Hearts - February Challenge (Page 15)

Hey Hearts (and you too Bill since you spend so much time here encouraging us to beat the Hugs and Kisses). I added another 30 minutes of so to my cycling time and am on track to wrap it up this week (per plan since I won't have bike access). Two more rides will do it and I'll likely end up doing 3.

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Unfortunately my trainer didn't come in yesterday.  So I've swapped out my love goal to be running instead of biking. . . I was equally behind in both goals coming into the weekend (actually more behind in running) but at least I was able to catch up somewhat.  That'll at least allow me to participate in the challenge without having to worry about when my delivery is going to come!

Anyways, even with my new goal swap, I'm still running behind in this month's challenge.  But I have a run planned for tonight, so that should help get me closer!

Way to go on the bike.  You don't need to love it come Nov, but you sure do need to do it.  Keep up the training and you'll do great in Nov. 

Great job on the bike Dan.  Go over, you never know when the challenge coordinator feels nice and allows a few extra percentage points.

Sorry to hear the trainer did not arrive.  So, GET RUNNING!    Only winners on this team.  We are a team of winners. 

Actually, we're allowed to go to 105%

Did a 5K on my lunch, so add 3.1 miles to the spreadsheet.  Woot!  Back on track.  Hubby called me to apologize for being a jerk (ahhhh).

Also...may have half way sorta decided to do an Oly in September.  We'll see how the next couple of months of training go, but the 2x balanced plan on this site looks very doable.  What concerns me is it is way fewer hours per month than the 3x plan.  Why would you do the 3x if the 2x is enough to get you ready?  I am still very new at this.

I imagine the difference is between being able to finish and being able to finish well.

Yeah...I don't want to be able to JUST get through it dragging my butt.  I want to feel good at the end.  I notice the times alloted for the workouts are the same, there are just fewer of them per week.  25 hours  vs. 17 hrs in month 1, which over a month is not really that much extra per day.

I don't want to boast , but I just noticed this in my training log today and was so excited by my accomplishment, I thought I'd share.  I just started running last year and did a sprint in September.  I have now run the same number of miles so far in 2010 as I did in 2009 in half the time.

I'm clearly making up for lost time on the posting from weekend.

Go ahead and boast.  You're entitled to it.  Congratulations. 

That is GREAT!!

I loosely followed the 2x plan last year, and was able to do 3 olys over the course of the summer (1 in June and 2 in August). . . So it's not like you'll finish *just* getting by (I finished all my races strong, recovery was great, and I kept getting faster for each race I did). 

I'm sure if I followed the 3x plan, I could have had faster times, but then I may not have had time for other things in my life or I may have gotten burned out from all the extra training.  I think if you have the time & energy to do the extra workouts, go for it, but 2x/week for each sport is more than enough to get you through the finish.  (Heck, I only swam 1x a week just because I didn't want to swim any more than that!)

Awesomesauce   Congrats!  I love looking back at old logs and seeing progress!!  (which makes me wish I kept better logs last year. . . Oh well!)

G'morning hearts!

I had a pretty sweet tempo run yesterday, which added another 6 miles to my new run love goal!  Hopefully I'll be caught back up by the end of this week!

You GO, girl! 

Awesome!  Does that mean you love running now?

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I was going to swim today, but from my strength trianing on Monday I can barely lift my arms.  They hurt so much.  So I figured that swimming was out unless I wanted to drown in the pool.

Kendra, I think I do love running now.  It's not so difficult anymore...

Missy, thanks for the input on the Oly program.  I agree that 3x seems excessive for my goal and my lifestyle.  I have a family and I play baseball in the summer, so I'm a busy girl.  I usually take a course in the summer, but I've decided to take this summer off.

Well we sure don't want you to drown!  Hope you feel better quickly!