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Friday fun.

Wall Street Journal weather small talk cheat sheet app (sadly, US cities only)

http://graphics.wsj.com/weather-small-talk/#/?l=12841

I'll pick on Hands for this one.

This winter

“The coldest day so far was 10 days ago on January 20th. It went down to 41 degrees.

Last winter

“The coldest day was in the middle of February. It went down to 34 degrees.

PAST WINTERS

It might help, but I'd get some confidence built up on the elliptical first. A few safety things come to mind. You HAVE to make that step size and speed is controlled by the buttons. You can't just slow down without telling the machine something. Go really easy when you first try it.

Are these types of stairmasters becoming more common? There is one at the gym I go to, but still have the impression most think of a lever type one your feet stay on with the term "Stairmaster".

Ha! But it is leaving out the wind chill temps which got us into the 30s a couple of times the last week or 2!!

He referred me to a different guy this time. Like you said, I'll wait and see what he says at the consult. I am just trying to think it through because he will likely want to set an appt for the surgery when I have the consult.

I had a Gall Bladder issue in 2010 midway through training for my first HM. I held off on surgery until after the race. The worst part was that I couldn't eat fried foods for about 2 months. I LOVE fried foods.

I know this is apples and oranges, but it is all I have to compare with.

Oh no! Not 30s!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!

It's funny, the last few days I've been running near sundown. The temps say 50's which is normally shorts weather for me but with the humidity and the sudden temperature drop when the sun goes down I've still been doing pants/tights, and long sleeves.

humidity changes everything!

Goooooo Ann-Marie!!  Goooooooo Yanti and Kingsley!!  Heal up, DLers.

I second deep water running.  It is boring as heck, but it is really good for keeping up run fitness.

'The Scuffer' just scuffed his way past my veal pen (cubicle) for the umpteenth time today.  He NEVER picks up his feet, hence the nickname.  I regularly restrain the urge to turn around and say, "Pick up your d*mn feet!"  He also periodically lets out Wookie-like moans (yawns?) that are often startling.  He's an odd bird to be sure. Thanks for the venting session.

On the topic of Fargo: I was once told that it is better to see the _______ first, then watch the _______ .  The blanks represent MOVIE and SERIES.  Who can help me out?  I forget what I was told was the better order.

I am going to have to change things around in my plan.  Normally Sunday is my rest day, but work being what it is right now, I think Thursday or Friday will be better...yesterday I had a run planned, but work went 8-7.  I *thought* about getting up early this morning to get in the short brick that was on my plan, but decided I was too tired.  And tomorrow I am doing an FTP test, so don't want to do anything after work today.  So that is two missed days in WEEK 1!  GRRRRRRR.  Not a big deal in the grand scheme, but I think I better make changes to the plan so that I don't keep missing days.  Ok /workisdumb rant. 

Good luck racey racers, heal up DL'ers.  Have a great weekend all!

Three weeks would definitely be pushing it. I like the idea of doing s/b/r to give your muscles some variety but going from a 5k to a HM in 7 weeks could be a recipe for getting broken again. Maybe if you build your run with the HM in mind rather than based on the sprint?

Good points. Thanks for the insight.

Can you do sprint training for the swim and bike and HM training for the run?  With your injury issues, I don't know that I'd want to go for training for a 5k to 7 weeks later running a HM.  But 17 weeks should allow you to build up easily to the HM.  

I would not be looking at the race 3 weeks out, that seems too soon given your injury and inability to workout for so long.

Was only able to skim the past few days buuuuut:

-Gooooo racers! Ann-Marie you are killin' it! Woot woot

-Speaking of Twin Peaks, I have started watching. It's the music that really gets me! It adds this whole weird mysterious dimension. Also, I mean...I kind of have to. A whole lot of it was filmed here, in fact this is a little stop on the way too and from my trail runs/ski/etc

-Aqua jogging is a great running sub, as everyone said. Cross Country skiing is an amazingly similar (yet low impact) workout to running as well. The stair stepper is a kickazz workout. Maybe not a running simulation but it's a good suppliment. Then of course biking as you can get a lot of aerobic in, low-impact and of course it is tri specific and accessible.  

-Kirsten, I have a hard time in the winter when it's so dark in the am. I've got this quote in my training log that I think about every time that alarm goes off for me to take off on one of my adventures or a workout and I don't quite feel like it, "10,000 hours is roughly what it takes to become exceptional in our practice.  10,000 hours does not happen when we choose to sleep in, when we let our jobs take over our schedule, or when we give in to someone's opinion that our craft isn't important. A high degree of grit enables one to make it fit, no matter what."

I just think of the word grit, sometimes repeating it. We can't really control the amount of natural talent we bring to the table but we have full control about that grit. I aim to be gritty as f***

I actually don't think that it matters.