Robin's Family-friendly mentor group - CLOSED (Page 7)

Yipes!!!!!!  I'm glad to hear everyone's ok!  Everything else is secondary when something happens to the family. 

Sorry your car didn't make it. 

I'm amazed you had the peace of mind to set some goals!  My head would still be wrapped around what happened.  Sounds like a good plan you have!  With the 1000 miles, if your mileage isn't up there yet, remember to gradually increase it and take some time off.  That's where I think I failed.  Listen to your body--if it's telling you to take a rest day, do it!

Again, glad everyone's ok!

Hey guys, hope everyone had a great weekend. 

Usually I am swimming or biking on the trainer in the AM's so workouts are generally less than 1hr.  Considering I go from waking up to excercising in less than 15minutes, I generally don't eat anything and if I do it is maybe a banana.  If I have a little more time, I'll have a small cup of oatmeal, but generally i try to keep it very light and allow a few minutes for digestion.  I will eat an egg white sandwich and some coffee after my morning sessions. As far general recovery, I used to go the protien shake route, but now I usually go with a nice glass of chocolate skim milk!  Carbs+protien+deliciousness! 

Wow Shon, we are cut from the same cloth!  Except I am a full blown beer snob to the 10th degree!  My main issue is not junk food, or rich foods, it is portion control.  I will grill up some nice chicken breasts and asparagus and eat enough of it for 4 people.  It is a challenge.  However, I like your thinking of gluttonus eating while you are at peak activity levels and eating concienciously during the off season.  I never thought of that!  Hmmmmmmm!!!!!   

Sorry I've been a little out of touch.  I was at my in-laws this past weekend and now I have to hustle and clean my house again because they're coming up on Wednesday!   I wish that when it was cleaned, it would stay clean, but having a dog, kids, and my mom over for a few days inbetween destroys any progress I had last week!!!  After this week, no one is visiting for a while, thank goodness!!!!!!!  I'll be able to wallow in my dust and fur-tumbleweed.

So, in talking nutrition (a topic that I'm not thoroughly well-versed in), what are your meals currently like?  Where could you improve to aid your training?  Just throwing out a topic to get you thinking... OR, if you have any favorite healthy recipes, share!

Katie-

I'm trying to get my husband to do the same thing.  His issue is depth, not water clarity. 

Here's a question to ask: how is the open swim set up for the race?  Do you swim parallel to the beach or is it out into the "great wide-open"?  We have a long beach here where you swim parallel in some shallow water so you can still see the bottom (800m length).  On the flip side, I also swam in water that was pitch black (not exaggerating) and deep.  (That was the HIM.) I was glad I practiced first!  See if you can do just that--practice your open swims at the location of the race.  It will certainly calm your nerves.  If you're a strong swimmer and just a water clarity issue, my gut feeling is go for it!  If it's more than that...  well...  it's up to you!  Can't wait to hear what you decide!

Time to turn the tables.  I have a question for you.  (I'll try to make this short.)

I've done the Cleveland Tri (oly distance) twice.  The charity at this race is UCP which is United Cerebral Palsy.  There are dads towing their kids in boats, behind the bike, and pushing the strollers for kids who are not little, like 10 years old or so.  It is the most inspiring race I have ever seen or participated in. 

Yesterday, I signed up for the race and created a donation page for UCP in honor of my cousin, Mark (who just turned 30).  He had a rough few months and I wanted to race in his honor and raise money because he was such a bright light in our HUGE family. To make a long story short, he ended up being life flighted to the Cleveland Clinic and died last night.  While it's sad, our family has a strong Christian faith and we know he is dancing up a storm with the angels in heaven. 

Here is my question.  I have never raised funds before (at least, not successfully).  Besides the emails, and facebook links, are there other ideas that are productive?  Help!  (I was going to alert his sisters to this cause yesterday, but I had no idea this had happened until this morning.)

Robin,

I will be doing the Ride for Missing Children for my 3rd year in May.  In order to participate in the Ride you have to raise $500 towards the cause.

I have done all the things you have mentioned Facebook, where I actually raised a ton of money, mailing letters, and sending e-mails.

SOme other things that I have done are:

I have had my husband bake his world famous chocolate chip cookies and bring them to work (he is a physical therapist) where his patients can have one for a small donation.  Of course I make up a big poster and what not to send along with him.

I have heard of people having bake sales and other things.  I work in a school so I get a a lot of contributions from co-workers. 

There are tons of things that can be done!  Let me know if you need help brainsstorming an idea!  Good luck!

Erika

Also, I am so sorry for the loss of your cousin.  But like you said, he is living it up in Heaven on streets paved in Gold with our Heavenly Father! Whats' s better than that! 

Erika

We must all be out training hard!  Our group's been so quiet lately!  I'm fitting in my favorite spinning class tomorrow with a 5k run on the dreadmill after it.  For those of you training for your tris already, throw some of those bricks in there!  It'll be an eye opener.

Friday is my fun yoga day, but I'm having to skip that to drive up and back to Cleveland in one day (250 miles round trip).  I can always squeeze in some core at night instead. 

How's your training going?  And, don't forget-- we have a member racing this weekend!!!!!!!!!!  GO LISA!!!!!!!!!

I just signed up for the Worst Day of the Year Ride here in Portland--18 mile bike ride through the town of Portland, OR on February 12. Very excited...You even get judged on the best costume that you wear while on the bike ride so I might be going to Joann's for some crazy fabric to accessorize with. Any ideas on what sort of costume I should wear/make?

Hope you all are doing well with your training!!

Ryan

I love the name of that race!!!!  Oooooo!  We need pics!!!!!!

Hmmmm.  Costumes, costumes... 

That sounds so fun!  I'm good at costumes, so I'll think about it and return.  We have an "event" here with New Belgium Brewery, and everyone dresses up like crazy.  It is so fun.  Last year we went and a girl had made her bike into a boat, but she was not coordinated enough to ride it (or maybe one too many Blue Paddles in) so she gave it to my boy who were standing there watching everyone.  Then they carried it around for the rest of the day and were the hit of the event.  During that event I saw pretty much every costume imaginable. Bananas, decks of cards, monkeys, an assortment of beer bottles, and themes like Star Wars, kids toys, kids shows, ect.  I think, if I were to be doing a race like that.....okay, it's too early to think of a good costume, but I'll come back later and see if we can come up with something!

Ok.  So this freakishly mild winter we've been having is obviously not going to cooperate.  It's "spitting" drizzle and the temps are supposed to drop.  Only 1" or so of snow tonight, but the roads won't be treated because of the rain.  This means ice.  Cleveland is to get 2-4" tonight and another 3-5" tomorrow.  Great day for a funeral.  Now, is it just my family that decides to die in the winter?  Every single funeral I attend is in Dec, Jan, Feb with yucky, cold temps and some form of miserable precipitation.  Ugh.  Just to let you know--whenever it will be--I will meet my Maker in the summer, thank you!!!!

In other news, great spin class and an ok run afterwards.  I have some speed work to do!!!! Yipes!

What a horrible situation, but so glad you can do this with your family!  It will probably be one of your best runs!

Oh Robin! I am so sorry for your loss.

Sorry I haven't checked in much this week I have been SO busy. Hopefully nevt week goes bak to normal again. I am planning a birthday party for my son on Saturday, he is turning 4, and then my race is Sunday.

Today I am going to pick up my race package. There is one slight problem, they are calling for snow Sunday. We don't usually get a lot of snow here and when we do the city basically shuts down - no one drives anywhere, people stay home from work, schools are closed. Hopefully we don't get too much.

I will make sure to come back and post on Sunday to let everyone know how I did. Have a nice weekend!

Hey Everyone!

Good luck this weekend Lisa!  

I got up this morning and enjoyed a nice swim.  I wish I loved running as much as I loved swimming.  I also wish I was as good at running as I was at swimming.  I have really cleaned up my stroke and am feeling good!  

What are everyones plans for the weekend?  My 6 year old daughter has her first gymnastics meet this weekend.  She is excited and so are we.  

We are getting bombed with snow right now so it should be interesting to see what my workouts will be.  

Well have a great Friday night everyone!

Erika

Long run planned for tomorrow 1:15 or so (7-8 miles?).  Birthday party for a neighbor in the afternoon.  Relaxing in the evening.

Long bike (1:15) on trainer Sunday after church. 

Apparently the funeral was fantastic!  Lots of people, great hymns, and instead of "Amen", everyone was saying "Aaaaye".  That was the only verbage Mark could use.  Sorry I missed it.  Thanks for letting me tell you guys about it.

Have a great weekend.  And, Go, Lisa, Go!

Good Luck Lisa!  By Sunday night you'll be so tired!

Sorry for your loss Robin, but it sounds like everyone has a great perspective on death and is handling it as well as possible!  

This weekend I'm single mom-ing it, so not a lot of workouts planned.  I have a two mile walk with the kidlets tomorrow (depending on weather) and then a swim probably sunday and maybe (hopefully) a spin monday.  Besides those minor workouts, I think we're delivering soup to some friends, hitting up a farmers market (indoor,) and watching the football game Saturday night (I live in CO, near Denver, just in case there is more than one game going on Saturday night I will be watching the Broncos game.) 

Well I have just completed 5 straight weeks of running-starting at 1 mile each day for 6 days a week and then increasing it by a quarter mile each week. I just did a 2.5 mile run today and am taking tomorrow off to rest. I start my Olympic Triathlon training on Monday. My hubby made a calendar for me and wrote down what I'm supposed to do each day on the calendar. I haven't been in the pool for months and I've never been a fast swimmer so we'll see how that goes. I'm so glad my hubby found a training plan for me because I'd be scratching my head as to what I'm supposed to be doing to get ready for Wildflower.

Robin, I'm sorry for your loss. It's never easy to lose someone you love.

Lisa--best wishes for your run and know that your "team" here is cheering for you.

Hope you all have a great weekend....