Elaine's Awesome Start to 2012 Group! - Closed! (Page 19)

Hahahaha. Totally I meant exertion

On a related note though:

Anyone ever done a sweat test? It involves weighing yourself before and after a workout to find out your sweat rate?

I haven't, but I don't sweat much...

Here are my monthly totals from Feb.

Eddie,

I fight the low energy too.  I have to watch it since I work a physically demanding job too.   That is where the mental battle has to be won.   I a few times of winning that battle and the workout will be ok.   Keep fighting.  

Took my first two tests for the firefighter position.   I felt like they went really well.  

I did a 16 mile run Sunday. My long runs are getting longer leading up to my Marathon!

Sorry I've been slacking in here recently! Hope everyone had a great last few days!

I ventured into my FIRST spin class this week! It wasn't as intimidating as I expected!

What new things have you done that scared you at first? Triathlons?

Tough one for me in that I don't get scared by much.   My scariest moment was actually the day I took my son to the ER not knowing his blood glucose was around 1000 mg/L  That was the day we found out he was a type I diabetic, thank god I got him to the ER when I did.

I did my very first OWS at my first tri, ha!   Actually my biggest worry in that race was finding my bike.  I wore glasses at the time but left them in transition so it was blurry from the water to T1.  I draped a bright yellow t-shirt on my bike so I could find it.  It's interesting though, I was more confident about my first HIM than I was for my first sprint.  You build confidence even though your races can get longer.

I crushed my shin doing box jumps about 3 weeks ago. I'd post pictures but it was really nasty.

It closed up but there was still a lump.

So guess what I did yesterday?

Yup. Same exercize. Same spot. Hurts. Worst part is that I am out of the pool for a week till it closes.

On the scary front, I signed up for a couple of group rides. One in march and one in april. Never done that before. What if the other kids want to ride faster / slower? what if they dont like my water bottles?

I been out the loop as well. This thing called life!

Completed my second half marathon on Sunday which was rough.  I felt like I was going so slow in the beginning I thought I could pace it out with some coaches from my training group who just happened to run a 50k trail run the day before. I though they would take it easy and I was quite mistaken.  I hit the wall hard at mile 11. Plus I really didnt take in the proper nutrition. So I dragged myself across the finish and couldnt even PR my first half.

But its okay. The weekend was amazing because I learned tons from people who have completed everything from sprints to Ironmans and ultra runners, a cyclist who is doing a century a month over the next several month and a swimmer who completed the 12 mile swim around Key West.  Quite inspiring to say the least.

Take in easy on increasing you running mileage.  You still have plenty of time.    For my HIM my longest run was 9 miles.     You can build lots of endurance through the swim workouts and it will carry over to the bike and run disiplines.    I would focus on building bike mileage and swim mileage frist and keep the runs to about 4 miles max for right now.   If you add a mile everyother week you should be set by June.     I would like to know what others think of this.   

I always fear injury from running.    It seems like there are less injuries in swimming and biking.   

Thanks for the tips on running!

Jen

Welp. I took the plunge and signed up for my first marathon. Marine Corp.  Im pretty excited and scared.  Now I have no choice but to get my butt in gear in my training.  So my official training for that doesnt start until June. Good thing I have a decent running base. Now I am going to focus on speed and my swim/bike/strength training so I can do some sprint tris during the summer.

Just got my tooth pulled so I am taking off the rest of the week. Until Saturday when I have a 10k.  Ill see how I feel that will determine if I push it or not.

Oh and I realized that I am an athlete when the thought of springing forward for daylight savings excites me because I now will have more daylight hours to train outside!!!

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

wow. I feel like a moron...

I try and be careful in trianing to not get hurt.

Then today walking in to my office I roll my ankle on NOTHING. It is swollen up. I have it elevated with ice. Wonder how long this will take to go away...