Shermbelle's Group Full to the brim (Page 16)

This weeks challenge. Two prong.

First- pick your own, any diet, workout, whatever.

Second- It seems the group is falling apart a bit so we need everyone to inspire each other, pm, or do whatever to keep us all on task and moving forward toward race season. Everyone has worked too hard to start slipping now.

For me part one is hitting all my workouts this week. I have a really big schedule ahead of me so it will be tricky.

And the second part.... seeing I am the leader maybe I should lead by example

Very nice, we need pics though

Oh I won't forget. I end up doing a lot of my workouts late night. I got one of the little men in bed while the other will be down in a little bit. I hope to start around 11PM. I have a bike workout and a short run to follow.

I agree our list from the beginning of the challenge seems to have fallen off quite a bit. I understand being busy though and sometimes it's hard to keep up with it all.

We had 17 sign up and in the last two weeks only 9 of us have checked in-Shermbelle (Michael), KRobert (Ken), craftyazgal (Jill), Trudee (Trudee), tlstacy (tammy), dripfam (Rebecca), Microspawn (James), kimk (kim), and rjdorman (Bob).  Let's keep each other accountable.

Michael-are you managing to eat breakfast at home or packing something to take. How about making up some oatmeal in a leftover container the night before and then just popping it in the microwave while you are getting ready? I like 1/2 cup old fashioned oatmeal, 1 cup milk (put about 3/4 to cook it in then pour the rest over when it's done), 1 apple cut up, 1 or 2 T of nuts, 1 or 2 T of raisins, dash of cinnamon and some vanilla extract. Or maybe make a pb and honey sandwhich the night before. Just some thoughts. I can't imagine doing a long workout at 11PM when do you sleep?

Ken-congrats on the bike. Yes, pictures please. How fun and exciting for you.  

Trudee-did you get over the cold yet? Did you decide on a using a coach?

Tammy-how has your heart rate been. Good luck with the doctor appointment tomorrow. I hope he can figure out what is going on.

Rebecca-How's recovery coming along? 

James-your workouts are looking great as usual

Kim-have you been tracking?

Bob-I'll need to check your logs and keep you accountable

If you want to do any shout outs here is who we have lost. Some have emails:

I've joined both a nutrition challenge and bike challenge here on BT.

It's been interesting to see how many calories I'm consuming and what % is Carb, Protein and Fat. I have not been doing points. I've been watching but just tracking and then I want to see after 1 week what it looks like.

The bike challenge is boys against the girls. I let the girls down last night. i wasn't sure why but my legs were killing me. I did do a lot of miles on the bike compared to what I had been doing. Nothing compared to what some people do but for me a lot more than where I had been. Also I spent 3 hours in the garden after my 14 mile ride on Sunday and it was 3 hours of squate down to fill the basin walk to the planting spot squate and pour. Walk back to the bag of amendment squate down fill back to hole, etc. So I decided to listen to my body last night and rest and not ride the bike. I did however do a 650 yard swim last night.

I have church tonight so I'm not sure what I'll do for training today. Tomorrow is a swim lesson.

Here she is:

I sent a quick email out to those that I had an address for.

 Ken-I can't see the picture of your bike. It's just a red x in a box

 I didn't get a workout in yesterday. I helped with the pancake dinner at church and was tired when I got home. Today is swim lesson and maybe a bike ride before Ash Wednesday service tonight. At least I hope to get on the bike. Logging my food in BT has really been an eye opener.

Hmmm!  I can see the picture.  Here's the link: http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/09/cusa/model-9RA95D_9RA95C.html

Just change the color to "Jet Black".

Yeah for me. I got my convoluted training schedule done.  I've got 12 weeks to train and then race week.

Here is next week:

I tracked my nutrition this last week in BT. It was an eye opener. Now I need to track and follow my points. Perhaps then I will actually lose weight. I feel that I am back on track though because I have tracked for 2 weeks.

Hi gang! How are you all? I've been MIA again. Thanks Jill for the email reminder to return to the flock!

So far so good on the training front for me. After this week, it is 8 weeks and counting until St. Anthony's. *Gulp* It is coming up fast! I think I've mentioned before but I am doing it with Team in Training. Fundraising has certainly been challenging this year. 

My week so far:

Mon - Scheduled Rest Day

Tues - 2400 yrd swim + 5.25 mile run

Wed - 8 mile run

Thurs - 2800 yrd swim + Group spin class tonight

One more swim, a couple more runs and bikes left for this week. I've also been browsing some tri bikes lately. Anyone else here have a tri bike?

Ken- Very nice bike, I like the jet black color scheme! Enjoy it!

Jill - We're doing a Battle of the Sexes challenge starting March 1st on another forum. Losers have to change their avatars to a swimsuit pic! How's that for training motivation! I've seen your avatar a lot over there!  

Train well everyone! Happy Thursday to all.

Irwin

James- glad to hear that you really like your tri bike. Did you have a road bike with clip on aerobars before transitioning to the tri bike?

The March challenge is over on the Runners World Triathlon Forum. We are still hammering out the final rules, but it will be point scoring, something like 1 point per 100 yards swimming, 1 point for 1 mile bike, 1 point for 1/4 mile run. We haven't decided on whether we go with total points or point averages. Should be fun, the trash talking has been hot and heavy already! 

Hey everyone,  Sorry I have been MIA lately.  Just busy.  I have been training my tail off and things are getting better.  I have gotten much better at the swim and running is coming along.  I have neve been a good runner.  Even when I played soccer full time i hated running.  I can handle spints well (years of playing soccer)  I HATE distance running.  I have gotten much better at staying focused to finish the goal at hand.  I don;t remember where I read it, but someone said it is always easier to stop after you do it once.  So I just push on keep fighting until I reach my goal.  And ever since I have slowly gotten better distance and better time.  Still very slow, 10-11 minmile.  But getting better.

 Everybody sounds like they are doing great.  Keep up the good work.

 DB

James-great job on your 5K. It's so exciting when you can see improvement and that your hard work is paying off.

Ok, call me insane but I am thinking about doing The Tour of the Tucson Mountains-a 70 mile bike race.  I have NEVER done anything like this before. The longest I have ridden on my bike so far is 21 miles. 

Since I can't do an Olympic Distance this year I was thinking how else can I challenge myself. I like the swim and bike and really don't like the run portion of Tri. When a friend mentioned the Tour race that got me thinking. I now have the bug and excited but scared.

So it looks like my race schedule may be:

April 26-Tour of the Tucson Mountains 70 mile bike ride

May 25-Sahuarita ("not sure what you call it-extended Sprint?)

July 4-Firecracker Sprint Not 100% sure on this one

I"M CONCERNED ABOUT THIS BIG GAP. I guess I could do the Splash and Dash (yeah running my favorite-NOT) series this summer to keep up with things. However I'll need to start training at the end of August for the El Tour so it won't be to much of a gap.

October 25-Tinfoilman Sprint

November 21-El Tour de Tucson (not sure what distance. I'll see after the Tour in April. Choices are 35, 67, 80, 109).

Hey guys thanks for checking in with me.. Dr. said ok to go back to work outs, we needed to adjust dosing times and amount.  So far so good.. I feel tons better.  I was able to get in some work outs, since I hadn't done anything for basicaly two weeks, I started with half.  Sat. I did a 2 mile run, and sunday a 6 mile bike.  felt pretty good... My goal is to work up to my event distances by then end of this week and then for the rest of the month work on endurance,  Since my event is coming quickly..

oh and talk about Murphy's law.  My local pool is closed for the whole month of March for annual mantientce.. I am trying to work a one month special memeber ship with the Y.

I briefly read everyones posts.. Sounds like everyone is doing well and keeping up with training and nutrition..

Good luck and keep putting one foot infront of the other...

Tammy

 Kim- congrats on the indoor tri... BIG KUDOS....