January Training and Nutrition Challenge (Page 18)

mbasta - 2011-01-10 8:21 AM

Poor thing! My husbands cousin has a boy who just turned two and has been sick for most of his life. It's strange how some people never get sick and others seem to pick up everything.

rnihill - 2011-01-09 6:05 PM So, I think I had my laziest week EVER...  For no reason what so ever.  Feel free to harrass me, taze me, whatever.  But I will get my rear in gear this week!

I'm also stressing because I think I need to take my 6 year old back to the doc - again - this week.  The poor girl has just  been "off" since November.  She started with a nasty case of strep, got slowly better, moved to a month of coughing and 3 weeks of hives, and finally an rx for walking pneumonia.  Now, a week off that antibiotic and she's coughing again and bruised.  Her upper arm is purple and her legs have bruises all over too.  She doesn't remember any of them but did say she was fell a bunch of times on the ice at recess earlier in the week.  I have no idea what's going on with her now, but I just want the poor girl to feel good!  She hasn't been completely well in almost 2 months.  She's much perkier than she has been since the strep...  but I'm worried about her...

And to top it off...  there's a nasty stomach bug going around the area and she was sent home with a note that she may have been exposed to ringworm.  Can I just keep her at home until the bugs clear out??

Emmanem - 2011-01-07 2:20 PM I'm ready for dinner... been ready for dinner since last night.  And honestly it's not really dinner it's just the fact that dad's grilling some bell peppers and sweet onions.... SOOOOOOO YUMMY!!!   

pdbman - 2011-01-11 1:14 AM
I had grilled veggies for lunch saturday.  Very tasty.  I'm ready for more. I say we have a big party and everyone bring their favorite veggies to grill up.

Emmanem - 2011-01-07 3:22 PM 20 minute run in with my mom today.  It was a great run.  No shin splints at all which flared up the last two runs so I'm hoping the ice, stretching and foam rolling helped.  I'm impressed with my mom.  She's been running 3-5 times a week on top of walking the dog 2-4 miles every day.  Good job Mom!!

TriAya - 2011-01-10 11:22 AM

i thought i heard a paul piglet in here



[[[melon press]]]

i think i'd bring sweet taters [yams, you know the deep orange kind] in tinfoil!

RedSoxChick - 2011-01-08 10:04 AM

pain-free is great!! keep it up

crimefighter2 - 2011-01-08 2:50 PM My only run since the start was today.  Pretty darn cold - 4 degree windchill.  I ended up making a light workout out of it - 1 mile jog and then some speed work.  I did not speed at my 5K race pace - but the pace I wish it was! 

hopefully next week will be better.

pdbman - 2011-01-11 1:31 AM
Hey Yanti! I hope you had a good weekend.
btw, those are some cold looking toes in your new avatar.

johnnyfulltime - 2011-01-08 7:31 PM I'll apologize for being quiet so far this challenge, but I'm not much of a forum troll (no offense to anyone who is fond of trolling). I thought I could at least give a weekly update.

First, I wanted to congratulate everyone for their hard work, numerous minutes, copious veggie eating, and great water drinking. Some people have reported some impressive weight loss so far, and congratulations are definitely in order.

For me, this challenge has been good, but filled with lots of pain. My knees hurt like hell from all of the running I've been doing (first marathon is in early March). Worse than that though, is the havoc I've brought upon my body from eating so many fruits and vegetables. I don't know if I'm the only one to go from 0-1 servings of fruits and veggies a day to 6-8, but that will cause some serious digestive stress if you make that kind of change. This week has been a bit miserable for me in some respects, but I won't go further into the more dirty details.

In the end I did manage to lose 5 pounds of holiday cheer that needed to go. This challenge has been a lot of fun for me so far. Good job to everyone, and I hope you are all able to keep up the good work.

TriAya - 2011-01-10 11:51 AM
it was frrrrreezing -- yes right here in bali -- but i was having the time of my life!

i'm actually lying down on a net strung between the hulls of a catamaran, on rough seas in rain. at that point, shoes would have been kind of useless. we were all really cold since there wasn't an 'indoors' on the cat, but i'm telling you i had a killer ride and the best view

pdbman - 2011-01-11 1:55 AM
Sounds like a fun time but cold feet would drive me crazy. I don't do well with cold feet.
And grilled sweet taters sounds tasty. I've never tried them grilled.

TriAya - 2011-01-10 12:00 PM
why ... why ... how else would you have them? -genuinely puzzled- i mean, people don't -boil- them, do they? *shudder*

TriAya - 2011-01-09 12:27 PM

I got up early to swim.

I wound up swimming and running (helps, of course, to be accompanied by a piglet who over and over again keeps begging to know what he can do for me/the tri club, anything, articles, advertisements, promotion, hitting the road, organizing people/events ... after all, he's semi-retired, doesn't work, and just loooves triathlon and does that for a 'living') ...

I spent 1hr 43min putting together the rest of that &%$F#@!!! trainer and trying to get a bike on it ... and did actually wind up riding for 25 minutes, so ...

I think you can at least manage to get on your trainer, if not even ride it for a bit.

mbasta - 2011-01-09 2:19 PM

Looks like I won't be back for Monday - I just went to the doctor because things aren't improving and it's bronchitis. I will be here in chat form but am going to sit the challenge out.

Good job staying on track everyone!

cottoneyes - 2011-01-09 6:23 PM Hi all,

Checking in after a few days away.

29 points for the week and it has been low even by my standards, each week should get alot better from here in.  Am finding the points for the water is given (assuming I did the conversion correctly) as I'm a big water drinker anyway.

Saw the doctor on Friday night, all seems good with the achilles and she expects me to be able to recommence running (not walking) gently from the end of this week.  Even better news is the tear has repaired quite strong and straight and she gave me much praise for 'doing nothing' for the 3 months, cause most cases like this 'are done on guys that are to exercise focused and can't stay off their leg for that long'.  It's been tough mentally these last 3 months, but that one conversation made it all worth it.

Did my first swim in 3 months this week as well, still managed to do 2kms straight with the PB so hopefully that is a sign I didn't lose too much fitness.

pdbman - 2011-01-11 2:14 AM
Congrats on finally getting the trainer together!

rnihill - 2011-01-09 9:05 PM So, I think I had my laziest week EVER...  For no reason what so ever.  Feel free to harrass me, taze me, whatever.  But I will get my rear in gear this week!

I'm also stressing because I think I need to take my 6 year old back to the doc - again - this week.  The poor girl has just  been "off" since November.  She started with a nasty case of strep, got slowly better, moved to a month of coughing and 3 weeks of hives, and finally an rx for walking pneumonia.  Now, a week off that antibiotic and she's coughing again and bruised.  Her upper arm is purple and her legs have bruises all over too.  She doesn't remember any of them but did say she was fell a bunch of times on the ice at recess earlier in the week.  I have no idea what's going on with her now, but I just want the poor girl to feel good!  She hasn't been completely well in almost 2 months.  She's much perkier than she has been since the strep...  but I'm worried about her...

And to top it off...  there's a nasty stomach bug going around the area and she was sent home with a note that she may have been exposed to ringworm.  Can I just keep her at home until the bugs clear out??

Emmanem - 2011-01-10 10:31 AM Got back to Clemson yesterday.  We've got about 6 inches of snow now so it's time to go play in it

TriAya - 2011-01-10 12:22 PM

hahahaha ... i think you were one of the crushers there when i was first trying to put it together ... good gravy.