Team #2 - August 4 is More Challenge (Page 19)

I too may swim...was going to go run...but today is hot in our area too! I may do a brick (short 1-2 mile run with a swim right after) depends on how hot it is when I get to the pool. Have a nice swim. Enjoy your coming vacation...what is the Tminus time now!?!

skrtrnr - 2009-08-10 6:22 AM

skrtrnr - 2009-08-09 4:45 PM hello team

today didnt go as well as i hoped it would. 

HOT AS HELL.

and i didnt hold up well under the conditions.  though, im happy to report we did NOT have a repeat of the MS150 heatstroke/meltdown.

still waiting on the official results.  (damn chip time....)

1:37ish....

about 6-7-8 mins off my goal time.

nuthin i can do about it now.


decent swim.

unexpectedly slower bike.  what the??  (17mph instead of the expected 17.5-17.8)

and a MISERABLE run (though not as slow it couldve ended up being...)  suffer-fest from beginning to end.  and the trail is supposed to be happy place.

yea. i guess when its not 90+ w 90% humidity


sorry.

im still pretty grumpy about it.

i swear im STILL sweating.    and im tired as all get out.


what does a girl have to do to get a decent time?

i cant work any harder than i already am.  (maybe thats just it....)  OI VEY.

the slowest person in my group of friends that competed today.  i need to get some slower friends. 


i kept it together, and finished.....

so im giving myself PROPS for that.

and to be off even that 'little' on day like today, thats something too.  couldve been A LOT slower.

trying to make lemonade.  but....

SO NOT the way i wanted to 'end' the season.

even my friend who ive been training with, was, 'what the heck??'

not sure WHAT the answer is....



SOOOOOOO looking forward to my two week HIATUS.  (ya think i need a break??  LOL)

gonna keep working out, following a SUPER DUPER TAPERED SCHEDULE (which was planned into my goals for this months challenge, no worries there.  i wont let you down, team)


recover, regroup, refocus.

have a 1/2 MARY to start training for starting the end of the month.

'09-'10 BETTER STRONGER FASTER.
stacieb

IM SORRY FOR THE GRUMP-FEST YESTURDAY TEAMMIES.

i shouldve waited 24 hours before i posted anything, anywhere about my race.

i was HOT, TIRED AND HUNGRY.

what i needed was a cool shower, food, and a good nights sleep not come here and dump.



i have more perspective about the whole thing today.

amazing what 24 hours will do.

you can read my log (if you dare to go back after the all the btchin and moaning i did!!!!)

but, the one thing i realized is that i completed this tri FIVE MINUTES FASTER than the Sprint i did earlier in the season, INSPITE OF THE CONDITIONS YESTURDAY.

with a much longer swim (365 yds longer), a more challenging bike course (are there hills in OH, i think not), and MOST DEFIANTELY a more challening run course. (residential streets in FLAT OH vs a very hilly HOT AS HELL trail run.  nuff said)

oh yeah, and my bike pace average improved by 2 miles+/hour since that race too (same bike, better cyclist)

can we all say INCREMENTAL PROGRESS.

LOTS to be VERY PROUD OF.

back to my usual chipper self.
stacieb

you better believe there is much to be proud of....remember where you were before you started training for triathlons!? way to look at the cup half full rather then half empty!...and as for this Half Marathon you are going to start training for....we need to start training together when you get back...I need to make sure to follow this plan you guys all sent me...I am bad about doing that...and usually will go run however long I feel that day!?! NOT GOOD! so you need to keep both eyes on me and make sure I do what I need to get to the finish line for my HM...but not til after your vacation! have fun with the family....cuz when you get back...we are going to be some HM training mamas! nice race Stacie...you finished and that is much more then many people can say!!!! nice job!!!

it is a small race venue area where the racers will do loops...usually held in closed city streets....mini tour de france - instead it is tour da city streets around and around and around - they have bell laps where you get points/or money 

didnt race this weekend we had an injury and because it took an hour or so to get him off the mountain...I decided to not race...instead I ran registration while the director did timing

...but did get in a run....was in the forest and I didnt get lost Stacie...but I was skeeeeard...there had been a sighting for a mtn lion...so we I think I ran faster then I do normally! took my dog with me...but only for extra eyes...my dog would probably run away faster then me!!!! well definitely faster then me...but what Im saying is she is a BIG chicken and would not have been any added protection~!

this taking some time off stuff is hard to do. 
stacieb

enjoy the MUCH deserved time off!

now why are you leaving the bag behind...but taking 3 stowaways...shouldnt it be the other way around!?!?

sorry..I know I ramble lots of times....

a young junior rider was knocked unconcious on the course...he got up after his wreck (no one saw him go down) and he finished the race. Then at the finish he was not making sense...we had him checked and they did not like his responses to questions so they took him away in an ambulance....poor kid! he is a sweetheart, too! just hoping that he is ok and that he will be back for our final race in a few weeks. does that make a li'l better sense?

as for the mtn lion...i never saw it but heard about it just before I was going to run the same trail it was spotted on...I instead went on another...and DANG if it wasnt up or down the entire time NO FLAT WHATSOEVER....so I was easy bait for that lion! WRECKS and LIONS and HILLS OH MY!!!!  call me crazy!!! that is if you havent already by now!

skrtrnr - 2009-08-10 1:32 PM

Girl Passing on Left - 2009-08-10 12:18 PM

HELL YA we can train together.

Cheri and i talked about doing that too.

Erica?  any chance you'll change your mind (though from the sounds of it, it might be a good idea....)

maybe we can have our very own thread and everything.

HAL'S GALS. 

whadya think?


and HELL YA, ive come a LOOOOOONG WAY.

just took me 24 hours to remember.

silly me.
stacieb

ps.  got my you know what today.  could explain 'the mood'

like it! hals gals! haha

ebshot - 2009-08-10 2:46 PM I wanna be a Hal Gal too!   I hope it works out for me to be able to do the half in Oct.  We'll see!

You are soooooooo a HALS GAL!

we hope that your training schedule works out too! meanwhile you will just get out and do what you can...when you can...in between the packing and moving of boxes! and in the end...you will be running circles around this Hals Gal come October and we are all out running in our Half Marathons...you are going to kick my booty...from all the cross training you had in moving to this new home! and being a mom... a taxi driver...a wife...a cook...a daughter! schwooo...if this does not make you one buff mama...then lord knows what will!?!?

wow...do we need to get him a new wii game? was he bored? or making a statement!!?