November "You Choice" Challenge Team Wild Hippo's (Page 23)

Reno8 - 2007-11-15 7:20 AM 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

Always happy to help I really want to move to where you guys live to train n spots like that!

I'll PM Dee and see what she can do!

Heya folks...well finished a swimmer's mile tonight and it kicked my tail right at the end and at the beginning. The first few laps I was gasping for air until I figured out that I was trying to go too fast and kick too much...turns out when I slow up my stroke and don't really kick that much I go about the same speed...odd. Anyway, the first 14 laps were done in 50 yard intervals. Then I upped it to 100 yard intervals. I wanted to finish the last 3 laps in a 150 yard interval but I was dying fast there (started feeling mildly nauseous/seasick) so just did the last lap on its own. Thought it was pretty cool that I hit 1650 yards exactly at 45 minutes where I was planning on stopping anyway. I rested about 25 minutes in there (total time in the pool 70 minutes) too so at least I'm resting less than I'm swimming.

Definitely a good workout. This weekend I'll hopefully have learned my lesson about trying to go too fast and be able to do the whole thing in 100 yard intervals.

And good news is that my freestyle is at least faster than a fit guy's breast stroke (not going full out I'm sure). So I can beat an old lady and people breast stroking at a nice steady rate.

Keep it up Wild Hippo's! We're kicking tail!

great job on the swim!!! Being able to beat the breast strokers and the 'social' swimmers is a great feeling isnt? Go swimmer!

For now.. Ive met some very fast breast strokers... freaky fast!

Definitely, especially since I feel like I'm truly crawling along (is that why freestyle is also called the crawl?). Unfortunately it seems like it's either old ladies or relatively fit guys at the times I go so it will be hard to judge how I'm doing because I know I'll never be as fast as the guys...it would be nice to have a decent (but not super fast) woman there...now that I finally joined the gym though, maybe I'll just go to hit the hot tub at different times and check out who's there that might help me gauge where I am.

And, yes, breast stroke can be quite fast when done right and with a fast cadence.

Just keep an eye on the clock from time to time and you will get a feel for it! And as long as you are feeling like you are improving you probably are

Wow Dee what pretty stars you have!!!

Seriously you are doing an awesome job holding it all together! Thanks for making the change

Oh good catch.... Oh Dee!!!!

I will let the person concerned make the call... I think 25 workouts was a spearate goal... so add the 9 o the line?

I want to work out there!

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DTraub - 2007-11-15 12:41 PM Yay team! Also a possible bump to our stats.... I have as a goal 25 total workouts and then broken down by sport... I didn't report that I've done 9/25 workouts.... just each of the individual-- so it's possible that that is a 0% bringing us down. Or perhaps not. Anyhow... I'm stilll a bit under the weather but am back on the workout plan. DT

Oh good catch.... Oh Dee!!!!

Um. Yes? LOL OK, I see. Do you want me to delete the "25 workouts" line? Or do you just want me to record "9" on that line? Your call.

The fact you remember that is kind of freaky with all the people in on this challenge!

I will let the person concerned make the call... I think 25 workouts was a spearate goal... so add the 9 o the line?

If you add up all his goals, it comes out to 25. When he gave his goals, he said 25 workouts. Then he broke it down by activity. (But it adds up to 25.) Yes, we'll let him make the call.

Um, did you make a comment? Or are you just trying to pad your post count? :/

The fact you remember that is kind of freaky with all the people in on this challenge!

That was teh comment... somewho I put it in the middle of the tecxt