kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2011 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 206)

Safe travels, Kelly.  Kick some a$$ this weekend

Happy Birthday, Shaun!

Dead tired this morning.  Got an hour of gym time in.  Will get a run and a trainer session in later today.  I have ZERO motivation to get my rear in a pool.  My club has a deal with a local swim center that is $30 a month and you get 2 coached sessions a week plus unlimited access to the pool during free swim.  I may do this starting next month.

Kick a$$ Kelly, there should be a good sized Houston crowd of racers out there.  I'll be tracking while out at a local HIM this weekend working our team's tent.  Oh and I have a friend who is in the NYC Marathon.  Busy weekend of cheering for me.

Good Luck this weekend Kelly and everyone else racing.

I did not get the outcome I was hoping for from the Ortho. I was hoping to get a referral to PT and get healed. He thinks its  compartment syndrome of the calf. If so might mean surgury is the only hope to fix. He is checking on whether MRI can diagnose it. I was given some shoe inserts to help alliviate at least some of the issues. My rt clf is over  1/2 inch smaller than left and much tighter.  So back to the waiting game on this. SHould know a bout MRI in a week

got power back Tuesday night.  back home.  puppy has to be totally oriented.  have a cold.  no motivation at all right now.  supposed to do speed work on the tready today.  that is going to be a slog.

we dont have internet, phone or tv at home which is fine.  Although i really need to update my BT logs.

I wouldn't feel like training if I were you either.  LOL  You have a lot going on.  Glad you got power back....how long until internet, phone, and tv?  Hope your cold goes away soon.  I'm right there with you (on week 2 of cold symptoms). 

Jeff-y, power and heat are wonderful things! Glad you are somewhat back to normal routine.

Spinervals Mental Toughness, Intervals on the trainer this morning.  Only got in a little more than half the workout (50 mins of a 1 hr 15 minute interval DVD), pressed for time.  But this is def one of the harder intervals I've done. Many times you are in the 12 rear cog.  Quads were burning. I am really liking the KK Rock n Roll Fluid trainer, more and more, especially when standing/climbing, and have the ability to rock back and forth without having that fear of twisting your frame.

Still having trouble getting into Ortho, they still have no power in Glastonbury.  So I am afraid to go pay for the gym membership, not knowing if I'll be choosing surgery, or avoiding it.  I wouldn't be able to swim probably until April if I choose to have surgery.  Blows!!  I really want to avoid it!

You get work email down there??

Got a pic of Diane and I in our costumes

Yes, I saw the Kestrel press release.  Not sure of the details yet.

That is fantastic!

Thats classic and awesome all at the same time!!!!

Here's the update:

http://somerandomthursday.blogspot.com/2011/11/ironman-florida-thursday.html

Work on a post about the race plan now. 

Good luck this weekend, Kel!  We'll be cheering you on!  Have fun.

I was up at 5 doing an easy run on the treadmill when my oldest son Conrad came running in, screaming, "MOM, there's a rat running around in the basement shelves."  Hopped off the tready, ran in, and saw a mouse.  LMAO.  He wouldn't play down there for the remainder of my run because he was scared of the "rat."  He said it was staring at him.  Bwahaha.  He's got a dramatic flare in him like his mama   I used to be terribly frightened of mice, but since we bought our house, we've caught dozens of them over the years, and now they just me off.  Gross. 

Anyway, finished the run.  May do some core later.  Yoga tomorrow and long run on Sunday.  I've been feeling some right ITB pain, so I'm going to roll a lot this weekend. 

Happy Friday, all!

Swam yesterday (2000yds)

Today I signed up for a one month trial thing at this other gym that does the boot camp type of stuff. Going for my "evaluation" session this morning and see what it's all about.

The downer is my neck is KILLING me. Swam yesterday with a crick in it, hoping it would loosen it up...NOPE, made it worse. I hope there's not a lot of twisting to be done today.

Kill it Kell-y Bell-y

we are all here cheering you on!!!

Eval session was pretty good. 

Had my body fat measured (using a Tanita scale, not calipers) for the first time. 23%...Shockingly, I thought I would be higher than that.

Overall I got a good impression from this place and will give it a go for this month and see what happens. TRYING to make their group class tomorrow at 10am, but I need to meet up at the restaurant at 9am, so not positive I can make it. But my first one on one session is Monday at 10am.