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 2008-01-06 1:30 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
New user 4 |  Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now.Thank you! Updated my setting to view was gone for a couple weeks over holidays so I did not keep the log up to date, took a little hiatus and ready to start up again. Would like to run half marathon beginning of May and do sprints held in Indy end of June, July and Aug. |
| 2008-01-06 8:03 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Veteran 129  | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. Here it is: Sex: Ma HT: 5' 10" WT: 200 age: 51 Best mile run time so far: I am working up to running I currently am walking and working on the couch to 5k program. 5k in 47:10 Best bike speed so far: haven't timed this so far. Completed a Century ride in 7 hours in 2004. Can maintain about 25 mph after good warm up. Next.first event type: 2007 My first/next tri. completed in 1hr 50 mins. Also if you haven't started using them use your logs please. Most of my runs are walks until in warms up outside. But will get going on the treadmill this week to runwalk/run. |
| 2008-01-06 8:59 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807   Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. Well if you can maintain 25 on the bike than we just have to get you running a little. Walk/Run works great. |
| 2008-01-07 10:13 AM in reply to: #1137098 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Open Dasiy Welcome. It is good to have you. I also have recently lost weight and it is great to have someone that has been down that road and is sucessful at the maintance part ( I think that is the hardest!!) I still have more to lose so you can help me in the motivation department  |
| 2008-01-07 10:21 AM in reply to: #1137093 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. That is so funny that you said after your sprint tri your natural next step was an ironman. We are DEFINATELY different. After my sprint tri most people (non tri-ers  ) would say oh you did that so you can do an ironman. My response "An Ironman race is not NATURAL" Pretty funny!!! Best of luck. Oh and I would do an ironman if they would knock off the marathon at the end!!! Has anyone SEEN my running times, I would finish in 15 days not 15 hours!!! |
| 2008-01-07 10:35 AM in reply to: #1135049 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Open Cat Where were your vacations you took on bike? That sounds like a lot of fun. Also thanks for the comment on the novel I wrote earlier. (that was really long huh?) Anyway...look forward to getting to know you. |
| 2008-01-07 11:30 AM in reply to: #1116595 |
Veteran 129 | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. I also need to be able to swim more than 25 yards without stopping and get over the fear of open water. |
| 2008-01-07 2:02 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Member 130 Colorado Springs | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. Hi - I'm trying to read everyone's intro and it is hard to keep track! I expect as the year goes on I'll star to get to know people. This looks like a fun group to train with, I like that we are all over the map (geographically and sportswise) and have different perspectives. Just to get mine right... OK, I watched American Gladiator last night. Some of the women have my stats.... 5'7", 155, lots of muscle. I am not them. I have less muscle, but still more meat than average (thanks Dad's genes!), covered with a nice layer of mushy stuff - they have no mushy stuff. I figured out I have about 10 extra lbs of fat by using this visual: I saw at a health fair that 5 lbs of fat was about the size of a medium loaf of sandwich bread. If you took two loaves of Wonder Bread, glued the slices to my 'ideal' size (which includes some padding for curves) around the hips, thighs, belly, and a slice under each arm, you 'd get me now. So I figure that there's 10 lbs extra hanging around. Ya, I know the scale won't register 10 lost when the fat's gone - don't mind the extra muscles at all - but when you can't make sandwiches for a family of 6 from the slices of bread on my belly I'll call it a success My fastest recent mile within a training run (not speedwork) is probably 9 minutes. I usually go out at 10-11/min miles for an ez run. Fastest measured/sustained bike time recently: 20K tri leg 36 minutes - 33K/hr - could have gone faster a bit but it was Tri for the Cure with a gazillion of us out there - so I was being friendly when I think really competitive people would have bellowed at someone to get out of their way - but I don't think overall the time would have been terribly faster. I'm not a monster I'm just not afraid to try really hard things. I don't necessarily do them well, but sometimes it's just fun to be there & finish in some fashion or another. What's the SOP for a mentor thread? Do we just chat & ask questions as needed? Is it always on the same thread? I'm going to start my logs now... nothing to put in for today yet so I'll start w/Saturday. -Helen |
| 2008-01-07 4:51 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. IMHO a mentor thread is to ask questions. Chat about good and bad training things. Get perspective on things as you go. As I see how people are doing I can post things that may not be known or give other ideas. Such as : A lb of fat is about the size of a brick and a lb of muscle is the size of a golf ball. A lb is 3500 cals.. To lose one lb a week you need to cut 500 cals a day or run an extra 5 miles a day. Sounds like fun, huh? |
| 2008-01-07 5:41 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. Ok Just got home from my run. Not COOL!!! It was COLD. Let's keep in mind I live in Seattle and I saw a break in the clouds with the sun luring me outside. I jumped...a little slowly... it took me about 1/2hour to get out the door. ( I had the 4 yo in the jogging stroller all 53 lbs of her) and started my run. I felt great. THEN>>> It started to hail when I was a mile from home!!!!! Yes there I am running in the streets with a jogging stroller in the SNOW/HAIL mix. I saw a friend and we walked together for a few minutes and then I realized my long sleeve t-shirt is WHITE! I stopped at her house and put on a dark t-shirt over my obscene running outfit and then finished my run. WHAT A DAY!!! |
| 2008-01-07 6:06 PM in reply to: #1140083 |
Extreme Veteran 462 Auckland, NZ | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. OH Kim, you poor thing! There is nothing worse than looking forward to your run and then getting dumped on, one way or another! Hang in there chica! Oh and yes, my friends all nearly died laughing at the prospect of me doing an Ironman! But, I love training so I'm going to get there! |
| 2008-01-07 7:13 PM in reply to: #1140120 |
Extreme Veteran 624 Spring TX | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. HelenS, I totally agree with you about trying to keep track of who/where everyone is. I feel like I need a cheat sheet. Kim, I know why I'm a native Texan. We had cold weather last week (actually freezing tempertatures) and I thought my skin was going to shrivel up with the dry air and low humidity. Not to rub it in, but it was partly cloudy to sunny yesterday with a high near 80, and a nice southerly breeze. Today it was cloudy, in the 70s, but I think it's supposed to get "cold" by tomorrow. You and I can work on our run times together. I'm with you, I don't see anything natural about that (although everything I read says it is natural, that's how our ancestors survived). I really am hoping that I can see some improvement with my running by training with my heart rate monitor. Mathsgeek, what is the weather like in New Zealand? Is secondary school like a junior high or high school? Sounds like we'll have a great group. Chem13, I think I'll look into the nutrition log. I've been logging on another site but they just changed the format, so if I've got to learn something new, guess I might as well log her. Saling, thanks again for trying to keep us all in line. |
| 2008-01-07 7:20 PM in reply to: #1140271 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. I know it sounded like I was whining...but I really did have fun. I just couldn't post that I was that crazy to be out in it. I just liked being that hard core, cause I'm just a wannabe. In fact I have been thinking of a new login name and Ron has been shooting down everyone I think of because someone else thought of it first. Maybe I'll try wannabe... I got my login name thinking I was just going to be tracking my workouts but this is just way too much fun. I want to have a name that expresses myself a little better. Any suggestions? |
| 2008-01-07 7:21 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. |
| 2008-01-07 7:22 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. I use the nutrition logs to try and keep myself honest and to see what I did if my weight changes up/down drastically and to try and keep my carbs/fat/protein in proportion.
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| 2008-01-07 7:25 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Extreme Veteran 624 Spring TX | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. Kim, how about "Hailrunner"?!!! I took my mother, sister, and youngest son to Sea World a couple of years ago in the early spring. While we were there, a rainy cold front came through. We got soaking wet and were freezing cold but had so much fun making the most of it. We all looked like drowned rats. Thankfully, the place I had booked to stay had a washer and dryer, so when we got back there, we were able to throw our clothes in the dryer. If my husband would have been with us, he just never would have understood. |
| 2008-01-07 7:35 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. |
| 2008-01-07 8:21 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Extreme Veteran 462 Auckland, NZ | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. I second the name-change suggestion to Hailrunner! All Hail! I gave myself a really dumb name when I came on the site because I didn't really think, but mathsgeek suits me so much better, because that's me in a nutshell! And in response to Luff's question; yep, it's summer here and meant to be glorious, but today it's fair chucking down the rain, and I'm just glad it's my day off training. BUT, I've not been in the pool since September due to an infected ear, and now I'm thinking maybe just a little swim..... Oh and Kim, I once went for a run in a lovely pale pink t-shirt, and wondered why cars were flashing their lights at me all the way. When I told my partner, he just guffawed at me and steered me to the mirror. I had been wearing a hat, and hadn't been taking much notice of the light drizzle because my head wasn't wet. Other things were. Bummage. I feel your pain!
P.S. I've just edited this because I realised that Lufferly was asking about NZ, not Helen. Sorry! Edited by mathsgeek 2008-01-07 9:03 PM |
| 2008-01-07 8:21 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
| New user 4 | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. i am so excited everyone is so psyched to get moving!! so i got a bitty run today too. felt pretty good though we have had unseasonably WARM weather so needed to take advantage even if work for me right now is CRAZY!!! going to try a swim tomorrow . . it always feels so good to stretch out in the water after an intense workout but probably not the mind set to train. I have real problems with freestyle breathing. When I swam the tri this past summer i swam breaststroke (only 400 meters). i have a couple of kids (i have 6)that swim competitively (7 years) and even helped coach a university team last year so i know basically what to do . . just can't seem to get MY act together and synochrize it all. GO SALING4 |
| 2008-01-07 8:32 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. It will NOT be hailrunner...any other ideas? |
| 2008-01-07 8:35 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. The swim is the same as run/bike. I still have problems staying freestyle in the open water. I swim free for awhile then backstroke and then flip back. Pool swin I can swim forever, but OWS for some reason gets to me mentally so I do a little at a time. I grew up surfing in Calif. so I would think the OWS shouldn't scare me, but I guess I know better now. |
| 2008-01-07 8:37 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. WetTshirt is probably out, huh? |
| 2008-01-07 9:01 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Extreme Veteran 462 Auckland, NZ | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. What about swimkim or kimcan? I quite like kimcan for its affirmative qualities. I started out as gonnatrihard, which was the lamest name ever! Or Klim? Michael Klim is an Australian freestyler, who is utterly awesome. He wouldn't mind, I'm sure, he seems like a nice bloke... Happy hunting! |
| 2008-01-07 9:21 PM in reply to: #1140551 |
| Regular 85 Eastside Seattle WA | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. I really should be putting my children to bed. But NO I am sitting on the couch with my laptop ROTF. Thank you for all your input. If I had known you all had such great ideas I would have never tried to think of one myself. I'm not really very creative at these things. My husbands' idea was GREAT!! triathmom...but it is taken and the headman Ron doesn't want to steal it from some unknown person who hasn't logged in almost 3years!!!! I think it is time to give up the name. But I am liking the names so far... Still up for grabs any more ideas? |
| 2008-01-07 9:32 PM in reply to: #1116595 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: Saling4's Group - Closed for now. Triathmomx3 or Triathmomof3 |
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