Julia's Group - Full (Page 15)

I think goals for the week, rather than the month is the right track for most of us by the sounds of it right  now.  It is a busy time of year, stress piles on, etc.  So my goals for the week. 

1.  Defeat the negative self-talk.  Think positives, write positives, do positives.

2.  Go for a hike once.

3.  Attempt to bike 2x.....min. 30 min.

4.  Continue with P.T.

5.  Swim 3x, Yoga twice.    

 Light?  Come on now!  You are an achiever, not a lightweight. 

Well, I'm BACK!!  Not well, but back.  After the race, we left within a few hours for the 22 hour drive back.  I started feeling sick in the car with a few hours left then spent half of the night puking my brains out last night...  ICK!  Sorry TMI.  The race went well.  I'll post a race report, but I was 5th in my AG - BUT only 30" from 3rd.  HAd I known that I was racing for the podium, I would have pushed harder!!!  There's a saying that you can't win the race on the swim, but you can sure lose it on the swim.  That's what happened to me!

Anyway, sorry I've got a LOT of questions to catch up on! 

Diane-  Double check the pool.  I am one of the faster swimmers in my races and my FASTEST 1650 time (1 mile) is 22 minutes.  I swim a 500 in just under 7 minutes. 

As for the shoes - I used to have ALL kinds of problems.  I always wore an 8.5.  I had toenails fall off after long runs, blisters, the whole nine yards.  BUT then I went to a good running store and got a good person to fit me - I needed a 9!!!  And I don't have problems any more!  Hopefully they will be good.  I wear superfeet inserts.  I used to wear my full orthodics for running, but as I've gotten stronger, I don't need them.  There are 2 schools on this.  My OPINION is that if you have pain, you should try something, but wean yourself into them.  After you run more and feel comfortable, you should wean yourself off of them.  This way your muscles will strengthen properly and eventually you may not need them!

Motivation, motivation, motivation......  HMMMMM

IT's SPRING!!  It's almost race season (well it IS for me!) and there has never been a better time to get out there.  I'll check your individual logs in the next day or so and see if there is any insight or specific inspiration I can give.  Hope EVERYONE had a great weekend

J

The RACE REPORT is UP!! 

Diane- I think 15' would be perfect.  It shouldn't matter too much, they just want to put people with roughly the same groups to be close and no one gets too trampled   HAve a great week!

Julia

Hip, hip, hooorayyyyyyyyy!  10 min. eliptical, followed by a 1 mile run...albeit at a slow pace for me....but MAN OH MAN did that FEEEEEEEEEL   GREAAAAAAATT!  Hopefully that will carry through tonight and tomorrow.  Put one foot in front of the other......

NICE work on getting back on the eliptical and RUNNING!!!  Don't push too hard - make sure you listen to your body!!  And ICE works wonders   Keep up the nice work!

And Diane - YEAH!  There would be no turning back anyway - you are comitted to what you are doing and that's GREAT!!! 

As for me, I am adjusting my goals.  I was getting sick and a little overtrained so my focus is QUALITY, not QUANTITY   I hit two major swims (over 4,000 yds each) this week already and now I am going to get running and biking back in too! 

Great job everyone! 

I've noticed we did lose a few - I checked a few empty logs this week, but glad to see that Francisjade is back at it!  2 weeks is OK - there are a few studies that say although you can lose up to 50% of your fitness in 2 weeks it only takes 2-3 weeks to gain 90% of that back!  When you up that to 3 weeks completely off...  It starts to take really take a toll and it takes much longer to get back to 90% of you pre-time-off fitness. 

Keep it up LADIES

Nice work Diane on the 5k to you, son and hubby ALL!!!  Great motivation to get out and do these little races

Elizabeth - to reply to inspire - when you open the "inspire me" each entry will have 'reply' (this will reply in your own inspire me' or 'blog'  if you click the 'blog' button it will take you to that person's blog and also open their inspire me and you can put a message in there   GLAD to hear that you are back at it and that the marathons went so well  

Things have been crazy with me.  I had a race 2 weeks ago - another race 2 weeks from today - another race 2 weeks after that and ANOTHER one 2 weeks after THAT!!!  YIKES!  Then I will be taking a little break - PHEW!

Train hard, recover harder, race hardest   Don't forget to fuel and sleep ladies.  This is SUCH a fun time of year

So my Race Report is up!  WHat an amazing day.  If any of you get the chance to do this race - DO IT!!!  It was SO amazing from jumping off the boat to crossing the finish line. 

Diane - GOOD LUCK next weekend.  And ENJOY it!!!  Don't forget to enjoy it   You are prepared and you will have the time of your life!  And yeah, sing to yourself and even dance across the finish line!  Don't forget to SMILE for the cameras