Sesh's Group - FULL! (Page 23)

Heh... I practically get bombed after races.  It's cold, it's liquid, and it makes the pain go away.  I love it.

Good luck to them!  What events does she do?

My whine is that work kinda sucks at the moment.  Nothing specific - I'm just not enjoying it, even though I try to keep reminding myself that I'm lucky to have a job in the current economic situation etc.

Something positive / kind of a funny story... My wife and I decided no Valentine's Day presents this year, but I decided to get her something anyway which I ordered from Amazon (I know - I hate when people get a present after saying no presents). 

Unfortunately she saw the box when it arrived and figured out that it was a V Day present.  After beating me up for a while (literally) she said "well what do you want?"

 I pointed out that my current bike helmet is old and fits me terribly and is not safe etc so she laughed and rolled her eyes and said "fine - you can get a helmet."  I told her I knew the exact one that I wanted and that I would take care of ordering it.

Now I don't have to worry any more about justifying my new helmet when it comes... especially since I had already ordered it a couple of days before this all happened!  oops.

And the "I sucked it up and trained" award goes to Mel!  Push-ups in the parking lot.  That's awesome.

How in the world did I forget about peanut butter?  Straight out of the jar with a spoon and a huge glass of milk.  Delicious.

That is hilarious!  Nicely done!

Yeah, I'm not saying the specialized "recovery" products are a scam or anything, because they can get the job done, and as I said, I'll mix a glass of Endurox on occasion.  But you get the same thing from real food, and it tastes a gazillion times better.  And really, you just follow the same habits that you would otherwise.  Protein, carbs, watch the fat.

Oh, but post race is a different story.  We have a local Oly distance race here, and my post race "recovery" meal is always a double bacon cheeseburger from this shack looking place back on a bay and a six pack.  Throw a big plate of steak cut fries on the side and I'm sleeping for hours after that.

As for post-workout -

A cold beer on the couch after showering is the best thing ever.

Neither of the two races I've done had free beer... I think I need to look at doing different races.

The meet is rescheduled for 10 am tomorrow (they're off school for president's weekend), so I guess I can use my excuse to bail on work for awhile in the morning.  If they win I get another excuse on Monday.  Of course, now I have to be nervous mother for another day.

She usually swims in the 50m free and the 200m and 400m free relays.  She's also done the 100m breaststroke in a couple of meets.  I'm not sure what she's swimming tomorrow.  They don't usually find out until right before the meet, and sometimes it changes depending on how the meet is going.  She's a freshman, so if they are winning by a decent margin she'll get to swim more and they'll let the upperclassmen rest.  If it is close, she might not get to swim.  It's a good group of kids with alot of team spirit.  I've never heard anyone complain if they don't swim.  They just want to win.

I'm going to have to stop reading this thread until I get home.  I ran out of food a couple of hours ago and I'm starving.  And now I'm craving beer and peanut butter.  (Not necessarily together.)

Good idea!  I like the distance too. 

 BTW, I think I'm going to do the RainMan Green Lake Tri as well.  I'm trying to persuade my wife and sister-in-law to join me.

Let us know how they get on!  I don't blame you for being nervous - Swim meets have such a tense, stressful atmosphere IMO - especially if the meet is close.  Almost harder to watch than to participate!

I am very short on $$ so I will not be doing the patty day's dash. 

Good point - not sure but I wouldn't think so...

My husband and I long ago stopped going out on Valentine's Day or making big plans.  It is a hurried, crowded atmosphere.  And we generally don't do gifts for most of the same reasons listed already.  We like a quiet dinner after the kids are in bed w/ some wine.  I'm thinking some filets from the Organic Butcher ( a local butcher shop ), a veggie and starch and wine.  Plus I bought two chocolate truffles from a local artisan who makes his own fresh butter for each batch of truffles. YUM YUM - how I love chocolate!

But right now I am so tired that I scratched masters practice then shopping for my kid's birthday party so now I'm down to eating a pop tart on the couch and doing nothing.

I hope it's a chocolate pop-tart!  Yum!

My husband and I aren't buying each other anything for Valentines Day, and we probably won't do anything special.  We are thinking of taking the kids to the rock climbing gym.  Romantic, isn't it? 

They still have no power at the school so now the meet is at 4:00 tomorrow.  They are killing me with the delays.  My daughter doesn't seem the least bit nervous.  I think Daniel is right.  It is harder to watch than to participate.

My daughter's meet got changed again!!!  Now it's Saturday morning.  Which means no leaving early today, and another day of nerve torture.  I'm wondering which god I've upset this week.

Why do my coworkers think that Valentine's Day is a reason to bring all the chocolate they had at home into work?  Do they not understand that they can't leave chocoloate out in the open and expect me to leave it there?  More torture!  (Or not, since I've given up resisting.)

Hope everyone is enjoying their Friday the 13th.

Happy Friday the 13th! And Vals day!

We'll be celebrating with Buffalump steaks, treats from pix patisserie , cocktails, and exchanging of practical gifts - 500gb hard drive, and a new comforter, how romantic!

It's a busy weekend - cocktails out with a variety of folx tonight, major house cleaning and loooong ride tomorrow, and then Worst Day of the Year Ride (18 miles) and a run on Sunday!

Have a great one all!

You know that work is a dumping ground for all unwanted sweets.  Just wait til the Girl Scout cookies appear.  And to make things worse, the building management where I work buys obscene amounts of girl scouts and then places them in our cafeteria for several days.  UGH!!!  It is so hard to escape work junk food. 

On a good note about the crappy economy, there are a lot less meeting food leftovers so I may save a few pounds there.  Why can't I just so NO!  LOL