weather gear is really nice, pants that dont let the wind blow through them. It is only 28 F out so that and a sweatshirt, gloves and lite hat was perfect. If it gets cold I have a matching top to make it nice and toasty. That combo should be good down to about neg 20 F. Although then I might wimp out and hit the dreadmill.

Oh... and I'm at 25.23... 36% of the way there.

D it is all good. Your workout logs look jam packed you are gona make great progress if you dont overdue it 8). 4 months ago a 1 mile run was a long run for me, oh wait thats right I wasnt running at all at that point. Then my first 5k without walking was uber, etc. 10 miles for me today is still like wow for me, did I really do that?

Although when I look at some of these folks who have been training for 2 + years ya it seems pretty amazing, and it is. Triathalon training is a path, a way of being in the world, a lifestyle, a journey. We are all in our own place on the path and if we stay on the path and continue to work at it we will improve... and that's what makes it fun. Even if you tell you wife you ran a 5k and are beat on one day and say you got a great time in your first triathlon and she looks at you with one of those "I am trying to appreciate what you have accomplished, but I really have no idea so um well, that's nice dear."

At any rate grats and keep at it, the trick is to not attempt to build Rome in a day, that would cost alot of money and where would you put it.

Running, biking and swimming really long distances, losing 30 pounds and amazing one's friends is way better than watching whatever the sitcom of the moment is where that guy cheats on that girl and she finds out and gets mad at him and they have a falling out, but then get back together and then he cheats on her and they have a falling out and then they get back together and then that other one where that girl cheats on that guy......

Edited by Baowolf 2008-01-12 11:50 PM

With running focus on the turnover, 90 (right foot) full strides per minute. I see folks in running magazines overstriding and each heal stike drops them some speed. Granted they are like gazells and it slows them down to like 5 min per mile faster than me, but ...

I found it interesting that you run 90 strides per min and ride a bike at 90 rotation cadence per minute. Something about that symetry zi find interesting. Oh well bike day for me today. I will have to see on the drive home from church if the roads have thawed enough to ride outside. I have great respect for skinny tires on poor traction surfaces after my recent crash.

Nice roads out there, the entire world is covered in 1/8 to 1/4 inche of ice. There were two cars off the road, like really off the road on the way in to church. Definatly not an outdoors kind of day for sports other than skating today. I don't have run on ice spike show things yet, my Tri budget is kinda overdrawn for now.

158.7 km /350 for 45% just mushing through the snow! XD

Today was the type of day that make the Bay Area one of the most expensive place to live. Mid 50's sunny, absolutely beautiful running conditions. 18 miles, a couple of hills. Just gorgeous.

I miss winter sometimes, but I don't miss the ice.

It's the end of Challenge Week #2! Time to update the spreadsheet with your totals!

1) Go to:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=puhAA5NRKHA3MU3me9GPxWQ&hl=e...

2) You will need to enter this info:
email address: [email protected]
password: challengeforum

3) The ONLY column that you will need to update is "Total Completed to Date."
This is the total amount that you have completed as of the reporting date.

3) You can update the spreadsheet as often as you'd like. However....

Your cumulative amounts must be entered in this spreadsheet by Sunday evening, your time on the following days:
- Jan 6
- Jan 13
- Jan 20
- Jan 27
- Jan 31

4) If you have trouble using this spreadsheet, please let your Team Captain know. He/she will be able to help you, or will enter the data for you.

66 percent here run done here.

But today was 40 mile bike day today, on the trainer.. But, I did get these wireless headphones with plug in fm trasmitter so I watched some flicks. Low energy day today, but no partying to blame for it. Took a nap for 3 hours was just ... tired.

Hey team sorry I was so silent on the thread all week, saving the world takes up a lot of my time!  I just posted my mileage and am up to 50% (+/-) My knee  is feeling a lot better now after taking it easy last week so I should be able to step it up this next couple / last weeks.  Hope everyone is doing well, talk to you all later this week!  Go LEM's!!

Hmm when I open the spreadsheet it is opening as "view only" and not letting me update. Am I doing something wrong?

I think this was a question earlier in the thread and had to  do with how you are accessing the spreadsheet - I would look through the thread again.

You were logged out of Google. You need to log back in. Here's how:

1) Go to:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=puhAA5NRKHA3MU3me9GPxWQ&hl=e...

2) You will need to enter this info:
email address: [email protected]
password: challengeforum


If the problem was occurring because you have your own Google account, you can add it to the spreadsheet.
First, log in using the above info.
Then, click the sharing tab. Add your personal google email address, and send an invitation to yourself.



Edited by D001 2008-01-14 11:34 AM

Got it. I was logged in with my personal account.