Shermbelle's Group Full and training our a$$es off (Page 7)

I would agree. Don't push the 40 miles hard and you should be fine as long as you build up to it. Remind me again, how far have you been riding for your "long rides"?

So what are you doing with the other 11 months of the year

Heh...around 12 miles right now, hahahaha.  But I haven't been biking at all. 

I did the 40 a couple of years ago on a whim - I drafted off some friends and somehow did it without any base at all.   

Ok, so I see what you guys are saying, I guess a 40 mile bike isn't super high impact and I'll be ok.  Thanks!  The highest I will go I think is 70 miles because it's hilly here but it's flat where the century is, and by that time my half mary will be over so I can crank down the run LSD.  So, I think I've got it figured out!  Woohoo!  Now, if I can only stick to the plan....

"I hope I can stick with it"

WE WILL HOLD YOU TO IT, THIS IS YOUR YEAR!!

Snap!!!!  Those are some serious goals....Good luck!!! 

ellismichael - 2008-01-10 1:47 AM

Shermbelle - 2008-01-09 4:49 AM So started the year at 211.6 and todays weigh in....(Granted did a hard interval workout last night so probably a little dehydrated)      204.8

Wow, Mike. That's awesome! My goals: 1. My first IM (Vineman) in under 14 hours 2. "World's Toughest" Duathlon under 6:30 3. Sub-2hr 1/2 marathon (hopefully in March) 4. Sub-4hr marathon in December 5. Single-digit body fat 6. Consistent training and balanced life I have not been successful losing weight. My only weight loss was the lemonade diet. At least I'm good at not gaining weight! Mike, what's your secret? What are you doing? What are your favorite weight loss meals? I'm trying to count calories, but I'm very used to eating out a lot, and there's no telling how many calories are in most of that stuff. I don't eat really unhealthy stuff, just too much of it. Mike

No "magic" secret here. I just like to eat and eat bad stuff for me. All I have done this year is cleaned up my diet. I still don't eat perfect as convience is what rules for me with my work and the way I operate. For example Here was yesterday

Breakfast: 2 pieces toast with PB and jelly, 1 glass of OJ

Snack: 2 pieces of string cheese, 3 Little Debbie 100 cal brownies

Snack: Whole Wheat bagel with Egg and cheese

Lunch: Subway 6 in Wheat Chicken Breast with lots of veggies and Honey Mustard

Snack: 2 Granola Bars, 1.5 cups cottage cheese, banana

Workouts: 1 bottle of Gatorade Endurance (worked out for 2.5 hours)

Dinner: Chicken Breast and broccoli

Dessert: FF Chocolate Pudding

So you can see my diet is anything "magic". I do drink a ton of water and have been pushing myself really hard while working out lately. My coach is pushing me to see what I can do. I think naturally I should weigh in the 180-190 range and I have just been overweight and out of shape.

My wife does weight watchers so a lot fo the meals she will make are WW friendly or WW Core.

Any other Q's just ask.

Going Long is an excellent book and resource. I totally agree with spliting up your long run and ride if possible but that is not  always possible. That said, currently my coach has my long run on Saturday and what I guess could be my long ride on Sunday. But I am only at 1:30 on the run and about the same on the bike.

What I think is the most important thing is to get them in. Some people with the luxury of time can schedule days in  between but if the weekend is all you got for time then go that route. Plus you usually aren't going hard.

I'm pretty near Fairfield county but have yet to bike out there.  New Haven area tends to not be flat.  Hubby and I have ridden to the top of East Rock park a few times.  I can make it, but it puts me in a foul mood and I don't enjoy the view at the top .

I just started doing these simplefit.org workouts (saw it in a Strength Training thread) because I secretly also want to be kind of ripped.  I just have to say, they are awesome.  For someone with no access to a gym, they are just what I needed.  Check 'em out.  Really awesome.

Hey gang,

What is on tap for everyone this weekend. Still in getting back into the groove mode or are some of us on a plan with set workouts?

I am doing an interval workout on the bike tomorrow with a short run and a short swim (have to make up a run from THursday) and then a 1:10 run on Sunday

Have a great weekend everybody!

I got bored the other day (read: procrastinated) and made a schedule for myself for the entire year.  Yup - mapped out my races/events, and what I need to do to get ready.  If I hadn't, I think I would have been in trouble because, actually, I've got a half mary coming up and I need to get started with this whole "Century" thing if I want to make it through, so it's a good thing!  It's a lot more volume than I've ever done, but hopefully I can do it.

Today I'm going for a trainer ride and watching the 1st half of "Hot Fuzz".  I'd go outside because it's nice today, but it's really hilly outside and I'm still a bit tired from my "almost" cold and I don't want to deal with any inclines, I just want some so an easy trainer spin for me with some 1 leg drills.

Tomorrow is a 1:10 run.

Lex - I know what you mean about lazy friends.  I don't have many myself that try to stop me or anything, most of them express awe and just "I could never do that".   My parents try to stop me - running a lot seems weird to them and they think it's just too much.  But then, the Chinese aren't really into distance running.   I do have friends, who when they see how much I eat, are like, "oh, but you can eat that much because you're so active" and proceed to way undereat.  That's one thing that really bothers/worries me, but when I try to get them to exercise, they're like, "oh, I could never do that, I'll just hang on the elliptical 45 minutes and I'm done for the week." 

Anyway, hopefully you can inspire them.  It was a 4 year process for my more active friends to inspire me...slowly slowly slowly I came on the idea that a lot of exercise wasn't insane and here I am now . 

Have a great weekend all!     

Happy Sunday everyone, I went for a 9 miler late last night after our friends left and my shoe split in the back heal and proceeded to cut up my heal pretty bad. I have the "Curt Shilling bloody sock" going on when I got back.

Have to hit the trainer hard today and then a nice 30 min run. Hope everyone finishes off there weekend strong!

Hey group, hope everyone had a great weekend but now it is time to get down to business. We all have some big goals so now we need to work towards achieving them.

How about for our first challenge here we list our number of sessions we plan to do this week in each sport. IF you strength train or yoga or whatever you can list that too. We will try to keep each other accountable to make sure this week we stay consistent and hit all our sessions. Be realistic if you are not already on a plan but also push yourself. I'll go first.

Swim- 3

Bike- 2

Run- 5

Strength- 2

Good luck all on a great week!