Team EDISON: Stick to the plan (Page 7)

I am with you with the crap in my lungs.  I biked in the rain for a couple of hours before watching the Tour of California go through town.  Lance sends his best.

So I made the best out of day and knocked off another strength workout--yoga.  What worries me is that I will be traveling all next week. I had counted on getting pretty much done with the challenge this week.  

You guys are all doing great. 

That's some great mileage!  You'll be more than ready for the upcoming events.  

Good week in so far, with a medium length run and ride for the weekend.    Already hit my bike goal, commuting to work helped get that up.  Have a single short swim to finish the yardage for that, and a long run should cover the final leg.   Should be at 100% for everything by Tuesday. 

Going for a 30-35 ride on a  trail by my house I just found....glad I'm finally going to use the mountain bike again...

1 trainer ride later

I just put last week's minutes into the spreadsheet.  I'm a bit behind (understatement) on my strength training.  I guess I will be doing lots of crunches this week.

Hope you're all having a great weekend.

Great job out there today!  Thankfully it wasn't raining the whole time.  In fact, I think the weather was pretty darn close to perfect!  I had a blast!

Sick again!!!!UGH!!!!  My family keeps passing this darned cold around.  Fortunately, it's not a terrible this second time around.  Took yesterday off though to rest some. 

I am hitting the pool for the first time tonight.  My goal for this challenge, swimming wise, is to get to the pool sometime in Feb to start my training.  I have to say that I am a little nervous.  I know that I have to do this, but it's been years since I've done any real swimming.  Gotta get form back and all.  We'll see how it goes.

What is with the germs this year???

I just started back with swimming at the beginning of February and I know how you feel.  It took a couple of times before I felt comfortable in the pool (and not intimidated by the people who looked like they knew what they were doing).  I just told myself, "I'm here, so suck it up, get in the pool, and swim."

You'll be fine.

Grats on the half maries.  On my only/first half mary last year I totally agree with the effort involved. First 10k woot feeling great, then slowly start bleeding seconds per mile until bam mile 10 where has the adrenalin gone... and then ya suck it up for the last 3 miles.  For the full mary it is worse because your 10 mile fatigue hits somewhere around mile 18-20 and you you then have 6-8 miles to suck it up for. 

Way to hang in there and put some umph in that last mile. 

I hear ya on the germ thing.  I took the whole weekend off from workouts to try to get a fresh start for today.  Hard to kill a long bike day, but it was needed.  And well my son had a birthday party on Saturday and it rained all day Sunday, so ... the decision wasn't that hard to make.  I should still be good for my goals.  Biking is easier to make up than swim or run.     

Baowolf were you at the race yesterday??? You describe the feeling perfectly!!!! Mile 10-13 are the hardest, sucks the life right out of you. Its a very humbling experience.

I had a great time and actually cant wait to do it again. But I MUST stick to the plan and continue HIM training!

Got a 6 mile run at lunch.  70 degree weather in Vegas today.  Should have worn less clothes, I was finally hot on a run for the first time in since the fall.    That leaves me with less than 5 miles running and 1.8k swim to go to finish the February goals.   Will get those knocked out on Wednesday, tommorow's a bike day. 

Everyone else getting close or at their goals?  It's crunch time! 

Got in a very short bike ride this morning only have about 16 more miles to go on that and 150m in the pool and I will be done....

Also, going wedding dress shopping, shoe shopping, pick his ring up and cake tasting today, we are having a very untraditional wedding on a plantation, the men are wearing khakis a button down white shirt and a navy blue sport coat...I've always wanted a canary yellow wedding dress and it looks like this might be the one http://www.davidsbridal.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplayView?storeId=10052&catalogId=10051&categoryId=-49998973&colorName=Canary&subCategory=-49998976%7c-49998975%7c-49998973&top_category=&catentryId=1000108

Unless of course I look like a beach whale in it....more then likely I'm going to have to get it altered....being 6'0 155lbs its very hard to find things that fit right off the shelf

Let's hear it for the overachievers!

We're in the final stretch.  Just stick to the plan for one more week.

Fill the bathtub! 

Pretty!  I like the yellow.

I want to come cake tasting with you.  Yum!

I was considering the possiblity of showing up at IMAZ with my special needs 'suitcase' for the run and bike and see if they get upset   C'mon, you gotta have warm clothes, cold clothes, windy clothes, etc right?