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Lumber Dad - 2011-01-20 9:47 AM

Great time to be in FL. Temp for my run this morning was -5F, tomorrow morning it's supposed to be -15F with -25 to -30 windchill.

Was down in FL this past July, it was usually around 80 for my early morning run.

gbswan - 2011-01-20 8:48 AM Can I just say that the process surprises me every once in a while?  I got home late after working and running the kids to stuff last night and thought, "I am just going to get a 30 minute treadmill walk in, it's better than nothing."

Well, 5 minutes in everything loosened up and the motivation came from nowhere and in the middle of my 30 minutes I actually got 15 minutes of run in covering 1.5 miles.  Not a great pace but the first 10 minute mile pace I have been able to maintain for an extended period of time.  That's a run half of race distance and the race isn't until June!

I am so glad I found this place!

Lumber Dad - 2011-01-20 8:50 AM For thoes that are trying to lose weight, I just got an email for an weight lose challenge. www.lightenupwisconsin.com

I haven't had time to check into it yet, but I see one of the sponsers is the Badger State Games so looks like it might be good.

Lumber Dad - 2011-01-16 6:16 PM Living in the Wis, I don't have to wait till summer to race. I turn to skiing or snowshoeing to keep me motivated during the winter. 

I have a 50K CC ski race scheduled for the end of February, it is a race that has been on my bucket list for a while now.
My skiing hasn't been going as good as I hoped so I might have to do the 23K race and wait a couple years before I attempt the 50K.  

monicamm68 - 2011-01-23 6:11 PM The Pack is Back!!! On the way to the BIG one!

zkaizen - 2011-01-23 7:31 PM Sorry folks, I have been MIA for a bit, family life is busy at the moment with 3 year old and wife being pregnant (woo hoo!). Anyway, I am still keeping up with 'some' training and just getting back to an official start for my tri training this week. Today I clocked a 6 km run at 6.40 am. I am sort of following a plan, but I think the plan I have seems kinda 'easy', I think the volume will pick up soon. I will have a bike ride tonight, I know the plan says 20 minutes, but I have ridden 40k rides before, so I will probably do 40 min of bike tonight! See ya!

I am dreading tomorrow morning, it will be a swim - I will try to flounder, I mean swim tomorrow, still looking for a local coach for swimming here.

BTW I have registered for a Bike Race (60K) in March and a short course tri early April. Cheers!

McLuvin - 2011-01-24 9:37 AM Oh what a week, everyone in my family came down with a bad cold/flu last week, daughter was the worse with 104 fever for 4 days. Personally, I was laid up Mon-Wed. Thought about forcing a workout Thursday and then made a decision to take the full week off. I have had a really good 11 week stretch of training and was starting to feel a little run down (especially mentally) and figured, how much of a setback could a week off be. I guess I will find out. I totally feel rested and am anxious to get in the pool today! Went to the Packer game yesterday and even though the second half was closer than I wish, it was a great day to be a Packer fan!

Lumber Dad - 2011-01-24 9:45 AM



Probably a good idea to rest and not worry about a lost week.

That is so cool you made it to the Packer game. Sure hope Rogers does better in when he doesn't have to worry about the cold weather.

sdnebfan - 2011-01-24 12:34 PM Good solid week of workouts. Would have liked to bike alittle more.  Good solid work outs in the gym. Good interval workout Monday on the track and 10 mile run this last weekend.  Things are starting to come around.  A few more weeks of base building and then the real training starts for IMWI.