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I completed Week 1 Day 3 last night but I don't feel that I was getting stronger which has been my problem all along.  I'd do push ups in class and feel weaker and weaker each week.  Anyway I may repeat Week 1 then continue on.  No problem on the sit ups.  :-)

Day and a half until we leave for sunny Florida.  YEAH!!!  Can't wait for a little warm sunshine.

Can I vent on a non-tri subject?

Today my husband was laid off.  The company hadn't been doing well, so it really isn't a big shock.  My husband hasn't been happy there anyway, so we were planning to make a change this year.  We have a house in New York, in the mountains, and we were thinking it was time to get out of New Jersey permanently.  We were thinking we would start looking for a new job for him in the spring, and go when the kids were done with school.  The lay-off just messed with the timing of my plans.  I've been so busy at work today (7 pm and I'm still here, probably for a few more hours) that I haven't really had time to think about it.  I have to regroup over the weekend and figure out a new plan of attack.

On the bright side, the first tri I have planned is near the NY house, because I had planned to combine it with a long weekend up there.  At least I won't have to redo my training schedule.

Thanks, I just needed to say it somewhere. 

That's terrible - I'm really sorry to hear that.

I guess it's at least something of a consolation that it somewhat coincides with your plans, even if it does screw up the timing. 

Good luck getting things figured out.

Sorry to hear about the hubby's job.  I hope things still work out the way you want.  Feel free to vent again in the future.  :-)

Thanks.  For the next few days we'll just be doing what needs to be done immediately (unemployment, medical insurance, etc.), then we'll give the "what's next?" thing some thought after hubby has some time to get past the emotional/ego part.  Tough for the resident computer god to find out he's no longer needed. 

I went for a run yesterday morning and it had just started snowing here.  I love snow, and we haven't had much this winter, so I enjoyed being out in it.  If we could schedule some snow flurries on all my run days, I might get to like running!  We only ended up with a dusting instead of the 3 inches we were promised, but at least it didn't rain.

I hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!

Sorry to hear, Debbie.  At the very least you did have future plans for something, so hopefully y'all will be able to handle the transition a bit better.

And we can vent on anything.  Part of training and doing triathlon is fitting it in to everyday life, and life can throw a much more wicked curveball than this sport can.  These mentor groups (at least how I envision ours) aren't just for tri related training stuff.  Heart rates, bi lateral breathing, cadences, etc. are really just a small part of figuring this stuff out.  We all have to deal with everyday life.  Our motivations, successes, disappointments, etc.  How we handle those is what really translates over to how we deal with training and how we get to the starting line.  So if anyone ever needs to vent, celebrate, or just throw something out there... we don't judge.  We're all here for support, motivation, and a swift kick in the pants if needed

I like your perspective 

Thank you all for the support.  Surprisingly, this may actually help my running.  I went out this morning and did 20 minutes, even though it was only 20 degrees.  I didn't bring my iPod and found that the quiet was nice.  It gave me time to think, which I needed, and the time went fast.

I have to adjust my morning schedule now that my husband isn't leaving early for work, but I don't have to get up at 5 am anymore, so I'm not complaining.  The poor guy is all depressed about not working, but I just keep thinking of projects that need to get done around the house and how nice it is to have him home for awhile to work on them.  Pretty soon he'll be too busy to miss work.

BeginnerMan, those cookies sound great. 

I lost just over a pound since last week, so I'm on track so far for my goal of a pound a week...

Of course there's a lot of variance in scale reading etc from day to day so who knows if I really lost a pound, but I'm choosing to ignore that .  I'm just going to weigh myself once a week and see what happens.  I feel like I'm losing and I've had people say my face looks smaller so something must be going right.

Keeping track of calories is helping me to think twice about what I'm eating, so thank you to the people who suggested that.  It's a lot less tempting to get a snack I don't need when I know I've already eaten a million calories that day.

Still need to work on balancing out the meals.  I seem to eat the same amount of calories at dinner as I do for breakfast and lunch combined...

Have a good week gang.

Happy Tuesday!

My husband had his first day home by himself yesterday.  Trying to be helpful, he cooked lentils for dinner, which was nice, except he left them on the stove and got distracted, and burned them to ash.  Turns out that burnt lentils smell exactly like burning..well..something more fun than lentils.  So this morning I left him burning some incense to cover up the other smell and gave him a nice long list of things to do around the house that will keep him out of the kitchen.

I did week 2, day 1 of the push-up challenge last night and maxed out at 15.  Okay, it's still not many, but I've doubled what I did in my initial test, so I'm happy with it.

I would really like my muscle mass to go up a bit.

When is your Oly scheduled?  Do you have enough time to start your plan over?  It sounds like you need to catch up on some sleep too! 

Clowns?

I haven't decided on a race yet.  I am planing on starting the season with a few sprints.  

I am doing BT's 16 week Oly plan

That wasn't what I was thinking but it's possible.  Let me go torch a clown and I'll let you know.

Out of interest - what's a water trot?  I was looking at your log and trying to figure that one out.

Something to do with all the puddles around at the moment?

I completed my first half marathon on Sunday, it was GREAT!  I didn't feel like I was prepared to "race" it, so I treated it as a long/slow run. 

My main goals were to

1. Have Fun

2.Finish

3.Keep consistent with LOW HR. 

I accomplished all 3!

Clowns are creepy.

hmmm... this is one important bullet point from that plan:

Re-organize the program around to suit your schedule.  JUST REMEMBER to keep the short sessions and Off days around the Long sessions.  This will allow plenty of rest before and after the long sessions.  You don't have to do 'two-a-days' if your schedule doesn't permit.  Just reorganize this and train on 6 days instead of 5.  Although you will have to do two-a-days if doing the 3x program.  You will have better success if your two-a-days are split up in the morning and night sessions.

Starting it is the hardest thing to do, especially when you get hit with other distractions, like guests.  You'll find a way to get it going, and if you miss a day, well... then you just miss a day.  It's the big picture and the volume that really count.  When you're at the starting line, whether you ran 75 miles or 70 miles in training is pretty negligible.  It's easy to get bummed and down if you know you're missing a session, and that can bleed into the next day, and the next, and the next.  When really, it's just a missed session and it has no bearing on what you have to tomorrow.

When I did my Oly plan, I looked at it from week to week.  How close could I get each week to what the plan said?  If work or something wiped a day out, I'd look at the plan and see what I was missing.  If it was a run (something I needed to do), I'd cancel a swim later in the week and move the run.  I didn't need the swim near as much.  So look week to week and work on the weakness  If you really, really, really need pool work, make your goal each week to get the swim sessions in.  If you need to postpone or cancel a run (or whatever your strength is) to do it or get some rest, then do just that.