Todd's Tri Turtles 2 (Beginner, Sprint, 5K, 10 K) - Closed (Page 12)

Way to go on your swim!! Especially after a long day at work!! I feel your pain on the breathing BUT the more you do it the better and more comfy you will be!! Pretty soon you will be keeping up with Andy Potts! Nothing wrong with back floating or some dog paddling YOU ARE STILL SWIMMING!! What kind of drills are you doing? I love to hear about stuff I am not doing! Please share! Great job!!!!

hey there! Glad to see you back! sounds like you have been a very busy lady! For fast breakfast I try to do a variety of things or I get tired of oatmeal and eggs myself LOL I love different flavored rice cakes such as Caramel, apple/cinnamon, chocolate ect. and I spread peanut or almond butter with some honey or jelly on top. I also love bananas with peanut butter on top. Another yummy breakfast is whole grain waffles topped with strawberries that I have sliced up and stirred some Truvia in them... I then top that off with sugar free cool whip! Just like IHOP or Dennys but a fraction of the calories! I am also a big smoothie protein fan. They fill me up and keep me going without a bunch of junk in them. I make mine with unsweetened coconut flavored almond milk, whey protein, throw in some peanut or almond butter, some banana or berries ect. I also buy cheap coffee and make a few pots and let it get cold and keep it in the fridge so I can make my own iced coffee drinks with Truvia and my almond milk...throw it in the blender with some Mocha latte flavored Protein powder and you got a healthy Frappuccino! I also have a great (but not so healthy) Orange Julius recipe that I do after a race :-) I also love yogurt with Grape Nuts stirred in and a bagel with cream cheese. I do love Oatmeal, Malt O meal, Cream of Wheat and when I travel overseas I love to eat Porridge! I know it can get boring BUT if you *dress it up* with different toppings it can be a totally different taste! here are some of my favorites for hot cereal toppings!


Raisins and brown sugar
Low-fat granola and skim milk
Currants and golden raisins
Frozen raspberries and blueberries
Raspberry nonfat yogurt and dried cranberries
Apricot fruit spread and sliced almonds
Sliced strawberries and plain nonfat yogurt sprinkled with cinnamon
Maple flavored pancake syrup and a sprinkle of sunflower seeds
Canned crushed pineapple, sliced bananas, and chopped nuts
Strawberry nonfat yogurt and sliced kiwi
Sliced bananas and vanilla nonfat yogurt sprinkled with cinnamon
Reduced fat peanut butter and strawberry fruit spread
Chopped dates, raisins, and walnuts
Coarsely chopped canned peaches and ground ginger
Diced dried apricots and honey
Apple butter and raisins
Blueberry fruit spread and vanilla or plain nonfat yogurt
Orange marmalade and dried cranberries
Coarsely chopped apple and brown sugar
Reduced fat caramel topping and a sprinkle of chopped pecans
Warm apple pie filling and skim milk
Honey crunch flavor wheat germ and cinnamon
Canned pear slices and maple flavor pancake syrup
Skim milk and sliced peaches
Mixed dried fruit
Cherry preserves and wheat germ
Diced cranberries and maple flavored pancake syrup
Chunky natural applesauce
Sliced bananas and mini-semisweet chocolate morsels
Blueberries and sliced strawberries sprinkled with cinnamon-sugar
Canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice

Anyways I could talk about food all day long as I love to cook. I cook dinner every night and love to use my crockpot and do freezer cooking and do a lot of meal planning. I hope this has maybe gave you a idea or two for breakfast!!!

NC Turtle Darcie

Cassowary~
First of all I love your user name. I had never seen a Cassowary until we went to Australia for our honeymoon. They are really cool! Anyways great idea with the swim lessons. Swimming is my weakest of the three and I had a hard time finding someone to work with but I made arrangements and took a long trip for a private lesson with a awesome swim coach and she got me started in the right direction. My biggest thing is I need to RELAX and go slow. She had me swimming with fins and a swim snorkel so I can concentrate on one thing at a time. I have never been taught how to freestyle swim and their are soooo many things that need to go on at once to be streamline and smooth. My biggest challenge is breathing and being out of shape does not help! I hope you will share how your lesson goes and I hope you have a positive experience!!

NC Turtle Darcie

I got back in the pool this morning. This is my first time alone since I took the lessons last week. I brought a printout of the workout and put it inside some document protectors as I knew it would get soaked. I used my fins and snorkel and did drills then I swam (or attempted) freestyle. Now that it has been explained to me how to use the swim clock for the rest pauses and I can finally read the workout I feel like a *real* swimmer LOL I actually loved having a plan instead of just getting in the water, attempting to swim up and down the lane and then hanging on the pool edge until I *felt* it was time to try something else. I plan on swimming tomorrow morning early as I have a busy day all afternoon. I hope you all have had a fantastic week. It is great to see everyone posting and learning new things or polishing up old skills. Just remember it does not matter how slow you feel you are... you still beat the person laying on the couch!!! Have a great evening Turtle friends!

NC Turtle Darcie

Vicki~
Great to see you posting again! How was your Disney Tinkerbell 10K race? I was signed up last year for the Princess Half Marathon and was injured and couldn't attend. I love Disney! You have made a awesome decision on logging your foods. I maintain my weight much better when I write down what I am stuffing in my mouth. I have a super bad sweet tooth! Great job on taking the next step of finding the pieces of the nutrition puzzle. Everyone is different and its really important to make sure your tank is full to keep yourself going. My biggest problem is when I am racing I am not hungry and it is easy to forget to eat my gels or drink enough nutrition while on the bike. Sounds like you have a great plan for the pool next week! Hope you will share how things go!

NC Turtle Darcie

We have been snowed in most of the week and I have been a lazy bum. I'm thinking I should get off my a$$ and put my bike on a trainer as well and get one of those Sufferfest videos too. Looks like gyms will be open in the morning so I am going to do my best to get back on schedule.

I got blown off schedule this week too, my new puppy is keeping me awake and so i'm missing my morning exercises and then its stinking hot here (46degrees in my house yesterday) so i'm making excuses to not exercise in the afternoons...need to get my mojo back!

So a lot of people have a video and or song that helps to fire them up or re-motivate them. I thought I would share one video that gets me pumped up every time I see it and makes me want to go and workout / race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnqpYKx8Fvk

Todd,
I have seen almost all the IM videos on youtube LOL I love THEM! me and hubs will often watch the Kona coverage from the last few years over and over again haha! I love the video you posted! Here is my favorite. It is from Kona 2011, music is by Hans Zimmer who does a LOT of Motion Picture soundtracks. I have this song on my ipod and whenever I hear it I think of this video. The video is focused on the Pros and I LOVE how they got the bikes in slo motion! I am a big Craig Alexander fan and am sad he has retired from the long course. He won Ironman on this video! Every single person on the video is inspiring and when they show the actual times at the end of the video I am BLOWN AWAY how fast they are!!

http://youtu.be/2s5AbZyf1Js


And for a good laugh this is HILARIOUS!! Called *Sh$% Triathletes Don't say*

http://youtu.be/Do53TQ6OVJ4


I got up super early and swam again today. Still need a lot of work but I know it will come with time. Hope everyone has a great Friday!!

Hey Todd sorry so late in responding just got released by Dr. and starting to feel like I can start training a little.
Name Clifford
Story 51 year old retired sailor and now High School Teacher I started triathlons on 2006 and did ok for a few years. After finishing my only marathon new Years day 2008 it has been mostly down hill do to a loss of drive and motivation followed by some injuries. I just got out of the hospital after an 8 day stay for a perforated colon and may face surgery in a few months.
Family married for 25 years 2 grown up kids
Current training Ill start on Monday
2013 no real races
2014 I want to do a few sprints and an Olympic
Weight loss went into the hospital at 196 came out at 184 now 182 plan to drop to about 175ish
What do I hope to get from the group accountability I have become lazy and tend to put things off yeas I am busy teaching, coaching, taking grad classes, and experimenting with aquaponics but I need to be held accountable for training.
Anyway I did not want to be rude and not respond to you thanks for the offer and I understand if you are full.

Hi Darcie,

Quick back story: I studied rainforest ecology and aboriginal culture in Australia about 12 years ago, and an aboringal leader told me I had a cassowary spirit. A few days later I was collecting data in the rainforest when a cassowary came along and chased me through the forest. After a long sprint, we finally came to a standstill and just stared at each other for about 10 minutes before an older cassowary came along and the two of them sauntered off back into the forest. So cassowary seemed like a good user name now that I'm running again

The breathing is by far my greatest challenge too. I'll let you know how my first lesson goes next week.

After missing most of my workouts this week due to bad weather and gym closings, I finally got a workout in.

Starting at 6am, I had 45 minute swim class, followed by a 45 min spin class then a one mile walk. Hey, easy triathlon!

Well done Lovey!

I just finished 2/3 of my first Sufferfest cycling video called "Fight Club". I stopped using my bicycle trainer about 6 years ago due to boredom - I think Sufferfest videos may be the simple solution. The video was funny, challenging, motivating, and filled with great views. I highly recommend.

I did a brick today with my husband. We did a 60 minute spin class then went up to the indoor track for a 30 minute jog. My heart rate climbed fast when I started running. It is very hard to start from scratch and build up my aerobic base again. But I believe in heart rate training instead of the "go harder and faster" method that so many people seem to do.


Great job Cassowary on the Fight Club! That's one of my favorite Sufferlandria videos!! Way to go!

Thanks !!!!, those are great ideas... will use some this week. Your meal planning idea is a great idea. I'm going to try that, plus all the ideas you gave me will make it easier to achieve. Have a great week !!!

Great run with my 11 year old son, I ran/walked 2.5 miles. He did 5 miles , he left me in the dust. He loved the new park, in Altamonte Springs, he asked when are we coming back. We are running again on Tuesday night after work.

We are walking this after with some friends.

Hope you are all having a great time, have a great week !!!

Clifford, the offers still stands and you are welcome to come on in and join in the fun and work. Glad that you have been given the green light to start back.

Only thing better then a good workout is one with family / close friends.

Well I offically kicked off my training today with a nice and easy 24 mile ride. It went better than I was expecting, but I could tell on one climb in particular how much I have lost over the less than active past 4 months or so. I was able to hold an average speed of around 16.5 going up this hill before and today with the same precived output I was at 13.5, nice slap in the face if you will, but I know it will come back in a month or so.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to get in some workouts. I could not have asked for a more perfect day of weather then today.

Glad the food suggestions helped :-) You can say I have OCD about meal planning LOL I just know I love to sit down to a nice dinner instead of standing in front of the fridge trying to decide what to cook. Great job on your run with your son! That's awesome he is already wanting to come back for more! Keep up the awesome work!

Hi Everybody, hope you all had a good weekend.

Just completed week 4 of my program and I'm please to say I've met my goals for January. IE weight loss, smaller waist, distance I can swim & run. I'm a long way off from where I want to be but I'm heading in the right direction at the right pace to be ready for next season. I plan to travel north during winter so I may get the chance to do a tri earlier if I'm ready.

Highlights this week were a good MTB ride and I went for a run even though it was raining. I figure if you race in the rain you can train in the rain.

A topic that came up this week in 2 seperate conversations was that when running or riding there is a tendancy to want to catch the runner/rider in front of you or not get passed by the person behind you. I'm working hard at ignoring this and progressing at my own (turtle) pace. How does everybody else go with this?

Rod

So I worked out today after a four day break/binge but somehow still lost weight. I am refocusing and will try to get in at least 30min a day. I also log my food with my fitness pal and strongly recommend it if you are trying to lose weight. I had success in the past but gained the weight back after I stopped using it. I find when I log my food it also keeps me focused on working out.

I am having serious problems with my swimming and thinking about taking a swimming class but really don't want/ can't spend the money on it right now. My problem is breathing. I am trying to keep my head down and follow the line but when I come up for air I seem to be gasping and cannot go very far. When I focus on my breathing I seem to be inhaling water at some point and I feel completely lost. I am hoping the more I swim the better I will get at it but I feel ridiculous with experienced swimmers in the lane next to me. Is this normal and keep at it or should I give in and get lessons?

I've been reading and watching info for Total Immersion swimming and had tried several of the drills last week. During the drills I realized that I am a "weak kicker" and at times actually go backward when doing balance and sweet spot drills. 45 minutes of that left me deflated and like I was just treading water, literally.

So I decided to look into some fins for the drills. I found some on Craigslist (Finis Floating fins) for $10, got them Friday and tried them out Saturday. What a difference it made! I could actually do the drills and focus on them since I was moving forward with just a gentle kick. I did take them off and do a little swimming afterward too to make sure I don't' become reliant on them for actual swimming. I suppose I'm better off to not kick while swimming, if it's counterproductive anyway!

Anyway, I'd recommend getting some if you're having issues. The other ones I was considering before finding the used ones were the Aquasphere Alphafin, fyi.

Happy Training!
Mark