Enders_Shadow's group - FULL for now (Page 6)

I have a really small face/head, too (I wear children's frames for my glasses). I have Jr Speedo Vanquishers because I wanted the corrective lenses. It doesn't look like Barracuda comes in corrective lenses. Do you know if they do? Maybe I'm on the wrong website... What model did you get?

Happy New Year!!

I, too, had a bit of a struggle with the spirits last night. My DH and I finished a bottle of Zinfandel for dinner - but, he only had one glass. Oops. I had a salad, but most of the mini-load of bread that came with dinner.

BUT, today I've redeemed myself by doing the Syracuse Track Club's Resolution Run. 5+ miles in single digits. I am SO proud of myself, lol.

I'm grabbing a quick lunch, then off to help DH with some projects he's working on in the basement. It's too cold to ride my mare, but I'm going to go visit her with some New Year's treats.

The water hydrant in the barn is frozen, so I've been hauling buckets of water from the house to the barn (a couple hundred feet in 6-8" of snow). I figure that's a bit of cross-training on top of the run! Cross your fingers for me that I get it thawed out soon?

Well, lunch is done. Gotta get busy.

Again, Happy New Year!!

margo

Happy New Year everyone!

I only had a couple of glasses of wine early in the evening, at a party hosted by a LUNA Chick, which was fun.  It helps that she only lives a couple of miles from here.  Then I came home to a houseful of kids, and we celebrated 'east coast new year's' at 9 PM with sparklers we saved from July 4.  Very fun!

Got up this morning and ran the Resolution Run 5K with my sister, and finished with a dip into Lake Washington.  It was VERY cold outside today...but after 5k trying to keep up with my gazelle sister, I was warm enough that the lake felt fine.  Of course, once we were done we decided we needed to jump in just once more!  We are crazy like that.  If you are on facebook there is a video of me doing just that.  Yikes!  My overall time including the first jump into the lake was approx. 29 minutes.  I'd probably had won the Athena division if I'd registered for it....I didn't see it on the sign up form.  Hmmm. The overall winner finished in under 17 minutes. Give me a break!!!

Spent the rest of day doing the following:  lattes at Starbucks, hot tub/pool/hot tub/pool over and over again with the kids (my sister has an indoor pool and hot tub), eating food and drinking wine.  Now I am extremely pooped.  Wondering about Saturday's run.  Maybe only 6.5 miles....??? 

Here's a photo from before the race, me an dmy sister (i'm in red).

I still have to read back a few pages but I wanted to throw out my goals that hopefully I can stick too.

1.  Most important.  Never smoke again!  Social smoker, which led to too much drinking, too many nights out, too much money spent.  So calm that right down.  Got my gum, lots of it infact and got my weekends planned for other things.

2. Lose 15lbs.  I need to lose about 25 altogether but 15 seems like a nice goal for now.

3.  Stick to training. Follow the plan!  Be good and smart about it this year.

4.  No excuses! Unless I'm dying.  

5. Find a masters swim team for '09!  Looking into that just now.  

6.  Learn to really, really enjoy running. See it as something fun rather than something I have to do!

7.  Try new things.   Looking for different kinds of sports this year, nothing too major but like more kayaking and hiking instead of the usual S,B,R!   

We're supposed to warm up to the 50's by the weekend! WOHOO!  It was very, very cold today! I was totally under dressed and I am suffering it now with shaking and the pain in my tummy is so bad, as is my lower back that I am thinking full blown UTI    I totally over did it....but I HAD to get out and ran. It was really a matter of totally enjoying myself then realizing "Oh , I still have to run back".  hehehehe.  I did almost 9 miles.  Farthest I've ran since November 30th!  URGH!

So I'd like some help planning out race events!  Oh and I started reading my marathon book I got for Christmas! Very interesting.  It's recommending that I actually run about 30 miles BEFORE the actual FULL marathon.  I have just pooped my pants.

Ooooh. and I obtained a nice indoor trainer from a lady on Craigslist!  It's a lemond, nothing too special but just what I was looking for.

How's everyone elses weekend going? 

Oh Lynne I hope you are feeling better soon!  Ouch!

I just managed a short trainer ride yesterday, and am planning a treadmill run today (unless it warms up a lot- right now it is 6F).  We are going to go and look at another house, and then I'm working a moonlighting shift in the ED.I'm trying to relax a little this weekend, because next weekend I'm driving my younger son to NH for a fencing tournament!

Fencing tourney? Cool! How far of a drive is it?  I have no idea when it comes to east coast geography!

Kristen, I hope your daughter had a great birthday. My son had a fun one, it turned out really great for everyone.  We even managed to finish taking down all the Christmas stuff after we got home while he played with new toys.  Gotta brag here on the cake I made....note, I am NOT a baker type so this is a big deal for me.  Generally I just buy cakes decorated from the grocery store.