medic0020's Group - CLOSED--BUSTIN AT THE SEAMS (Page 34)

Edited by D001 2008-02-24 12:00 PM

Dee, you are way to funny.  I would love to join the PEEPs challenge.  I fully respect your decision to take a break.  You give a lot to us and we all appreciate it... You are a good soul!!!

I printed out your PEEP challenge and showed Peggy.  She got a solid belly laugh out of it, she loves PEEPs.  I figure when you nuke (microwave) a peep is shinks into a pile of bubling goo like something from a bad Star Treck episode.  Something to look forward to on a Sunday afternoon...

Best to all, Emerson

Well, Peep magazine was a bit tasteless and in poor fumor... She is dead.

But we laughed out loud anyway... Somehow that tragic situation deserved being "Peeped"....

And, the dueling peeps were perfect....

Happy Monday!  Hope everyone had a great weekend.  I see that Dee graced us with her presence this weekend.  That's what I get for stepping away from the computer...I miss a Dee sighting  

I've been hitting the bike really hard lately.  I'm trying to balance my competitiveness with staying on plan.  I'm building run mileage for a half-mary on the 8th but I'm also trying to keep my monthly bike miles above 400. Makes for some tired legs

Hope everyone has a great monday. I'm off to find more entertaining stories while I work overtime.

Remember PEEPS! Yes, those little marshmallow chicks that come in YELLOW and BLUE and PINK?

Here's your change to be a part of the March Madness!

The March 'Peep Wars' - Don't be a Marshmallow Bike Challenge

Click here to sign up!

I plan to join, but it will not be a lot of miles.  I will be out of town for about two weeks that month and I intend to pick up my swimming again.  Can't do a tri if my swimming is a melt down...

Congratulations on starting your quest for a 1/2 IM.  You can do it, just start and keep at it.  I have done a lot of study and am ramping up now.  I just never put that in these blogs.  Are you asking what race to choose or program to choose?

Thanks.  I actually have a plan already.  I am going to use the BT Half Ironman plan.  I guess I am just trying to figure out based on what I have done in the past and what I have lined up for the month of March what my challenge goal should be.  Maybe I was just more talking to myself more than anything.  I do that sometimes.  I must just be crazy   And Emerson, as for a half ironman, if you can do a full marathon and do great with that and have the strength and motivation to get through everyday like you are...a little half ironman won't stand in your way!  Good luck! 

When I did my first sprint in July 06, I never ever thought that I would go beyond that distance.  Somehow I managed to talk myself into doing my first-half marathon in March 07.  I ended up doing 3 Olympic distance races last year and have signed up for my first two HIMs for this year.  I guess I prefer the methodical approach, particularly since I had no real distance background in any of the sports (I swam in High school, but the 50 free and 100 back were my races).

You'll be surprised how you reach these plateaus where first a distance seems like it's insurmountable, then possible, then comfortable, and then you start looking for the next one

See I am kind of the same way, but I can't deny that a little part of me has always wanted to be called an Ironman and that pushes me to keep moving towards that distance.  People tell me I am crazy and maybe that just motivates me more.  But I know I want it and some day I will get it!  And then I will get my one and only tattoo: an MDot on me to signify to the world what I did.  

Eric, why did you choose to do two HIM instead of just one? 

How's everybody doing?  We do seem to have lost a little momentum in keeping up with each other via the forum but it always looks like everyone's been busy with inspires.  I'm absolutely guilty of being awol a lot lately.  I've been ratcheting up my training, battling with some feelings of being disgruntled about work, and working too much....BUT  I also want to keep up with you guys.  I'm glad to see that many of you are participating in the challenges. This is a great way to keep pushing yourself, particularly on those days when you might be tempted to let a workout slide.

What's on the race calendars for March?  I've got my 4th half-mary on March 8th and a sprint tri (first of the season here) on March 29th.

I can't believe you called me a moron, moron!!   I guess this just seems like such a big race to me that I am not in the mind frame to do more than one.  I have a bunch of other tris in mind...need to figure out what state I am going to be in first, but geez...isn't doing two half Ironmen like doing two Ironmen without the huge recovery?  Wait...scratch that...that sounded like a moron talking  

hope everyone is having a superp friday....sorry I have been soo lame and not around lately....will be better! I promise! but gotta run, now...back to catch up tomorrow! hope to hear from you all then! go have a great Friday!!