May Flowers Challenge (Page 15)

Hey Crushers....

What are we doing next month?

Thanks Emma!

The only good thing here is that the clinic director wants me to be involved with a study he is setting up so I now get free treatment and with the ultra sound he has shown me what to do and I can just go and use it when it suits me

Well it's been a happy and productive 5 days off! Unfortunately back to work tomorrow, but I think I can handle it.
(While still on the job front - no call today from that position I applied for - hopefully tomorrow!)

So I met the friends AND Kid#1 (yes I'm still going on about that) and get this - last night the boyfriend shows up at my house with a set of golf clubs - for me! I golfed a fair amount when I was younger (mom & dad were both presidents of their respective gender's golf clubs back when gender was a deciding factor, jeez I'm getting old) ... but haven't golfed in 20 years. By choice. I asked my boyfriend when we first started dating if he'd teach me how and the answer was a resounding no - many reasons, #1 being he's a serious golfer and I don't think he has the patience for a beginner who's "not very good" and also the fact that I don't enjoy watching golf on tv is some kind of big deal (?) ... I thought it would be nice for when we travel if I have at least some passing knowledge of the game so we could enjoy that together, but I happily wrote it off as something I don't have to do and quite frankly forgot about it.

Last night he shows up with a set of clubs for me. Then proceeded to school me on "Couple's  Night" at the club. I guess I have to learn to golf?!?
(Yanti - I know where you stand on this! But you have to admit the gesture is sweet...;-)

The man is full of surprises. Although if I have to learn to golf, he has to do yoga.

Training has been going VERY well the past little while. I made the decision to not register for the Oly in August and instead registered for the sprint distance, and since I've done that all the pressure is gone - I can just keep having fun and train and race because I want to, not because I feel I have to. I can focus on staying at the distances I'm at and getting faster, not trying to get faster AND add distance. This also gives me time to strength train as well, which I was really missing. Without the long runs and bike rides I have more time for yoga and weights, which makes me immeasurably happy.
(I'm still training for the Oly distance in swimming, not only because I love swimming and 20 minutes in the pool is barely even a warmup for me - but also because I'm doing the swim portion of an Oly relay later this summer and my two team-mates are quite competitive on the bike and run - I need to make sure we podium.;-)

Life is awesome, isn't it?

Ok just brainstorming for a June challenge but what if we set up 2 teams to compete in a sort of triathlon relay through the month.... each team would log their swimming, biking and running and at the end of the month the team with the most yards/meters/miles etc would win.  We'd have to set it up so that each team had even training levels for participants to make it a close race (i.e. each team would have as close to the same amount of people swimming/biking/running shorter distances throughout the month as well as longer distances).  We could just assign people to teams based on their projected swim/bike/run numbers for the month.  People with injuries who can't do all three sports could just participate in the sports they can physically do right now.  We could also just have members set goals and the team with the highest percentage of goals completed wins if thats easier.

Alternately, we could have 3 teams (one swim team, one bike team, one run team), a battle of the 3 triathlon sports so to speak.  Each team member would set a goal for the month and the 3 teams would compete.   The team with the highest percentage of the goals accomplished wins.  Participants just pick which team they would like to be on based on which is their favorite sport or which they feel they need the most work on, etc.

Opinions???

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Logistically, battle of the sports is much easier AND it's never been done!!! Challenge Queen Emma!!!

Emma I like Idea #2 ... and put me on the swim team - as that's where my training is concentrated!

Guys I'm having a weird day ... feeling just oddly nostalgic and overwhelmed and underwhelmed and sad and beside myself with happiness all at the same time!

It was 1 year ago today that the movers came and took away all my stuff, and I spent my last night in my house in Victoria BC ... one year ago tomorrow that I packed up my little Dodge with my precious things (most notably my dog Albert & cat Maggie, and my 102 yr old clock that was given to my great-grandparents on their wedding day in 1909 that still works like it's a day old) and drove as far as Kelowna BC (an 11-hr drive, due to getting lost). Night spent in a hotel, i remember the dog got sick, it was pouring rain, I lost my Oakleys, and room service screwed up my order ... Then a week ago on May 28 was my epic drive from Kelowna to Calgary (again - many hours longer than it should have been due to getting lost, again, I really should have fore-thought a map), arriving in Calgary, and taking possession of my beautiful home and life.

It's been a stellar year. Marred terribly by the loss of Albert (17-yrs old he was, and the best thing that ever happened to me - I miss him every day) and the catastrophe with Balin (the other dog that came to me so briefly here) but otherwise the best year of my life! Coming home was the best thing I ever did. I literally thank my lucky stars every day for the life that I have. And that I still have Maggie.

Yup ... I'm teary this day. I should point out that the 3 years I lived in Victoria were the worst years of my life, and I was miserable beyond apprehension the entire time I 'lived' there ... it was truly terrible. Yanti will remember me during this time ... I was a different person.

I'm with you on bikers! 

 I swam way too much when I wasn't allowed to do anything else and my run is still too lilited to put a mileage goal in there.

Glad to be on the team with you two!

Must we be restricted to mileage? I don't have anything on my new bike to gage that, and the distance on the spinner isn't realistic. I would like to complete 12 hours of bike training in June, which is the amount of time laid out by the BT plan I am currently... ignoring...

We could lay the spreadsheet out similar to recent ones where everyone types in their own goal and a personal percentage is retrieved, then total percentage from everyone on a given team is calculated. This way it's flexible for those who want to do distance or time. What are everyone's thoughts?