The Things That Go Bump In The Night Team Thread (Page 12)

Everyone is doing awesome, actually. Part of the low percentage is due to Cleavitt's absence.

Okay, it's Oprah time on Thread Bump.

1. I confess I may have been posting in the enemy camp ... and not smacktalk.

2. I confess I may have seen another team member there.

3. I confess that I may have been e-consorting with members of other teams.

Not that any of that is soooo horrible, but when you consider that:

- I haven't even posted HERE yet today

- them apples are ahead of us in posts and running

aaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeee!

So after these tearful confessions, I now resolve to:

- do an easy run tonight (I need to anyway, and won't worsen the cold)

- post lots of inspirational and perhaps even vaguely relevant stuff in here

- make sure I inspire you guys in your logs, too.

Thank you for the support, *snif*, my name is Yanti and I am a lapsed Bumper!

Penalty points for Yanti -- must go randomly inspire 5 people today and beg them to come inspire everyone on our team! 

Let the other teams think we are behind...we can sneak up on them, as ghosts are wont to do.  As we know from racing, negative split, negative split, negative split.  Start out too fast, bonk before the finish line.  Just watch the pace booty and know when to pass. 

Keep on running! 

The penance has begun! More to come ... soon.

Yanti,   So many confessions...I've only smack talked on a couple of threads--only because I really don't want to get all the e-mail updates about all the other team threads and can only block a whole topic as opposed to particular threads.  I told someone from black magic to screw off the other day (in person at that) but that's about as nasty as I've gotten here.

My big confession?  You'll find it in yesterdays blog.  I realized I'm more of a swimmer who rides and runs than a runner who swims and rides.  Pretty crazy since I began all this tri stuff by injuring my foot with all the running I was doing.  Still love a good run, but it's taking me more and more motivation to get out there and DO IT.  It may of course be partly related to the 90+ degree weather we're experiencing in OCTOBER when it should be getting crisp and cool...

Today was a swim day (what else on Tuesdays and Thursdays?), tomorrow is a 12 hour shift in the cesspool called pod 1 so it's a "rest day" for me.  Thursday is a swim, core class and a bike.  Friday might be a short brick after work because Saturday is my fall 10K.  A totally new race for me so it will be fun!

Keep RUNNING gang!

Y'know Judi ... I did notice how impressive your swim workouts have gotten.

But as for being a biker, runner, or swimmer ... I think you are a very impressive triathlete.

Ahhh, confession is good for the soul! 

I guess I should try some of that myself - here goes

1.  I confess that I may have been posting in the enemy camp.....some smack talk, but not related to the challenge.....

2.  I confess I may have seen another team member there

3.  I confess that I have not contributed toward meeting my goal this week (there are some extenuating (sp?) circumstances which I will explain later

After these tearful confessions, I resolve to

1. Find something really great and inspirational to post in our thread

2.  Figure out a way to overcome the challenge at hand (or ankle as the case may be) and meet my goals - do not fear team, I WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!

3. Inspire my fellow teammates and cheer them on toward their goals

sniff, sniff

ahhhhh, confession, good for the soul -

Oh - you guys are soooooooooooo, going to love this!

Why Run?  Here's why........this even inspired me (not saying I don't love to run - cuz, umm, I do, of course I do)

I digress - here you go - enjoy!

Why Run?  This is why!

Sorry, I just have really been wanting to do that!

So, how have I been doing in my steps toward running and team recovery?

Inspires--done.

Running--some walking. Not quite well enough to run yet.

Inspirational stuff in this thread--not yet, although I enjoyed Beth's!

Tomorrow's another day ... have a good one!

Bonus points for Paul for a fast fast track run!  Upping the intensity doesn't officially count for anything in this volume-based culture of BT challenges, but it does for me, so you get props and good karma points, not to mention faster at your next race.

Bonus, too, for volunteering at the 5k.  

Morning team

Glad you liked the inspiration.  I thought it was pretty cool also. 

Hope everyone has a great day!

Yikes!  That sounds like it would have hurt!

You're excused - temporarily LOL

T's husband is going to have big ol' scar!

5 mi for me today -- 2 easy, 2 fartlek, 1 easy. 

(5 mi Arcadia.JPG)

Biking in the rain can be real sweet and refreshing if you have decent raingear. On the other hand, you've been working really hard ... you deserve a day off!

Great to hear from you, Sharkbait (sorry ... Selachophobia is just too long to write! Oops! Did I just do that?) Glad you got the work thing sorted out.

Oh man ... I hope hubby is okay! He and Beth should talk ... there's some serious bloodletting goin' on in this thread .

This week seems like it's a bit of a drag, or injured/tired/sick for most of us. Except Gail, the ever-chipper cheerleader--thank you so much!!!

"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it." -Steve Prefontaine

You guys weren't supposed to take that quote literally!

Here's a link to Prefontaine's page ... I don't know why, but even postmortem he works his charm on millions of people. There is just something about the guy. An odd kind of inspiration, but very inspirational nevertheless.

http://www.prefontainerun.com/

Especially since you're just starting out ... it's probably better to get to the walk break sooner. In other words, stick with 30s intervals, but do them more frequently.

That's what Jeff Galloway would say, anyway. He's my hero.

http://www.jeffgalloway.com/