Lora's First-Timers Women's Group - CLOSED (Page 32)

Happy, happy.  I actually ran 12 minutes today!  Not consecutively, but given that I haven't run at all since I was in college, and was slow then, I am happy.  I like training in a group quite a lot.    I also realized during our swim training exercise that indeed my kick is only there to stabilize me and that kicking only resulted in a very SLOOOOOW trip across the 25 yards at the pool.  Any suggestions for that?

I've been reviewing my training log and think I really need to put in at least a full hour of exercise everyday, excluding tennis. 

Sue

Thanks, Kami.  My daughter has some of those from when she was on swim team in high school.  I'll give them a try. 

Our swim will be 25 yards instead of 50 yards.  I'd actually prefer the longer distance since it will be easier to get into a rhythm.  Maybe I will have to practice turns.

Time to head off to the bike before I have to go to work.

Sue

Good luck and have a blast! Sharie and Debbie

Hi Ladies.  I've been getting some good work outs in this week.  Finally getting back in to the swing of things.  I got my new toy...garmin forerunner 305.  I tried it out for the first time tonight.  I raced against a virtual partner for 2 miles.  She beat me.  I set it to go 2 miles at 12min/mile pace and it took me 12:43.  Owell, I definitely pushed myself harder watching it though.  I was already tired cause I did a full body work out at the gym with 2 cardio intervals (treadmill for 4 mins at 6.0 and stairclimber for 4 mins at 6.0).  I really like the watch, but still need to figure out how to use it.  I was hoping to get my heart rate information from it, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.  I'll have to read the book....good reading material for the 6 hour plane ride to CA this weekend.

Good luck to all the racers this weekend!

Wow Sharie! Way to go.

Hey ladies.  I've been offline most of the past week so I'm a little behind on what's going on, but I did see that Shari did GREAT on her first tri!  Congrats on the AG placement!  I'll try to catch up with the rest later tonight or tomorrow. 

I took last week off work (the reason I wasn't online much) and got some training in.  Not as much as I would have liked - I had an issue with my back early in the week that kept me from doing too much.  So I decided to take that time to go by the LBS and talk to them about road bikes.  My husband has OK'd me buying one and says that if I'm going to do it, I should get a decent one and not one from Wal-Mart or someplace like that.  I spent about half an hour talking to the guy there about the different brands and the components that come with each.  I didn't realize that on "real" bikes, the brakes and gear changers were all part of the same system  - learned something new.  He estimated that I would probably need either a 54 or 56 based on my height, but the only way to know for sure was to test ride some of the bikes and see which one fits me best (that part I knew ).  So hopefully next week some time I can get in and test ride some and see what I like. 

Hope everyone is having a good week!
Janet

Debbie,

Fun reading your race report, especially about the bikes making fun of your ride.  However, it's such a nice generous crowd, surely that would never happen. 

I'll keep your can-do attitude in mind when I do my race.

Sue