Team Lively Lava (Page 8)

I promise I will do my intro once I get home from my workout - I need to get back to werk for now

in the meantime - here's a training tip for all -

and most important thing to know about Amy is:

She has FABULOUS LEGS! and they can only be getting better each challenge she does!!

She loves to do nap runs? I still have not figured this one out!?! I would love to nap and run at the same time....

and the very VERY most important thing is SHE LOVES CHUCK! FYI~~her husbands name is not Chuck!!!

I will let her explain her way out of that one!!! YAY AMY...totally psyched to be on your team again! even though we are on the same mentor team....look forward to racing with you in San Diego in only a month now!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

I'll go next.

I'm Amy, I also have 2 kids, ages 11 and 5 (almost 6). I'm almost a stay at home mom: I work as a nurse, but very part time. I have a hubby who travels alot, but is otherwise very supportive of my tri quest. I haven't done any tris yet, but I am planning to do a sprint in May of this year. I was a swimmer in my former life, but was never avle to run without pain, or bike. So far, I'm liking this multi sport world. A little expensive, but fun!

Glad to meet you all!

absolutely!! in fact I can't wait to share him with you!!! hope he is ready for two of us!

I pushed, bullied, joined my way on to the lavidians!  I know it took so much effort to create the team roster, but can I get one with my name on it, boo hoo. Or I will just have to jump ship for some other team.

I am Tammy, I haven't figured out my goals yet, but will by tonight.  I am an independent consultant to the pharmaceutical industry that has the luxury of working out of my home and taking care of my three kids(14, 12, 7) all at the same time!  In between all that I try to find time to workout, but sometimes my clients can be as immature as my 7 yo and demand a lot of attention.

I am a swimmer at heart and have swum competitively since I can remember....about the age of 5 I think.  I love to bike, and running....well I just have to do that to finish the tri's. 

Hi Amy from another swimmer.....I have never made peace with the run.  I think swimmers aren't cut to be runners, and runners aren't cut to be swimmers.  I feel your pain right along with you. Looking forward to kicking butt with this team.

Here's a current roster, but the spreadsheet link is not correct. It's also attached as a rtf file. You msy want to wait until I can do the spreadsheet link to the real spreadsheet.

Hi,

I've been on teams with many of you, and owl_girl (Tracy) is running my mentor group.

I rode a bike everywhere as a kid but not so much after I got my driver's license. I did some bike commuting in graduate school in Boston but then moved to Chicago and pretty much didn't touch a bike again for almost 20 years. In 2003 I bought a trainer stand and started working out in the basement. In 2004 I bought a new bike, a hybrid, with the intention of getting back out on the road. I finally made it out onto the road in spring of 2006 for a small, local charity ride (only 10k) but had already set my sights on doing a 25 mile diabetes Tour de Cure ride the following month. That ride was a huge success. The bug had bitten and I moved up to a road bike that fall. That's when a friend told me about the Iron Girl triathlon she had just done. That got me to thinking "I could do that!" What was I thinking?!? I started running in October 2006 and stated swimming (poorly) that December. This summer I completed two triathlons. Along the way I had to deal with a sprained ankle and kneecaps that stopped tracking properly. I'm on the mend and looking forward to three triathlons in 2008, a metric century ride for the Tour de Cure, and a few 5k races along the way.

I love working out and celebrating the improvements and milestones. The triathlons and races focus my training. I'll probably never reach the podium but I love seeing that I'm capable of more than I ever thought.

I have two kids who are with me one-week-on/one-week-off. My 16yo boy (who got his driver's license on Saturday!) plays ice hockey and lacrosse but doesn't think running makes any sense. I also have an 11yo daughter (BT: WeeBeast) who dances and does figure skating. She recently decided she wants to run a race so I've been taking her out on runs.

Much of my family thinks I'm crazy but my partner (usually) gives me her full support.

Thanks, that is way cool the way people do that.  Thanks to Beth, I am just learning to post pictures...that's about as tech savvy as I get. I won't put it in my log until the spread sheet is updated.

Below you will find the link for your team's spreadsheet.  You can edit it with
username: btchallenge
password: challengeforum

Please take a minute to check your goals.  If they are wrong, or you don't have any, please change them.  No need to notify me.   Challenge goals should be finalized by Friday, 4/4.  

The only columns you'll need to edit throughout the challenge are the ones for entering your progress.  Ex: Swim Completed.  Everything else is calculated automatically - the percentages, averages, even the day and progress through the month.  Please don't change them.

Let me know if you have questions!

-Jen

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pVOlxyviRAwagqMXW5ieKHw&hl=en  

D001 - 2008-03-31 2:11 PM

Girl Passing on Left - 2008-03-31 4:42 PM .... and the very VERY most important thing is SHE LOVES CHUCK! FYI~~her husbands name is not Chuck!!!

 

I will let her explain her way out of that one!!! ....

LOL Julie. Are you stirring up trouble again?

INDEED! as I should!!! hey do you have the olympic onion ring avatar! very nice! I am hungry...and I am not talking about the country!!! how about sharing one or five of them with me!?! and obtw! TAG your it! POOF! and no tag backs!

Who is Chuck???

maybe I wanna meet Chuck - do I?????

Wow! Awesome

we have a roster, a really cool team spreadsheet and some intros!

We ROCK already!

So - Julie were you serious about the team captain?

I'd be glad to do it if no one else wants to, I'll just need everyone to understand that I'm not around much during certain times due to the whole living in Never Never land thing (I'll explain in my next post - for those who don't know me)

D001 - 2008-03-31 8:24 PM

Girl Passing on Left - 2008-03-31 9:21 PM

D001 - 2008-03-31 2:11 PM

Girl Passing on Left - 2008-03-31 4:42 PM .... and the very VERY most important thing is SHE LOVES CHUCK! FYI~~her husbands name is not Chuck!!!

 

I will let her explain her way out of that one!!! ....

LOL Julie. Are you stirring up trouble again?

INDEED! as I should!!! hey do you have the olympic onion ring avatar! very nice! I am hungry...and I am not talking about the country!!! how about sharing one or five of them with me!?! and obtw! TAG your it! POOF! and no tag backs!

I've changed my avatar about 6 times in the last 3 minutes. I have onion eyeballs now. Hm, as for tag..............

Dee - that's kinda scary!