Stuck in the Middle - May Challenge (Page 3)

As voted by the quorum of three doing some fantastic late night post padding.

sesh - 2008-04-30 11:06 PM

RunningJayhawk - 2008-04-30 10:59 PM

sesh - 2008-04-30 10:55 PM

Haha... I can't really say in a public forum what I say to myself on long runs or bike time trials. About the only person who really knows the true wrath of my vocabulary is myself.

Now you've got me wondering. When I'm in the "bite me" zone...I barter with myself. Now Barb...if you run these last 4 miles at XX pace...you can treat yourself to .... fill in the blank. 9 times out of 10 it's something inappropriate. The tenth time it's ice cream or decked out FroYo from Berry Chill.

I absolutely berate myself. I call myself every deragatory name in the book and then some. Then when I suck it up to prove myself wrong, I give my mind the finger and say "never doubt me again, just get out of my way."

Corny yeah, but it works.

whatever works, right?

you should have heard what was going on in my head in the pool yesterday morning!

CARP - now I have to remember them! - LOL 

But you love to swim, you love to swim, you love to swim?

Is it weird that I'm still wearing my Ironman watch?  The chlorine turns the strap from gray to green.  Then it fades back to gray.  Whatever.  I love to swim, I love to swim, I love to swim.

yes you do love to swim, and no it's not weird (at least I don't think so............hmmmm, does that make me weird?? nah, couldn't be - I'm totally 'normal' just like the rest of you )

So Bill, do you like my perfume?  It's, chlorine

It's intoxicating.  And the goggle circles really bring out your eyes.

Night Beth.  Good luck with that werk thing!  You've worked so hard on it, I know it'll be great.

Night Barb.  I'll be forever envious of that wetsuit until there's one in the closet 'o sesh.  And please, please, please dig up that pom pom pic!

Night all "Stuck in the Middles." Tomorrow is day one!  Make yourself better than today!

ohhhh {fluttering eyelashes}

you should see me with my swim cap on

Night Bill!

I bet it sparkles  

G'night.  I'm actually seriously contemplating getting some strength training in tomorrow morning.  We'll see how that turns out.

But you have a SWEEEEET wetsuit now!

Wheeeeee!  Me too!  We love running, we love running, we love running! 

The crack of stupid is the BEST way to go.  You'll learn to love it, and you'll get funny looks at work from your goggle circles on your eyes.

Ok, formal introduction:

My name is Bill and I'm living in Brandon, MS which is right outside of Jackson.  I have a house to myself until November 15th when the future Mrs. Sesh and I will be tying the knot.  To pass the time I'm training my butt off (strength training excluded).  Oh yeah, as for this tri thing, I've made two comebacks.  The first was from something we'll just call a severely unhealthy lifestyle.  The second was from knee surgery following the doctor saying (and this is word for word), "I really have no idea how you just walked into this office."  Good times.  I actually "ran" a marathon in February of '07, which was awesome (especially since it was in New Orleans), but the exercise ADD kicked in and I went for a tri.  The one I have coming up on May 31st will be go #2 at my very first.  The first go round I got slapped in the face with how hard these things are.  Now, I'm ready and I'm going to burn the thing down.

Eventhough I couldn't really figure out my times this month, I couldn't not participate in a challenge.  They've been such a huge help to me this year, and the camaraderie of the teams is a blast.  It really makes training a lot more fun when you've got people (who think in the same crazy way) to share it with.

So.. my goal is to make sure you all reach your goals!

sesh - 2008-04-30 2:17 PM

RunningJayhawk - 2008-04-30 1:58 PM Hi there! Glad to be "stuck in the middle" with all of you.

Well that song is gonna be stuck in my head all day now.  Glad it's a good one!

Clowns to left of me.  Jokers to the right.  Here I am.  Stuck in the middle with you.

Has your wetsuit come in, Barb?

That would make a cool team name:

Stuck in the middle with you... 

Another good team name...

We wouldn't complain if you brought those back...is it time to introduce the team to the finer points of invisible font?

We found the resident team geek tech expert...

I wish   Working on a team table right now.  HTML is fun.  They nevery really taught it to us in Economics classes.

Swim - 28,800 yards
Bike - 650 min
Run - 440 min

Did 2150 yds this morning.  Felt good to work on bi-lateral breathing...had to cut the workout short, though...carpool...

May Goals:

Swim: 15,000yds

Bike: 100 miles

Run: 30 miles

Strength Training: 150min

Has anyone seen esc or wildee post their goals? Just need to add them to spreadsheet.

 Scooter

Intro:

Couch potato from the day I got married until about 5 years ago (15 years...I'm 43 now).  Have run a few marathons and done a few tris since then.  My big achievement was completing an Oly last season.  I have a HIM coming up next month...brrrr...

Was essentially a non-swimmer 5 years ago.  My 1st tri I rested on a float provided to me by a lifeguard, caught my breath and backstroked the rest of the way back to shore.  Swimming has been my weak point, but I've been spending lots of time in the pool this winter...

Glad to be on a chatty great team!  Our team came in last place for April, but have no fear, I won't let this team down...I was 100% for my goals except for biking (95%)... 

Here's my sched for the season:

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