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amy mutz - 2009-03-26 6:15 AM Jules - I hope today is a better day for you, I know it has been real struggle to get past the feeling of hopelessness due to John's accident. Just know you have touched him by contacting him. Love ya bunches!!!! Go for a swim today, since you kicked butt on the run your bound to kick it in the pool Julie IN - I'm so excited for you to start doing your road rides...I like it so much more than spin, maybe it is because you actually experience moving. Isabelle - I'm so glad your shins are hanging tough!!!!! Keep up the good runs. Cher - you are so motivated!!!! Keep playing the treadmille games...miss you being here, hope your enjoying CA!!!!!! Andria - say it isn't soooooo...not sick! I hope it will be very brief... Feel better soon!!!! Lyssa - I know how it is to fall off the grid...I hope you feeling ok and we miss you here, and need your pizazzzzzzzzz, please come back to us. Patricia - I hope that fever hit the road and you can make your tri club meeting next Tuesday..I love going to my Tri meetings, it is fun to share with like-minded people. Get well soon girl!!!! Nalani - Your training is going awesome...your 70.3 is soon approaching, you will definately be prepared...keep up the great work ethic. Yvonne - You are still the energizer bunny and right on track for your IM...your very inspirational... Scot - it is wonderful you bike with your son...yes, do get new tires asap!!! Dan - enjoy Houston and your sister cooking Helen - Your training is going wonderful and I'm so jealous of your masters class. Lisa - I'm like you the time change really screw up your time clock...keep up the great juggling!!! Karen - your doing an awesome job multi-tasking your life, it is a tough road...but your doing great!!! Susie - I think it is awesome you lost another 2 and you only have 5 to go....wow...I'm so jealous. Great job hanging with room mate on the ride....now kick butt in training and come back and make her huff and puff it is a great movtivator. Nicole - I think you should be working at NASA with all your mechanical thought process...it's awesome, thanks for all the bike details, I will re-read this several times so I have it stamped on my brain. To all the members that have been a bit shy of late....Monica, Jennifer, and Amy...we miss you and hope you will be back at some point when life settles down for you.

WOW AMY...that was great! love that you got everyone in! and as for you! you keep improving and taking those baby steps! dont go too fast! but SOOOOOOOOO GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK! you are my sunshine!

amy mutz - 2009-03-26 6:18 AM This is a wonderful group and the best I have been in for the past three years!!!! I give first credits to Jules and the next to all of you wonderful members that manage lives, train and still have time to inspire here. I hope your Thursday is filled with some type of excitement, and if not....make some for yourself...push a little harder or do something that scares you. I learned in the past three years that I have no limits, and I am capable of much more than I ever imagined. Love from Indiana Amy

MORE DRAMA FOR ME! if you get a chance..check out my blog! the police calling about an old murder in Bakersfield...one that I had left an annonymous tip for days after!!!! PRETTY CRAZY STUFF!!!

WHATS TOMORROW GOING TO BRING TO ME!??? don't know if Im ready!???

x2...

you and my GEOPHYSICIST husband would get along great! he is such a number guy! my dd used to get soo mad at him when he would try and help with her algebra cuz he would try and give her a easier way to do things...often confuzing her...and she would end up coming to me and asking for help! haha

we laugh cuz my dh looks like the scientist on South Park...with the mustache...cant think of his name!?!?!? he acts just like him, too...He is such a nerd...and I love the nerd in him 

I drive my partner crazy because I don't like to answer questions without having info, data, or research first.

you sound just like my dh! do you also have to read instructions for everything? or do you just try and figure it out!?

I do some of both. I guess it depends on what it is.

funny! kinda!

ACTAULLY really scary - - especially to think  that you and I may be racing in races next to and around others who have never been on a bike besides stationary! I do wish them much luck...but I have to agree...get out there and ride and ride a lot!

so with that said...I need to swim so I am not that one in the tri that is four waves back trying to finish!

have a great day ALL...TRAIN WELL! and CHECK IN! time to hear from some of you....

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! dont make me name names.

I'm sorry I've been incommunicado this week.  Not sure it's going to get any better, either!  I've got lots of work-related travel coming up.  Hotels are not my favorite places...

Anyway, I did manage to do some fitness room workouts this week.  I'll be home for a few days next week, so I hope to get out on the road biking and running, plus some swimming added in!

I haven't had a chance to get caught up on everyone's posts, but I hope eveyou all have had a good week.  Keep training!!!

This has been a really rough week work wise for me (actually it's been a CRAZY month).  Just trying to keep my head above water with one deadline after another.  Two more deadlines for the 31st - I'll be working all weekend but April is looking up.  I'm a legal nurse consultant at a large law firm and over the last 2 days, they have laid off roughly 15% of the secretarial staff (12 secretaries).  Scary times, so I guess I should be happy I have so much work at this point.  More layoffs to come, but at this point, I'm not too worried since I'm kind of specialized.  But who knows.  (I'm taking a short break from work right now.) I actually got dressed for my run this evening, then my oldest son called asking to borrow some money and to go "grocery shopping" in my kitchen.  My niece is flying in to town tonight to stay for a few days to go to a wedding.  I'm feeling like a slacker and hate that guilty feeling that comes over me when I can't keep up with my training schedule.  Just trying to push it out of my mind for the next few days, but April is new month!

Trying to keep up with all the going ons and will get back to everyone individually when I get the chance.  You are all such a great group!

Hope everyone has a great Friday!  Time to get back to work now!  

Gotta love living/training at altitude....especially when it comes time to visiting ma and pa at sea level and going for a run! Wooohooo...hopefully the effects will last until Sunday- Helen, I might just see you at the race....went for dinner with my sister and some friends and found out that they have an extra bib for the Around the Bay so I need to make a couple of calls tomorrow to see if it will happen. Kinda funny considering I was just mentioning how it was the first road race that really got me excited about road running and now I have the chance to run it again.

Tomorrow is Friday....hope it's a great one!   

Offthegrid - 2009-03-26 7:11 PM Today was a bunch of HTFU. And I feel really pleasantly tired and happy. Started the day with a swim ... I did a 500 in 10:12, so I think I miscounted. Went to the gym over lunch for a quick jog and weight lifting -- and GUESS WHO WAS THERE: the mayor! They were having like a ribbon-cutting or something. If I had known the mayor would be there, I would not have went. Oh, well. Then after work I did the first week of my beginning women's running/walking program. It was HTFU to the max! Pouring rain and cold. Hey, I earned my peach today.

you sure did earn that peach or a CASE OF THEM!!!!!...and to those of you who do not know what she is talking about...we are in a monthly challenge...you have to do some type of activity EVERY day...and then when you log it of course the calendar turns from white or yellow to PEACH! and Cheri deserves a few extra peaches for her efforts today! can I borrow one for yesterday! I didnt get mine!!! ;(

what gym were you at where the mayor would show up???

KIU Susie!

thanks for letting us know...have safe travels and hope things settle for you soon!

any of that future travel to Northern California??? hoping hoping..fingers and toes crossed!!!!

Good morning all!

I started the day with a run in the fog; that's always interesting :)

They've reduced the chance of rain for tomorrow so I should be able to get in my maiden voyage on the tri bike. I got my red bar tape last night and got the bars rewrapped. Hopefully the new chain will arrive today. If not, I'm still gonna need to shorten the one that's on there before I can take it out.

Sunday I've got my birthday present swim clinic.

I may have people coming to look at buying my other bike  this afternoon or tomorrow. I will be sad to see it go :(

The way I understand it, there's less oxygen at higher altitudes so your body compensates by growing more red blood cells to help carry oxygen. When you go back down to sea level you end up with increased oxygen carrying capacity. Since muscles crave oxygen to do their job, and you've got extra oxygen capacity, they can do more work with less effort. Blood doping tries to simulate this effect.