November "You Choice" Challenge Team Wild Hippo's (Page 22)

Thanks for all the suggestions folks...I'm an afternoon exerciser and not a huge coffee fan (unless it's basically cafe au lait which generally isn't good for me) so I'll try to load up a bit more on fruit...I've been snacking about 90 minutes before I exercise so I think I'll try waiting until right before I leave the office so I'll have only eaten about 20 minutes before I start my workout...just when I start to metabolize a piece of fruit (excellent idea...been eating yogurt and it just doesn't do it for me) I'll be heading out so that might help give me a tad more energy. Probably throw in some cheese, too, for a little protein to hopefully keep the sugars up for a longer period of time...and then hope I burn through it (will obviously get easier the harder my workouts get).

Y'all are awesome. Thanks again for the advice.

For that, y'all have earned a picture...lessee...gonna try to upload it...haven't done that yet (I always steal pictures from the net)...crossing my fingers...yeah it worked...so, ta da, my legs buried under 20 lbs of pants!

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Man I'm getting jealous of where you guys live. Not loving Maryland (although far better than where I grew up...New Jersey...no jokes now!) but this is where I just ended up after college and grad school and now it's the place with the most jobs for someone with my qualifications so I feel like I'm kinda stuck. I keep dreaming of moving to Albuquerque (and I've never even been there but after reading some tri blogs from people who live there I so wanna give it a go) if I could afford a move and find a job but not looking likely for a little while at least. I really crave mountains and love the desert.

Anyone else live someplace I can drool over? Post the pics!

Here's the lake I walk/run around most days (unfortunately no swimming allowed)...looks about like this right now with it being Fall:

And here is what it's going to look like in the near future (when I'll be inside on the treadmill most likely):

But at least there are ducks year round...and our fire department hasn't had to go out on the ice to rescue a duck in a few years so maybe they're getting smarter!

Wow you guys live in such amazingly beautiful areas to train... Im very very jealous... I get concrete, ashpahlt or the gym...

Im jealous!!! Green with jelousy!

D001 - 2007-11-13 10:58 PM

AmbulanceDriver - 2007-11-13 9:37 PM ..so, ta da, my legs buried under 20 lbs of pants!

 

Bet that gave you a good workout though!

Yes, especially because it is guaranteed that the majority of calls will be in apartments on the third floor of a garden-style apartment where there are no elevators and the person will weigh at least 400 lbs and be barely mobile.

But they fortunately took pity on us poor EMTs and gave us new gear so we didn't have to wear the firefighter gear (new stuff is about as heavy as a pair of jeans and a fetching navy blue with yellow scothlite). And I broke down and bought some better boots so I didn't have to wear the super heavy uncomfy ones the county provides. Now I can get to the third floor without feeling like *I* should be the patient.

AmbulanceDriver - 2007-11-14 3:08 PM

D001 - 2007-11-13 10:58 PM

AmbulanceDriver - 2007-11-13 9:37 PM ..so, ta da, my legs buried under 20 lbs of pants!

 

Bet that gave you a good workout though!

Yes, especially because it is guaranteed that the majority of calls will be in apartments on the third floor of a garden-style apartment where there are no elevators and the person will weigh at least 400 lbs and be barely mobile.

But they fortunately took pity on us poor EMTs and gave us new gear so we didn't have to wear the firefighter gear (new stuff is about as heavy as a pair of jeans and a fetching navy blue with yellow scothlite). And I broke down and bought some better boots so I didn't have to wear the super heavy uncomfy ones the county provides. Now I can get to the third floor without feeling like *I* should be the patient.

 

Sounds to me like your work IS a workout!

Awesome news!!!!!  Enjoy your engagement!!!  The wedding date will come FAST  once you set one.  (Mine is almost here!!! )  Remember to keep the two of you #1 in your lives!  Cheers to ya!!!

Here is where I exercise!

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I'm starting to feel much better.  It's been difficult to keep from exercising.  Well, today it wasn't to difficult.  I sat on my in a truck for 11 hours whilst moving my crap from OR to CA.  I will be making more trips in the near future.  I'll be driving down to San Diego for a LOOOOONG Thanksgiving holiday and then I will continue to move MORE crap from OR to CA.

Tomorrow, I plan on hitting the pool!  Yeah!!!!  I'll be exercising again!  The cough is still bad, but it's getting better.  I won't be running with the Wednesday night group this week.  Oh well.  I need to nurse my body back to health.

I hope everyone is doing good.  I'll start posting a bit more regularly again!  Cheers to everyone!

Way to go, Vida!!!!

Way to go, Vida!!!!

Here is another pic of where I workout.  The redwoods are simply FANTASTIC!!!!!

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Reno8 - 2007-11-14 12:20 PM Wow...I go out for my first 10+ mile bike ride....and there is Grand-Pa porn leg pics all over the site...You just can't trust a bunch of hottie tri women with a keyboard to stay on task can you. That's OK if you keep posting the "motivational shots" that we saw. Thanks Cat for helping me out...still have this darn computer problem &*^%$#@ WOW x 2 Owl Girl...What a GREAT place to train. Just beautiful. And Gator...I would never get any running/biking done just walking around looking at all the beauty in your area. Been doing something everyday this week and have more planned. Trying to get caught up and maybe ahead for the holiday week. Weather is great here if we would just get some rain it would be wonderful. Stay safe all. Steve

Maybe we should call the theme for the week: "Travels through Hippo Country"!  

jasonbohn9 - 2007-11-15 9:27 AM just an update on our teams stats... they only had me down for 300 yards swimming, instead of 3000 yards swimming. quite a change as that percentage will go from 6% to 60% in that category! Added to it today with another couple miles biking and walking, and another 1080 yards swimming

Sorry all mistakes are probably mine!!! will try to  get it right next time!