kellc09's Mentor group - CLOSED (Page 5)

Thanks, Kyla.  Great job on the seven miles!

I am hoping to get in 7 tomorrow in the snow.  My youngest daughter is seven and can put on the sad puppy eyes...It is awful!! She just wants her mom home!  

It is hard to know when to stand my ground.  In the summer, I can train before they wake up but in the winter it is harder.  I can't run at 5am in the dark and cold and ice.   I wish I still had a treadmill.  

I am also doing that program.  I like it though I got more than a week behind due to travel and sickness.  I am finishing week 3 tomorrow.  It does make riding the trainer much better!

Haha I was thinking the same thing! My driveway probably fits 6 cars. The problem is that its built into a hill. So half the driveway has approximately 9 foot high walls on both sides, with the remainder tapering down. Therefore I have to push all the snow to the end of the driveway, then shovel it to the sides!!

Zee-Yours sonds much worse than mine! I can just go to the edges! Where in Upstate NY are you? I'm in the Albany area...and the weather guy says 6-10 more inches today!

-Heidi

WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE POST

Man, weather is bad here, again, today in Michigan!  I really hope that we are given a early spring this year since apparently winter really jumped the gun this year!

 So its Christmas week, I just got my workout schedule for the week.   So what is everyones plans workout wise for the week?

 It can be hard to get in the workouts, and/or stay away from all the great food with all the bouncing between families   So what I try to do during the holidays is make sure I get as many workouts in as I can, and especially in the morning before we leave for family get togethers with lots of food.   I may not lose weight this week, that may not be too realistic, but my goal is to not gain.  

So my weight going into this holiday week is 134.8.   I will repost on Friday, hoping its not over 135!

For those looking for some weight loss help, or accountability and to maintain... we'll do this every Friday.   Sound good?    (sorry I didnt get this out on Friday)  I plan to keep going with this, posting my weight every Friday, and if you guys want to post some about your diet for the week etc, that is good to.  My goal by tri season is 125.  Thats what I was during my IM training, but wow it was hard not to eat so much after I was done with the IM

Weight this week: 136 yesterday morning (Friday). My goal is to be 132 by the end of January.

So, for this week, I just want to maintain this weight.

Also, drink more water and less DC. More water= more than 20 oz a day. It's not too hard on days that I bike, but much harder on other days.

Off to play in the snow!!

I will continue riding the trainer every other day during the holidays and running as weather allows.  I can run in most anything but today is 25-35mph winds and a -20 windchill so this is one of those days when I won't run!

My weight is okay.  I lost 10 pounds last year training for Steelhead.  I would like to lose some of my gut though.  I have 6-pack abs.  They're just hidden under a couple inches of fat!

I will weight train 2x next week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday and Friday.

Will swim tomorrow if weather is as forecasted -15 wind chill again.

I can't believe how much this mentor group is motivating me.  I really don't want you to check my logs and see I haven't done anything!  This is great!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year with goals being acheived and PR's being broken in 2009!

I am SCARED to weigh myself! I weighed 157 lbs last time I weighed in (on Dec 1st).  I was in the 130s this summer when I got injured and started feeling sorry for myself...I would love to get back to where I was.  I was lean and strong and looked very athletic.  Now I feel slow and mushy.

I never stopped training but started over eating really bad this fall.  

I will weigh myself tomorrow or Friday...

I have family get togethers every day starting tomorrow.  Today I made sugar cookies with my children.  I already ate three of them!!  It will all be over on Dec 26th.

Background info: I weighed over 220 pounds when I was married.  I gained a lot of weight when I had my third child and was quite unhappy.  Scary stuff!

I am spending the afternoon looking at my training plan for 2009.  I am going to break it into parts.  The first section will be training for the Martian Half Marathon.  I figure it will be the perfect time to drop these extra pounds.

I too appreciate all the pointers to Jorge's program and will be attempting week 1 starting tomorrow. Maybe we can work each other through it! How was the first day?

I look forward to participating in the weight challenge also, although I probably don't need to lose much. I agree it's hard to be content with where you are, especially as a female! I'm currently 110.8 and would feel good being somewhere between 105-108 and more toned. I'd like to focus on healthy eating and drinking lots more water than I normally do.

It looks like several people are using Jorges cycling program. I'll start week one tonight (or tomorrow if time gets away from me today.)with every one else who is starting it. It might be difficult for me, because I don't have a HRM or cycle computer-yet. So, I'll have to see how athers are doing it.

Kellie- is there a cycling program that you are following?

I have a coach, so I follow the plan him and I have laid out.

If you have a specific plan that your following for a specific race right now, I would say stick to that, but if not, Ive looked at Jorges plan and they are good!

I just loaded this weeks cycling workouts into my Garmin, I've never used it in this capacity yet, only use if for measuring distance when running or biking.  It'll be interesting to see if it actually works! Heidi, I'm sure you'll get by just fine using RPE, however if you're looking for a great HRM with tons of other great features, you might consider asking santa for a Garmin Forerunner. I don't know what I'd do without mine! You can set up workouts so that it will beep at each interval and keep you in check if your not meeting your HR target.

I'm two hours north of Albany. Just outside of Plattsburgh. I'm about 40 minuts from Lake Placid. We got about 10inches so far, and its still coming!! Did about 3 1/2 hours of shoveling from Friday night until now.

Since I mentioned Lake Placid...is anyone planning on doing IM LP either this year or in the next few? How about heading this way for some training??

Heidi - I am doing a winter base program until my 12 week sprint program starts.  It looks good to me.  I kinda combine things as I go...I put the 1/2 marathon training plan with it also.  I wrote up my weight lifting schedule for the next few months (I am really into lifting and have recently cut back to accommodate the tri training). 

My week:

Monday: REST (we are having xmas today at my house and the turkey was still frozen so I couldn't leave and go swimming! The holidays are killing my training!)  I should of hopped on the trainer...so my excuses are lame!  Maybe I can hop on it about 11pm tonight when everyone goes home...

Tuesday: weights/speedwork on treadmill/swim with the kid/bike 45 min (long training day...)

Wednesday: weights/run 3 miles

Thursday: bike 45 min

Friday: weights/swim

Saturday: weights/run 4 miles/bike for an hour

Sunday: run 7 miles

The exciting thing: my mom is getting me aerobars and a new bike seat and a forward seatpost for xmas!  So my bike will be in better shape after this week...she is also giving me a size 4 tri suit!  It fit me when I picked it out! I would probably bust the seams on it right now! GRRRR! 

All my family leave xmas day.  I will have some peace and quiet to focus on eating well and training after that.

No set plans for the week. Just going to do something each day until 30 wk Ironfit starts 1/5 (well technically 12/29 but I'll be out of town that week).

Gonna get a swim in today and tomorrow at least with prob a run today and lift tomorrow. Then probably gonna stick to the trainer until Friday at the earliest when I can get back to the gym for another swim and lift/run on Friday or Saturday.

Any weightloss goal for the week would be unrealistic, so I'll just try to maintain. Gonna weigh in today and Friday, Saturday, or Monday, which ever day I feel the lightest!!

If you don't have either, you can use RPE.  Jorge has corresponding RPE and how it should feel for the workouts.  In a way, RPE is better than HR since it is instantaneous while HR takes awhile to adjust.

I had my Timex watch and my HR watch both attached to my handlebars, MP3 on my hip, headphones in my ears...

Too funny!  I was sitting on my bike on the training doing a workout thinking about how me, a minimalist had a HRM on, my bike computer was on and it records HR also, plus another cycle computer that takes MPH off the rear wheel so I would have that, and finally my ipod.  Sometimes I am more wired up than a NASA shuttle launch!

HEY GUYS!    Hopefully everyone is either on break or will be shortly!

 Im off after today for 1.5 weeks, it will be a nice break.  I work for General Motors, so if you all own a tv, you know why the break will be nice! 

I wanted to suggest a book I just read... Paleo Diet for Athletes.  If any of you are looking for a common sense approach to diet as a athlete, this is pretty good I have to say.  Ive done alot of research into food an diet, and training, etc, and so far I think that Paleo Diet for Athletes is one of the best out there.  Diet is a harsh word for it... its a way of eating, and thats about it.  It also heavily focuses on TIMING of nutrition, when to eat higher glycemic index foods, when to focus on food for recovery, food during workout, etc.   They explain everything and it makes a lot of sense.  Im starting to change towards this way of eating (its hard to completely change of course). 

 Anyways, just a suggestion if your looking for some reading over the holidays to kick off your training for 2010!

Sounds like a great Christmas gift.