Rich Miller's Group - FULL (Page 39)

Good Morning!  Rich, I had a lovely time at dinner with Marcy.  What a small world we live it!  She and her husband are very nice.  It was great finally putting names and faces together.

I'll be thinking of you on Tuesday.  Let us know about the surgery once you're feeling ready.

Katz, so cool that your mom is coming to see you race.  You're going to have a great weekend!

BTW, I finished Cowtown Marathon in 4:19:55!!!  I was 11 minutes faster than White Rock in December!  It was a beautiful day for a race.  I didn't hit a wall on this run, but my knees were really sore by mile 24.  Some of the roads we ran on were quite uneven and bumby.   I sucked it up and pushed the last mile to reach my goal.  I was aiming for 4:15-4:20.  I barely made it with 5 seconds to spare!  Life is good!  I read an interesting article about women runners in the New York  Times.  Check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/health/nutrition/30Fitness.html?emc=eta1

I would love to know what the ladies think.  Happy Traininig!

Hey girl! YOU ROCK!!!!! Congrats on your marathon time - that is excellent! So proud of you.  You have earned some downtime, so take care of those knees....

Interesting article. I'm fairly competitive by nature, so I don't think I'm sandbagging it at all (and I'm totally sucking wind at a (9:30 mile still!!), but I can relate to the idea that some women might not have the desire to push themselves. I see it a bit in my local tri club of neighborhood ladies.  Some of us are really pushing for PRs, doing longer distance workouts and trying hard to improve, and the rest admiringly call us "The Freaks." It's interesting to see how the team is sort of split into two groups like that. 

What do you other ladies think?

Hey Rich...I'm thinking about you! Hope the surgery went well and you are resting comfortably!  Keep us posted on your recovery.

Angela 

OMG, Rich - I'm so glad you got that taken care of when you did and didn't wait any longer.  Sounds like your shoulder went through the shredder! No fun, for sure....but I'm glad you are put back together and on the road to recovery.  Rest well, take your meds, and take it easy!

I'm about 4 weeks away from my oly in Galveston.  I wish I could say that my training has been going super smooth, but it's been a little bit more haphazard than I'd like.  Quite frankly, most of my life since the new year began has been a bit more haphazard than I like.  My father-in-law had heart bypass surgery on Jan. 2, had complications, was in ICU for four weeks and then acute care or another week.  Unfortunately, the stress of all of the complications and multiple system failures was too much for his heart to handle - he suffered a massive heart attack on Feb. 6 and passed away.  He was only 60 years old, too - way too young in my opinion.  So, life's been crazy and tough and nuts with lots of travel and trauma.  I'd really like for things to slow down now, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not the one in charge.

Nevertheless, I did a 31 mile bike ride with Team Pink yesterday that was a ton of fun.  And I pulled my 5K time back under 30 min today without feeling completely gassed out at the end. Tomorrow, I'm planning on a 20-25 mile time trial to see how fast and how long I can hammer it out on the bike.  Should be interesting.

So, fearless leader of ours, rest well.  My thoughts and prayers are with you. Enjoy the downtime as much as you can and I hope you are feeling better very soon! Love to all of you guys! 

10 staples, Rich! Impressive!  How long until the staples come out?

Looks like it's nice and clean, healing up and going to leave a pretty scar....

Sorry about your loss Kat.  That IS too young and really sad.  Hang in there.

Rich, WOW!  I'm excited for you that you got repaired -- cool photos and leave it to you to know every detail of what they did!  Do what the docs tell you for your recovery and rehab.  Funny, one of my engineers just came in last week to show us the 58 staples they put in from his shoulder to his elbow (broke his humerus snowboarding).  I don't think the staples coming out is too painful -- more like uncomfortable.  I think you injuring it training for TRIATHLON is a good enough story, but if you must spice it up, a shark attack always freaks people out.

Compared to what you guys have going on, my problems seem like nothing -- but I am bummin' because my knee has not healed completely and is still giving me problems.  I want to be out running and improving; I am slow and fat enough as it is -- I don't need these problems too!  I'm still swimming, doing yoga and spin class -- but some of that makes it hurt.  (I think I sprained my posterior cruciate ligament in Taekwon Do when I missed kicking a bag and hyperextended my knee about 5 weeks ago.)  Any advise on any of this?  What to do? How to cheer up and not be such a baby-head about it?  :-( 

Anyway, I am keeping up on all your posts -- you guys are doing great! 

Cyclingmaniac - I'm going to come back quick.....but, Katz.....I will listen to the doc and PT......I'll be a good boy!

You'd better....40 lashes with a wet noodle if you don't!

Hey Everyone!

Rich, sounds like the healing and recovery are off to a great start!  I'm with the others, listen to your dr. and PT.  Sometimes the menfolk say they're recovered and doing well when they should really be resting.  But I'm sure, Rich, you're not like the menfolk that I'm talking about (my husband included)...Are you???

Christine, how's the knee?  Are you taking care of yourself?  When's your first race for the season?

Katz, how's training going?  I've noticed there are quite a few BT folks doing the tri in Galveston.  Sounds like a great weekend. 

I began training for my first race of the season.  It's the same race I did for the first time last year that got me hooked on tri's!  We had a swim clinic on Sunday that was fantastic.  I got some great advice with very doable drills.  I'm looking forward to doing well on this race.

Everyone...train smart!

Ang

GUYS,

first of all, i totally owe you all an apology for being such a terrible friend and bloggie person.

Somehow life just takes care of making it impossible for you to actually keep uop with everything....and I dont have kidz yet!!1 that's scary..

Anyways, first:

Kat, i am so sorry to hear about your loss. I send you my love. I see you are training strong! that is awesome!

Rich! OMG, i saw the pictures of your stapples, OUCH! i hope you are doing well!! I miss your great advice!!

Andy!!! gossh, long long time no talk.. hope you are fabulous and your kids as well...loved loved meeting you.

Ang: where are ya? hows my magical potion girl?

Chris: what are you up to? are the houses finished..

Honestly, I feel so disconnected and I think im like probably 20 pages behind, so thers no way I could catch up!!!! gezz....

update on me- HIM sometimes in the summer FL im in nov, very pumped up. training hard, once again, abck on the horse and loving it!!!Working super hard, loving it!

I helped organize the Miami International Triathlon and got to meet Matty Reed, Kraft, Laito, Galindez, a bunch of prof. triathletes, we ahd a lot of fun and the race was a success. It was organized by some friends, so let me tell you,  A LOOOTT of work and synchronization happens at these events!!!

ANyways, guys, Im back full force. I missed you all.but will keep up.

send u my love!!!!!

carolina 

Hey, Rich! So great to hear that your shoulder is recovering so nicely! Great news!

Well, here I am one week away from my first tri of the season.  I'll be doing the Lonestar Quarter (oly) on March 30.  Unfortunately, I've been fighting off a chest cold for the last week, which has been keeping my training to an absolute bare minimum.  I was feeling pretty decent yesterday and went running, but it was disappointingly slow.  I'm resting today and tomorrow, and upping the decongestants trying to clear out the system.  I don't feel all that bad, but I keep coughing and that is wearing me out.  So....right now I'm not feeling terribly confident about the race.  We'll see how I feel in a couple of days.

I was pleased to look up my training logs and see that I have nearly doubled my training volume from this time last year.  As long as I can get healthy, that means I should be better prepared than I was for this same race last year.  I'm a few pounds lighter and feeling a lot stronger, too. Now, if I can just get healthy......

Richardson Texas!  That's where I was born!  YIPPEE!  Let me know when you'll be in town.  I would love to meet the Master Mentor in person.  Great news about recovery. 

Hey guys!  CARU, Good to hear from you again!  Sounds like you are ready to be the next pro triathlete.  RICH, SO excited for you that your recovery is going well.  Now be good and don't go over-doing it!

Both houses are all together and done. Work has been really busy. Training has been slow in March because of a knee injury and then a really bad cold that turned into a sinus infection.

I am signed up for several charity bike rides this year and to be a judge at our big Taekwon Do tournament in May.  Picked out one race me and the gang are going to do (Steelman) -- I would like to sign up for one or two more races but my husband lost his job a few weeks ago; so we need to be frugal right now.  We'll see what happens next and then add a race if we can.

Hope everyone's training is going great!  I worked 10 hours yesterday and then went for a 1/2 hour swim.  It was SWEET!  Even when I'm not doing as good as I would like to; or training as much as I would like to; it's still fun to be training at all!   :-)