Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 112)

Originally posted by robertChiefsFan

Nice work Mike!

I briefly hit 8:30 pace when I was being chased by a mean stinging insect a half mile into the tempo run. Not a fan of stinging insects that chase me down for a 1/4 mile.

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

Great job, Nat.  You'll be throwing around kettlebells any day now. 

Originally posted by Rollergirl



I don't think I'll be throwing kettlebells around soon (or ever) but I will put the kettle on and have cup of tea.

Well done guys, crushing it!

Originally posted by Rollergirl



whatever motivates you ! LOL

Originally posted by drfoodlove



HAHAHAHA this totally sounds like something that would happen to me!!

Today, a turtle growled at me as I was moving him across the road. Being totally unaware that turtles made noises, let alone growled (the internet describes it as a purr), I was quite surprised and nearly dropped the turtle.

Originally posted by drfoodlove

Brick today for me, after a leisurely lie in until all of 6:30am. I told my wife I was going to sleep until I couldn't sleep anymore...sigh. I'm just not designed to sleep in. It kills her.

30' Z2 bike followed by 60' anaerobic interval run (6x2.5 Z5 with 5' RI). The run was tough, but mostly because the humidity is back here and is angry it waited so long to arrive, so has arrived with a vengeance. I think I would be better off wearing my swim suit for these runs, because it is more like swimming than running. Yay for summer in the Midwest!!

Originally posted by robertChiefsFan I'm pretty sure the stinging insect was growling at me, now that I think about it. I had no clue that turtles made any sort of noise, either! Glad you didn't drop the turtle!

Originally posted by drfoodlove



I haven't been to India, but I've spent a *fair* bit of time in Muslim (i.e. SUPER conservative) countries and generally, what I've found is that the gym is an "exception" place for local men and westerners of both sexes. As long as you are pretty conservative in your dress to get to the gym, you can probably wear your normal stuff there (fully acknowledging that I have no idea what you normally wear!). I generally toss on a t-shirt and long pants for the trip to the gym, then strip off the pants in the locker room (don't do it in the gym itself unless you can't help it!). Of course, things may be different in India!!

Originally posted by drfoodlove



HAHAHAHA this totally sounds like something that would happen to me!!

Today, a turtle growled at me as I was moving him across the road. Being totally unaware that turtles made noises, let alone growled (the internet describes it as a purr), I was quite surprised and nearly dropped the turtle.

Originally posted by Rollergirl

Day 9(?) of the 5 minutes a day strength challenge.
Was up early so had time to do a little more (11 minutes). Still same routine, just twice. It's starting to feel good

Originally posted by robertChiefsFan



ooooh, I love a cup of tea! I just brewed some roasted dandelion root, actually. What are you having?

Originally posted by nicole14e

Got a solid swim in at masters last night, a sneaky 2400 yds, and got to show off a little butterfly for a little girl who was there for lessons.

Woke up early this morning and was super productive. Have pretty much everything I need in the staging area (aka my spare room bed) and ready to be packed. I decided not to spray permethrin all over everything, so that made it easier. I can't believe I leave tomorrow! Ahhh!

Per usual, I have a million things I want to get done before I leave, but I'm planning on staying up late tonight (or wake up SUPER early tomorrow) so that shouldn't be a problem. I'm always most organized when I have a lot going on.

One thing I'm most concerned about is that I've been REALLY good about what I'm eating lately. I have been on Noom about 3 weeks and have been tracking consistently. This is easily the longest I've ever gone with tracking every day. I've been holding steady at 167 for a few days, so only down about 3 lbs since I started, but it's the lowest I've been in a couple years, and it's about 13 lbs from my heaviest weight ever in January.
I think what worries me is the unknown. It's going to be tough to keep tracking when it's allll foreign. I can't eat fruit I don't peel myself. I can't eat salad. Only hot food really, and packaged stuff. I'm going to try to grab some healthy snacks to pack tonight so I at least have something consistent for when I'm hungry and trying to stay on track. Let me know if you have any go-to healthy snacks that would be easy to throw in a suitcase!

Originally posted by drfoodlove
I'm just not designed to sleep in.

Originally posted by bulfrog



Great job Nat. Here in the future I'm up to day 10/10. Although still in the 5 minute range. Today was pushups, squats, calf raise and bulgarian split squat... need to work on my balance for that one.

Unfortunately I've got a bit of a bursitis in one of my elbows. It came and went about a month ago, but has reemerged the last couple of days. I have no evidence, but deeply suspicious pushups may be a contributing factor. So I'll be cutting back/eliminating pushups for the next couple of days and see what happens.

Originally posted by bulfrog

It's a little bit early in the week, but I've got a busy end to the working week so not sure if I'll have time to sit down and write something out.

Sunday is Race 2 of my 2024 running season. I'll be doing the Wellington Half Marathon. I've done this race twice before in 2010 and 2019, best time on the course was 2:30:xx. Which should definitely be going down.

The course is flat, out and back along the waterfront. The forecast this far out is good about 40-50F and not too windy. But Wellington is notoriously changeable and hard to predict so who knows. My 2 previous runs have had 1 miserable, and 1 perfect, obviously hoping for another perfect.

Goal for the race: 2:15-2:20. Mr Garmin says my HM race pace is 2:17:30. and when I look at what I did in my last key workouts and compare that to what I ran in the equivalent workouts for Aprils HM, I should be looking at 2:20.

Backup goal : Go under 2:28. Which would be a PB for the course, and beat the 2:28:39 I ran in April.

Looking forward to the race, and looking forward to getting back into some more balanced Tri training after the run.

Originally posted by Rollergirl My money is on 2:14:59

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

I got 2:16:22.