Shermbelle's Group Full and training our a$$es off (Page 16)

 I swam in Lake Tahoe in August 2006.  Water temp was approximately 68 and was really cold for a long time but the outside temp was high 80's so it did not take long to get warm once I got out.  I did finally get used to it but I am old now and big wimp.  If the suit works, I would use it.

Awesome Tim, you deserve those 4 lbs.  Just don't let it turn into 40!!   Great to see you planning for your next one.  That's the way to lifetime fitness!!

I've been riding like a fiend lately, 59 miles today.  Feels good.  I think I might run a 5K tomorrow for fun and see if I'm any better than December.  

Hope you all are having a great weekend!!   

I'm with VeganMan.  I'm no expert, but from everything I've read on the boards it seems like it would be all right if you treat it as a training day.  Go out, have fun with it, push a little...and then start your taper a week later or so. 

Hey gang, I am somewhat alive and well. Did the 25k on Sat. (2:12:xx, 15 min slower than my slowest time ever ) but ran it at a very leisurely pace seeing my training has been crap for the last month.

I woke up on Sunday and knew something was terribly wrong. I looked in the mirror and the left side of my face was all puffy and swollen. I couldn't talk right or barely use it to eat. I went to the med center and I have a full blown viral sinus infection.

More and more drugs....

Today I am finally feeling a bit better so I will get in a short workout but this crap is driving me crazy. I have been down since mid to late April.

I will get caught up on here later today but wanted to let you all know I am still alive.

Well we must be on the right track, my face is not swollen much at all and today I feel almost normal again.

So who is racing this weekend???

I am doing a small local 5k (probably pushing my son) tomorrow. Should be a good kick in the a@@ for motivation as I know it won't go well for me and this being the 5th year of the race I have two wins, one second and a fourth overall. This year a top ten would be great.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

nice weekend planned. I need to get me some of that action going here quickly.

Scratch that. Too much crap came up and it was supposed to storm (which it didn't) so just did a 5 mi run with him around home

Best of luck to ya, let us know how it goes

Way to go Chris

See folks I told you it was going to be a great year. Chris hits a PR, Tim smashed his mary, now if only I would heed my own advice and get completely healthy and get consistent again.

Great Job Chris, enjoy the vacations

Thanks Chris,

Actually I commented to my wife last night that I am finally starting to  feel like myself again. I have been on drugs (and will be for 10 more days) for about 5 weeks now. For the first 4, I was always feeling lathargic but now am starting to get my endurance back.

4 straight days of working out again and tomorrow I will get outside for my first "long" ride of the year. I am planning on just going and see what happens. 3,4,5 hours who knows. I will let my body tell me how long and fast I should be going.

Train well peeps!

Hey all,

 I've still been keeping an eye on what everyone's been up to, I've just been so busy with life in general... it's madness. My training went away for about a week, but it seems to be back now!

I have my first triathlon ever next weekend (the 31st...) and I'm totally freaking out!! I feel like I'm not ready and that I'm going to be last (and i know that's not the point, but I really don't want to be last...)... It's a seven hour drive to the tri as well, worried about forgetting something important. Anyone want to have a look over my logs and tell me if I'm crazy to do this race? Should i Have waited a few weeks? lol

ah... needed to vent a little!

Hope everyone is feeling better, keepin' on with their training and that life is good in general :-)

lexy 

Hey Lexy good to see you back again. Took a peek at your logs. Now what distance is the tri, a sprint?

If so I would say you'll be fine. And with you running 9:15 min miles in training you have no worries about being even close to last.

Best of luck and let us know how it goes.