PeterAK's Group: THIS TREEHOUSE IS FULL!!! (Page 18)

MONDAY CHECK IN!!!

So excited for Dave, Hilary, and Andria.  PR for Dave, and longest run ever for both Hilary and Andria!  Nice work gang. 

I've been pushing workouts to the back burner thanks to a crazy work schedule, but I'm hoping that will be over this week.  Going to try to get back in the pool at lunch time today.

This week I'm going to get my thoughts together on coaching and why I hired a coach for IMWI.

Have a great week gang! 

MONDAY CHECK IN!

Not much on tap for me today.  Just continuing to get the house ready to put on the market.  I will need to revamp my 2008 goals soon as I won't be in WI to participate in any of those races.  I changed my 1/2 mary plan back to a sprint plan.  I may try the Galveston, TX  sprint next month though I need to focus on swimming and biking now.  Maybe I'll get a run in later or hit the bike on the trainer.  Hope everyone had a good weekend! 

Woohoo Adria and Hilary - long runs - yes it's weird to actually enjoy them after where i was a few years back  too - ain't it fun!

Still pretty excited about effort yesterday. i KNOW I can run faster - just waiting on official results and I'll update the RR. 

Busy week at work - will be a challenge to squeeze all the planned training in - unless i just do it all at the crack of o dark thirty  - which I might.

Wasn't it cold driving to the gym

RR is up - in a nutshell

           AGE GRP        OVERALL 

RACE     10/12          84/155 

Swim       1/12            7/155 

Bike         8/12            56/155

Run        12/12          123/155

Well..... pretty clear what I need to work on!

Amen to that, nice work all!

Made up for some lost time from earlier this week with a longish brick workout on Saturday. Weather was beautiful for an outdoor run.  Sunday was a rest day.

Today was a bit more inspired swim workout...last several were blah and had me second-guessing rising at 4:00a to drive 40 minutes when my club is only 5 miles away (still thinkin' about that, but the workout was better).

This is the last full week of my "base building" training program. I begin my HIM plan middle of next week, building towards SOR in July.

Let's see...I still don't have official results so I don't know my rank or anything for my run on Saturday.  I do have a draft report...the T-shirt certainly made up for the lack of goodies in my goody bag.  (I know I gave the goody bag a really low rating!)

I ran a half hour today and surprisingly, I enjoyed it.  (Can't really speak for my foot, though)

Happy Monday all!

Great job Dave!!!  1st in swimming is awesome!

Way to go Hilary!  Nice time on that run, too.  

I went ahead and posted my race report for the Snowman Stampede.  My chip time (I was a little ill and started late) was actually 1:53:59, rather than 1:55-something.  (10 mile race)

320/362 overall.  83/96 age group.  185/218 females. 

I started doing a little speed work this morning, albeit in the snow, and my foot seemed to be okay with it.

Hey Eric!  So glad to hear you are feeling stronger.  Have fun with the swimming lesson.  While I grew up in the water and was on swim team as a kid, I took some one on one coaching last year to fine tune things and it helped a huge amount.  As Davewithnumbers will probably tell you (he's our resident expert with the awesome swim ranking) swimming is all about efficiency.

I miss the days when I could scoot out of the office at lunch for a swim.  But, I'm getting more efficient at work which means I should be able to do that again soon.  And, I'm getting up earlier.  Nothing earth shattering, but 7 a.m. is the new 7:30 for me.  So, maybe I'm just becoming closer to normal for most professional types!

happy thursday group!

Calling the surgeon again - HTFU ain't working for me

 Added at 14:04 - dr appt in 1 week thinks it shoudn't be anything serious if i can train with it but maybe it is impinged nerve or something - in any event  going to get checked in a week - seems like i might be a weinie about the pain but would rather be safe than sorry eh?

No way I'm letting Jszat's mentor group thread stay at the top of page 1, just no FRICKIN" way!

Happy Friday to all the PeterAK folks....btw, send PeterAK some sheeot for bailin' on the run we had planned for last night...totally bogus excuse offered up....

You can get up for the race.. just think how good it will feel to have that done before most people get out of their pajama's!

I have serious case of demotivation.- abdomen is meh.... diet is for , just feeli like sleeping all the time 

Happy Friday All!

Pete!!! Why'd you bail on the run last night!

Hilary - Good luck on your race - can't wait for the race report!

Dave - I think we've all been in a little training funk at one point or another - it will pass!  May be your body telling you to take a day or two off.  Nothing wrong with that.

Hilary, good luck in the race you ARE going to do tomorrow!!! 

Dave, bummer you are in a funk.  Take a rest day and make it as restful as you can.  I have found when I mentally embrace the rest it is more restful.  Makes sense don't it? 

Spanglers, thank you for taking Force's suggestion...  I felt crappy!  Went out for a burger and beers on Wednesday night, and when I woke up yesterday felt like I had been hit by a freight train.  Went to an 8:30 a.m. meeting, and then back home to bed for three hours.  This morning still had a slight headache when I got up, not bad enough to keep me from shoveling, and it's better now after pounding fluids.

With last night's 3" of snow, Milwaukee is currently in the midst of the 10th snowiest winter on record.  I love snow but I've had way too much of it this year.