HILDEKQ'S Magnificently Motivational Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 31)

Vegas sounds like a BLAST! Great idea! Wilson, I'll simply stand to one side and taunt you Monty-Python style while the other girls take turns beating you up...sound fun?

Sounds like a great plan....I love abuse...I'll feel just like I do at home...hehe.  So it stands as carried by Marsha, whipped by Hilde, Arm ripped off by Turtle...all while being verbally abused by Alex - Monty Python style....Sounds great!!!  I'm in! 

LOL! I can probably count the number of drinks I've had in the past year on one hand but I used to be able to party with the best of them! I'm a cheap date now - 2 drinks and I'll be plowed! You bet Wilson, I'll carry your weak P90X body across the finish line! LOL

Hi gang-- Just a quick note to say I'm off to see friends in L.A. this weekend, so will be back posting on Monday. Have a great weekend, everyone-- and GO MMM RACERS, GO!!! *cheers crazily for the crazy runner-types out there*

I love the idea of a meet-up but I don't fly!  I know all you jet-setters will never understand, but this girl needs to keep her feet on the ground! I would be more than game for a meet up I think it would be a blast!!  What about Chicago?

Chicago would be awesome fun and certainly more central than Vegas (I'm waaaaaaaaay over here on the east coast!).

I freely admit: you're not gonna hear ME complain about a get-together in Chicago! Not nearly as warm (or as many palaces of dubious pleasures) as Vegas, admittedly, but an interesting (and centrally located) town nonetheless... plenty of tri-geeks around, too!

*waves hi from CA, where they still have roses on their rosebushes!*

Well, it's 4:30 in the morning and I'm packed and ready.  What kind of crazy people are we anyway who get up at 4:15 on a Saturday morning!!  That on top of the fact that I was awake every hour last night going to the bathroom because of all the hydrating yesterday and my nerves.  Doesn't matter how many tris I do or the fact that this isn't really my "A" race, still get the nerves going!  Oh well, it'll work for me in the race.    Don't ya just love being a triathlete?!  My goals for this race are twofold:  swim freestylee the whole way and run 11 minute miles (or less).  No bike goal because I'm using my own "fat tire" bike.  (Gotta save my pennies for next year for a new bike!)

I fly for free, so I'm up for a meet-up anywhere! Even New England is fine with me, as long as it's not in the winter!

Peggy, congrats on finishing strong yesterday! Maybe they were off on the run distance and you were faster than you think! 

Ha .. more likely they were off on the bike distance and that speed was actually slower!  I can't believe 16 mph on the fat tire bike!  I do have a speedometer on it and know that I didn't get below 15 mph the entire time and a few times got up to 18/19 but I can't believe that I'd average more than 15.25 or 15.5.  Oh well, I'll take it!  I was really happy with the swim time but would seriously like to know how to avoid that washing machine in the beginning.  It literally takes my breath away.  By the time I get through it, I'm breathing really hard because of having to swim with my head up so much.  Any suggestions or thoughts?

Sounds like Chicago should be the meet-up place???!?!?!?  I'm good with that one too...It's only 2.5 hours away!  Maybe we should just make it Indianapolis and do the June Eagle Creek Tri....(the same one I did in July).  Party at the Silverthorne compound - I'd host a big cookout and fun at my house afterwards!! A pool and hot tub to relax our aching bodies afterwards too!  I'm game for anywhere!!  I think it'd be a hoot!

Hilde - love the spiked dog collar idea - can you imagine the looks we'd get!??? LOL!

I'd be game to do a tri  in June.  Love the idea of t-shirts, cookout and hot tub sound great, Wilson.  Lets get a firm date and we can put it on our calendars!

And what if we leashed ourselves all together?!  That way the fast people could drag the slower ones, ha ha! 

Great idea Hilde!!!

Well, you could do like everybody else, keep your head down and just plow right through! Seriously, though, if you can work on sighting without raising your head too much it will help. Take a quick peek forward (only the eyes above the water line) as you're on your way to get a breath. Also use bilateral breathing to keep track of both sides. Concentrate on swimming and breathing the same way you do in your workouts and just know that it's normal to be a little breathless for the first few minutes until you get into a rhythm. It's also good to start to the outside if possible (i.e., if you're going to be turning left around buoys, start on the right). Staying wide only adds a few yards and keeps you out of the worst of it. Here more than anywhere else it's important to stay inside yourself and race your own race. That said, you turned in a really good time! 

Hmmmm, Chicago is a long way for us west coasties, but I would seriously consider a long weekend with a tri. Pass on those dates . . . It would be great to meet folks, 'specially those featured in Hilde's video since even with your real pics I still just picture the two of you as you were in the video.

-k

Okay, can't get a 100% firm date - not listed yet.  But traditionally it's the third satuday in june, july and august.  So the 2011 would be June 18.  We have a special store in town....I'm sure Hilde knows where her special store near home is......and we could get some leather studded collars!!  I also have a friend that is a graphic designer and he is really creative - I could give him a few of these blog postings and the videos and he could have a field day with a shirt design....I think with a little effort I could get us recognized at the Tri somehow....The MC is pretty cool.  Now that I think about it - I also have a friend that's a reporter...I could get us an article in the Indy Star...that'd be a cool keepsake!  I could teach you out of towners a game called corn hole.....Hilde...get your mind out of the gutter!!!  It's a hillbilly form of horse shoes...whew...  I'll cook big fat steaks on the grill (portabella shrooms for the veggies) with lots of other great stuff while we tell war stories and relax in the pool and tub!!!  The spouses could commiserate with each other about how ate up we are....my wife would like that..haha Then we could spend the evening downtown doing whatever the group wants!!!  Lots to do! I'm sure it would be a riot.....and I promise that almost everyone would be on their best behavior.....you see I said "almost" - you bad peeps know who you are..haha  

This would also give us a goal to be ready for June....to rock the Big Dance @ Eagle Creek as the MMM's.  Sounds fun to me....   

The fun factor would make it worth while...and the Tri is a good one! I agree that is a long way!

It's a long way for me too from NH but I'm going to see if I can make it work It would be fun to meet all of you!

The reason I don't plow through is that I'm afraid of getting kicked in the face!  So I swim with my face out of the water too much trying to keep from getting nailed!  Then I'm breathless.  I do sight by breathing bilaterally but not until I've finally pulled out of the mess.  Maybe I should just get over it and not be afraid and plow through.  I'll try to stay wide at the oly in two weeks.

Agreed, but it would be awesome to have you kick my lilly A$$!!! haha We could arm wrestle too...haha

LOL! Maybe I'll just ride my bike there as my warm-up so I'm ready for ya! Hehehehe!

The MMMers Rock Indy? Sign me up! Let me know when the dates are, and I'll do my best to be there-- that weekend is my sister's birthday, and we traditionally spend it together, but maybe I can persuade her to come watch a tri for part of it... particularly if I mention the MMM dress code of special t-shirts and dog collars!