The "A" Team (Page 34)

billsorg - 2010-04-08 6:44 AM Good morning, A-team!
I (reluctantly) got a trainer ride in this morning.  My 7yo daughter had a nightmare and came in bed with us at 5:20... about 10 min before my alarm was to go off.  So I turned off the alarm and thought, why not just sleep in today?  But then my little wiggly-worm daughter kept kicking me as I'm trying to talk myself out of working out.  But her Pele'-sleep style eventually KICKED me out of bed and I got a 45 min trainer ride in.

My 10yo daughter's first softball game was fun.  They lost 7-2, but my daughter was 2-for-2 and had an RBI.  I'm sure an "official scorer" would have ruled them both errors, but who's counting... she's batting 1.000!  SUPERSTAR!  We both had a great time and it should be a fun season.

Everyone have a great day!!!

TElenor - 2010-04-06 10:27 AM Hi A-Teamers!  I just wanted to say that I had a really great swim in the pool this morning!  I did my first interval workout (not pushing hard enough apparently, since I didn't feel like puking ), 8x100 with warmup, drills, and a leisurely cooldown.  My fastest 100 clocked in at 1:24, and I managed to keep the other 7 no slower than 1:30!  I'm pretty happy about that, especially since I'm still getting into swimming shape.  I haven't figured out what my goal should be down the road, but now I at least have something to work from.

On a completely different note, I've been pondering something that I thought I might as well throw out to all of you.  As you may have guessed from my puny post-count, I'm very new to BT and to triathlons in general.  I've since come to wonder; do most of you more experienced folks do double workouts in a day?  I see a lot of "I swam this morning, getting on the trainer this afternoon..." and the such.  It makes sense to double up in a day, I think, but I've been wondering how to structure it.  Double up one or two days a week, or more?  Hard workout in the morning, easy in the afternoon?  Two relatively easy workouts?  One long, one short?  Just curious what my fellow teammates are up to...

brick94513 - 2010-04-06 10:44 AM

I knew one of the ladies would stick up for her!

brick94513 - 2010-04-06 10:50 AM

About time we gave you your weather back.  Nice, sunny skies here in California.

pdbman - 2010-04-06 10:58 AM
I've found that if I don't make an effort to "even out," my knee on one side will start to bug me. I wish there were more trails close by. I really enjoy trail running and I don't have to worry about "evening out" part way through the run. We're a couple of months away from having any open trails though.  We just got another snow storm come blowing through last night. Kind of strange we're getting so much snow now, especially since we had a very mild winter.

brick94513 - 2010-04-06 11:31 AM Alright... I got to get my butt moving.  Off for another road ride.  I should have my MTB back together tonight and hitting the trails again tomorrow morning.

Oh, and by the way Kim, I ended up drying my own tights so I could go riding!

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-06 11:33 AM

Awesome!  Let the fireworks begin and pass the popcorn - (j/k)

mchally - 2010-04-06 11:54 AM Bill, You work?!!  I had no Idea! 

pdbman - 2010-04-06 11:54 AM Hey!  I'm finally caught up.
Time to do some work. 

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-08 9:16 AM OK - whoever knows where my mountain bike saddle bag is could you please let me know!

It has my replacement rear derailleur hanger and I could use it for Saturday!

Thanks in advance!!!!

You ask why I don't just keep it on the bike where it goes??????

I don't know!  That would be too simple

Please help a lost soul!!!!

billsorg - 2010-04-08 9:44 AM Good morning, A-team!
I (reluctantly) got a trainer ride in this morning.  My 7yo daughter had a nightmare and came in bed with us at 5:20... about 10 min before my alarm was to go off.  So I turned off the alarm and thought, why not just sleep in today?  But then my little wiggly-worm daughter kept kicking me as I'm trying to talk myself out of working out.  But her Pele'-sleep style eventually KICKED me out of bed and I got a 45 min trainer ride in.

My 10yo daughter's first softball game was fun.  They lost 7-2, but my daughter was 2-for-2 and had an RBI.  I'm sure an "official scorer" would have ruled them both errors, but who's counting... she's batting 1.000!  SUPERSTAR!  We both had a great time and it should be a fun season.

Everyone have a great day!!!

pdbman - 2010-04-06 12:18 PM Crazy night at the pool last night.  Some lady was "teaching" some kids to swim in the laps lane. Basically taking up space holding on to kick boards. "Patience. Open plunge closes soon and it will be just lap swimmers." Then I look at the water and its cloudy. What's up with that?  Jump in and the water feels a little cooler but I brush it off to me being cold because of the snow storm. I start swimming and get about a third of the way when I hit this wall of warm water. That's strange. I guess they were putting fresh water into the pool and the way the "current" is in the pool, it creates a wall of warm water just before you get to the area where the water is coming in. Not too bad going from cold to warm but if I wasn't paying attention it would take my breath away when I would go from the warm water to the sudden cold. Plus for the first ten minutes until they cleared the pool I had to actually change lanes back and forth as people would keep drifting around. Some life guards are pretty good at keeping the lanes clear for lap swimmers, others are just too timid to say anything.

wgraves7582 - 2010-04-08 10:48 AM

Kim - you still have to catch up in Ghoulieville also!

Emmanem - 2010-04-08 10:22 AM Happy Thursday A team!!

I'm so far behind in posts but I thought I drop in and say hi.  Hope everyone has had a great week!  I am finally getting a bike  3 1/2 months of training and now I can finally go ride outside and not on the stationary bikes!!  Very excited!!  Hope everyone has a great day! 

Happychick - 2010-04-06 1:34 PM
I agree, for the most part, that rain sucks. However, I love a good storm! I used to sit outside and watch them but it's been a long time since I have lived in an area that has really good thunder and lightning storms ~ talk about some good sleeping weather.

rnihill - 2010-04-06 2:51 PM
Me four!

Shoeless - 2010-04-06 3:03 PM I am very excited, too! I just finished building a race entry form at signmeup.com for our improved local triathlon. It was really fun. I'm sure I'll need to do some tweaking, but it was pretty easy so far. By the end of July I hope to hand over this RD position to someone else, but for now I'm doing all the work.