stevebradley's Mentor Group FULL (Page 27)

Wow, i haven't heard of this... even if i would have, i would have assumed the opposite trajectory were true and not gone anywhere near it..... good to know!  so when are you free to search for that chicken?

Lisa....OUT

...i am annoyed....happy for you, but still annoyed.  here i am hating winter and you are biking in the hollywood hills and watching majestic sunrises.  grrrrr.

Blast it all!  You can't get me pumped about columbia only to squash my excitement two days later..... i totally get where you are coming from though.  the achilles is not to be screwed with.  treat it nicely and it will (hopefully) give you the same respect.  someone on another thread told a story about how she was nursing an injury, and her non-athlete husband said, "why don't you sit with me on the couch.  i feel great."  here we are...TRIATHLETES.... ROAR.  It is supposed to be healthy, but then it feels sometimes like we spend more time worrying about injuries than our sedentary counterparts....  injustice...much like neil sucking up all the sunshine. 

I am alive

Been super busy at work lately which sucks, but I've finally gotten out of my workout funk and had a nice 8 miler 2 days ago and a quick 4 mile tempo run today. A short bike yesterday, but that will change as we get closer to going home. 

 Looks like everyone is staying busy, which is awesome. Quite a dedicated group of athletes.

 It is getting warmer here, so I've been running outside 3 times per week...sure beats the dreadmill. I thought if I had to run on the treadmill one more time I was going to quit running forever! Now if they'd just re-open the pool...

Yeah Steve, I'm definitely cool with that. As far as the pool goes, it is an outdoor pool and I think they are just waiting for the weather to warm up here. It gets really cold at night, so even though it is heated, they still panic about it getting ruined by the winter (I guess).

Sure sucks being hurt, I always struggle when I'm injured...mind never lets me take a day off or rest very easily. Looks like you are handling it well though! As soon as I get home, I am joining the local club and hitting the pool 3-4 times a week, doing some LONG bikes on the weekend, and probably getting in a few 10-15 mile runs. Just hope the wife doesn't kill me!

Neil,

*SIGH*....

I'll host Neil! And I promise to provide sumptous feasts of Nature's bounty every meal time....

stevebradley - 2009-02-25 6:06 AM GRACE - Are you by any chance our Earth Mother? If not, can you become Her? Lisa and I both feel that in the event of a world meltdown, you might be the ideal person to have by our sides. (This is based on your comments about chickens, raw eggs, and slugs --- and we're sure there's much more to you in this regard that what you've mentioned thus far!!)

OK,

I can be everyone's Earth Mother. What an honor, and huge responsibility.

I will probably have to put in an extra order of chicks in order to properly nourish all of you. 

LISA and JESS,

Your search ends here. I just so happen to have a tasty young rooster stashed in my deep freeze for emergencies just like this.

All,

I confess I have done dismally in my first goal to stick to my workouts this week, although I did manage one weights session on Monday (my other goal). The problem was, after that all-out session where I did 10x3 reps of squats, situps, lunges, etc, I morphed into a single Huge Ache the next day. And just couldn't get down to my planned bike-run workout in a timely manner. After a lot of humming and hawing, I finally dragged my sorry @** onto the treadmill and walked for 20 minutes. Then feeling a bit better, I decided to see how fast I could run 3 miles. I stopped at 1.5 mile and 7 min 30 sec. That just about killed me, but I feel better today.

Tonight I shall bike 38 minutes and see if a swim can be squeezed in somewhere!

What should I do to ease my resumption of adding weights to my training plan? 

STEVE,

sorry to hear your achilles is hurting... hopefully more rest and TLC will heal it...

ThatGirl - 2009-02-22 11:49 PM... Oh, and I'll join Lisa in eating a whole chicken raw if it will make me as fast as Grace!! My 10k pr is like 50:25, and that was at the Pike's Peek 10k race last spring. I don't know if you're familiar with it, Lisa, but it's basically straight downhill on the Rockville Pike for 6 miles.  Very much like cheating

JESS & all,

I might have to try chowing down whatever you are eating if I could somehow be as fast as you in the pool. I'm making steady gains swimming, but at this rate I wonder how I could ever finish that 600 m in a reasonable time.

I spent yesterday helping my bro-in-law recruit at Slippery Rock Univ, PA, for the National Parks Service. He's the Chief Lifeguard at Assateague Island (where those wild ponies romp) and one of his criteria for hiring lifeguards is a sub 10 min 500 yard swim.  For the life of me I cannot imagine doing that. My PR for 600 m is a pokey 16 min.

Oh well.

On the other hand, even Spencer is flabbergasted that I am faster than him running. I am convinced that it's because I warmup 20 minutes before each run. Or Maybe eating 'em free range chickens helps..so I should start eating more fish for my swimming. I think seals and penguins swim pretty fast too...

Man vs Wild is one of my favorites.  I once hiked a months worth of the Apalacian trail, we didn't eat much off the land but I do love "Nature's Bounty".

Steve...you can can'x the adopt a neil program. I appreciate your intent...but I have spent my time in those places.  I grew up in humid Florida.  I spent 3 actual yrs of my life at sea in the past 10yrs and went through many climates.  I spent 6 months working as an engineer in a steam plant.  And I spent 6 months in Iraq in the dead of summer wearing bullet proof vests and full body suits.  I also spent years flying around with a wetsuit on under my flightsuit (which is hot). During one period I spent months working in 110-125 degrees about 12 hours at a time...I got a chance to fly home for R&R and as soon as I got home went to the gym and hit up the suana...it was like a break room to me, I couldn't work up a sweat even after 30min, people thought i was very odd.  When I ran security missions in the Navy we had to chase down (some times chase, usually they stopped) vessels in the middle east to inspect there cargo, we would spend up to 18 hours searching containers on some of the container ships in the desert heat with radiating temps well above 120 in some cases.  It felt like our boots were going to melt.  To prepare for this I used to work out with my men at noon everyday while we were en route to the op area.  So I have some time in the heat mainly.  Not quite as much in the cold...but enough heat to satisfy me.  I am not saying heat is nothing...in fact the opposite, I just have had enough of it to know better.  And I will not be signing up for any super hot ironmans anytime soon.

can't see the heat in this photo...but this is what I wore in that 120+ weather.