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I know the feeling.   Make sure you get healthy before you go breaking down your body again. 

Hey crew - sorry for the lack of inspires or participation lately.  Life has been a little crazy.  How is everybody doing?   What is going on with your training?  Any stories to tell? 

My training volume was extremely light last week and will be again this week.  Things will settle down for me in the next couple of weeks and I should be ready to begin full-on IM training on Feb 5.  In the meantime, I am just trying to keep my fitness level even.  I am running a half marathon on Feb 3 and that is an annual race where I always seem to PR, so I will be looking for sub 1:40 if all goes well.   

How about YOU? 

MISSING

Bel aka Outbackgirl

Paul aka Jungledoc

If seen please notify any member of captantony's group

Ok gang - how is everyone doing???  Bel is still MIA.   Paul has been found - he is just tied up at work.

How is everyone's training coming?  Honestly, I've fallen off a little lately.  My travel schedule and other things in life have taken some of my IM motivation away.  If you see me slacking, please call me out!  I haven't run a race in quite some time (and I LOVE racing), so I am hoping that this weekend's half mary helps get me on track. 

What are your February goals - training, weight loss, or personal?  List them here and let's make sure we keep each other accoutable.  I will get mine posted today or tomorrow.  

Safe training everybody!

For February I plan on still just pounding out the miles and getting ready for the Shamrock marathon. I have been feeling pretty good still except the last 2 days I felt like I was running hard and the times showed slower than I felt. Today I felt like I was pushing harder than my pace ended up being. Now I did run some hills on todays course so maybe that was it. I may run a 5K this weekend I am working on Friday evening and would have to get up early to get down for registration.

Hard to believe February is almost here.  My January goals went well.  I beat my running goal by 10% plus, and although I didn't meet my swim and bike goals, they were set arbitrarily to keep my mind set on tri training, although my primary focus was the MB half mary.

My February goals are as follows:

Weight - Lose another 5 pounds or so to get to around 205.  Although weight loss is not my primary goal, I want to get down to 185 or so by September so I do not beat up my joints so much while training.

Racing - MB half marathon on 2/17.  I hope to go somewhere around 2:00:00 to 2:05:00.  I ran an equivalent of a 207 last Sunday, but I do not know what my limiters are yet as I am only 4-5 months into running seriously.  I do know that my Sunday run cannot affect how fast I start the race, but will give me some confidence during the last half of the race to pick up the pace and get a better time. I am going to try to run the first 6.55 miles at a 9:30 to 9:45 pace and then let my system tell me where to go from there.

Training - I am starting my mileage countdown to the race, so my miles will be dropping.  I plan a 10 mile long run this week and an 8 mile long run the Sunday before the race.  After the Marathon, I will start into an Oly plan for a June 3 Olympic distance race.  I will be doing 2 sprints during that training plan.  One on 3/31 and one on 5/5.  But due to the separation in time, I took Dougs advice on doing a training plan for the Oly.

By the way,  thanks to all of you for the inspiration and support.  My January training was most excellent, and I believe the comeraderie and accountability of this group had alot to do with it.

Keith

ps.  I still owe you some of my bike porn, and will post it soon.

I am with you.  I have been feeling lonely without the communication.  I can't complain, because I have been away from the site except for a few minutes here and there to update my illness, but I will be better about it from now on.  Effort in = Desired Results out.

Thanks you for saying something about it.

Sorry guys - I have not been a very good mentor lately.    Work really has gotten the most of me over the past month.  Nice post Al and I agree that at least once per week we should check in here to tell each other what is going on.

So, for me - my first week of IM training is ok.  I was in Los Angeles for much of the week and got in some good runs.  Now that I am back home, I got in some much needed time in the pool and on the trainer.  Today, I had my longest run in quite some time and it went pretty well.  All in all with a couple of 20 mile runs, I will be ready for the Shamrock Marathon in March.  Honestly, I feel good about my base for the upcoming IM training, but I am SCARED how I am going to find the 20 hours per week necessary to train in April and May.  I will figure that out when I have to. 

In other news, work continues to be busy, but I expect some changes in my job over the next 6 months.  Overall, things should calm down, but travel will remain the same.  On the personal front, I see my kids lots and they are doing well.  The other real positive is I've met a wonderful woman who supports my triathlon habit.

Ok - what about everyone else???

Doug,

I thought for a moment that you met a woman that supports your triathlon habit.  No really, what's that. Wow!

Keith, she's a triathlete - go figure.

Oh and for clarification purposes, I am not talking financial support. 

Well here is what is going on with me......Work, running, sleep and nursing a one eyed dog. As you know I am focusing on running right now till the Shamrock marathon in March. After that I will get in Tri-training. When that starts I will feel good about my running and my swimming. Yes swimming is not to much of an issue for me. I cant wait to get back on the bike. I do not have a trainer and it is cold for me to bike right now. When it warms up a little I will start back on the bike and some open water swimming.

Now for an update on the little dog, he is doing OK, the swelling has gone down. His vision in the one eye is very poor so he is having a tough time getting around, but I am taking care of him.

Hope the rest of yall are doing well and enjoy the rest of your weekend.