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remember to check in three times a week! and even more important to log your workouts! I will do all I can to keep you on track, but it is truly discouraging to me to do so if you are not logging and dont check in! sorry to get a bit pouty and grumpy but I am feeling like we have lost many of our teammates....! and PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE go and send inspires to those who are not around! sure would like to get them back! and show them the way to that triathlon finish line...cuz once they get there...they will be hooked just like you and I! please help me by INSPIRING THEM! and sending them personal messages (PM)...thanks....I promise to not be sooo whiny tomorrow! Maybe!

if you had not told me that your Aunt Flo was visiting...I would have been asking if you may be with child! you know pregnant.

Hope you feel better!!

talked to my dh about coming and racing with you in June....it is truly looking to be a possibility....how fun would that be!?

Lyssa, I hope you are feeling better really soon and hope that the rain comes back for you.

Susie, it would be great if all families could be lovie dovie all the time but some families just don't seem to appreciate each other. My family is mostly functional and supportive but my partner's family is about as dysfunctional as they get. This dynamic has certainly added to Michele's mixed emotions over her mother's death and memorial, etc. Her sister is just a who was emotional and physically abusive to her when they were kids. She's emotionally distant and left almost everything having to do with her mother for Michele to deal with. What I'm trying to say is that your family members are who they are and you either have to accept them that way or insulate yourself from them if necessary. It can be painful, but sometimes it is what your health and sanity requires. As they say, you can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives. We are your friends and we are here for you!

Andria's check-in #1:

HI!  sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for awhile.  Very busy at work.  Then I had some dental work that sucked the last of the life right out of me.  Very traumatic.  I thought I had a high pain tolerance, but evidently it's only the kind of pain that I am used to that I can tolerate.  My butt still hurts.  (I "clench" when I'm in the dentist's chair)

Get well soon Lyssa...sounds horrible   But I'm glad it was in the evil neighbor's yard that you puked. 

I'm going to try to catch up on things here...may take awhile as I see we are winning the award for most pages (64!) of all the mentor groups

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

What a cute puppy!!!!  And fiance!!!!

Does check in start on Sunday?  Ok, this is check in #1.

I did my (nearly) 8 miler this morning, and it turned out better than I thought.  Plan was to run it at a 10 minute pace since I had designated it as a longish run.  But it was really strange -- the temp was fabulous (hovering around 50F) however we had big winds today, but it still felt good.  Average pace was about 30 second faster than the plan, but I never felt bad despite the big wind. 

The rest of the week is taper for running -- I'll probably go out Mon-Thurs, but no more than 3 or 4 miles each day.  I do plan to swim at least twice, and we'll see how the biking goes.  I can't wait for Daylight Savings Time!  I can't find enough daylight during the week to get any biking in right now.  I could ride my trainer, but that just sucks the life out of me.

Anyone else waiting for DST?  I tend to plan my life around it!

Have a great week!

Yes! DST means I'll have enough evening light to start bike commuting again and be able to get home before dark.

Andria & Susie: nice to see you both posting again.

I got out for a nice run this morning - about 3 miles in a light, wet snow. I had to keep taking off and wiping my sunglasses so that I could see.   Will be heading off to the pool for at least 1500 meters this evening.   Have a great Monday everyone. 

is anyone else thinking of lent yet? i know it's coming up here pretty quickly although, i can't remember when exactly. does anyone else "give up something for lent"?  i don't every year, and in fact, right now i can't remember the last time i did, but i've been riding the fence with the meatless thing for about a month now, so i am going to try to go meatless for lent. i'm not including things like milk, eggs, or cheese (although i think i will eventually give those things up too) i am including fish though. i don't normally eat a lot of fish, but i do like me a tuna sandwich sometimes

is it today? in today the start of lent?!? bah! now i gotta go find a calendar. what is it, 40 days before Easter? oh brother, i'm totally hopeless!! LOL

Lent starts the day after Fat Tuesday...mardi gras stops, ash Wednesday and Lent start. Me I could not possibly give up meat or fish...but will work on giving up something....does swimming count????

I guess I should have read on! you got it! as

Hi my wonderful team !  My poor girl has bronchitis and a sinus infection, secondary to the croup she had. She is exhausted, and only whined some of one day.....she has been sick since Thursday... and we do the one step forward, two back.
Last night she slept most of the early morning propped up on my arm sitting on the couch.  It was the only way we could calm her caugh.  She is asleep on the couch now, 9:30 and her still in bed is unheard of !  I'm watching that little angel face and I hate that she has had to deal with all of this. Today she will miss her playtime at teh ymca and dance, tomorrow will be school........

I talked to the nurse who is calling in a better caugh supprescant for tonight, I pray it works !

Anyway, spin class tonight once dh is home seems to be all I'll get to today.  Wow, swimming ... I just have no idea since I to take her with me to the sitter at the Y....... never saw the day I'd miss a pool workout !

I have read the GPOL posts, now off to the inspires..........  wish I could take more time to comment on each post but I've got to get some sleep myself ! HUGS ALL

amy mutz - 2009-02-23 5:59 AM

Girl Passing on Left - 2009-02-22 3:17 PM

remember to check in three times a week! and even more important to log your workouts! I will do all I can to keep you on track, but it is truly discouraging to me to do so if you are not logging and dont check in! sorry to get a bit pouty and grumpy but I am feeling like we have lost many of our teammates....! and PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE go and send inspires to those who are not around! sure would like to get them back! and show them the way to that triathlon finish line...cuz once they get there...they will be hooked just like you and I! please help me by INSPIRING THEM! and sending them personal messages (PM)...thanks....I promise to not be sooo whiny tomorrow! Maybe!

I think a lot of people including myself have gotten lost in transition so to speak.... I feel I have no goals right now except to feel good, I have not signed up for any races, I feel fat and out of shape. I haven't ever been so limited physically so really it takes ever bit of mental strength I have to just face each day with a good attitude. It is hard watching everyone here swim, bike and run, and gain strength, endurance, and have fabulous tri futures... I don't be-grude anyone, it is just hard right now. I go to the doctor Friday so I'm pray that I can be cut loose from the ropes that restrict me... Jules- I never think your whiney... I think you making people accountable is the glue that holds this great mentor group together, I would expect now less from my number 1 girl Amy

ahhhhhh thanks Amy...you are like a sister to me! when I was going thru all the rough times last year after my SIL died...you were there for me! I would probably not be doing this BT stuff still if it were not for you and your persistant emails to bring me back! I can not thank you enough! You have a VERY special place in my heart...and you ALWAYS will! I am sorry if I sounded whiny. I now realize after a very smart birdy told me this...and you know who you are birdy!!! we have a great group....and even if we lose a few...the ones we have left are an amazing group...and she (that birdy) is right! but I still would like you guys to try and bombard these MIA teammates with inspires....I know there were times that I left BT and truly thought I would not come back...and then I got PM and when I opened my emails I saw them and one day...I decided to answer a few....and before long I was back...and BACK FOR GOOD! hoping that I can return the favor to some other lost soul out there!

Hope everyone has a good MOnday!....I am going for a swim....yup I figured if I am giving swimming up for Lent...I better get a swim in now!

good for you Susie! have a great workout...swim!

hope you can get these family issues at hand. Families can be great...but they can also be a pain in your side!  ALWAYS remember you have a second family here on BT and that we will do all we can to help you thru these rough times in your life...{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}

my dear little julee-you can't give up swimming for LENT!!!!! you could give up NOT swimming!! yeah. i think that would just about work. LOL you're killing me!! LOL ooh ooh, you could give up worrying!! that'd do it, let's see, what else could our dear little julee give up for lent? you could give up getting on your scale!! don't step on it ONCE for 40 days!! 
silly julee!!

so i'm sitting here with a coughing kid on my lap (thanks for sending us the croup julie!!) he was up all night. nah, i knew he was going to get it. probably the other two too. i had henry and pie pie at the dr's office last week and there was a kid there coughing all over the place. then when i took them to get their haircuts, the chick's son (she cuts hair at her house) was hacking and coughing all over the kids. plus they were hanging out with their cousin last week, and he goes to public school (sometimes i can have my kids NOT catch what's going around, just because they aren't in the school system)
anyway, he's  coughing, my pediatrician  told me once that just regular honey works as well as ANY OTC cough syrup, plus i don't have to hold him down and listen to him scream if all i'm giving him is honey. if it gets really bad, i still have the nebulizer, andi can always take him back to the dr.

still kind of hoping i might get out for a short run today, but it's not looking real hopeful. february always seems to get this way. march will be better. i KNOW it!! 

my dear little julee-you can't give up swimming for LENT!!!!! you could give up NOT swimming!! yeah. i think that would just about work. LOL you're killing me!! LOL ooh ooh, you could give up worrying!! that'd do it, let's see, what else could our dear little julee give up for lent? you could give up getting on your scale!! don't step on it ONCE for 40 days!! 
silly julee!!

CRAP !!!! Lyssa I am SOOO sorry you have this stuff on your plate !  Oh man it's so sad and pitiful isn't it ?  I called the docs office today and asked for a caugh suppres (seriously I have to look up how to spell that stupid word).....  for night time.  They said they would call one in THANK GOD ......   This is night six of sleeping with her to make sure she is alive/meds do not take a bad turn/there is no fever/give her water........etc...... she is used to our sleepovers now. lol  I honestly would not be anyplace else.
DH offered to take care of her one morning around 3:00am but I was not budging......."mommy bear " and all.

Hope it passes soon, I had not heard of honey, can you tell me more about that ?

SOOO SORRY !!!!