Team Persistent Pumpkins (Page 7)

Mmmmmm...Starbucks sounds good right about now. Starting to wilt a little now it's mid-morning here.

Venti brewed coffee......None of that foo-foo "extra skinny double la-di-da with room crapiatto" for me thanks. Just coffee and water.

OK I'm off to get one now.......but I will avoid the evil counter of muffins!!!!

Hey Team!

Sorry I haven't been in on the conversation much....time is a precious commodity for me right now.  I'm ahead of pace on run, swim will not be a problem..I am worried about reaching my bike goal.  I have had it with the trainer, yet not exactly warm enough for me outdoors yet (I know, I need to HTFU).  I fear I have a few more weeks with the trainer, since finding time to ride outdoors once the afternoon does warm up is hard (I work 2p-10p) and watch our 2 sons from about 6am-2p.  Happy Training.

Tim

Hey Tim,

Glad to see your getting your training time in. I'm with you on the worries about the biking goals. That is gonna be tough for me too. Stick with it....You're a Pumpkin!

Well we are midway through the 2nd week and I was checking out how we were doing vs the other teams and it is looking very close....see numbers below:

Lava 33% (due to a few people doing strength workouts are at 50% and pulling their average way up)

Pumpkins 29%

Atoms 29%

As for me this weekend, I am heading down to the lake called Elephant Butte in South Central New Mexico (about 2.5hr drive for me).

I am going to visit some good friends and get a long run and hopefully get in some open water swim practice....but the water is still pretty cold at this time of year and I have not been able to invest in a wetsuit yet.....soooooo I will have to imagine I am back in my homeland of Scotland at the beach and grit my teeth and go for it!! But I suppose the runs will feel nice after that since the temp is supposed to be 72degF (22degC) on Sunday.

Hopefully I can get some pics over the weekend and post em when I get back on Sunday night together with some good training in my log.

How about everyone else?

If all goes well, I'm doing my 2 hour run tomorrow morning before work @ 5am and maybe a swim later in the day, saturday another 1:10 minute run and another swim, and Sunday, if the rain holds out, I'm going to get my 3 hour bike ride in on my freshly tuned-up bike.  Tonight I'm going to try and get another strength session in, too.  A fun filled weekend.  Today is beautiful here in the Phila area but it isn't supposed to stay like this all weekend. Rain is in the forecast

No races on the horizon, though...

well, my foot is feeling a lot better, so hopefully i can start adding to my run time again.  i'm planning on testing it out tonight with some walking and jogging (if things feel good).  fingers crossed!  no races for me right now, i was going to add a 5k in early may, but we'll see.

good luck to those racing!!!