VIllanous Vampires Team Thread (Page 71)

I'll probably be in your area around the 4th of July.  I visit my aunt and uncle every year over the holiday.  I'll come cheer you too!  Or better yet, if there is a race, we can run together!

I think that sugar and all the chemicals in junk food are really addictive, so when you start, thats why you want to keep eating more, even though its really bad for you! And like you said, once you started eating healthy you could taste just how nasty junk food is, but when you're eating it regularly you just can't taste that. I'm sure junk food companies must add things to their food to keep people coming back for more

I totally agree!!!  Once you start eating junk, you just can't stop!!  It's detox I tell you!  Awful!

Thats really sad! Especially for an Ironman. 

My mum thinks I am crazy but she still comes to watch me race at least once a season. My MIL is really bad though - she claims to be really interested in what I do but then doesn't show up, or shows up late and blames us for telling her the wrong time!!!

Erica: It must be hard for you with kids - I completely understand why your hubby is scared to take them to a big event!

Sounds great! Have a nice lunch and some quality time together I hope the appointment goes well.

Offthegrid - 2008-10-24 3:18 AM Back from my yoga class. I always dread if beforehand, and I always feel so wonderful afterward. Instructor was having us practice the beginning of crane pose today. He said to start by lifting just one side off, then the other. Everyone in the class began revolting, but I kept at it and eventually I was able to lift my right side off! I was really excited about trying to do both simultaneously, but then we moved onto something else.

Wow, thats TOTALLY awesome!

Wow, you just keep getting faster and faster!!!

LOL - so cute!!!

mila - 2008-10-24 8:39 AM

Offthegrid - 2008-10-23 1:18 PM Back from my yoga class. I always dread if beforehand, and I always feel so wonderful afterward. Instructor was having us practice the beginning of crane pose today. He said to start by lifting just one side off, then the other. Everyone in the class began revolting, but I kept at it and eventually I was able to lift my right side off! I was really excited about trying to do both simultaneously, but then we moved onto something else.

Wow!!!  That's a tough one.  I have a hard enough time doing the crow and handstand thing.

My daughter does acrobatics and all kinds of dance.  She can do some amazing things.  I posted a picture in my blog not too long ago.  I asked her if she could do this and she said she didn't know but wouldn't recommend that I try it and she wouldn't do it without properly warming up.  Thanks, Exhibit A.  Safety first!!!  She cracks me up.

Wow, that photo of your daughter is amazing. I kinda wish I'd done gymnastics when I was younger, everyone is so flexible at that age, but what you don't use, you lose, very quickly!!!

She started ballet, tap and gymnastics at 3.  By 6 she was all about ballet and she used to complain about gymnastics because she only liked tumbling and not the equipment.  Fortunately her dance school offers acrobatics which solved that problem.  Now she's in 2 companies (ballet and jazz) and hopes to audition for a third (modern) next year.  She dances about 8 hours per week in a typical week (2 each ballet and jazz, 1 modern and then acro) but during Nutcracker season (now) that gets upped to anywhere between 15 and 20.  She has three roles in the Nutcracker... two ballet parts and one acro part.  It's CRAZY but she loves it.  Yes, she's very flexible and she can do all kinds of crazy stuff... I'll see if I have other pics... but the fact is that she is all about core work.  At the beginning of every hour of dance there is a really hard core set.  So on a night when she takes three classes, she has three core workouts.  She frequently complains about her abs being sore. 

It's goin good. I'm all runned up. Looks like the spread sheet is capped at 100%. So I'm done!

Oops I nearly forgot to pad..

My son has his first schoolcamp tonight. He's 8. They stay over night at school and do fun stuff. Of course, I'm all precious about it-he's totally cool and really excited. I guess I'd better get over my separation anxiety. LOL

My hubby has been to watch a total of three of my races. The first one I had given blood the week before and performed abomnibaly(SP?)

Then he came to see me at the World Masters Games(here in Melbourne in 2002) this was fine but my son was not yet 2 and very active so I think it was a real workout for hubby. The last time was my olympic race and the crowds were so thick that he couldn't see anything-missed me completely.

Needless to say he doesn't enjoy the whole spectator thing. Never mind at least he doesn't put any obstacles in my path to keep competing.

Slugger - 2008-10-24 3:13 AM

bondgirl - 2008-10-24 1:58 AM

Slugger - 2008-10-24 12:39 AM . bondgirl, howzitgoin?

It's goin good. I'm all runned up. Looks like the spread sheet is capped at 100%. So I'm done!

Wanna run some for me? Eh, keep going - get a head start on November. Then you can cheat and fill in times for the holidays. LOL! You guys have anything like Thanksgiving goin' on in November? Or is it nuthin' 'til December?

We don't have Thanksgiving. We have the Melbourne Cup, which is the first Tuesday in November and basically it's a horse race that everyone get excited about, drinks too much and throws away their money. We do get a day off work and school tho' so it's all good.

Then it's Christmas which is during our major school holidays- my son gets nearly 8 weeks off. What do you do with an 8yo for 8 weeks?

It is very GOOD news that you're done (and that means I am, too) but it's very BAD news that we cap at 100% because we have some folks that might not meet their goal without some divine intervention, so those 100+%s would have helped with that a lot.  With that said, I haven't been lurking on blogs lately to see if maybe some people just aren't up to date but I'll try to do that this morning.