Tri-Wog StL's Group - FULL UP, Sir! (Page 3)

Here's my weekly update...

I had some great workouts this past weekend.  The week started off a little stressful and tired at work, and I haven't had enough sleep the past few nights, however.  Yesterday, I had a pretty crappy run and was cold and slow and tired.  Today, I took the day off.  Tomorrow will be my last run of the week before my first ever 5K run on Saturday.  Actually, it will be the first race I've ever run in.  I'm mostly just looking to finish and have fun.  I've only really been running for about 2 weeks or so after having done no cardio in a while, so it should be a good test for me.

I've reached my goal of being able to run 30 minutes without stopping.  So I should be able to finish the race.  Still need to visit the bike shop... that will be next week.  

Ran my first ever running race after training for about 2 or 3 weeks. I did alright, but I think I could have pushed myself harder because I was feeling pretty good at the end. It wasn't so long - only a 5K, but it was good for me to get a feel for what the race environment might be like in the future.  But I had fun, and I finished it injury-free, so on to the next one!

Report is here: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=114548

Hi all! Really crappy week for me workout and eating wise, work has been horrendous! But I finally got a new bike! Its a 2007 specialized Tricross comp triple. Its not a tri bike but its fast and rugged enough for Michigan roads. I took it to work on Saturday, 8 miles each way, it felt good but made me realize how far I have to go. I was pretty sore the next day, but just weak the day after that, not to mention my butt feels like a fully grown silverback gorilla had its way with me! So I will ride again on Thursday and go from ther till I am riding everyday that I work, 3 days @ 16 miles and 2 days @ 24 miles. Hop everyone else has a great week! I will try to add a link to my bike at the bottom if anyone wants to check it out.

Cheers,

      Collin

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?arc=2007&spid=22302

Great week of training for me.  Did my first 5 mile workout on Monday, then did the same thing again on Wednesday.  Friday, it was really hot outside, but I ended up doing close to 4 miles.  This is great for me since I'm really not much of a runner, but I can feel myself gaining the endurance with each week.

Flew up to the Bay Area on Saturday afternoon and the run Bay to Breakers the next morning.  My report is online here.  I had a blast.  The course is 12K (7.46 mi).  Ran a great pace - I started at 9-minute miles but paced myself enough and speeded up enough that by the end of the race, I had lowered my pace to 8:26 per mile.  I know next year if I decide to run it again, I should break one hour easily.

Now that the two road races I signed up for are done, time to start doing some more swimming and biking this week!

Hi all. Nice to get back to the workouts last week. I did good Monday through Friday getting in my workouts each day. I have made a decision to chill out on the swimming for the next month. I am soooo tired of it and dread going to the pool each time I go and don't enjoy it anymore. So I am only going to swim once a week for the next month, so hopefully when the IM plan starts in June then I'll enjoy swimming again. Did good with the nutrition again during the week last week too. I had a big camping trip this weekend, so didn't do any workouts and nutrition was horrible but that was all planned. I was still very active even if I did not s/b/r - I did lots of other active stuff! Back to it this week, workouts every day this week, back on the nutrition too. 

My other milestone for the week was on my biking. I am slow at everything I do - and I accept that, as long as I finish that's all I care about. I have been doing this group ride every week at one of the local bike shops - it is a women's only ride. They have 3 groups - slow, medium and fast. And this week for the first time I went with the medium group instead of the slow group and I kept up - it was great! I had a great time, so that was very exciting for me.

Congratulations - that was a heck of a week of running for you and a fast race, wow!