jesswah's group - FULL of sexy triathletes! (Page 4)

Thanks for the info. Jess!

I'll take some notes and will follow during my next ride.

Welll.... my roomie does have a digital camera.... and my red bikini is lying in my closet....

OK, so my handicap is being sick and having weak butt muscles (g. medius).  But I'll shoot for 14 hours next week.

Welcome to the group dream chaser!! I have finally seemed to overcome most of my back issue and once the anti-biotics set in for the strep I will be back on the horse. I am shooting for seven hours next week.  I have popped in to TRIOK's group and they don't seem to understand the concept....so we may be on our own for a while.  Until then, post bikini pics to your heart's content. After all, we do have a "pole dancer" in our group

As for NE weather...we had 75 mph winds today but much to my chagrin no houses landed on my ex-wife!!

 I apologize in advance for offending anyone in the next six months.....

Well, since we've only got a few regular posters here (and a challenge!) I've opened up the group again to let in a few more victims new triathletes.

If you are interested in joining: post up a brief bio of yourself, what you're training for, strengths/weaknesses.... and if you are interested, goals for our first week of the challenge with TriOK's group.

Goals for the challenge:

1 goal for each of the 3 disciplines!  Can be in distance or time, doesn't matter, but we need some way to track progress.  I think we should use the same scoring system as TriOK's group.  For each discipline you get a score based on % completed, and a bonus for hitting 100%.  So for 75% you get 75pts, for 100%+ you get 200pts.  Max of 600 pts if you hit all 3 goals.

I'll start us off:

Swim: 8000 yards

Bike: 100 miles

Run: 15 miles (darn ITB!)

Run is iffy.  I don't know how far I can go before I hit pain, but if I can get to 4 miles at a time, I should be fine.

It'll be a weekly thing until we call a truce!  Ha ha!

The first one will start on Monday (1/14) and will be a week long.  We're only posting goals one week at a time, so you can change them for the next week if things aren't going well, or you're easily surpassing the goals you've set.  Each week we'll post up out goals for the following week by Sunday night.

And no sandbagging!!  If your surpassing your goals, and not increasing them for subsequent weeks, they will be raised for you!  Not much point in having a goal you can easily achieve - it should still be do-able though.

Hi Everyone,

Dream Chaser - welcome to the group!

My goals for the week of 1/14 are:

Swim: 4,500 yards

Bike: 50 Miles

Run:  185 min.

Good luck to all! 

Hi again,

I've got a question related to running (but not only to) as follows:

Many times, when running outside, when it is hot and humid, I find myself struggling with sweat drops that make it into my eyes. It is really uncomfortable and I had tried to address that by using a hat when I run. In long runs, it seems that the hat gets soaked and yet again I get to feel the impact of a sweat drop and my eye (things get even more complicated when wearing sunglasses - but that is a different topic).

So my question is: What tricks (if at all) do you guys use to prevent that from happening when you run for a long distance?

Thank you!

I dunno... I guess my eyebrows usually do a pretty good job to wicking it away.  I remember hearing something about vaseline over the eyebrows... but I'm not sure.

Did a search on the internet - found the Sweat GUTR.  Maybe try that?  Looks like a clear rubbery headband designed to channel sweat away so it doesn't drip in your eyes.

My Goals 1/14

Swim: 1000yds

Bike: 2hrs

Run: 65min

P.S. Headsweat hats and visors work well.

I lost my red bikini....Does anyone have any whey protein brand that does not taste like shizt??? I am on this reasonable nutrition plan that I would like to give a shot at for 6 months and I have to drink quite a bit of it....I do OK with Optimum nutrition chocolate and Clif builder bars....I have used myoplex before by EAS, but is expen$ive......

I am healed and ready to rock the challenge

Thanks for the info, Jess. 

sorry guys, i did it again. Wanna Race was Blockertri.

Can someone share the wisdom of how to post my ticker from ticker factory? Im a little on the slow side. THANK YOU!

Hi,

You simply need to copy one of the code blocks presented to you on the last page of the ticker designer. Then, go to your goals area (in BT) and make sure you are in HTML mode. (To get into HTML mode, simply click on the HTML icon in the tool bar (next to the ?) - and a new windows should open.) At the end of the text in that window, simply paste the code block you've copied while at ticker designer. Click on update and then save your goals.

That's how it worked for me.

Hope this helps,

Ronen.