Cheesecake Lovers (Page 16)

Thanks  I think if would have slowed the bike by about 1 mph I could've taken 10 - 12 minutes off the run.

Good luck with your HIM this weekend!

that's a great observation!  next time, right  

Good luck on your race -- looking forward to hearing about it as I signed up for my 1st HIM in Sept.

Great job everybody!

I had a very uninspired OWS this afternoon, but tried to force myself to work hard.  My quads were really hating being in the wetsuit which has never happened before, so I must be all pumped up from my run this morning ;D 

I did nothing this morning...it's taper week...

O.K....intro:

My name is Sal, 43.  I have a wonderful wife and 3 kids.  Oldest just graduated from HS, daughter 13 and son 11.  I work for a major food company in Minneapolis developing new food products.

Ran high school track, but wasn't very good.  Never broke a 6 minute mile.

Started training for a tri during my sophomore year of college.  Took a college beginner's swim class, and got up to swimming a 1000 yards.  Started dating my soon-to-be future wife, and dropped any semblence of training.  Did a few events for Corporate Cup when we lived in Michigan (25 yd swim, 5K, mile) and studied martial arts for about 3 years (Jeet Kune Do concepts, escrima), but other than that, didn't do much training.

About 5 years ago, after we moved to Minnesota, a friend of mine who was part of a running group kept pestering encouraging me to run with them.   They said we'd only be doing 3 miles...we did 5.  They never told me about the 10 mile runs on the weekends.  Soon they convinced me to run a marathon.

The running group ventured into tris, and I did my first tri a few years later.  My swim was horrendous.  I swam out about 200 yards then had to switch to sidestroke and backstroke.  A lifeguard asked if I was doing o.k at the halfway point.  I wasn't and told him so.  He waved me over, and I hung out on the rescue float and talked with the guard for a few minutes.  Backstroked and side stroked back to shore and finished up.  I think I average over 4 min/100 yds in that tri.

Since then, I've consistently spent at least 2 days a week in the pool, built my own tri bike and have run a few half marathons and marathons.  It's been a long road, and I'll be doing my 1st half Ironman this Saturday...

A full Ironman is quite a ways out.  I realized that I really didn't get solid training in for my HIM due to family time and activities, but my family time will always take priority.  Shooting for IM Florida in 2015 (when my youngest son graduates).  These challenges are great.  They keep me motivated to keep my training volume up...

We've got a great team...

And he just got his avatar back!

Hi Sal  

Great Pics Bill! I can still call you a tease though..............;) 

that is a really cool thing! 

OMG...

I'm thinking that I either need to talk to Dee about dropping my goals or jsut drop out this month all together...

Day 5... still not feeling up to par... thought about hoped to run around neighborhood this afternoon.... but since I ate lunch... yep, don't think that's gonna happen...

Sorry gang

Cool... is that a jack-a-lope???? 

x2!  worst case, you can be our cheerleader!   

Ok, CCL

I got in a spin class and a swim, I can't believe it's June 10 and today was my first swim of the month - craziness! 

yeah, I'm going to need to adjust my goals - I'm at 84% of the bike, not cool

I'll give it some thought and update in the next day or so - it's just difficult to predict with the crazy commute and new job thing

Hey everyone! Got a short bike ride in this morning. Sorta short. 7 miles. I wanted to do 12, but I just wasn't up for it. The bike and I are on speaking terms this month, but we're just not buddies. I swear someone told me I would be one with my bike by now (Heather, maybe? ) I'm still coughing up stuff, and feel like I need to use my inhaler more often, but it doesn't help. If this isn't gone by this weekend I'm heading to the doctor Monday. I'm not feeling bad per se, but not right, either, KWIM?

Beth-don't feel too bad about the swim--I haven't been in the water since May 31st, either. Maybe in the next couple days, The weather here's supposed to be cold and rainy, so I may have an excuse to avoid the bike for a couple days...

Hi Amy!

good job on getting  a ride in! 

Hey CCL!  (It's too early in the challenge for this prudey midwesterner to call you Lovers )

The month is already 30% complete!  I've been looking forward to June for 6 months and it's flying by.

We have 4 teammates that are over 30% right now:  Gary, Beth, Cheri and Steph.  Great job guys!!!

Andria and Scott are just under 30% -- keep it up!

I know we have some sickies (get better soon) so we all need to work a little harder to get our team % up.

Go CCL!!!