HILDEKQ'S Magnificently Motivational Mentor Group - CLOSED!! (Page 8)

I do so love this group-- you're all gloriously insane! Hope you're all having a great weekend-- I'm back to my long run (in the pool) tomorrow!

Hello to all the crazy MMMers here! Hope you're having a fabulously active weekend I had the ski hill snowshoe race yesterday (2.5 miles) and I finished in 21:40...not sure if that's good, bad or otherwise on snowshoes - LOL but I had a good time. It was frickin' freezing (-5 degress F at the BOTTOM of the mountain when we started) but we all had fun none the less. One part of it was sooooo steep going up I seriously thought I might fall backwards! The next one is in early Feb and is a bit longer....I'm hoping for warmer weather, that's for sure!

Sunday is traditionally my workout day off so why mess with tradition. I've struck a good balance today between ticking things off my to-do list and lazing around on the couch Right now I'm enjoying a mocha drink and listening to the ramblings of my almost-4-year-old while she is playing with her trucks and her baby's - LOL...priceless!

I'm having such a hard time settling on  my competition schedule for 2011 - so many races, so little time! And if I could just re-organize the dates that the various races were being held (just a bit!) it would be helpful! HEHE! As anyone done an INTERNATIONAL distance tri? Looks to be a bit shorter than an OLY bu longer than a SPRINT? There is one here called the Black Fly Tri...I gotta admit, I want to do it for the T-shirt...LOL!

Have a great week full of lots of great training!

Nope, never done an International distance.... you're on your own, Marsha!!

My 3-day weekend is over, sigh.  We have a "staff development" day tomorrow, no students which is a good thing, AND lunch out!  By the way, "staff development" means "absolutely worthless information that has nothing to do with teaching music but we make you sit through it anyway". 

I gotta admit I was a little naughty with the diet over the weekend and snuck in some extra pig out calories... how can you go to a movie and NOT get popcorn???  And there was that peach pie hubby bought that had to be finished up... I was good today though and will be back at both the diet AND the workouts tomorrow for sure!!  It seems my heart rate has settled back to normal, at least it did on our hike today.... I'll know more tomorrow when I head out for a run after school.

Have a great week everyone, I'll be spying on y'all!!  But you knew that, right?  I want to thank all of YOU for the inspiration and motivation to keep ME going!

Ok, so I know I said I needed to lose weight, but a full day of a stomach bug, followed by a second day of not trusting my digestive system was NOT the way I wanted to do it.  At least today I can keep down water and other things, but I'm not sure how much I can eat.

Maybe I can set the bike up on the trainer tomorrow. 

Wesley,

I ended up with a CycleOps Fluid 2 and really like it.

Next best thing to being out on the road in the Winter!

Sorry for the lengthy depay in posting.

It has started, the body challenge, weighrd in Sun.  I am 6' 255 lbs, they also did body fat and body measurements. Those will be a secret.

This challenge wants you to use the zone diet.  Workout about 5 days a week with 3 of these days being the body sculting, high rep with weights and the other 2 days being cardio (kickboxing and ply pump, a cross of plyometircs and weights).

I feel like an alligator now. I can not straighten my arms at all and I could not even get my belts on lol.  I know it will go away soon hahahha.  I weigh in once a week on Thursdays.  Once this soreness goes away I will be running and swimming and riding but wow do I hurt lol.

Wow - that sounds intense.  Best of luck with it!

I got the Kurt Kinetic because I have two cats, one of which is a long hair and it gets everywhere.  If I remember correctly, someone said that something inside them is self contained versus the Cycleops.  I wish I could remember the exact reason.  In any case, it has worked great for me and is not nearly as loud as I feared. 

On the other hard, it is much meaner and harder when you first start with it.  I never knew how much I coasted on my biek until I started riding the trainer.

Whatever, mom! 

Hi Wes,

I have the CycleOps Wind, I call it the cheapest one, my husband calls it functional, yet affordable.  I purchased it at REI.  When I first started this tri adventure last year, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it and the gear can get pricey.  It is noisy which I don't like but it does the trick.  When I grow up, I will upgrade to a fluid model :-)  

D 

Ok, I'm sure I'll win the cheapskate award here, but my trainer is an Aireon magnetic that my husband picked up at a garage sale for $20! It seems so work fine and isn't noisy. I didn't want to spend much because we can ride outdoors year-round here, so it isn't really a necessity.

I also have the Kurt Kinetic... have had it for about a month.  Ordered it online when someone on BT posted a 25% off code to Sports Authority AND it was on sale, ended up getting it for about $100 off with 99 cent shipping!  I've heard nothing but good things about the KK or the CycleOps 2 fluid.  Seems to be pretty quiet, at least my husband hasn't complained about it when I've been riding it while he's been sleeping!  It is a workout!!  I can see I will start the season much stronger for having used it...

I picked up a fluid trainer from Nashbar (because it was a Christmas present and I couldn't find the others on sale at the time).  Haven't tested it out yet, but I heard good things about it from people on here, so I'll let you know.

I also have a Kurt Kinetic and I love it!

Just have to toot my own horn . . . almost exactly one year ago today I was finally able to swim my first full lap of crawl. This morning I did 2400 yards!

-k

x3 on the CycleOps 2 Fluid-- I got mine from Amazon, and I really like it. I use it a lot, too, during these frigid winter weeks!

Jen, I'm so sorry you've been ill-- hope you're feeling MUCH better so you can try out your  bike trainer!

Jon, when I lost a bunch of weight a while ago (over 40 pounds), I used the Zone plan and it worked REALLY well for me. It's still the basis on which I eat even now, though I add a bit more carb to my diet because of all the training. Way to get started-- go, man, go!

Kory, CONGRATULATIONS on your fabulous swimming development! You've done amazing work in such a short period of time!

Hope you're all having a great week, everyone!

Toot toot Kory!!  Since I haven't suffered the effects of learning to swim as an adult, I commend ALL of you that are getting better and better at it!!  After all, ANYONE can run, right??  Even I can run, it's just slow, ha ha!

SWIMMERS UNITE!!!!

That's amazing!  Congratulations!

ETA - I was referring to kellekl's post...Just have to toot my own horn . . . almost exactly one year ago today I was finally able to swim my first full lap of crawl. This morning I did 2400 yards!

-k

Edited by bunsy 2011-01-19 3:48 PM

Oh, Margaret, you weren't talking about the giant wiener??  LMAO!!!

*clapping* way to go on the leaps and bounds of improvement in swimming Kory! That is awesome. Hmmmm, all this talk of trainers....makes me wanna get one! But, we have toooo many bills these days...I'll keep hoping for one someday!

Hope you're all well. We were kinda iced in here this morning and now...more snow! Can someone PLEASE tell me WHY I moved here again? LOL!

Congratulations!!!!! That's awesome!!!!