Kamikaze Geckos (Page 13)

I hear your fine state has rain pretty much every day.  Egads.  How do you stand it.  I think I would rather take these 50-60 degree late spring days than rain every day.  Buck up, you will get outside again sometime

I moved here from LA in 2003 - wasn't too bad the first couple of years. This year has been REALLY HARD for me. we usually get a "teaser" of a sunny week in May, then June comes and "June Gloom" sets in - It's usually raining on July 4th. BUT we have spectacular summers!! I'm convinced we think they're the best because we're so thankful for any tiny ray of sun by the time July rolls around!

Well - glad I have a pool to go to and the gym! My 16 yo is also a super happy positive kid (mostly), so I get a little ray of sunshine with he and my 5 yo daughter.

And speaking of post padding motivating and communicating, did we ever introduce ourselves? 

That's how it was here in May.  Every weekend it stormed.  I was going crazy by the end of it.

Hope you don't go too crazy.   

Haha...I don't think I have enough time to try to keep up with them and I post a lot during the day.  They are one chatty bunch. 

Never formerly.  I try to send you an inspire every day now that we are teammates.  I am a Mom of three and two great dogs.  My hubby and I started triing last summer and fell in love with it.  He has challenged himself to an oly and a him this summer working his way up to a full IMAZ in November.  I had set a goal for a half mary in May, which I completed and am contemplating a full mary in Sept.  BUT, hubby gets right of workouts since he had his goal set first and both of us training crazy hours would seriously put a damper on the kiddos.  Family first. 

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 1:13 PM

Joe Runner - 2008-06-04 2:05 PM My hubby and I started triing last summer and fell in love with it.  He has challenged himself to an oly and a him this summer working his way up to a full IMAZ in November.  I had set a goal for a half mary in May, which I completed and am contemplating a full mary in Sept.  BUT, hubby gets right of workouts since he had his goal set first and both of us training crazy hours would seriously put a damper on the kiddos.  Family first. 

 

Right there with you. Mom to 2 girls (known as Elder & Younger Monkey) with a fit husband (named Sugar Daddy). He doesn't tri but he is an avid lifter. Usually he gets the morning (before work) slot, unless I get up at an ungodly hour to run before he goes to the gym. My schedule is more flexible (I'm a college prof), so I get the "whenever I get around to it" slot...which today will happen shortly. On weekends, if we both want to do something, we use the childcare at the gym - although in the summer, I hate going to the gym (except to swim). I'm trying to get Elder Monkey interested in sports - she did her first running race (0.5 miles) in May. I'm hoping that down the line, family first will mean that we're all active.

Love the monkey handle.  Cute.  We entered the boys into the kids tri at our very first.  They loved it.  My oldest (now 8) was disappointed he didn't get to swim the swim portion.  The water was to shallow so most of the kids just walked.  He ran a half mile at school a couple of weeks ago in 3:30.  WOW!  He is jazzed to do the Tri again this summer.  My 7 year old loves all things sports so he is excited too.  The two year old is just a little too small.  Next year though

Since I have a minute to pad I will introduce myself as well. Mom of twin almost 4 yr old boys, you would have never guessed that by my screen name, which at the time that I made it I thought twins were still a novelty, not anymore they are everywhere!

Started triing back in my late 20's but moved from NH to Florida and realized I was 30 and needed to get pregnant! Trained for that for the next 6yrs and moved to my present location and got pregnant! I then needed to loose the weight and get back in shape so I started training for a race, I had fertility issues and high intensity exercise ended up not being a good thing for me to conceive.  Now I try to train in between all the mommy duties, work occasionally, and trading time with Hubby who is a surfer. 

All you mom's who work and have kids and train I have the utmost respect for you! I work on call as a nurse so I make my own schedule which is usually only one night a week.

Very cool that some of you have your kids tri'ing. I think my daughter would really like it. I should sign her up for a local kids fun run and see how she does. She can't swim yet, even though we've been in 4 sessions of lessons and a couple on and off when she was younger. We'll keep trying. She LOVEs the water though.

My story - 46 yo working, single mom (already mentioned my 2 kids - 16 & 5) - former competitive swimmer WAY BACK! making swimming the "easiest" for me, except I'm really nervous about OWSing. This tri thing started when I entered a fitness challenge at work in late fall. I knew I'd need a goal to shoot for after it was over so on a whim - kind of - signed up for a sprint triathlon. I'd thought about trying to do one on and off over the years. Turns out I signed up for a hard one - so then I signed up for two more easier ones Makes total sense right? They are late season, one each in Aug, Sept, Oct. I'm incredibly slow in running as in couldn't pass Jr. Hi PE and I'm slow in biking. The good news is I've totally improved in both since I started training in Feb - so that is super awesome!

Excited to be in this group - Yeah!

PS - No more whining from me unless I'm complaining about my sore muscles from all the training I'm doing

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 5:11 PM Sucky run, but another 5.3 miles in the bank.

It's hot and humid, of course it will be sucky

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 7:35 PM

zipp1 - 2008-06-04 8:19 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 5:11 PM Sucky run, but another 5.3 miles in the bank.

It's hot and humid, of course it will be sucky

Well, yeah. But usually I have more running mojo than that. And just to finish up my introduction...I love LOVE LOVE running. I'm learning to love my bike. And swimming. Hmmm. Swimming is. Let's just leave it at that. (And my Monkeys are 6 and 3 years old.)

don't let her fool you - she Loves to swim!  just keep saying Kristen  

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 9:11 PM

lastcall2003 - 2008-06-04 9:30 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 7:35 PM

zipp1 - 2008-06-04 8:19 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 5:11 PM Sucky run, but another 5.3 miles in the bank.

It's hot and humid, of course it will be sucky

Well, yeah. But usually I have more running mojo than that. And just to finish up my introduction...I love LOVE LOVE running. I'm learning to love my bike. And swimming. Hmmm. Swimming is. Let's just leave it at that. (And my Monkeys are 6 and 3 years old.)

don't let her fool you - she Loves to swim! just keep saying Kristen

Beth lies.

I do not!

Kristen loves to swim, I love to run - and I am totally saying this with a straight face...........LOL 

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 9:26 PM

lastcall2003 - 2008-06-04 10:25 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 9:11 PM

lastcall2003 - 2008-06-04 9:30 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 7:35 PM

zipp1 - 2008-06-04 8:19 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 5:11 PM Sucky run, but another 5.3 miles in the bank.

It's hot and humid, of course it will be sucky

Well, yeah. But usually I have more running mojo than that. And just to finish up my introduction...I love LOVE LOVE running. I'm learning to love my bike. And swimming. Hmmm. Swimming is. Let's just leave it at that. (And my Monkeys are 6 and 3 years old.)

don't let her fool you - she Loves to swim! just keep saying Kristen

Beth lies.

I do not!

Kristen loves to swim, I love to run - and I am totally saying this with a straight face...........LOL

Yeah, but you ran 6 miles today. So you're a runner. I didn't go to the pool today. So I'm not a swimmer.

heh - hmmmm

no response

carry on! 

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 9:30 PM

lastcall2003 - 2008-06-04 10:27 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 9:26 PM

lastcall2003 - 2008-06-04 10:25 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 9:11 PM

lastcall2003 - 2008-06-04 9:30 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 7:35 PM

zipp1 - 2008-06-04 8:19 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-06-04 5:11 PM Sucky run, but another 5.3 miles in the bank.

It's hot and humid, of course it will be sucky

Well, yeah. But usually I have more running mojo than that. And just to finish up my introduction...I love LOVE LOVE running. I'm learning to love my bike. And swimming. Hmmm. Swimming is. Let's just leave it at that. (And my Monkeys are 6 and 3 years old.)

don't let her fool you - she Loves to swim! just keep saying Kristen

Beth lies.

I do not!

Kristen loves to swim, I love to run - and I am totally saying this with a straight face...........LOL

Yeah, but you ran 6 miles today. So you're a runner. I didn't go to the pool today. So I'm not a swimmer.

heh - hmmmm

no response

carry on!

Hmmm. I thought it would be more fun to get you to give in. But it was kinda anti-climatic. Like winning a staring contest.

LOL!

it's probably because after my actual 'run' I am brain dead and not clever at all - we shall spar again after a swim

Here is my background.  I was born in Washington DC.  I lived in Blacksburg (Virginia Tech) for the majority of my childhood (with side trips to Madison, Oxford England, Boston).  I went to school at Ohio University.  I took a job in Hartford CT.  The company made me an offer I could not refuse---which was to move out of CT.  I transfered to Northern California and have been there ever since. 

 I was on the fast track to diabetes (my grandfather got his leg amputated)--I ballooned up to 212--but was probably heavier as I avoided scales.  About four years ago I started to swim at my kid's masters program. Three years ago I started to run on April 15th.  I started to think about TRIs and began to train for one that summer. I dropped down to 183--but am now at 187, which is more comfortable for me.

I am married (my wife does tris too) and have five kids.