Nibbs XIX (Page 26)

and mornin...

ugh... I think the morning runs are worse than the afternoon.  It was just sticky outside.

Hope everything goes well, Kristen.  Thinking good thoughts for all of you. 

Thoughts and prayers with you and your family...

Kristen - so sorry to hear!  Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family! 

I need some advice from the Nibbs

So, if worse comes to worse and they change the HyVee tri to a du - what should I do?

honestly if I had about another month or so of training and more running under my belt, I probably wouldn't think twice about it, I'd just go for it

I'm just nervous because I seriously have only run the 10k distance 2 or 3 times, I train by time rather than distance, and have just now gotten to the point that I can sometimes do the the full 10k in the time on the plan - it varies based on if it's following a bike, the weather, all that stuff

Beth, I just went back through my training runs during my Oly training (the graph feature RAWKS), and I did 10k distance or more just three times in my training.  So don't let that get to you.  You're ready.  Also, I doubt they would do something so cruel to the age grouper as to make it a 5k, 40k, 10k.  It may be a 5k, 40k, 5k.  Or maybe a 2 mile, 40k, 4.2 mile.  They could do all sorts of things, but I doubt, and would be very surprised if they had y'all run over seven miles total.  If they do, you could still do it with just a wee bit more walking

It's definitely a mental bummer training so long for a tri to have this happen, but the nature of triathlon is to be ready for anything, because every race is different.  Every race has new challenges, problems, and successes.  Who knows, you might actually find you really, really like dus.  My suggestion is to show up with a smile on your face and make the most of it.  There are a lot of people that feel just the way you do right now, and you have a chance to be a bright spot and show them that y'all can still have a good time.  You're ready and you can do it.  So go do it

Do it!  The body's an amazing thing.  It can do things we don't think are possible.  You're trained.  You'll just be expending the energy you would've spent on the swim on another run.  

It's all about pacing.  I know swimming is 'effortless' for you , so you may want to target doing a very EASY initial run at a heartrate similar to your swim, and treat the rest of the du as if you were doing your original tri (bike and run segments).

That's a bummer about the swim, but a lot could happen in 2 weeks.  I agree with Bill...you'll do just fine!

Ok, ok!  LOL!

How can I argue with such sage people? 

Sal, I see you've joined the muppet revolution!

The muppet revolution? Im guessing this is something to do with some of the avatars Ive been seeing around?

Hi Gang...

I have no idea what's been going on... okay well, I've updated myself on a few things...

Beth... I think that with everything you have going on in life... if you've made time for this event (even if it turns out to jsut be a run) then you should do it.   It will be a great opportunity to focus on yourself for a little bit, which let's face it, after this event you won't be able to do that for a couple of months!!

Now... go for a short run and start psyching yourself up!!!   NOW!!!

BTW... for any of you who do not follow college baseball... here's a little update....

GEAUX TIGERS!!!

yes.... they are going to Omaha...

so are UNC, Fresno st., Rice, Stanford (I think)oh and some other teams, but who really cares about them...  LSU is OMAHA BOUND!!!!!!!!

Yeah, what's up with the muppets lately? 

i think I may have read someting on Milas log about liking muppets? But Im not sure where its come from... Beth? Sal?

Spokes - 2008-06-11 10:04 AM Cat, nice entry for Wed on your blog. Thanks for taking the time to write it all down.

Thanks Scott - maybe its like therapy telling BT I think half the time its nice just to write stuff down.. its like telling someone and Ive been dying to talk to someone about my last 2 weeks