Gray Guys/Girls Master's Focus Triathlon Mentor Group--CLOSED (Page 52)

Seasons Greetings!  The holidays sure have come fast this year.  Best wishes to you both Stu and Steve plus I hope a few of the others in the group at least check in from time to time to read any new posts.  I hope everyone has a good Christmas and Happy new year.

Like Stu, I've kind of slacked off on my running and I need to start going again.  I have a good treadmill so I have no excuses but I am suffering a bit of inertia.

Steve - I hope you and your family also have a wonderful holiday season.

I did achieve my goal of 250,000+ yds.  Not so big a deal to the real swimmers here but it blows me away that I started from nothing in 2012 and now I'm logging such numbers.  It also boggles my mind to find myself in the middle of a lake at times up to a km from shore.  BUT!! Yesterday in the pool something pretty neat happened.  We were swimming timed short swims with active recovery between trials.  When we got to the 200m freestyle (the last and longest) I started 5 secs behind Larry a fellow that consistently swims about 10% faster than me.  As we were swimming I felt like I was easily swimming faster and smoother than ever before.  All through the 8 lengths I stayed right with Larry (without pushing harder) and I was right behind him (less than 5 secs) when he finished his swim.  I don't know what our times were but I've never been that fast.  It really felt great.

Happy Holidays to all!

I've got the next 2 weeks off work so I thought I'd start things off right with a Sufferfest video this morning.  HHNF - I still can't get through the whole thing but hopefully with more practice I'll get there soon.  Swimming is going well for me too - I really feel like I'm making some improvements.  I'm still pretty slow, but my endurance is so much better than it used to be.  I haven't run in over a week though - doctor's orders.  He wants me to rest my achilles and knee for another week or so and then start back very easy - like just a mile or two at a time.  I actually had a dream last night that I went out for a run - I miss it.  I miss being outside and the stress relief I get from it.  And with the weather here being more like early fall than early winter, it's hard to not get out there.  But if I want to be able to do my HIM in August, I need to let it heal.  

Starting to work on the rest of my race calendar and some goals for 2016.  Hopefully I can stay relatively injury-free and have a good year overall.  

Enjoy your holidays!
Janet