mosc11/enders_shadow mentor group - FULL (Page 2)

holy busy-ness!

you are truly an inspiration...no more complaining about finding time to workout for me (or at least not to you)!  my sister and i were just discussing that we need to be able to log "marathon mothering" here!

first, i love your avatar, daisies are my favorite!  second i am one of six children, all a year apart and we are all so close, what a great gift to give your kids lifelong friends aka siblings. 

hope the shoulder feels better soon. 

I have been a fair weather runner since I was 18.  On again off again the entire time.  I know that I have to suffer from seasonal mood disorder and I live in Texas... imagine what I would be like somewhere like Wisconsin.  Running has been very therapeutic for me over the years. 

I like my bike, but I have a fear - a fear of being hit by a car, a fear of wiping out, a fear of having a flat and having NO IDEA how to patch it.  I still have cages on my pedals due to the fear of clipless pedals and those funny shoes.

The swim.. I loved swimming as a child and excelled in it - often times winning local meets.  When I was 16 I went tubing at a lake with my boyfriend and his family - confident in my swimming abilities I removed my life jacket in the water and through it towards the boat because it was choking me.  I still remember thinking that if I just let my body go under I would come back up after a brief rest. I was so tired from treading water and trying to swim to the boat.  My boyfriend's Aunt whose claim to fame is Olympic Trial swimmer dove in and rescued me.  Needless to say - I have a tremendous respect for the water and you guessed it... another fear.  But I worked really hard on it last year and finally found that joy in the water I had as child.  Unfortunately - endurance in the water didn't come with it. And neither did swimming in the lake.  I took some OWS clinics but just can't get over the fact I can't tell how deep the water is, or not being able to see.

i LOVE the swim! i could swim forever and day after day. don't even know where it all started because i have never competed in swimming or been trained or coached. probably way back when splashing around in grandma's pool racing my brothers from one end to another. either that or it is genetic cause my mom is quite the fish!

i did invest in the shoes and pedals for the bike this year and they are great. i got spd pedals, you can clip in on either side...and i got mountain bike shoes instead of road or tri shoes because the clips are recessed and you walk in them. i bring the shoes to the gym and clip in on the spin bikes and have no problem even walking up and down stairs in them.

Hi Everyone! 

I like running- I've dabbled in running since I was a teen, but never been able to run very far or very fast.  I've done an occasional 5K race, sometimes even with a respectable time.  This spring has been very fun- I've cut quite a bit off my average times, and I'm really enjoying the runs so much more.  The only problem is that I have had surgery on both my knees, so they don't love running nearly as much as I do!

I am also a bike chicken.  I do love biking on the open road with no hills and nothing but pavement.  I have always been, and now I recently switched out my SPD mountain bike pedals for Look roadie ones, and I promptly fell off the bike (in front of the bike shop guys) and did something very painful to my butt, from which I am still recovering.  (the butt, and the pride).  So now I am not only afraid of being hit by a car or a deer, bitten by a dog, catching an errant rock and doing an endo, being caught out in a thunderstorm and hit by lightning, but I'm also afraid of falling over clipped in, or unclipping and having the big slick cleat slide my shoe right out from underneath me, causing me to fall over sideways and have to catch myself on a stopped car (this actually happened on my first, and so far only, day out).  I am also afraid that I'll get on a hill and not be able to go fast enough to stay upright, and then not be able to get unclipped before I crash to the ground (and have a semi truck run over my head).

Can anyone say "ativan"???  Or "generalized anxiety disorder"?

I enjoy swimming- the relaxed rhythmic strokes are kind of calming.  However I am pitifully slow.  Fortunately it is the shortest leg .

We are going to our cottage on a nearby lake this weekend, so I'll have quieter roads to bike on.  I'm planning on a 5ish mile run, and a bike if my butt feels OK.  Swimming will have to wait until the ice on the lake melts .

Here is a question for everyone.

I don't belong to a gym.  I was hoping you all could help me with some sort of at home workout with hand weights or anything else I could use at home. Your help is appreciated.

~Marie

bet y'all didn't know that today's your mentor's birthday?

carol is celebrating X numbers of years on this earth and as her older sister I'm proud to say I'm thankful for every one of them!

thanks for all the birthday wishes guys!

jenn, i am so proud of you for that awesome race today!  you really stuck with it and pushed yourself GREAT JOB!