Boston Beginner's Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 21)

AlanaF - 2010-01-27 10:49 AM Ok - this sounds like whining but, if anyone has any ideas....

I've finally come to grips with the fact that in order to train the way I want to I have to do more than one discipline per day.  The thing I hate about doing a workout in the AM and the PM isn't really the workouts, its all the before and after.  I feel like all I do all day long is change clothes, shower, and get ready.  Half the time I just put my hair in a ponytail because why bother fixing it for a few hours??
Same thing with make up.  Why bother?

The only solutions I can think of is:
1 - harden up.  Who cares if half my life is changing clothes?
2 - Do bricks instead.
3 - Stay sweaty and stinky all day and enjoy having some time to myself

Any suggestions?  (guys have these kinds of things too easy)

Make up, no make up, hair up, hair down, I am sure you look great either way.

Good for you.  It's funny, the reaction you usually get when people find out about your new hobby is either very supportive, or very not supportive.  Most of the people I told just said I was doing another impulsive thing and I was crazy.  Even my wife was a bit unsupportive at first, but she is very supportive now and even suggested I do IMAZ this year.  

As far as the 50 or 100 miles goes, see where you are a couple of weeks out.  You still have 5 months, plenty of time to decide.

Morning all.  I just wanted to give a little BBMG IM Challenge update.  The completion standings are as follows:

We also have 3 folks who have completed 1 discipline already:

gobluedds has finished the run portion

mareelouise and skymedx have finished the swim.

Keep it up guys.  You are doing great.

Ok, chiming in on the double workouts. First of all, if your biggest issue is about how much laundry you are doing due to workouts...OUTSTANDING!!! Someone clued me in on following plans, and fitting in workouts. Most plans are designed to get you ready to do well, not just finish a race.  They tend to be padded with about 20% more workouts than you realy need to have a decent race. The idea of this is everyone misses workouts. Thus, if you schedual 120%, and miss 20% of your workouts, you are still ready to rock and roll. Please do not read me wrong. If you can get all the workouts into your schedual great!! I just know from talking to a few Pros over the years that planning a workout program, and following it are two different issues.

It has taken me a long time to realize that I train to live, not live to train. My first few seasons were all about not missing workouts. I was in fantastic shape and had a blast. My wife on the other hand felt like a widow. For about the last 2 years, I have been working on getting my family life more stabilized (wife works nights, kind of like being a single parent most of the time). As long as we are having fun with our new addictions, all is good. I love being addicted to tri. It is one of the few things that do not realy hurt to be addicted to .

Sorry, the sheet I have doesn't have you listed for anything.  Are you doing it on your own spreadsheet?  Let me know and I will fill it in.  

rbriggz - 2010-01-28 10:46 PM

rbriggz - 2010-01-26 9:59 AM Got a spin class in last nite (more on that later when i have time - it was interesting) and a swim this morning. I have an hour & a half to kill tonite while my son is at class in New Haven so i'll be online at the coffee shop reading through the trainging logs and inspiring. So get out there and do some workouts (and log them) so i'll have something to read later

Have a good day all !!

Never got back to the interesting spin class. Well, i got an email saying i was put into the class from the waiting list (moved up 12 spots in a few hours). Cooked dinner, fed the child (18 yrs old, it's ridiculous i know, but at least he's eating healthy). ran out to the gym got to the class with about 30 seconds to spare. Door shuts, lights go off and i hear the instructor say "hooooow's everybody dooooooinnnnnn" are your "ready toooo goooooooo" i feel like i'm watching some disney teen movie. Is this the High School Musical spin class? Did i miss that in the description? She kind of sang when she was telling us to speed up like she was Mylie Cyrus or something talking to the crowd between a songs or something. It wasn't actually a  bad spin class, even the music was okay, but it was funny how it was like she was on stage and we were her audience. She actually said something like "how are you Team Shelton" (luckily, we were in Shelton and not some other town) I felt more like I was at one of my daughter's cheer competitions, Just way over the top for a spin class. At times I felt like I was in a group of  4 year olds and she was a mom hosting a birthday party.

We have themed spin classes.  I haven't gone to one yet.  They actually do some around the pool in the summer time.  Their big one is having a guy playing a saxophone for the whole hour.   Glad you enjoyed it.

Not as bad as falling off the trainer.  Yes, I did.  The bad wheel wasn't in the trainer tight enough and over I went.