swbkrun mentor group 6 years running closed (Page 15)

Happy Easter and Passover to those who roll like that!  Hopefully everyone had a great weekend.

We had a good family day but had to drive 4 hours round trip to have an early dinner.  Kids are whooped.  They are on spring break this week so they will get lots of lounging time.

Kris and I head to St. Thomas next Saturday - CAN'T WAIT!!!  Lots of running, swimming, kyaking and hiking for the week.  I hope my parents have done some endurance training - they will need it to keep up with the kids for the week we are gone.

Way to her off...now you're in trouble!

Told ya I was easily confused! sorry again... FM-mg-L!  It's fatty's fault again I am sure. ha

I should follow those peach days more. I'm not that great at logging my workouts. I need to get much much better. I've also been a little flexible on some of my workouts. I often in the evenings take the kids to the park and I'lll do a walk/run around the playground while they play. But I will sometimes stop for a few minutes to push a kid or help them climb one of the climbing games. The kids like me to race them me running them riding their bikes. I haven't been logging these workouts but I'm going to start now.  

We had a great easter. Fun Church in the morning. I taught a class and survived. Had my sisters family over making 9 kids. Coloring eggs, hunting eggs and candy. And Zombie tag and kick ball. Ran and ran with the kids, FUN STUFF. 

Tiana

Hey all,

If this group isn't full I would love to join it. I'm currently 22 years old and I'm about to graduate from college. Given that I won't have my club triathlon team to work out with I think this would be a great way for me to stay motivated. I'm doing an Olympic distance in 2 weeks and another  in 2 months. After that i would love to find a HIM during the fall to set my sights on. Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Welcome aboard!  Post your bio and a picture if you like!

qft

Back at work from a week in training then a week of vacation.   Here is my original Post to this group in 2008.

Not sure if you have room for another but I would be interested.

Tony from Arlington, VA will be 37 this year.

My wife started doing Tri's last year so I signed up with her, got in a car accident before my
first one, threw my back out before my second one. So I was training last year not anything
specific, just making sure I got in a bit of each during the week.

Started the 16 week x2 balanced program a couple months ago.

Completed my first tri last weekend, felt really good afterwards, swim and transition times were
pretty good, bike was average and running sucked... (300m/18Mi/2mi)

Doing my next tri, June 1st and another in July. If those go well we were going to sign up for
an olympic in November (Miami)

Would love to have someone I can ask my multitude of questions to...

Thanks

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That was then, since I have finished a bunch of sprints, some olympics, one HIM, a couple of marathons, other misc half marathons, 10k's, 5k's, etc, met a bunch of cool folks from this MG. 

I joined a bike racing team a year or so ago and started having more fun training and racing with a group vs the solo grind of tri training (and I just can't stand swimming in a pool) so I switched over full time to that, got my upgrade at the end of last season so currently racing Cat 4 on the road.  I also do cyclocross in the fall/winter. 

Tiana,

I didn't start logging my workouts regularly until I joined this group.  Now, I love seeing the graphs and data add up.  I had a lot of it from my garmin before, but with occasional treadmill and track runs, it's nice to count those in and see it add up.

I was just considering the other day how I can start using park time to double as training time.  Now that my kids are older, I don't need to spot them that often for climbing and such.  I'm thinking about doing the core work that I always neglect.  We'll see if I get odd looks from other moms...

dalessit, great shot... I would like to try that as well as an Xterra tri.  But that = two more bike investments... ha.  Cool to change things up, keeps the fire burning for sure.

There's only two types of people in this world... those of us who are fatty's minions and those who wish they were.

Dalessit=Tony.  It's confusing. Don't ask.

I'm confused.  What is qft?

Deb, you just reminded me of something I had wanted to share with the MG.  Since this whole injured foot thing, I have started doing some core work and a few things I absolutely love (to hate sometimes), are things I can do out at the playground/park.  Burpees, box jumps and wall balls.   The box jumps, I just find a cement wall of 1-2 feet, the wall balls, I get Kathy to stand about 10 feet away and we toss the medicine ball up into the air and when the other catches the ball, you go into a squat and then as you come up from the squat, push the ball, like a basketball set shot (8-10 feet up into the air).  Or if Kathy doesn't come, I just toss the ball into the air and catch it on the way down into the squat.  

Just some ideas for stuff to do out at the park.  I do one minute of Burpees, one minute of the jumps and one minute of the wall balls, then repeat and rest.  Then one more round.  It's hard!  But fun.  And if your there anyways with the kiddos, it's a bonus!  

Have a great Monday, peeps...I still have this annoying half of a sliver in my foot and I've tried everything to get the dang thing out short of using a scalpel.  Arrrrrgh...

eta: sorry, tried to link the video for burpee but I am computer confuzzled.  Ha!  It's a pushup, into a squat, into a jump...ah, look it up if you are interested!  sorry!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=quite++true

I googled it, and came up with "quoted for truth".

i must expect the worse from John, i was thinking it was a censored "f" in there.  

You are correct!

I have to share... I had the BEST weekend!!!  I love family, and sun!!! It allows us to do so much outside!

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I think the filters modified Birdy's link!

I know what burpees are.  Can't say I love them.  Can't say I love any kind of core or strength work, but I'm starting to accept that I'm going to have to start doing it.  Thanks for the suggestions!

Yep,  you know it's spring when the manpri's come out.

Looks like I have lots to catch up on.  But here is the quote of the week to get us started: 

Happiness is a state of activity.  Aristotle

ha.  I now have a cheat sheet with 31 freakin' peeps on it for this group of the un/rn's so that I can curb some of my confusion... beer helps too.

Beautiful family shots Steve.   Good times!