Ghoulie eliptical v ST November challenge (Page 44)

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-12 8:08 AM

I avoided mentioning anything innuendoish but I am male

kimk - 2009-11-12 8:03 AM
Stacie...just took the kids and my mom to the budget for this and loved it too!

kimk - 2009-11-12 8:11 AM
this sounds yummmmmy!

skrtrnr - 2009-11-12 8:54 AM  
 bugger the coach has H1N1.  hope she's feeling better.  nice that you have access to Master Swm.  i know our team usually puts together some uber fierce workouts....

thats so awesome that your already doin' tris having just learned how to swim a few years ago.  goes to show you can do anything you set your mind to. 

ive been focusing a lot on my form in the water.  its amazing how much those tweaks in body position make a difference, balance in the water being one of them...

are there balance drills that you found helpful, or are you just mindful of that when you swim?

stacieb

ceilidh - 2009-11-12 9:27 AM Morning all. I have tried to catch up on the thread, but one step forward two steps back with your chatty selves .
I have had a crappy crappy crappy couple of days. Yesterday I hurt so bad (migrane and neck shoulder issues) I was physically sick. YUCK. Today I feel old, and fat and discouraged. So...... I signed out of work and I am gonna get on the trainer for a bit and see how it goes.  Hopefully I can take the day to smack myself around a bit and buck up. I need to run but the weather is horrific -wind, driving rain, flooding. so, maybe later today but tomorrow definately.
My new shoes are waiting for me.

kcarroll - 2009-11-12 9:30 AM

Robin, sorry to hear your not feeling well!  Sending encouraging thoughts your way.

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-12 9:29 AM

Sorry Robin - hope things get better during your ride.  Don't keep those new shoes waiting too long!

You missed some good recipes, good innuendo's, good smack talk, all around good stuff - typical of us huh?

Have a great day!

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-12 9:32 AM

Kim - I hear you on the swimming.  I know if I was even a somewhat good swimmer I would be all over HIM and IM so maybe it is a good thing I am still not a MOP swimmer.  I love the water though and I know I have only gotten better with 4-5x a week and sometimes even more.

To me swimming is obviously the hardest of the 3 disciplines and requires the most effort from me.

Keep at it - the speed will come!

kcarroll - 2009-11-12 9:39 AM

Thanks for the encouragement!  I will have to change my ST disdain to Swim disdain to get that many sessions in during a week, and run, and bike, and ST and, oh yes, keep my job.

skrtrnr - 2009-11-11 7:26 AM MORNING GHOULIES.

inserted off day for me today....

teacher-parent conferences.  get to go hear how well my kids are doing and to hear how wonderful they are.....for someone else. 

j/k.  they're good kids all three of them.  and im so thankful that they're growing up well.

they BETTER.  i work hard enough!


in fact, speaking of kids, i was at the register at McDs (picking up Ghoulie orders) my kids unprompted by me used their manners to ask for an Icee - excuse me, may i please have a blue raspberry....thank you.

and the lady at the cash register said, 'its so nice to children who are parented well.  who behave appropriately.  who use their manners.  i see 'all types' here and most of the kids definately are not as well behaved as your children.  you can tell you spend time with them and teach them 'right'....

how nice is that??

they Know better than to act like WILD THINGS in public.

i was never opposed, when they were younger, leaving a full grocery cart in the store, taking them to a stall in the bathroom or out to the car and swattin' their WILD THING behinds or sending them to their rooms as soon as we got home.


im glad for moments like those.  makes when they act like Wild Things a little more 'tolerable'

they're 'coming around', parenting IS a lot of hard work and to do it 'well' it takes energy/time....but oh so worth it!

and golden when you get a compliment!


so its parent teacher conferences.  and then chiropractor appt in the middle.

and hoping that i dont lose my mind when my "well-mannered" children are underfoot.

they may be WILD THINGS, but they're MY WILD THINGS.

LOL.



stacieb

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-11 7:54 AM Stacie,

That reminds me of when we were at Mt. Rushmore and my son who was probably 2 or 3 at the oldest was giving me a hard time.  I took him into the restroom to have a hand to rear meeting.
I was so mad at him I went right into the ladies room and did not even notice it until we walked out and all these ladies were looking at me like I was crazy.

Too funny.  I should have given him an extra swat for making me so mad that I did that but I just laughed!

iowagander - 2009-11-11 3:52 PM

OK, I'm back. That was a tough run. Not sure why, but I just didn't feel like I had much in the tank. Still, I think I did an OK job of "tempo-ing" it and even though the hill at mile 3 REALLY slowed me down I pushed as hard as I could through it and still had enough for a hard 1/2 mile downhill push on the home stretch.

I think what really did me in was that it's a lot more humid here today than usual so I was a bit overheated. I even had to take off the t-shirt and expose my poor neighbors to my distinctly Scandinavian torso complection. Hopefully noone got too blinded. Fortunately I was able to cool down fairly quickly once I got my hands on some water thanks to our discussions from last month

I definitely thought of you guys when I was pushing up that hill though, between all of your nagging injuries, ailing familyies, crappy weather, and all the other obstacles faced by the Ghoulie nation. Talking to you guys makes me very thankful for the good things I'm able to experience every day. Thanks a million Ghoulies...

skrtrnr - 2009-11-11 4:29 PM

i TOTALLY VALUE your opinion TOM!  so thanks so much for the feedback.

my thought process was 'similiar' 

i came into the 1/2 MARY training (Hals of course) at week 3-4.  the long run was 6 miles...

i want to be able 'pick up' where i left off, w just a little 'advantage' heading into my 1/2 come MAY.

this way, ill only need to build in 4-5 weeks in prep for my Half this go round.

stacieb