Oriolepwr and QuincyF's Magical Mys-tri Tour "The Sequel" -On Tour!! (Page 44)

So glad your training is going well...it will be a great feeling when that last 20 miler is over!

Q

Hey everyone!

Welcome back Jackie, and great training! You're going to do great!

Congrats to Q and Dave on Chicago!!! I'm gonna read your race report in a bit. It's like you don't get any credit, Quincy, for running a marathon, since you just finished an IRONMAN!!! It's still quite a feat, especially since you're just recovering from that Ironman.

My recovery has take a bit longer than I expected, and I have taken a little more time off, with just some short running mileage, until today. Today was my first brick, and it went pretty well, so the race is still on...for now.

Don't forget to post your training, since tomorrow is Wednesday, and you know what that means!!! (It means if I get around to it, I'll post all the training logs).

Dave,

That made me laugh...on my race report. I was sneaking behind your back, because I didn't want to post that I was doing a 5K, when you and Q were running a marathon!! I just now realized that there is a forum with race reports. I thought you had to go to someone's training logs and see their race report from there. I was wondering how y'all found it. Sometimes it just takes me a while

Glad to hear you are on the mend. Be very diligent on your PT! I'm thinking about chasing a turkey myself...

Name     Swim yrds/Bike miles/Run miles   Total time

Pink        700         35.10          39.15        13:14:30  *Wow* someone has been training hard!!

Sarah     6300       56.50         15.79        08:11:18

Dave       0            52.00          29.20        08:10:48

Jax          0              0              41.50       06:23:03  *Great run training - you're gonna smoke it!!!

Mike        0              0              33.85        05:32:56 

Quincy     0              0              27.70        04:11:16 *If you slowed down a little your training time would be much higher

TJ          500           14.15           0            00:58:50

Shelly      0              0                4.02        00:48:17   

Yvonne    825           0                 0           00:15:22

Todd       ???Awaiting word on the Twin Cities Marathon???

Tom        ***Awesome job on your diet***

Great job!!! Sub 4hr marathon is a huge milestone!! Good for you!!

Oh Shelleeeeeeeeey!!! If you are out there I have a question for you!!

Are you coming to Ocean Springs this weekend for Cruisin' the Coast? I had an awesome run today along the beach and got to see all the cars lined up and getting ready for the weekend. Let me know if you are going to be around, and maybe we can get together.

Hey everybody...I kind of built a frankenstien monster over in tri talk when I suggested someone form an advanced short course mentor group so I could join it...

Just FYI I'm not leaving this group, I love the tour, but this idea I had needs to go somewhere because there is no outlet for people who are trying to crush short course. It's not uncommon for mentors to also belong to another group as mentees, so please don't think I am unhappy or anything. I love this group.

Dave and I were talking about how it almost might become something like SWBKRUN, where the same people just keep coming back time after time and I'm all for it...

I'll keep you posted on how the other group is coming along and if you're interested in increasing your short course game, if you don't join the group, you at least want to lurk. I really want it to be beyond the bucket so to speak...we've gotten all the new guy stuff out of the way and we have figured out our baselines as athletes and now need to fine tune training and race execution to squeeze every last second out of ourselves.

Anyway, off to California tonight so I'll be in and out and maybe not posting a whole bunch. Or maybe a lot, who knows...

Cheers,

Q

Have fun in CA!!     Quincy is not leaving the group.    Its like a teacher,  taking more classes to be a better teacher.    Gotta always be in "learn new things" mode.    Really its a great example.       So no worries.   

We actually over the marathon weekend discussed a couple of ideas, and met Matt Gilmartin  who has another Mentor group here on BT   (yup one big happy online family)    He is an AWESOME swimmer, and great guy. (Except do not challenge him in Fantasy football   Ya kicking my butt REALLY good)    

 So anyhow  Q had this great idea that we all discussed of  Group vs. Group training minutes or miles or whatever.    Would be a lot of fun, and motivating for both groups to have some friendly competition.   Not sure how we would structure this  but I think it could really be beneficial.  

Was also thinking of borrowing Matt from time to time to help us with swim questions/training.    Oh yes and Fantasy football tips for my team  but I digress. 

Been taking care of lots of "life" issues     Fixing furnace,  new hot water heater.   Dog training classes,  marathon stuff drama.    

So anyhow  lets keep this an ongoing never ending group.    I would love to have different people in the group take on different aspects  like Sarah has with the training log scorecard.    So we can evolve into something "more"      But but  always take on newcomers.   Why?  cause they are so much fun, as y'all are.     We all can then share our thoughts experience(s) and then continue to live vicariously through the achievements of everyone else in the group as we continue to support and motivate each other.    

Now the dog needs to go out.   I need some advil as  one daughter is practicing Tuba, the other Trombone, and then I have to write a really big check to the water heater guy.    THEN!  get my butt to spin. 

Later!   (OH yeah and GO ORIOLES!  really need some support there for tonight's game)

Tomorrow night after work.  Meeting up with another couple   for Dinner at the Milwaukee Ale house,  before heading over to the Pabst theater to see Jerry Seinfeld!  SO excited.    Pretty much the last  not serious thing before   going into race mindset.   Eat  sleep  work  fly right  to begin my assault on getting back my competitiveness.

No worries    If chips and dip are available.   I will NOT be double dipping.   I may have double dipped  Quincy's  buffalo chicken cheese dip.    Seriously good But still very much frowned upon

I love that getting blown out of the water made you even more excited for your race. Rock on with your bad old self!