Lora's Just Us Girls Group - CLOSED (Page 9)

First week:

Ran: 5.75 miles
Bike: 42 miles
Swam: 1000 meters

Reporting in weekly is a great idea to help us keep on track!  Good job everyone!

Jeri

Wow, Jeri, great job!
Pat

Hi Lora -

Saw on your blog that you are sponsored by Gu.  How did you get a sponsor?  Not that I am at all fast or cool enough
for anyone to want to sponsor me.

Hey guys! I am back!!!

Trip was awesome, check out my blog for a short report and some pictures if you are interested. 

Not sure how to work this regarding the challenge, I skied 51 miles + from Sat-Wed.  I almost fell in a stream, does that count as a swim?  Before that I had @ 17 miles - 9 running, 8 biking.  Not doing so good for the challenge really.  So I am at 68 miles total, most of it in nothing to do with Triathlon.  Ha. How far does cross-training get you anyway? 

BUT I have a race on Sunday - 10 miler!  Wahoo.

Cheers,
Mandy

Good morning everyone
Checking in:

I've ditched the conservative couch to 5k training plan because quite frankly, I got board.
So I'm now using Michael Pate's Total Sprint.  it's a twelve week program I found on the site. I figured it'd be perfect for getting a good base started for me.

Thus far I've walked a total of 60 minutes and biked 2 miles.  Since I can't swim yet, I'm doing the dry land exercises. I'm starting back to day on that.  I'm also doing daily yoga as well as calastenics.
Hugs
Pat

Wow! You guys are keeping active and staying strong.

Sorry I've been out of pocket so much this week. With being sick and budget coming up this month, it's been crazy.

The good news is that I'm going to switch my work hours from 8 to 5 to 10 to 7. This will put me home when my husband gets home and give me time to train in the morning.

I'll re-read the latest posts after while, but just wanted to give you guys a great shout out!

Hi Mandy,

Great job on the cross-training.  I think it helps alot....and it's fun!

Good luck on your race tomorrow! 

Jeri

Mandy,
Your trip sounded fun!  Glad you stayed out of the stream!  I will check out your blog and read more about it.  Have fun and good luck with your race tomorrow!!!

OK, ya'll. Let's post this week's results.

I got in absolutely nothing because of illness, so I'll be hitting it hard the remainder of the month.

Morning ladies!

I had an awesome time at the 10 Mile Classic yesterday.  I ran 1:25:37 - 8:34/mile!  That is HUGE for me, I thank doing intervals for that.  I guess it is worth the torture.  Ha.  New PR!  My old time was 1:32 - I think I wrote it was 1:37 but I was wrong, I just checked.  For more info check out my race report.

Mid Winter Classic Race Report

This week (from Monday on), I skied 31 miles, biked about 9 miles, and ran 10.  50 Total miles.  The pool has been tough for me to get to due to distance from home, but will try to get there once a week.  BUT I just got an aero bar for my bike, so I am psyched to try that out tonight.

Tonight, recovery bike, and I hope recovery from this crappy cold!

Cheers,
Mandy

Mandy,

I love reading your blog!  Congrats on the PR!!  Fantastic!  I just had to laugh when you were writing about the conversation that goes on in your head while you are running!  I can sooo identify with that!  LOL  I think the same kind of things!

Hey Girls!  I hope everyone has a great week of training!!
Lora, hope you get to feeling better soon!!

Forgot to post this week's totals.

SWIM-4600 meters
BIKE-28 miles
RUN-18 miles

Amy, great week! Way to keep it going!  So glad you like my blog

My plan for this week is to actually....are you sitting down? GET A SWIM IN!! YEAH that is right! I am going to swim, like multiple laps, and not just in my head!  I got these paddle thinggys for my hands, anyone every use those?

Cheers,
Mandy

Thanks Mandy!

Yes I have those paddle "thingys" lol.  I have the Finis Freestyler.  They are great to help you with hand entry and a good catch.  You can tell immediately if you don't enter the water correctly or you don't get a good catch. 

Hi Ladies,

Here's my totals for week two:

Bike: 31 miles
Swim: 1000.00 meters
Run: 5.25 miles
(also walked about 10 miles also)
 
Get well soon Lora!

Great week Jeri!

Thanks Amy, I plan to test them out on Friday!

Cheers all!

Mandy

Hey Karen..before I forget...Have fun at the Trainerfest this weekend (you are going, right?).  I will be out of town this weekend but I will keep watching for more fests...Let me know how it goes.

Jeri

Hi Girls -  Just got back from an exhausting swim.  Sometimes swim comes so easy, sometimes I feel like I am dragging myself through the water. 

Thanks for all the inspires.  How do you inspire someone?  How about add them as a friend?

Happy Valentine's day everyone!!! I am soooo sorry I have not been on here but I have been sooo busy.

I have to give up my gym membership so I am not very happy. Swimming will not be in my plans anymore and I am going to try and see if there are any excerise's I can do at home to give me more strength. Biking I can do outside really soon. So I will try to make the best of what I have.

Have a great day everyone!

Jill There are dry land swimming exercises on Youtube. That's what I use since the nearest inside pool is 20 miles away and it belongs to the college.  Hope this helps

Hi ya'll sorry I havent posted.  This week has been insane. This coming week should be much easier.

Anyway here's my stats from the 8th to the 14th.

Bike 6 miles
Walk 75 minutes
swimming drills 0

Sunday Bricks 1.5 miles walk 2 miles on bike.

It doesn't look like much but its a start.
Pat

OK. This week's stats are in:

Bike: 20
Run: 7

What about everyone else?