Jsnowash (Jenny)'s Mentor Group - CLOSED! (Page 24)

Had a productive week of training.  Got my key workouts in but scaled down to 1 swim since my shoulder is still bugging me.  PT does seem to be helping.  Got in my first 10 mile run of the season and felt good.  i'm enjoying building a good base in the early season instead of playing "catch-up."

Contemplating a race early May as a warm-up to my HIM in June.  It's called Devilman in NJ and it's between a HIM and olympic.  .8 mile swim, 40 mile bike and 8.8 mile run.  It would still leave me 3 weeks before REV3 Quassy.  Decisions decisions!

Long work week ahead where I need to be in early most mornings.  Planning a lot of short, high intensity workouts (except for the swimming.)

Hope everyone gets off to a good week!

Looks like everyone is starting to ramp up as the season approaches.  I'm run focused for the next few weeks with the Danbury half marathon coming up on April 1.  Hoping I can clock in a 1:45ish time.  If so, that will put my mind somewhat at ease for the run at the Rev3 Quassy in June, and I can switch focus to my bike in April as the weather turns nicer.  Speaking of bikes, I ordered a new bike today for the upcoming season.  Very excited about it; I'll post pictures when it gets in.

Hope everyone has a good week.

Congrats on the new bike! That is very exciting.

I had to squeeze in a very short run this afternoon -- 1.5 miles. I tried to make up for the short distance by running harder than normal. Still slow by the rest of the world's standards, but I was very pleased with the pace. It felt good to know what that pace would feel like if only I could maintain it over longer distances.

Chris -- good luck with your HM this weekend. You've trained well. Congrats on the new job. I'm sure you will figure it out. I loved my job until a few months ago. I think I'm just burned out.

I received my contract for next year -- all teaching. I can't tell you how relieved I was. Today was non stop from 8:00 to 6:00 -- I even had a breakfast meeting with a prospective faculty member and a lunch meeting with prospective donors. Add into that two classes, chapel, and a three hour faculty meeting and there was not a lot of time left for much else.

I did get in a 50 minute trainer ride this evening, however.

Tomorrow, I go to Topeka for some meeting with state people. I swear -- these meetings are scheduled for me -- I'm told where to be and when, and I don't know what in the world I'm supposed to do. That's exactly how the lunch thing today was. My instructions were to "show up" and "talk about myself." The good thing about it was that the chicken sandwich was amazing --  poppy seed dressing and grapes in it.

I plan on getting a swim in before leaving for Topeka. A run in the evening would be nice, but I don't have a clue what time I'm getting home tomorrow night.

Enough complaining! lol Spring break is next week. I can survive until then.

oh wow...I've been really bad about posting.

I recently moved to a new facility and new team at work.  What this means is that I am moving from a place where life was slow and therefore I was alloted ample time to screw around during work on wonderful websites like this one (yes, your tax dollars at work folks) to a new place where there is now so much work on my plate that I will be lucky to take lunch for the next year.

Which is good.  I'm really not complaining.

Regardless...my training has been sort of hit or miss.  I'm still teaching way more than I want to, and not able to get in my other training.  But I have a good plan for the weekend.  It's supposed to be really nice here so I'm going to go run during my lunch tomorrow (assuming I can get away) and dust the bike off on Saturday and go run on Sunday.  I don't teach at all this weekend...so outside I go!

You all sound like you're doing amazing things.  You keep me motivated to stay focused on the upcoming race season!

Don't want to jinx it but..weather is looking great the next week, so I'm planning lots of rides this week..can't wait to finally be outside again.  I'm trying to keep my expectations low (as well as the mileage) as I don't want to overdue it.

On the flip side, you never know when I workout opportunity suddenly appears.  Since I don't work on Fridays it's my grocery shopping, catch up and clean the house day..but we had a 2 hour power outage here....so nothing else to do but go for a nice long run!  No expectations, just killing time!!  Great run.

Everyone have a great weekend!

I have found that my routine almost works better when I don't schedule a rest day, but just listen to my body/mind!  This week I was just overwhelmed with exhaustion both mentally and physically and just took a couple days easy and one day off and now I feel completely ready (besides a small cold.which could account for some of the exhaustion).  I guess my philosophy is I let the rest day come to me instead of planning it ahead of time.  I know that doesn't work for everyone's schedule (even mine sometimes), but that's why triathlon works so well for me.

Almost 80 today. Amazing. I went for a short run in shorts and a short sleeved tech shirt, and I was too warm. It was wonderful.

It's spring break this week, so while I still have a lot to do a work, it is a different kind of work. I was able to update my race log with the races I'm hoping to do -- one a month beginning April 15. They are all sprints.

I also went outside for a short bike ride yesterday -- just a slow family ride, but it was still wonderful.

No swimming this week -- the pool is closed for Spring Break, so I should be able to work more on the bike and the run.