tcovert's Winter 2009 Mentor Group - FULL (Page 19)

Thanks for your kind words sweet lady, but I'm okay - I don't take myself too seriously. All I need to do is get back to logging nutrition really. (I am a lazy boy)

Sorry to hear about the funeral - hard to get uplifted sometimes.

And I hear what you say about the 1/19 but it only gets better. As I tell EVERYONE - You know it's going to be a wonderful when you wake up in the morning!

Hey all,

Back after a full week at  the Anaheim Hilton ... and just about zero workouts!  First night there, I did a short bike and short run only to get blisters on my left foot.  Like an idiot, I peeled off the skin.  Dumb.

So, I spent the remainder of the week saying, "ouch!" with every step of my left foot.  No workouts, but I did walk about 8 hours a day for 4 days, followed by yesterday at Disneyland chasing two kids around.  I kept active, but ate like crap ... business dinners every night.  It was kind of fun, however, to see how many substitutions it took for me to get all starches and carbs off my plate in exchange for veggies, and to watch the look on frustrated servers. I even had one person ask, "You know this is a steak house, right?"

So ... back to it!

Todd,

You've got rain today?  Please, keep it up north!

Todd,

You've got rain today?  Please send it east. Rain means warm.  I want warm! 

Swam with the Masters today.  Good for you on the time for 100.  I did the 100 freestyle in high school at a minute. No more - not yet - but my stroke is way better now than then.  Then, after 100, I was dead.  Now, I go and go like the Energizer bunnie. 

To the gym after work for an indoor ride with the wife.  I did a brick last night, swam this am, so I'm just riding and then taking my usual rest day off tomorrow. Saturday, I do all three again. 

Suzie, I have no idea.  The training plans I've seen are geared toward people who have a lot more flexibility in time choices than I do.   

You all have a great day. 

todd - is that weather whining i hear?  puleeze.

nice swim tough...someday i will be a swimmer.  i will, i will, i will.

Morgan - kudos on pulling the olympic trigger, you rock!  i'm still gearing up to pull the sprint trigger

All,

A minor plug here, but I just signed up to do the 70 mile ride for the San Diego Tour de Cure for the American Diabetes Association.  There are others around the country this spring in 40 cities, and it's all a fund raiser for diabetes research.  If interested in riding (they have 30, 70 and 100 miles rides), go here .

And if anyone wants to sponsor me (no pressure pitch, seriously), go here .

Anyone up for a 70 mile ride around San Diego with me?  April 18th ...!

Aloha

Well it means do Core Strength programme #1, #2 or #3.

Access these programmes by going into your training log. At the top of the log are seven large buttons. (programmes, articles, races, routes, training log, forums and gear reviews) hit the programmes buton.

Here there will be the training plans but at the top is a brief explanation of the various memberships. Look to the right to Gold membership. Directly under are three butons. (video tutorials, View/print and Strength & core.) Hit the Strength & core button.

This takes you to Mike Ricci's Strength, weight training and Core information and links article.This will take you straight to this article http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=631 .

Look down the page to the Core Training section and you will see links taking you to the various core Strangth programmes.

Good luck. Hope I explained it okay.

Aloha people

Funny kind of a week here. First the cool stuff. Got new cycle shoes. I had to get new pedals to as I had spd's and used to use mountain bike shoes (at least you could run in transition!) and got spd-sl's. So now I am going to just keep them fixed to my bike and every time I get on and off practise getting into them and out of them on the go. Should get pretty good at it after a while. (Better get the knee pads out again till I get used to it).

Also got this neat wee lap counter that fits like a ring on your pointing finger so you can pres the button with your thumb. Now I can count my swim laps correctly every time. Neat Little thing and the one I got times each lap. A real eye opener to me. I'm not as bad as I thought! Still bad but not quite as bad.

The Oly I am going to enter has a 25min cut of for half way on the sea swim!!!! Mmmmmm. Wonder if I make the cut off? Oh well a few months to try and get ready for the open water.

Also signed up for a race licence with the Scottish Tri Union. Figured it would get me insured, so why not.

Now.... the scales at the gym are messing with my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was up the gym this morning and thought I'd slip on the electronic ones I usually use to weigh in once a week. (I wouldn't usually do this other than my weekly but I was still upset at the gain this week. Up from 250 to 253.) AND......... this morning I weigh in at 247! Hell now I don't know what to think. Hoping previous weigh in was just an aberration. (shrugs) Oh well, roll on Monday weigh day.

Offthegrid - 2009-01-23 4:23 PM OMG ... some of these core exercises, I'm hurting just looking at them ... and I thought the ab work in my Step Aerobics class was killer.

 Tell me about it ... hehehe. You did ask.

Paul-- If I hop on the scales throughout the day I can vascilate 3 to 4 pounds easy, especially after eating, drinking, sometimes working out, going to the bathroom, or not, what I'm wearing, etc. etc. It's enough to make one crazy, so I stopped doing it a few years back. I typically weigh at home on my scale (for consistency) but you can pick a scale, any scale :0) and maybe twice a week in the morning before eating and without clothes. I figure that's my constant. There are so many fluctuations -- even medications, for women mostly, the hormonal changes we go through, etc. So don't let it get you down. As long as you're following your eating plan and doing all the "right" things, it will all come out lower in the end -- and remember that muscle takes up less space than fat, but it will weigh heavier on the scale because it usually contains more water. But overall, a really good judge is how your clothes are fitting. One of those body fat monitors would be great to have at home, but even those can give false results. Stick with your plan, you're really making great progress. 

Awwwww Lynn you're so sweat. Thanks for the comments. I just use these scales at the gym have done for ages and usually only once a week at the same time each week. Just seems like this weekthay are having a crazy time. LOL. It's okay, it won't get me down, honest. Those that know me know I'm so laid back I'm horizontal. I agree with all you say but thanks for taking the tie. It's so nice to have people here who care enough to comment.

You're a star!