Good luck Lynn on your half-marathon tomorrow!  Make sure to tell us all about it.

lounav - 2011-01-22 1:02 PM

TriAya - 2011-01-21 5:29 PM Blech. I hate the phrase 'weight loss' but that's just my personal pet peeve

Truth is, I'd like to be in on the challenge too. I'm still slim now but have flabbed out because, well, shoot, I haven't 'really' trained since ... September.

Also, I think I said one of my goals--which for me is actually easier with a reduced training load--is to get to an optimal RACING weight, not just to be slim and look good.

So. All that blather was to say I'm in for the Mad Manatee HEALTH BUILDING challenge. Let's see who else is in and then we can actually put a structure to it.

I'm good with any ol' name - if my six year-old was naming the challenge she would call it the Mad Manatee Pickle challenge.  Well, I'm just saying when you have a six year-old obsessed with pickles and ask them to name something, then you get what you ask for.  I'm ready to start ASAP, as girl scout cookies are out on the streets and I'm in trouble!

On a different note, I had my first swim lesson today.  It was wonderful.  I think she did things for me in a 1/2 hour that would have taken me over 6 months (and that is being generous) to accomplish - and I still have 3 more lessons to go!  It was the first time I felt like I was actually moving through the water, instead of just feeling like my arms were going round and round and I wasn't moving.   

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! 

YEAH!!! Great news about the swim lesson. I'd be interested to know what she said/recommended. How wonderful to feel like you're moving through the water. And, thanks for the well wishes for tomorrow. I'm just going to have a nice easy supported run. It will be my 3rd time doing this 1/2 mary. It was my first one ever and that was 4 years ago.

Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend.

Here's a Youtube with Lance Armstrong's swim stroke dissected by the swim smooth coach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pgQ-gpmNk

Well...  Went to the free tri clinic today, but ended up buying a bike.  Should have stayed home, but the deal on the Cervelo S2 was a deal I could not pass up.  Great middle of the road bike that can be set-up for Triathlon or Road Racing and something I've had my eye on for some time.  Saw the pricing on the 2010 model, and talked to the sales person about it and found out they were dropping their dealership for Cervelo, so the 2010 models were going for cost.  The 2011 were going to be moved to another store / branch in Denver, so no deal on them.

Glad my company stock is up - going to need to sell some more.

Go MIKE Go!! O-town? Orlando? Have fun and enjoy your runs. I'll check your logs to make sure you're not skipping out!

Congrats on the bike purchase...photo?

I am just catching up.  I went swimming this weekend and my swim buddy was able to pick right out what I am doing wrong with my arms and put in such I way I understand.  I am picking up some of those rectangle training paddles to help me out.  I am starting with private lessons for the next couple of weeks before true tri training begins. 

I need to rant.  You don't have to read.  I just have to vent. 

 I have been doing WW since just after Thanksgiving and I have now lost and regained the same 2lbs since Dec. 13.  I am pretty disgusted.  Part of me knows its stress holding on to that weight, the other part of me wants to say F-it and give me some dang chocolate.  I am so upset.  I've done EVERYTHING right.  I don't cheat.  This is the 4th time that I have returned to Weight Watchers and this has happened.  Since I added training into my lifestyle, my weight doesn't budge.  When I initially lost weight 5 years ago, it was before I ever did my 1st event.   I sat on my skinny a$$ to do it.  Exercise is bad for my weight loss.  My weight shot up when I started tri training and has been stuck there ever since. I am exactly where I was before I became a lifetime member at WW.  My  body is very attached to those 27lbs.** Opinions here are not endorsed by anyone else but me (my disclaimer so others don't think I am the norm) I am an anomaly.  Its so sad. I frustrate every leader I've ever had.  They don't know what to do with me. They tell me to eat more and I gain, they tell me to eat less and I gain, they telll me to eat just enough and I gain.  This stinks!!!!!!  Maybe I need to try a fad diet or pills.  Doing the healthy stuff doesn't work for me.  I am so anal about nutrition, organic, whole foods, clean eating, balancing protein, etc... If weight loss was based on knowledge or effort, I'd be a size 0.  AAAAAARrrRRGGGHHH!!!!  I will keep going back because my daughter has now lost 26lbs since T-giving and I am incredibly proud of her.  I want her metabolism and I am so proud of her.  I want her to keep the momentum going.  I just need to find something that is going to work for me, aside from a less stressful job which I think is truly the reason my body holds the weight.   

Rant over.