Yanti & Salty Beyond Ridiculous Manatees PART 6--CLOSED (Page 75)

Meh.  Gotta get through these tough runs to have the great ones.

True story!  Makes the good ones all the better. 

I went for a 20 min dog walk, then got on the drainer for 45 minutes.  I see the PT again tomorrow.  I don't think I'm quite at the run/walk stage yet, but hopefully by Friday.

I read somewhere that HIM is like double Olympic but Ironman is it's own thing.  Not 2x HIM or whatever.  I don't know if that helps or not!

My birthday is on Christmas.  Last year I had a two hour run on my training plan.  I made it into my Christmas Day Half Marathon.  I wrote a mini race report for it (aid stations sucked, etc.) and generally had a good time with it!

If your bike endurance is good, you will be fine.  You don't have to hammer it to make the cutoff but you do have to complete the distance!  Also, without bike endurance, your run will suffer.

Sounds like you need to double up today!

I'm jumping on this Jogo challenge bandwagon!  I have had seriously lacking training for months.  Woke up Sunday morning and ran with some buddies, that has really invigorated me to get back into it.  So since Friday, I've done at least a half hour of something every day.  Today was computraining, really good work out, we did a mix of short, hard intervals and then 2 really long (9 and 5 minutes, respectively) at threshold power.  Doing a make up computraining tomorrow and my goal is to GO SWIMMING with my training group Thursday a.m.  I haven't been swimming since AUGUST 25, my last race. OMG!!!   This Thursday is the day I get back in the water.

Way to go to all you IM/HIM-ers with your hard core training.  It is sooooo impressive!

Jo, you are such a driven athlete, I am always in awe of your motivation and commitment to training. You will go out there and you will get it done!!

Welcome JoGo Challenger!

Yeah, I am recalling something about Manatees and wrath ... hmmm 

I like flipper-thwacking, myself.

Mug and Stevie

Stevie errr Santa

The above view

My bad azz wrapping paper choice

Here is a pic of our desert mountains from my twilight run yesterday

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Nicely done!

Great pic(s) TJ!

Did you spot Quatchi? 

Now I did

I'm signed up to do a Secret Santa exchange on DailyMile.  I got a female runner from Hawaii in the drawing.  Our spending limit is $15.

Would you be happy if you received something like this from a secret santa? 

I was a thinking of the one with the sun.

I have a necklace from them that like a lot.

Dude, Prefontaine's car is on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Datsun-Z-Series-Celebrity-Owned-By-Steve-R-Prefontaine-CELEBRITY-OWNED-BEAUTIFUL-1971-DATSUN-240Z-NO-/140895078422?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item20ce004816#ht_932wt_1165

15K for a Datsun, hmmmm

Ok so, clearly I am  not the girliest of girls (shocker, I know) and I sort of scoffed when I won jewelry at a couple 5Ks BUT I have since put them on a chain and like it a lot. So, I think she would like it.

Thanks Manatees - I am always surprised, pleasantly, that you think of me as a committed kind of person and hard headed enough to do this race.  I soooo don't think of myself that way - then when I look at my training for a week I see why - yeah it's a bit hard core.

Which leads me to something else that REALLY pizzes me off.

So - naughtily - I weigh myself every day.  So on Sunday to Monday I lost 2lbs - yay.  Tuesday, 1lb on Wednesday another lb on.  I have no idea how I can possible gain weight when I train so much and so hard.  I don't diet, I don't eat overly healthily but I believe my calories in are less than my calories out.  I know while training for IM that's what I should concentrate on, diet shouldn't factor in really.

But Dammit makes me cross.  Anyway back to another day of healthy choices - I'm doing a lot of nuts, they are probably calorie loaded but they are good stuff!  I will try harder today.  Grrr.

Oh training today - well OWS with johnny and the gang - terrifying but good.  Get there early and get a 500m warm up in.  It's going to be over 85F today so no lunchtime run, figure I'll do it after the OWS tonight.

LOVE THE MANATEES.