The Things That Go Bump In The Night Team Thread (Page 14)

BunnyB - 2007-10-10 9:06 PM So, Yanti, tell me about your new avatar? You said a few days ago there would be a new one coming on the 15th. By my calendar, you're 5 days early. Regardless, I'm very intrigued by it.

Well ... even the TANers (WHOOPS! Did I just say that, here?) were getting freaked out by the large hairy creature on my face ... and I had also promised -- oh shoot, now I can't remember who -- that I'd feature my tattoo as October's avatar.

Of course it just so happens that I have a picture of Rosie adjacent to my tattoo, but I thought I'd make the whole thing bloody and eerie. I mean, would you want ANY of that bumping into you in the night?

TriAya - 2007-10-10 8:48 PM

BunnyB - 2007-10-10 9:06 PM So, Yanti, tell me about your new avatar? You said a few days ago there would be a new one coming on the 15th. By my calendar, you're 5 days early. Regardless, I'm very intrigued by it.

Well ... even the TANers (WHOOPS! Did I just say that, here?) were getting freaked out by the large hairy creature on my face ... and I had also promised -- oh shoot, now I can't remember who -- that I'd feature my tattoo as October's avatar.

Of course it just so happens that I have a picture of Rosie adjacent to my tattoo, but I thought I'd make the whole thing bloody and eerie. I mean, would you want ANY of that bumping into you in the night?

I think it's Awesome! 

TANers - who are they?!  ;-)

Fellow Bumpers -

I don't want you to think I've fallen off the when you look at the totals after this week - my total will probably be low - maybe even non-existant

I had a little mishap and cut my ankle - thus Yanti's reference to bloodletting - ewww!

It's in my log if you want the gory details ( this is also a shameless plug for inspires - LOL - I love to inspire and to be inspired!)

Seriously, I've posted it on a couple of other threads and don't want to bore everyone with another rendition of the story.

Don't worry though, I won't let you down!  As soon as this stupid cut heals enough that I can put a shoe on, I'll be back at it!

Awesome advice - this is actually exactly how I started and it works really well

Can't remember who helped me, but it was someone wise, that's for sure!

wurkit_gurl - 2007-10-10 9:12 PM Okay, so I just had to share this because I think this is funny, but I just went and checked the standings for this year's Virginia Triathlon Series - both races I did were part of the series - out of 317 women in my AG, I am number 53! Now, I am #53, not because I am awesome, but because mostly everyone after me in the standings only did 1 race out of the series and I did 2, however, the number SOUNDS impressive, and so I will keep this number in the back of my mind as a motivational tool

It not only sounds impressive - it is impressive!

Great job! 

Hey, gang, we need to work on boosting the confidence of our team leader, who today alone has suggested that she feels fat, not awesome, and not fast enough to be appealing to the cute fit boy triathletes in the neighborhood -- all of which are definitely not perceptions shared by the rest of us, I am sure! 

Pleae go remind her how terrific she is ...

holy smokes! I spend 12 hrs at work in the ER and come home to162 messages in my in-box with our thread jumping around 3 pages.  what a chatty bunch we are today.

An ER first...I've been an RN for over 20 years, 13 of those years chasing ambulances in the ER (told you I was nucking futs)...today I had this ENORMOUS  pt come in by squad (we're talking 500 plus pounds).  She sleeps on a mattress on the floor cause she broke her bed when she fell out of it last spring (also broke her leg...)Ran out of her meds and money to get them.  Her teenage daughter helps her bathe once in a while.  Oh yeah, she was RIPE.  I wound up giving her a bath which I have NEVER done in the ER unless the pt got bodily fluids and other assorted lovely stuff all over them. But this one got a purposeful bath as in find the soap, mouth care stuff, lotion and special wash for the ultra stinky zones.  A part of hands on care I haven't done much since getting out of the ICU...At least I managed to help get her admitted so she can get what she needs.  It's pathetic how people have to live anymore but so much of that is by their own choice to WALLOW in self pity rather than figure out how to move beyond the circumstances life deals them

thanks for letting me rant...

Gail, can you please be my hero too! I really need one!!! Can you also confine "running" in those 30'' sprints? You said earlier, if I recall, that you don't do distance that much but intensive training. What kind of running practises you do, my hero (hopefully)?

and you all - we are almost last after first week! c'mon you all!!!! by end of this week lets hit the 50% mark!!! we can do it!!! less chatting and more running!!!

btw, I went yesterday to a new local attraction - Lost Paradise of Dilmun waterpark. Soooooo cool!!! Best part was that you need to walk plenty of stairs. Good training!

i haven't been in states for a decade - is obesity problem really that big what you can understand in news and internet? sounds really bad...

I'm happy to be everyone's hero (as long as y'all inspire me, too)!   

I was a FOP swimmer and DFL runner/walker.   Surgery in Jan., and  now I can run for the first time ever, and I didn't want to overdo it (or underdo it) so I hired a coach to turn me into "a runner" but without more injury.  He schedules different kinds of runs that mix intensity, duration, and volume.  I did only run/walk intervals for the first 6 weeks.  Now I am working on running longer and faster.  This week is a base week for my Dec. half marathon; the schedule is:

• Recovery swim (from last week's "longish" elevation run)
  
• Run 5 miles, middle 2 miles fartlek
• Run 5 miles hills, high HR on climbs & walk at top to recover if necessary
• Run 40 min flat, first half jog and second half fartlek
• bike an hour easy/spin, Zone1 recovery ride
• Run 2 hours -- Go the distance!!!!

Next week is harder; today he will tell me what the schedule will be, and I am sure it will have more interval speed runs, like last week did.  I'll post more as I know it.