Marina & Bopper's Mah-velous Mentor Group - Closed & Kickin it hard! (Page 5)

I'm glad that you guys are careful out there and that TR is specially trained in one ear listening...LOL. See, I'm not all that motivated by music...I don't even own an MP3 player or buy many CDs. I have my favourite bands but otherwise I'm that much of a music junkie. I even let my trial XM subscription in the car expire although I enjoyed the variety. I guess it's just not my thing.

Nutrition tracking...maybe I should answer my own questions, huh? I use Diet & Exercise Assistant on my pda and sync it to my desktop. I've had it for years and it's been so handy in meal planning and being sure that I have enough energy or enough workout time to burn off that chocolate sundae!

Well, since I missed my wake-up call for my tri club group cycling at 7am - how insane...especially during the winter! Anyway, this afternoon, I'll go lift, then snag a spin bike with a tv to watch the Canada-Sweden game. I don't have cable so I think that I'm smart by planning to bike and watch the game at the same time.

Happy Saturday!

Good to see you back, Paul!

Jim...up and at em early I see...yikes. I draw the line at 5:30 wake-up times, and I've always thought of myself as a morning person!

TR...wtg on registering for your first race! Having that date "in stone" will offer more motivation to get you out training. Miss the bike? I miss mine sometimes, but during the winter, riding on the trainer is the first thing that I'd skip.

Happy Monday! 

CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:

Share a goal for this week, something that you plan to do everyday, that poses somewhat of a challenge for you so we can offer support for you. Anyone who goes seven for seven receives bragging rights.

Marina's Challenge: Stay away from the chocolate, cookies and donuts and whatever other sweet temptations that get put under my nose.

Jenn's Challenge This Week:

Meditate Everyday; No Soda this Week
They go together because I will need mental fortitude to resist soda. 

Music- Well, I was catching up on some of the posts. I love music, I played in the band all through middle school and high school, and now I'm learning to play the guitar. I think the trick is to be observant and not have you're music too loud if you're listening in both ears. I run on a runner's/walker's train or in my neighborhood which is outside city limits so there's not a lot of traffic. I just make sure that I go out in non peak hours and am observant. I write parking tickets on campus which has me dodging cars and students in a hurry so I'm kinda used to it.

I love the idea of a weight watching challenge, Marina. I'm not using weight watchers or anything. Just trying to eat more fruits and veggies and cut out the bad stuff like soda. I'd like to cut back on my refined sugar intake too.  

Thanks, bopper for explaining the link cut and paste. Also if anyone wants to add html code to their goals such as a weight tracker: under control panel go to your goals and click on the html button below where you can change the font and add your code.

Next week I hope to officially register for my first triathlon. There's something wrong with the web site so I'm going to contact the webmaster and see what's up. Classes also start back up next week which includes Tai Chi class and patrolling the parking lots and my planned 7:30 swims before class. Can't wait!

Well for goals this week.....I'm am going to try to eat better. Although I got a great workout over the weekend I ate like crap. And I ate tooooooo much. I do like to eat!  Chips and ales! I'll try to post my  eating in my training blog. Good Luck to all.

JD 

Hello everyone.

I know I've been alittle quiet as of late.Sorry.

I signed uo for a masters swim class and started tonight.

It was not what I was expecting!!!

I was worried about being able to swim for more then 5 minutes never mind an hour!

It was hard but man did that ever feel great.I'm doing two one hour sessions a night for five weeks

If anyone is looking to get into the pool its a tough but good way to start.

Starting to click.

Good luck everyone.

Interesting, Swim Class. I was actually thinking about signing up for a swim lesson to get some evaluation and pointers on my stroke.

Day 1 of the week challenge was successful, no soda and almost 13 minutes of meditation. 

Congrats! I am truly happy for you!

JD 

Yikes...had my first group trainer session last night...kicked my butt!

Have a hockey game tonight and will do some strength training as well. 

What's everyone up to today? 

Hey everyone.

I took last night off,back to the Masters swim class tonight and a possible bike ride.

I'm still feeling Mondays swim class on my upper body it should be an interesting night.