Hashers and Mashers Part 2 - OPEN (Page 16)

Not 100% sure but I think you are right. Just keep the crank turning and grind away until your next all out.

Lol how's this for a kick in the pants: I won my fantasy football league again this year so I decided I'd put the money towards our big Super Bowl Party. We had beer, jalepeno poppers, mozza sticks, pulled pork, cheese fries, chili, chips, AND I COULDN'T HAVE ANY BECAUSE OF MY DIET!!!!!! Hahaha, didn't cave into temptation and my friends let me hear it because I've been bragging for two years about my fantasy football superiority.

Carlo - My weight lately has been 184lbs and my BMI is an embarrassing 28. I need to lose 20lbs to not be "Overweight". I can't imagine that happening but I can change my diet. You're considerably younger than me so your body may yet be more forgiving so you can still hope to lower your A1C. Plus, I'm still planning to get things back under control. Thanks for your support.

Kyle - Glad you can float. Once you get out in open water it may come in handy. We have a small lake near here that doesn't allow anything bigger than a canoe so we swim across the lake and it is pretty cool to find yourself in the middle of the lake at times. It was really quite neat to swim around the whole lake (about 1km in diameter).

Tay - Your swimming pace is impressive to me and you'd be in our fast lane for our group. Your group sounds bigger than ours, we usually have 3 lanes and 7 to 12 people (up to 5 people per lane). I am taking tablets for the diabetes and trying to control it with diet as well so I won't need more meds. I like my medium lane for swimming but to get faster I need to swim/bike/run with the faster people. My age limits how fast I can go.

Donna - Glad to see you're still with us. Keep up your hard work on the trainer and it will get easier. I hate standing up, it makes my thighs burn but I can now manage a full minute several times in a row with 1 minute recoveries in between.


Keep up the good work everyone.

Here are the long-awaited January stats. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. Great work.




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Name: Rich

Story: Did a sprint tri in 2006. Over the next few years got remarried, had kids, got busy at work, and slowly let myself decline into the worst shape of my life. I've always participated in team sports, but after seeing that I was the heaviest I've been, I started a Biggest Loser contest at my job. I also have a colleague who done an IM and has been trying to get me to do some sort of tri with him (I did the one in 2006 with him) so I've finally decided to get myself in gear. Doing some research over the last week or so and I came across this site and this group.

Family: Married with 4 young kids (all under 8)

Training: Nothing serious. I've been riding my exercise bike and finally went out running this weekend. Guess I'll load up on those now and focus on swimming when the weather warms up (unless I scrap together enough money to hit a gym).

2014 races: looking to do a sprint tri in June and July and an Olympic at the end of August.

Weight loss: 8 pounds since Jan. 8th. Need to lose another 20 at least.

Can't see the stats on the iPad, going to have to keep my curiosity at bay until tomorrow.

Greg It's not that you can't have it! But rather you don't want it

George I can't wait for summer and get some OWS in! It's a lovely -18°C today

That's fun winning at FFB. I didn't do so well this year.

Nice job sticking with the diet!

Welcome Rich!

Thanks for the Update Gary!!!Good job!!





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I had a "clicking" kind of swim today. I was swimming strong (well, it felt strong) and I was keeping up with a fellow I've never been able to keep up with and I didn't need to stop for breaks other than to hydrate with some water a few times. I even felt faster in my kicking and catch-up drills. Plus. for about 8 lengths I was able to draft off the fast fellow in my lane without getting dropped. I recorded the swim as 2000m but I lost count a couple times so I think it was actually 2100m. I'd love to have a couple more swims like that.

PsyTri - Thanx for the stats. Does it take long to do the graph? Even though I recorded all my workouts I was really shocked at my running. I think that is my furthest running month ever. Really pleased with that.

Mike (Ransick) - My last run was a bit uncomfortable in my right knee so now I'm a bit leery of running in case of aggravating it. Any cautions or suggestions? I'm hoping to run either tomorrow or Wednesday. I also have an appointment to see my bike fitter about my shoes/clips to alleviate my right knee biomechanics for riding as well which may correct the running problem. I really want to keep up my running at January levels and higher.

Rich - Welcome to the group. Ask lots of questions.

Kyle - Where can you swim OW near Edmonton? And, how is it for swimming?

Greg - You have excellent self-control. Keep it up.

Hey bud, thanks for putting the stats together!  Not to nitpick, but my run total for last month was actually 78.46, not 18.46.

 

@George
Why am i not surprised

@Tay
Impressive!! Running mileage in your winter weather !!!! Yikes!!!

@Aaron
Your numbers are good even though your injured.

@Donna
Your numbers are solid

@mikeD
I envy your numbers , and you did not include shoveling snow.

I am proud of you all !!!! Jan have been a sluggish month with this cold weather.


Cheers!!!!

If your knee is uncomfortable, take it easy. If it hurts, stop. Ice and compression afterward can help too.

Thanks man, I can't wait for it to warm up so that I can get outside on my bike. So far I have been experiencing "death by lane line" in the pool haha. I am pretty jealous of your weather, and your running mileage.

Edited by TRIal_of_miles 2014-02-03 10:00 PM

My bad on the stats. I'll check back thru tomorrow. It does not take too long but I obviously need to take a few more moments to get it right!

Yeah not to be a pain either, but I definitely biked and swam more than zero miles in January and ran more than 13.3 lol

Im delighted to be second in time but Joe wants to steal my thunder with his 'seventy something' miles... lol
(My bike was 111.8 rather than 11.8, still doesnt win me anything. You guys are tough!)


Edited by tatous 2014-02-04 3:58 AM

Replying with updated (and error-checked) stats. If someone can tell me how to insert a picture like Carlo did, I'll do it that way from now on. For now, I'm attaching the stats again in MS Excel format. Cheers.



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Second total time, second on swim, second on the run... what has a girl to do to win something with this tough crowd!?
well done everybody, some really good training there.

Wow third on the bike! That makes me happy!

Wabamen is only half an hour away and has a swimming beach there that tends to be good And supposedly you can swim at Lake summer side in Edmonton and Halfmoon Lake on the east side! They have OW tris there so.....

Mike - Thanks, pretty much what I figured. I haven't run since Thursday so I'm planning to try an easy slow (12:00/mi) run and see how it feels. If at all possible I'll run outside but we'll see what the weather holds for me.

I also had a bit of a re-fitting today that made a difference in how I felt on my bike tonight. The fitter spent a fair bit of time changing my shoes and even put in a mild wedge for my left foot and then adjusted my saddle as well. I thought it was odd that I'm feeling right knee issues but the bulk of adjusting was to my left foot.

Tay - Just keep going. You're doing great.

Kyle - You may be 3rd on the bike but I peeked at your times and you're about 30% faster than me. I'd sure love to ride at your pace. I've heard of Wabamen (west of Edmonton). My wife and her family were from Sherwood park (and Mundare) many years ago.


I'm looking forward to swimming tomorrow.

Sorry I'm late to the party. I guess I didn't make the list

Pretty happy to see all the work I put in this past month. Very encouraging. Thanks for this.