Let's Get It Started! with chrisbowers mentor group - CLOSED and ROLLING! (Page 14)

Friggin' intense!

Work is sucking the life outta me!  Scholarship deadlines so overtime all week and worked another 8 hours today...yes and the three hour drive round trip. I do believe I should get paid overtime for my drive time too.  I managed to get small training in this week but nothing close to the training I was suppose to do.  

One more week and then I am headed to So Cal! Can't wait! Get to see my lil punk and a half too. Run on the beaches...bike along the coast...it is all good.

I have used The Original Swedish Goggles since about 1990 and haven't worn anything else since.  I like them because they don't have any foam or rubber around the eyes and they only cost around $5.  They don't fit everyone's eyes but I guess I lucked out. My daughter swims on a year round swim team and she swears by Speedo Vanquisher 2.0 Plus and they are about $20.  Hope this helps :-)

Got in a 5K run and a 2500 yard swim:

WU: 250

Main 2 x 1000

CD 5 x 50

Looking at my schedule for the week and with the over time required at work, I am not sure where or how it is all going to happen.  I think I penciled out something that will work. And, it will require me to step out of my comfort zone and use two different pools other than the one I usually use...this will be a good thing.  

Using two other pools doesn't seem like a big deal but I sure did comfortable at my regular pool.  So it will be good to do something different, not crazy but uncomfortable none the less.

I am glad to see that last week is finally over.  I am back to a more normal, but regular stressful week and back to working out.  I will hit the pool today.

Swam yesterday and today.  Felt a lot better today after the workout.  I would like to say that I went 5000 yds, but that would be just a down right lie.  I went my normal 1300 yards.  We need a nickname for Mr. 4000.

I need to buy some long biking pants myself.  The first time it got cold, I got all bundled up to ride my bicycle and went out to the garage and got ready to go.  I went one block and came right back home.  I had not put near enough clothes on.

I actually got both on a clearance rack at REI. But I just saw the jammers on swimoutlet.com for $27 but they are only in large size...I got medium.

http://www.swimoutlet.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=22159&Click=310393&gclid=COqDluLrjK4CFYIUKgodSTPyhg

Heyyyyyy, I'm not that old :-)  haha

No training for me tomorrow :-(.  My daughter's having shoulder surgery in the morning and we are hoping that's going to fix over a year's worth of pain and not being able to swim to the best of her ability.  Amazingly enough, the Dr says she should be back in the pool in 6-8 weeks with no pain! 

Maybe I can fit a bike ride in later in the day

Yesterday I had another crying mom on the phone...her youngest was leaving for college and she was terribly upset.  Not so much that she didn't want him to go but she just didn't know what she was going to do.  I shared with her that I started doing triathlons....we talked  for over half an hour.  By the end of the conversation she was so excited to start something new; coming from a swim back ground she thought doing triathlons would be great.  She had lots of questions especially about starting at her age and being over weight.  

She called again today to tell me there was an event at REI and two booths with tri info.  She had another tri encounter and felt it was a sign.  She had more questions but she was so excited and wanted to thank me for sharing my story with her.  She seemed much happier with a new idea for her life forming in her mind.  Who'da thunk I could make such a difference with my experience...pretty cool.

I got on the indoor trainer this morning and just "wasn't feeling it."  I seriously considered stopping after a couple of minutes and going back to bed!  Then I remembered some advice from my early running days... give yourself the first mile (or first 10 minutes... some "short segment".  If you still feel crummy at the end of the first mile, you can turn around and go home.  Otherwise, keep going.  You might be surprised how well it turns out.  So, I dialed down the intensity a little and committed to 10 minutes.  I finished the full 45 minute workout and felt really good at the end.

So, whatever you're doing today, have a great workout.  You deserve one.

I think this is really good advice.  I think the second time I did a brick (ran after riding my bike ride) I just was not feeling the run and after about a 1/2 mile I thought I was going to have to quit.  But I dialed down the intensity for a few minutes and then I felt better and got in the groove and completed the planned run and felt real good afterward.