Jsnowash (Jenny)'s Mentor Group - CLOSED! (Page 19)

MY daughter is all better which means I can get back to eating well and back to training! Hooray!

Sunday (yesterday) I did a 1 hour run. I am still working on my distance and my endurance so I ran for 3:30 minutes and walked for 3:30 minutes (or ran for one sing on my iPhone and walked for one song on my iPhone). I felt great at the end. I also stayed on my diet and remembered to drink plenty of water.

Monday (Today) I did my 1 hour run (again running for one song, walking for one song) and I swam for 45 minutes (plus 5 minutes treading water). The run felt good again but I still need to focus on finishing strong especially the last 15 minutes. On my swim I am focusing on my arms while pulling and breathing bilaterally. Overall my workout was wonderful today!

I wanted to quit so many times today or cut it short but I thought about a motivational quote I saw "You don't quit when you are tired, you quit when you are finished." That got me through it!

Happy Monday everyone!

Way to endure! I'm glad your daughter is better.

I ran 5.5 miles this afternoon -- it was truly beautiful.

cdban66 - 2012-01-31 6:29 AM Good Morning, it is nice to see so much perseverence and hard work going on. Tracy and Sarah, you two have really pushed through some challenging stuff lately. Great job! It really makes me want to keep going. Felicia, it is nice to hear that the run was "beautiful". If anyone had told me 2 years ago that running could be beautiful, I'd have thought they were nuts. Now it is a relief and a joy to go for a run. What a nice change My weekend included a 30 mile group ride and a 7.5 mile run. Both were my long efforts for the week, but I had scaled back the running last week for recovery purposes. Back to it this week. Two cool things are on the schedule for the week, 1 for me and the other for my wife. She has been attending the Citizen's Police Academy here in town. This weekend she gets to do a ride along. She is so excited! And I have a group ride with a local bike club that is called a "skills" ride. We will be working on clipping in/out, balance, pedal stroke, even bottle retrieval. While I feel like these are all things I can do, it should be informative and helpful. Any chance I have to get better at something, I am on it. I hope that everyone here keeps on keepin' on.

It sounds like you had a great weekend -- the skills ride sounds good, too. I could use something like that. My cycling skills are not good. Good for your wife for getting involved in the community.

The two little boys and I are coming down with a cold -- again. I'm afraid it's going to be one of those winters -- we've haven't had one like this in our house for quite some time. I skipped the pool this morning because of it, but I'm hoping to get on the trainer later today -- an hour would be fantastic, but I don't know if I can survive that long, even though I'm listening to the novel Gilead -- which is an amazing listen (I almost said "read").

I hope everyone has a good training day today. It's supposed to be warm here again (maybe that's why we're sick??), so I may try to get out for a short run later, too.

Mt family always gets sick when the weather changes so much from hot to cold back to hot and then back to cold. It's miserable.

Hopefully your boys will be able to get other it fast. Sick kids are no fun. Good luck getting some training in today.

Ugh! Nose bleeds are horrible! I always get them in the winter when the heaters get turned on and my nose dries out. Once in a while I get them when I am super stressed out and my blood pressure jumps through the roof.

Glad you got a good run in today! 

I had a horrible sinus headache all today but I still pushed through my run. I did cut it down to 45 minutes though.

Tomorrow I plan on doing:

- 30 minute bike ride

- 30 minute swim

- 30 minute run

Hopefully no sinus headaches tomorrow Good luck training in the new month!

I'm still here. I spent all yesterday afternoon sneezing. That has stopped, but now I'm just exhausted and coughing.

I want to be well again. I barely remember what it feels like. :-( Yes, I'm whining.

Wow! You haven't been able to catch a break from iillness! Feel better soon.

I'm in a funk! I was just getting in a great groove with running and swimming (for the first time), then I had a follow up appt. for my wrist this week.

The torn ligament is worse than we thought- and is not healing. So, after discussing the options, we agreed to cast it for 4 weeks. No swimming for 4 weeks. biking only on the trainer, and I haven't tried running yet.

I'm pretty bummed right now.

-Heidi

We are quite the group!  But everyone seems to be rising to their challenges.  

I started back at work this week (my first real job in about 9 years!)  Luckily it's PT (Tues, Wed, & THurs) so it doesn't effect my workouts too much.  Wed. I had to be there by 7:30 for a conference call, so up at 5am and still got my 1/4 mile repeats in and a little strength training.  I made all my workouts this week (with a bit of tweaking!)

It figures that right after I buy a new bike, I get a job and the weather has been unbelievably warm!!  Even today it's beautiful and some friends are doing a group ride, but with the new job I had to reschedule a ton of appts. so it will be the trainer for me tonight!

Next challenge..my husband is off to CA for a week starting Sunday, so manage workouts, work and shuttling the kids to my in-laws to get them to and from school on time!  I can do it!! 

I'll add one more challenge to that list - divorce.

It's been a long week.  On top of a very long week at the gym (taught 7 classes in six straight days) I've come to the conclusion that my marriage needs to head another direction - so the week has been spent making lawyer appts, looking for rentals...etc.

Not going to totally air all the dirty laundry here, but I can't help but wonder if, and how this will impact my training.  I'm bummed bc I did just submit my USAT membership - and I had all intentions of getting my monies worth out of it, but now I just don't know if that's going to happen.

I am going to try and keep on training as much as I can.  This will be a long month, and who knows what the next few will hold.  I did just pick up another spin class at the gym, so that is positive.

Anyway - still love reading all your stories here.  Additionally, I am still planning on doing the HM at the end of the month, so some how I gotta maintain some level of training for that.  Wish me luck!!!

Smiles.

Fallon-Sorry to ear this. Ending a relationship is such a hard thing to go through. Hang in there.

-Heidi

cdban66 - 2012-02-03 7:05 AM

slow turtle - 2012-02-03 6:08 AM

I'm in a funk! I was just getting in a great groove with running and swimming (for the first time), then I had a follow up appt. for my wrist this week.

The torn ligament is worse than we thought- and is not healing. So, after discussing the options, we agreed to cast it for 4 weeks. No swimming for 4 weeks. biking only on the trainer, and I haven't tried running yet.

I'm pretty bummed right now.

-Heidi

Ouch, that kinda stinks. After reading some of the challenges that this group has been through, I am just in awe. Sick children, family sickness, personal sickness, house fires, etc. The list now includes a cast, but nothing can slow this group down! Heidi, another way to look at it is that this is an opportunity to really concentrate on the bike. If you are on the trainer, you can really work on smooth pedaling, sprints, one leg drills, clipping in/out, and such. And by the time 4 weeks is over you'll be even better on the two wheels. Take this lemon and make some lemonade, I know you can do it

Thanks Chris. I did go for a run last night. The hardest part is that I had finally worked up the courage to take a swim class, and was loving it. Now, that's on the back burner for a month.

Running is definitely not comfortable, but it's doable. I haven't tried biking yet.

-Heidi

I hope you're feeling better soon. I have minimal migraine experience, so can't really answer your question. Sorry.