The Things That Go Bump In The Night Team Thread (Page 36)

Congratulations!!!!

Everyone please keep your fingers crossed for Terri and me and everyone else who's living in the fire lines!

We are now 2/3 through the challenge -- how is everyone doing/feeling?  I have already run further/longer than I've ever run in a month -- over 60 miles of running (not including any walking, which I log separately)!   I can't believe my legs haven't fallen off.

ALL RIGHT! I met Gail's challenge to talk to a hot guy and bring up triathlons! So I know I've mentioned "tri-hottie" (we'll call him "M" that I know from our young adult services at church who was one of the folks who did my first triathlon with me. Some weeks, I don't really get a chance to talk to him. Usually, we all go out to eat after the service, but some weeks, we have dinner at the church in our fellowship hall. Tonight was one of those nights - M got in line after I did, and so I pretended to look for a napkin and did the whole touch-his-shoulder-and-say-hi thing. So we talked for a good while; he asked me about the race I did a couple weekends ago, and how it went, and we talked about how I was training for next season and what kinds of races I wanted to do. And he said "you're going to become a triathlon fiend!". So that counts for points too!! We actually talked at length, and then he introduced me to a friend of his who was visiting and the three of us talked for awhile. YAY! One of my other guy friends invited a bunch of us over to watch a movie afterwards - M came for a little while. Not sitting on the same couch, but some witty banter was exchanged...Sigh...now I have to wait until next weekend. He's running the Marine Corps marathon, so perhaps I will have to go cheer him on

Oh, and I do have a pic of him, but I'm too tired to go resize the pic. If you want to see, I'll try to PM you with it

WTG Yanti on the PR!

WTG< Chrissy for getting up the nerve to talk to the tri hottie!

Very well done Miss Chrissy! LOL--the napkin thing reminds me of the whole "bend and SNAP" from Legally Blonde. Well, see, now that you're in his line of sight ... how can he resist??? Triathlon fiend, indeed!

Hey--PM or e-mail me his pic ([email protected]) and I'll get it in here. We're picture whor3s around here, you know.

Very scary, Paul. Have been watching the news about Santa Clarita, Malibu and San Diego all night. Safe thoughts for you and your neighbors as well.

OKAY, okay, I'll cough a pic of the redhead up. Did I also mention he's a skinny nerdy white guy? Yep ... he works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But did I mention I kicked his azz in Math Club for three years?

He kicked some azz himself--after a 2:43 at Long Beach Marathon last weekend, he PRed the 10K today, took 1st in his AG, and picked up some pretty nice cash for that and various other category wins.

I'm bringing this guy back to Indonesia if I have to nail him inside my suitcase. Besides, his mother loves me ...

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BunnyB - 2007-10-21 10:54 PM

TriAya - 2007-10-21 9:42 PM Yep ... he works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Hey now! I work in the aerospace industry, too. Nothing wrong with being a geek. OH! Thanks for the reference in your race report. WTG on the PR!

I told you I would be thinking about you today and I was--both about "stupid o'clock" and then when I kept seeing that giant bunny on the course! It was the funniest thing! Like the good luck charm that you are.

As I may have said in an enemy camp thread:

"Hey, nerds carry a lot of weight in this part of town, cowboy."

Good for you, Miss Geeky Bunny ... that makes you double da bunny bomb!

good job everybody! i'm back on track too, now.

i have a guestion for you (us) runners. i have been jogging/running now for couple of months, up to 8-10km legs, slowlyish. there would be half mary in january here in bahrain. is that reasonable goal? i could cut off from other tri sports during winter and consentrate on running. what do you think?

and gail. 60miles. wow! you are my hero!

Very nicely done, antti. I know your work is crazy and even at 6 a.m. the temperatures are crazier, so super congratulations for getting your runs in and getting caught up.

If you're up to 8-10K runs, a half-mary in January is very doable. Even so, it's a considerable distance, so it's important that you follow a very good plan to avoid overtraining and injury, since you've never trained/raced these distances before.

A couple of recommendations:

http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/half_marathon.html

http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/

Good luck and let us know about your plans!

thanks dear! you never sleep?

actually temps here are getting better. at five it was only 25°C and even now at ten only 31°C - now it is the best time of the year. water is still warm and temps are nice and not too humid anymore.

what do you think, adding some other tri sports http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/half_marathon.html

on those cross training days? would be nice to swim and bike too when finally its nice to be outside...

Hehe, yeah, I won't see him again until next Sunday, probably, assuming that 1.) I make it to watch the Marine Corps Marathon before he's done and 2.) he comes to church that night. Otherwise, the next chance will be at a mutual friend's Halloween party on the 31st...which means I have to think of a costume that's cute, but not too silly, cuz I have to look hot - but nothing trashy either...

i agree with triaya....   absolutely doable antti, your essentially half way there with a 10k and to add another 11-12k in 8-10 weeks should be no problem even with following the 10% rule.  wish i could go to Bahrain and run/train/race with you.....  its been a while since i was out of the country.  good luck.

Antti -- If I can do it, you can, too!  I am now in week 5 of a ten-week half-marathon plan.  I ran my first full mile this year in mid-February (and then did all runs as R/W intervals till end of April).  I ran 6 miles for the first time ever in August and thought it was soooooooo long; I figured if I could do a half mary, then the 10k at the end of an oly tri would seem easy, or at least easier.  My plan was to run the first half and then run/walk or possibly just walk the second half.  BUT, now I am confident I can run the whole thing!  Week 5 of my plan has a 13-miler, and Week 6 has a 15-miler.  I have no idea what Weeks 7-9 hold yet, but the plan says we will "turn up the heat."  That sounds kind of scary, but hey, I am a RUNNER now, so I can handle it!

Good morning all -

Just a friendly reminder that if you have not updated your logs through yesterday, to please do so this morning so that I can update the spreadsheet and send it to Cat. I'll log at your logs and if you have anything logged on Sunday, I assume that you've updated it. If there is nothing yet, I'll give you time to do so. I am still waiting on:

BunnyB

MrsUSMC

Morgenrr

 Please either update your logs or let me know if your log is fine as it stands (ie, you did not run on Sunday). Thanks all - we're still doing great! Yanti is leading the way with Travis and Judi right behind - and yes, Judi, I bumped you up to 50, as you already passed your previous goal!! We still have a bit of running to do, but remember that you have until the 31st, not this coming Sunday, so that will give you an extra day or two I did almost 15 miles this past week, which is a lot for me!

MrsUSMC - 2007-10-22 11:43 AM Mine's logged. I guess the way things are, between my injury and now the fires, there's no way I'm going to meet my 25 miles so I'm going to be writing "MUST RUN MORE" with a sharpie on my legs. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop. I'm at work right now. It's earily dark here from the smoke in the air. The ash is so thick on the ground I left footprints all the way from the train platform to my office. Two very good friends have been evacuated from their homes and as the fires stand right now we're completely surrounded except on the west side, which is the ocean. One of them is rather close to the base, so I fully expect us to get a fire on the base some time today...it rarely fails to happen. LOL My house is safe from fire, so no worries there.

Don't forget that you can log "waliking" as running. Take an extra spin around the block before dinner, or during lunch, etc.