kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 177)

fruit baskets, itunes gift cards, cash, wine ...

What do you do?

I bake cookies and make cookie baskets and attach a $10 Starbuck card so cookies and coffee.

2k in the pool this morning.  My head congestion started to catch up to me after 1500.  Have some time on the tready later.

So IMTX is full, well general entry wise.  Given the delay in opening registration I think it's about the same amount of time as last year.  Makes it a little more real for some reason.  Also saw Chrissie retired from Ironman racing.  Sad but I get it. 

3500 swim, strength, and recovery run done.  Conrad is in a holiday music concert tonight, so I had to be sure to get all workouts done early.  He's playing the xylophone.  Hope my 2 year old behaves during this.  LOL   

Augusta?

Swim in generally wetsuit illegal (the Savannah River is still hot in September).  Air temperature is generally hot and humid (its Georiga in September).  Think IM Louisiville. 

Very good comparison.  Hot as heck!!!

Hot isn't a bad thing necessarily.  It's all I know really.

So I take the girls to the doctor's office.  We have to get fit in so we get a random doc that I've never seen before.  Halfway through the evaluations she looks at me and says "You do tris huh?"  No I'm just wearing a shirt that says triathlon in all caps across the front, but "Yeah, love 'em."  "Ever done an Ironman?"  I figure here we go with the same line of questions people use for small talk right. "No, but I'll do my first in May."  "Oh IMTX?  My coach does tris, I do marathons.  I think y'all are all off your rockers."  I LOL'd.

We cancelled satellite a while back, and only watch things on Netflix or Hulu.  Currently I'm watching the Lie to Me series, on the last season.  Great show.  I'm hoping to move onto Shark next, if it's on there.  That's another great show.  Why do all the good ones get cancelled?

Not sure I'd like The Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead is one of my favorite shows  I read the comics, too.  I'm catching up on American Horror Story season 2 and Homeland.  I am a huge horror fan.  I loved vampires and zombies long before they were popular.  I can't wait for World War Zombies to be released in the theaters.

Great job, Scott!  Did you decide on your races for next year?

1:35 on the trainer this morning.  I will most likely work on core exercises after the kids get home from school.  I signed Freddy up for 2013 preschool yesterday.  I can't believe my last baby will be going to school (even if it is only for a couple hours a day).  

Last night at Conrad's music performance, Madge leaned over and whispered to me, "mommy, why does it sound so ugly?"  LMAO    

That's hilarious Jen.

Karen, I have never been into Zombies either. It was reccomended from two people here at work. So I gave it a try.  After the first episode, I was addicted.  Watched the first two seasons on Netflix, and bought the first 7 episodes of season Three on Itunes to get caught up. I can't beleive how addicting it is, and how quickly main characters die off. Apparently there is enough comic book left for at least 7 more seasons, from what I am told.

Also karen, tell me about Hulu, how soon are TV episodes put on Hulu.  Are they old seasons, or are they available right after they air on regular cable?

Haha.  We got Netflix for a while just to catch up on The Walking Dead.  We felt left out.  Now it's appointment viewing.  Kinda irritated with where they left us at the end of Sunday's mid season finale. 

Hour of intervals on the trainer today and some upper body circuits.  Was reading through some more of Ben Greenfield's stuff yesterday.  Interesting read.

Sadly no. My wife and mother want to go to Florida in late April or early May and without that booked it's tough. What I'd like to try and pull off is if we go the last week of April which leads into May there's a half at the Space Center in Titusville. I'd have to sell the wife on it as well which is another matter. I had been looking at one May 11th in Virginia but if we go away that will be tough training wise. I could hit the character limit describing all the complications with any of my plans but I'll spare everybody as there's worse problems in life. Thanks for asking. I'll be sure to update everybody once I know the deal.

After watching the first 2 seasons of Game of Thrones 6 or 7 times, Shaun is making me watch something new.  I think I'm going to start with the most recent iteration of Dr. Who.

Make sure to carry the trail map with you -- just in case.