Come fly with me!- Closed again with a bunch of winners! (Page 6)

Ray,

 Great job on your first nonstop mile run!  Remember how hard you worked to achieve that and how good it felt to accomplish what you did!

 I swam last night with a friend.  We did not really do laps, drills or distance.  His goal was to make it fun!  He showed me Triathlon googles and gave me a pair. No leaking and they were soooo comfortable!!!  He walked next to me while I swam and we spent 15 minutes talking about how to breath when swimming!  I know this probably sounds so simple and stupid to so many of you but I had never exhaled under water and never through my nose!  We then swam a smooth and comfortable 200 yards- twice. I was hardly winded because for the first time while swimming, I breathed!  

 He gave me confidence that the tri is still 5-6 months away and we were only going to focus on one or two fun things every week or two and then practice and enjoy being comfortable in the water. I am juiced.  The payback is I am training him for the Detroit Marathon in November and get to teach him how to work on a bike and train him fo rhis first century bike ride to Milwaukee and back this coming summer.  

 This cross training is so new!  Mentally , I can not get enough. I am following my workout plan.  I think compared to many of you, my workouts are easy.  I run walk 5-8 miles (Galloway run 8 walk 2) three times a week, I swim twice, bike one hour 15 minutes twice and lift weights three times a week.  I watch my diet and am just using January to enjoy this.  I will lose 5 pounds this month.   

 For me, having a friend I trust in the pool and reading Total Immersion Swimming has really helped.  I now know I have to breath while I swim!!!!  

 Enjoy Thursday!  Time to make a Vocabulary quiz from "A Christmas Carol" for my students...

 Daniel

 P.S. Ray, you will hear from me when I complete my first nonstop 1000 yard swim!  Great job to you on your first nonstop mile!

I would love to see your songs for working out!  I live with my iPod and have eclectic playlists for weight lifting and runs from 3 to 10 miles!  I will share too when I have a little more time...

 Happy Thursday!

 Daniel

Cool! I hope I do. My 1000 yard swims were 90% breaststroke, so not sure that counts. I have backed off and am focusing more on drills. Freestyle, I am wiped after 50 to 100 yards. Baby steps, lol.

I think I do this everyday trting to get to the gym. I just need to time myself!

Actually, not a bad idea, put that on my todos.

Hello Everyone,

Scott, thanks for the swimming drills, my son (David) and I will be going to a pool more often , hopefully starting next week.

I have just been tying to get into the discipline of training for  an hour a day 6 days a week. What I would like to to know is:

A) When is the best time to train am or pm , or is this in individual thing?

B) When doing 2 disciplines a day, eg swimming and running, should they be done one after the other or one in the morning and one in the evening?

 Any ideas and experiences?

I have tried the change over from bike to running and found that I took too much time changing my HRM from bike mode to run mode, I need to practice this a lot more . 

Good morning!

 Justin, you asked great questions on the best time to workout and if it is OK to split workouts.  I know the ideal would be for me to workout out every morning and practice real transitions between workouts.  My friend is a full time stay at home dad. He puts in two hours a day with workouts.  On the other hand, I am up at three in the morning to e-mail, grade student essays, lift weights for 45 minutes and make it to work on time.  I split my workout and will swim this evening after work.  Unfortunately, that is my reality.  I still enjoy my workout but often they are split.

 I just read in the paper that diet beat exercise in weight loss 80% of the time.  While the study is controversial, there is evidence that diet is so critical to weight loss but exercise needs to be incorporated.  In fact, Body for Life, states that 80% of the weight loss comes from diet.  I know many of us are trying to loss weight.  I try to eat six smaller meals a day - every three hours. The more I exercise the more I crave food.  My goal is to be healthy and lose 40 pounds - I turn 50 this year!!!  I am incorporating lifestyle changes and many of the drills that I read about for workouts are simply beyond what I can do at the moment.  I try to stay within myself and enjoy the journey.  I will get to my destination eventually.

 P.S.  One of my tris (Door County, WI) opened up registration.  I signed up.  We have a home up on the peninsula.  I was shocked to find out it was really filling up!  My point is this... many of my spring runs (the 8Ks, 10 milers and half marathons) are open for registration but filling up fast. Last year I signed up to run Chicago Marathon the beginning of April.  Registration closed a week later - and there were 45,000 entrants.  I would really start looking at the calendar early for events...

 Daniel

My work is ramping up also, so it has forced me to work around a bit, but I do get my workouts in all at once. On a side note, I am down 21 lbs now! Jogged(if you can call it that) my first mile non-stop.

And Scott is supercool, so it does not suprise me all these people want to be in his group. Although I may have to go get my 80's CD's out now and jam some Billy Squier in honor of that totally radical playlist! Probably watch Vision Quest too.

Cole,

 I ran the first PF Chang's Marathon when it started up a few years ago!  You will love the expo and eat at Changes beforehand!  It is filled with runners, the menu is modified for carbo loads and it is just FUN!

 The expo is great.  My wife and I always buy the race posters at the marathon, have the artist sign them and they are hanging all over our basement - a great memory!!!  Enjoy.  Two of my closest friends are running their first marathon with you at that race.    

 Just finished a fun swim!  It is so nice to breath and swim!!!  I exhale through my nose underwater now!!!  A friend and I played tag for our laps.  He swam a length and when he hit the far wall I took off after him.  When I hit the wall by him he took off - and on and on. What a workout!!!!

 We have snow here in Chicago and much more coming tomorrow.  I have 10 friends meeting at my house to play and run 8 miles in the morning.  We are nuts at times like this...  

 Time for Thai food!!!  i am looking into my first tattoo this weekend.  A running guy on the inside of my right foot!!!  YIPPEE!!!

 Enjoy your Friday nights!

 Daniel