Beer Drinker Appreciation Society - Open For Business (Page 147)

Originally posted by b2b14

I have decided to run a Half Marathon for team St. Jude. I have never done fund raising before and reached out to Dave who gave me some great advise.

I have decided to run this race and raise money for St. Jude because of the great work they do for childhood cancers. I don't think I have ever shared with the group that I lost my youngest daughter 4 years ago. I have felt a push to help sick children and their parents ever since. I remember feeling sad, mad, but mostly alone. I am hoping by doing this some of the parents will realize they are not alone and people are thinking of them and praying for them. My wife started a support group for parents of loss, but I have never been so good at expressing my feelings (my wife calls me a robot). I am including a link to the page. It is pretty generic right now but I plan to add more as time goes on.



http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Heroes/Heroes?px=3581550&pg=p...

Originally posted by Qua17

Hi All - Here is the race report. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... I wish I had reach my goal there were a lot of factors that got in my way (crash, heat, mechanical issues). While I'm bummed about my time - I know I gave it everything I had. I celebrated last night with wings and beers at BW3's! A big thanks to Alan for his coaching - the fact that I rode the last 5 on the bike above 18 mph - fastest riding ever - is a testiment to his coaching

Originally posted by drfoodlove

300/400 today!! It was the epic workout one might hope for a milestone, but it got done. It was supposed to be a 25-30 mi ride, but I bailed after 7 in fear for my life. The traffic was crazy and terrible on my planned route. I've done this route at this time of day before with no problems, but today seemed like every crackpot in Carbondale was out. I had just picked up my bike from the shop from its three month tune up and really wanted to see how it felt. Apparently my curb jumping last month did more damage than I could see. I've been riding around on untrue wheels. Can I call that strength training?!?

Originally posted by sandishr

checking in....

Training has definitely been compromised the past few weeks from the hamstring issues. I have an appt. with sports med next week, though it may not get me additional info. I'm able to run with some discomfort but running doesn't aggravate it. Interestingly, biking bothered it as much as running....not initially, but definitely afterwards. Fortunately, I was able to get in with a local PT guy who is the expert bike fitter for the area, on the off chance it was the new bike. I figured I'd had the bike just long enough that if something was slightly off, it might have caused some stress...which extra running then caused to emerge. Sure enough.....yep....at least that's what the PT/bike dude said. Seat was JUST high enough in combination with an angle issue of the post to cause tendon stress....it's unofficially a mild case of hamstring tendonitis. That will all be fixed next week with some adjustments and hardware, which I could feel immediately. One leg is also much weaker than the other (which I already knew), it's also my now blind side and I'm now much poorer at recognizing compensation signs on that side, and the combination just set me up. He's feeling like I'll be fine in a week, but we'll be doing lots of work over the coming few months to prevent future injury. I think I've FINALLY found a really great PT who gets the visual issues/impact, and who is also bike fitness focused. His office is fully centered around triathlon sports too. :-) This just feels like a great move for me. And it helps that anything medical this year (and probably next) is fully covered since I've met my annual deductible and have a jillion referrals to every possible medical resource....it's all free. :-)

I suspect my racing season is over though. Theoretically I could do one of the two sprints I'd planned on this month, but I think it's probably unnecessarily pushing it...we just lose too much fitness too easily in a few weeks off, and while I think I caught this early it would really me off if I turned it into a longer term or bigger problem. I really want to work on maintaining my previous physical fitness but also on strengthening and balancing my muscle groups a little better. It's feeling like time to transition my training plan for the year and focus on something long term over the off season--which I was terrible at last year, so it would be good to prevent this!

Will be keeping an eye on the rest of you for the next few weeks...got some exciting races coming up!

Sandi

Originally posted by aviatrix802

Hahaha! I have a great picture to post when I get home! I am staying in room #123 and my bib # is 456. That has to be good luck, right?!
07:00 start tomorrow - nervous and not sure why, I've done this race before! Beer is planned for after and some outlet shopping!
Good luck to everyone training and racing this weekend!!

Originally posted by adempsey10

I've been absent this past week and apparently missed a lot of stuff. I've been up camping and have had only intermittent use of my phone (not charging for some reason). 

Congrats to everyone on their races, especially David Q, you kicked a$$ despite some setbacks. 

I'm currently in Windsor, just across the river from Detroit, for two bike races. Yesterday was the first and I felt the strongest I've felt all year. Unfortunately a crash late in the race put an end to any hope of a good placement. I'm hoping today's race goes a little better. My bike was okay but my helmet and body took a beating. I went head first into a guardrail post. Luckily it happened while going up a sharp hill so we weren't going very fast.

 

Originally posted by aviatrix802

Hahaha! Okay, I've got the 8 taken care of - I was 8/30 in my age group! I'm waiting for the results/splits to come out to see if there's a 7 & 9 in there! I did force myself to do the run/walk thing which was painful because on my last walk 2 women from my age group passed me and I couldn't quite get them back before the end. I reeled them in but didn't have enough real estate to get it done. So close to 6th. But I feel good and my knee isn't crying.
Met my goal of beating last year's time of 2:58. I got 2:52 this year. I felt good on the bike and I know i did better on the run this year than last but we'll see in the next couple of days what the splits say. At camp now and ready to relax with a cold frosty one!

Gretchen, is your race this weekend?!?! I couldn't remember is it's this weekend or next. Good luck!!!!! Look it in the eye and go for it!!!!! You've got this!!!