No Housework Day Ride & Cherry Blossom 10-Miler Carbo Load Dinner!!! (Page 77)

i'm waiting for my friend to get them to me.  then i'll post.

FYI... Newleaf and Slake can eat. They should have done the KK challenge..

The both polished off roast beef sandwiches with gravy, mashed potatoes and a side of pancakes for NL and a side of French Toast for Slake. This after chips and salsa.

Nice work

my eyes are actually red every day nowadays it seems....its too dry out and heat isn't helping either!  leave the contacts out.  is your eye leaking? b/c if its conjunctivitis you'd basically be unable to open your eye with all the crap stuck in it.  You might have scratched if you rubbed your eye or something.  Get it looked at.  I don't play with eyes, it ain't worth it.   They'll give you the drops look at it, and tell you to leave out your contacts for 48 hours.  Its worth it.  Hell, I'm going to be Mr Magooing it for the next 3 weeks till my hopefully pre-surgery appointment...maybe I'll even get some Rex-Spex so I can look cool like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 

 Did they share a Rootbeer float with 2 straws?

yeah we suck.  only 2 pancakes, homefries, and 2 eggs for me.  but I have been able to swim 2 miles after eating a 14 oz prime rib only 20 min before.  Does that get props?

no, but shelly and I shared a margarita with 2 straws.  It was hot. 

No, my eye isn't oozing, thankfully. And it's better today - looked a lot better when I went to bed. I think it's because it's SO dry everywhere I am. My office is dry, it's dry out and my room is really dry. Wearing glasses once again in the hopes that they will be fine by Friday night - can't go to the retreat in my glasses...

Turtle, Wurkit: 

Just a thought about your dry eyes....  drink more water.

Sincerely,

Your Local Kid Who Cares

Haha. I forgot about Bret Michaels dry eyes..

Speaking of Bret, he is really hot. I am not sure why I think this, but I love his show this season

I need some lovin' .

You guys know how much this IM means to me, and now I am relegated to aquajogging and physical therapy. Can I have a hug? I need a hug.

Hugs

As a note, at this time last year I had the WORST piriformis syndrome.. I couldn't even sit at my desk at work, they had to get me a podium so I could stand most of the day.. Then one day it just went away.. 100% gone. Be faithful

I don't do hugs... but you can get some of this.

(bretandlauren.jpg)

It's not like I have cooties or anything...

hugs hugs... IMLP is 8 months away and you'll be there and ready; and furthermore, you'll be so thrilled with how you did that you'll end up getting an m-dot on your leg.  to remind you of persevering through all these leg problems.

it's more like 5 months away...but you'll still be ready.  I'd bet you'll be more ready than 75% of the people there.

Um, it's less than 6 months away, Tim. No tats for this chick .

Wow, and I was a math major.  Ha.

Either way, you'll be fine. 

But I want to be Lauren ready. Not Lauren ready minus a bunch of weeks of no running.

But, it's okay I guess. There's been a lot of great research out there proving the
benefits of aquajogging to maintaining fun fitness. And, it's helped a lot of elite
triathletes and marathoners come back with just as much if not more run fitness
after an injury.

When I do my first IM, I am hoping to be chirunner ready. 

Honestly, (and I speak from no experience here) I think being mentally ready for an IM means that you are going to be willing to accept all of the pitfalls that come along the way during training and on race day and figure out how to work through them.  I'd be willing to bet that only a tiny percentage of the people preparing for an IM make it to race day without having something relatively major interfere with themselves being "Lauren ready" at the start line.  It's just the nature of the beast and certainly part of the process.  Look at our ironmen on this thread and see what they went through, shelly crashed her Elite and broke her collarbone and missed a few key weeks of training and 3558 came out of the closet crashed his Elite during his training.  Granted you don't ride an Elite so chances are you won't crash during your IM build, but things happen, and we have to deal with them and look to the bright side. 

Dude, you are so mean Funny, but mean. Though I wonder exactly what kind of "ready" that is? I am hoping to complete a Half before I'm 30, assuming my knees hold up...Not even thinking about a full IM until after 30, realistically. I guess I could say, before 30, but I'm also just not naturally an athlete, and not sure my body could be ready that fast.

I know you're right 4shrt, and I know that I will be fine. Replacing my runs with
aquajogs for a few weeks won't really hurt me at all really. I'm just more frustrated
by the fact that this always happens. There's always something wrong with me. The
doc today prescribed physical therapy for me --- for two things that aren't even
what I went in to see him for (and also another thing that is what I went in there for)!!!!
There are just so many things wrong with me, and they always get in the way of me reaching my goals.

Alright, I'm done venting. Thanks for listening all !