Beth and Yanti's Manatees Mentor Group--FULL! (Page 40)

Erin and Yanti, I took your collective advice and signed up for another sprint tri in three weeks! Knowing I want to do better than my last flailing attempt at 1/4 mile, I have been OWSing twice (and getting hit by a bike while running to toughen up!).

Jeff Your daughter is so cute and loved the pic off the platform.  Frankly, that kind of scares the crap out of me, but she obviously handles it with ease. 

Beth Welcome back!  Clue us in on how fab your vacation was so we can begin the drooling fest! Oh, and where is my pic?  I kind of miss MP. 

Hi to the rest.  Here is to a good week!

First day of Oly training is in the bag!!!  Tomorrow's training is up in the air due to Tropical Storm Eduoard so it might have to be something that I can do inside, like the bike or strength. 

Happy Monday everybody!

Hi there - taking a quick breather at work - whew!  it's tough coming back, even though I was only gone a few days!

Terri! - it is so good to see you and it sounds like you have a great plan for how to approach training!  You will do great!

Will- you are making excellent progress in the pool!

Jeff - awesome job on the volume!  that must fee wonderful

Melissa - awesome job on your race!

Mila - glad you popped in, and we hope to see more of you as life settles down

Suzy - congrats on signing up for another race!

Jeanette - you have been one busy lady! 

Yanti - hope things are going well  

from my blog (i'm lazy like that ) 

Vacation Recap - it was awesome!

LOL! that's the truth - it was so awesome and relaxing

wow, I must have put everyone to sleep with my vacation report

so I know the group loves pics

pics from the race

walking to the race

K and me b4 the race

In the transition area before the race

the swim start

K and S - my very special fan club!

Hi everyone,

All about me:  (I promise I will catch up on blogs soon, I will, I will!!)

Sorry I have been AWOL, summer's been insanely busy!  I have been training, though.  Not enough bike time this week, but overall am keeping up.  I am now officially registered for the Rock and Roll half marathon in June here in Seattle!  A whole bunch of my BT/real life friends are doing it, and it should be great.  I am already thinking of a costume.  There will be sequins and a wig, I promise.

Hubby just got approved for the last week of August off, so hopefully we can sneak away for a couple of days in Portland or something, in addition to the weekend rodeo in eastern WA.  Stay tuned for that one.  Tonight was National Night Out, and I, as (ahem)homeowner association president, rallied my inactive, antisocial, shy, nonparticipatory neighborhood and had probably 75-80 or more people show up tonight at the park for a fun evening of barbeque and meeting everyone.  It was AWESOME and I am on a high from that.  I didn't know if anyone would show and I think we got at least 60% of homes, so that is very good.  I had a great time and hope everyone else did. 

Jealous time,  y'all....tomorrow I get to attend Moms Day at the Beach, No Kids Allowed.  My mother-in-law is hosting some of us, starting out with lattes and breakfast, laying on the beach, jet skiing, boating, swimming....whatever....trashy mags....a fancy lunch, more lattes, more sun.....did I mention no kids?  AND she's paying for my sitter ALL DAY.  Heaven! 

PT is going well...my shoulder is already feeling much improved--maybe I will be able to do these long runs after all??  I am signing up for another half mary this Oct.....who would have thought I'd EVER do that???  It's nuts.  I'm nuts.  Please cross your fingers that my mom will take my kids for a few days this week.  That will be icing on my happy cake.

-Leslie

I like that one too

I'm the one with the bright jersey - sort of red and orange - on the outside

Leslie

thanks for checking in!   Sounds like you are having a full and fabulous summer!  can I come to the beach with you?  I'm  a mom - LOL

Glad ot hear PT is going well also!

ARE YOU KIDDING?! For one thing, you KNOW we looooove multicolor and pics and cartoons! I am so jealous you go to go waterskiing ... I haven't been in forever.

Did you post a link to a RR of your tri? The pics are wonderful--you are so gorgeous, so fit, and of course your Exhibits are just like you.  

Don't think you're exempt from the jealousy, Miss Jet Ski . Congrats on signing up for ANOTHER half-mary. You are a very strong runner and you will have great fun training for and doing it. BTW ... did you manage to get the kids lifted off your hands a bit this week? 

There are a gazillion mary training plans out there, many of them appropriate for first-timers even though they aren't billed as such. The two most popular mary programmers for newbies are Jeff Galloway and Hal Higdon, and as such thousands (in JG's case, hundreds of thousands) have done their first marathon very successfully with their programs.

Average weekly mileage for Galloway plan: 15-16

Average weekly mileage for Higdon newbie plan: 25ish

You will do very well with the Intermediate plan. Stay on top of how you feel. If it's getting too much, drop back to the Beginner's plan. Higdon also notes that you may have to walk some, and if you're finding in your long runs that you are having to slow down or even walk, then you should consider putting short walk intervals in from the get-go.

But let's cross that bridge when we get there.

The real key is consistency, and you have been an amazingly dedicated, consistent runner, and it shows.  

I was too lazy to even jetski today, although I did a major double brick tonight so I made up for that.  The kids are heading to my mom's tomorrow!  Until....drumroll....Sunday!  The noise you hear is me fainting.    More in tomorrow's blog about my plans for the days which will go fast!

That is so great! I love days like that....hope the buzz lasts and lasts!!!  You must have been on the bike by sunrise?