Shermbelle's Group Full and training our a$$es off (Page 6)

Lex, that's great!  1000M in a row is no small feat.  I'd lose count, myself .

I went for my first run today in nearly 2 weeks - and it felt surprisingly good.  I was all distressed that I was going to be so out of shape that it would suck and I'd spiral downward into the depths of "ALL that work - down the drain in 2 weeks" despair.  Except that, I felt fine, the run felt good, and I feel encouraged to go again tomorrow.  

From now on, I'll call my holiday-induced break from running the "Christmas taper" cuz it seems like that's all it was .

I was all prepared to battle to get back on the wagon, but I'm mentally already back on.  Yay! 

I saw a lot of resolutioners out on my run today too.  A lot more runners than I am used to seeing, and most of them in funny running garb, so you can tell they just threw on some crappy warm stuff to go for a run.  I wonder how long I will keep seeing them??  

Hey man, get well and make sure you are good to go before pushing yourself. Don't want to get it back because you weren't fully recovered.

Glad to see you back Andy. I just finished up a 10.25 mile run on the iciest roads I have run on in a while. Luckily I never fell

Great job on the run today Lisa. It is all about getting out there and getting those consistent patterns built back into our lives. Once it becomes a habit again, it makes it so much easier to just go. I struggled to get back on the wagon after the holidays where every night seemed like another party with great food and well umm BEER!!!

Good Job on the run today Tim. Hey its 1:00AM and its 61 degrees here. Freakin crazy, the high was supposed to be 54 today but they said this crazy weather pattern could get close to record temps.

SOunds like a good way to operate, you have to be at work anyways so might as well take advantage of the opportunity to train when you can.

Cool pic Mike. Had to be awesome to see the pros coming through and no better race to volenteer at.

I didn't sign up for the lottery but it is definately on my radar someday hopefully. I am a long way from being in that kind of shape but working at it daily.

Hahaha, now I'm embarrassed!!   !!  Thanks Andy.

I sat down today and made a bigass plan from now til June...still needs some tweaking, but I'm totally back on the wagon and feeling good!  I hope to get even better pictures this year!  

Great pics Lisa

I WILL finally be posting pics on here by summer in the before and after photos once I get rid of this extraness of me. I am bustin my hump right now and eating great. I am in the 25 in 25 contest and so far it is going awesome. Our first weigh in is tomorrow and I am hoping for a great kickstart to that challenge.

Please everyone hold me accountable to the weight loss. Last New Years I weighed 208 and got it down to mid 180's by May but kind of let myself go a bit over the summer while training for Redman Iron Distance and got back to mid 190's for the race. I was so pissed that I justified long runs and long rides for shoveling food down my pie hole anytime I wanted.

 So now I weighed 211 on New Years and am shooting for the moon to get sub 180 for IM CDA and absolutely rock the course.

Anyone else have big concrete goals on the map???

I have a few big goals:

1) hit a sub 2hr half mary this year

2) Do that Century without wanting to kill myself (questions re: that below)

3) get BF on my scale down to 25% OR hit 125 lbs.  (my parents scale sheds 4% automagically)

4) Do an Oly

5) Double all my distances from '07 (should not be hard - I slacked 9/12 months in '07)

** So, with putting together my plan, I am finding that I will pretty much be doing LSD bikes on Saturdays and runs on Sundays.  Is this asking for big trouble??  I don't know how I feel about riding 40 miles one day and then trying to run 13 miles the next....Any advice?  What do you normally do, as a triathlete, when you have 2 LSD's in 2 disciplines to do in a week?  Since I've never done anything but a sprint and I didn't really train, I never had to deal with this . 

Thanks guys!