5 for Fighting (Page 11)

I need someone to kick me in the rear and make me go swimming.  *sigh*  I hate swimming.

Hey guys- hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving, or for those of you in other parts of the world- a happy november 22nd

I'm doing a duathlon on thursday morning to justify the copious ammounts of mashed potatoes and pie I will be eating later in the day

I suppose this is not surprising that "kats" don't care for the water!    OK Karen...go to the pool! 

*sigh*  I didn't go.  I gave into temptation and had a strawberry toaster pastry and watch Oprah's "My Favorite Things" episode.  

But I'm going to the gym in the morning for a weight workout.  And between cooking cheesecake and dressing, I'll try to get to the pool.  Maybe, if I'm really coordinated, I'll swim after my weight workout in the morning. 

I swam!  Yay!  And I did it after a weight workout, so I get to mark off two of my three goals for today.  Now, I need to fit in a run this afternoon. 

Oh, and bake a cheesecake.  

Awesome job getting in the pool Karen, we knew you would do it for the team!  But why do you have to live so far away, we'd happily stop in to help you finish up the cheesecake! 

Sadly I did not get a run in today.  There's still a very slight change it'll happen tonight, but I doubt it. 

But I did do 12.5 miles of commute riding.  And I bought a headlight to wear while running, so I can no long claim that it's too dark to run on the trail.   

Good job!  Yes, you can have an extra slice of pie.  Or a slice of cheesecake, if you desire.   

Happy thanksgiving day to all the Americans on the team.

And everyone else as well of course.

BTW England were beaten yesterday so all is right with the world again.

Well done David. You are looking good for making your targets. I'm in a pretty similar boat. My bike and run targets are met, 3 strength sessions to do, 2 swim sessions should just about see off the swim target.

 The only stumbling block is the beat a pb target I set. The only place I have come close is on my normal Friday morning route. Ithink my best chance for this would be to run the route one night next week.

Good luck everyone, have a great last weeks training. No more hospital visits - ok.

Hope everyone had a great week! Looks like a lot of us are at/close to target. Well done!

I had a good week. I did a thanksgiving day race which was fun, here's a link to the race report:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=96886&posts=3&start=1

I updated the spreadsheet. I'm at 73% for swim (will finish it up with 2 swims this week), 116% on the bike (thanks to a longer than expected group ride today), 90.5 % on the run and am at 66% of weight loss (hope I can lose that last pound this week).

Lets finish strong 5 for fighting!

I've updated the GoogleDoc spreadsheet with my numbers too.  I'm over 100% with everything except my biking where I'm at 95.30% with that.  I need 2 more trainer hours this week to go over my goal on this...should be a piece of cake!

Hope all the USA team mates had a happy Thanksgiving, and giving a last big motivational cheer for everyone to help get over the 100% mark this week!

Yikes. 

The numbers look bad, I know.  We'll see what I can pull off this week.