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Great job, Nicole!  I'm still jealous that you got a Garmin!   I love geeky toys like that!

Hi Amy!  Great job on your workouts!

If you don't understand something, just ask us to clarify.  We will be more than happy to help.  That's what this mentor group is all about!   We are here to help each other become better athletes!!!

Cheers!

Speaking of Gramin, does anyone know of a product out there that will track my location via GPS and at the same time, send that data to the Internet? 

This could be used in many ways, for example if I ask my wife to meet me when I get to a specific point with a banana and some gatorade, she can much more accurately anticipate when I'll be there.

Yeah!  There are radio collars for animals that use GPS technology for tracking purposes.  Or........you could always get an ankle bracelet!!!!

Hmm.  Well, Rodney.  Sorry I didn't elaborate.  Those are for wild animals.  They've been used on bears and deer and elk and a host of other critters.  I do think they are starting to be used on Alzheimers patients, though.

It OK < I just have no reason or need of this products at this time  Water yea  but not gels  and such. my stomach it a rock any ways nothing  upsets it  as far as I know. sports Drink I beleive  in as I said have bought them for my son but again at this point I never done enough to need them.  My Leg is not 100 % today for sure  I will do my walk but going to wrap it

Be careful, Amy!  Do you have a physical therapist?

Check out the Spot GPS 

Wow!!!  Very cool!!!!

Got my swimming and spinning in today. With school starting again for the kids, along with their soccer and karate, it looks like my workouts will generally be the 4 - 6 AM kind. The rain and wind don't stop here till March so it will be mostly indoor running on the treadmill.

The GPS Spot gadget looks cool. Now if there was a way to combine it with my IPOD and Nike Plus system, I'd buy it. 

I really don't mind the treadmill.  There is a lovely view out the windows at my gym.  That really helps.  (I listen to lots of music on my ipod that I can't play in Spinning class, too! )  I've been thinking about putting up bird feeders outside the windows at the gym.  It faces a beautiful (dripping wet) forest with lots of big leaf maple, blackberry bushes, redwoods, salal, etc, etc. and I think there would be some wonderful wildlife that would visit!   (I'm sure there are owls there, too!)

The fence is DONE!!!!  Yeah!!!!  The German Shepherd is not pleased!  We cut off part of her yard for a garden free of dog poo!  The labs really don't care.  The weather is still crap and we need to do some preventive fence maintenence over the next week.

I hope you had a fun rest day.  I've had fun with old clothes by holding a clothing swap.  I invite a bunch of girlfriends over with their old clothes and we swap clothes.  Anything that doesn't go gets put into a big bin for Goodwill.

Cheers to you!!!!

Treadmills are fun!  You can do all sorts of fun workouts on them!

You have a lot of responsibilities!  Make sure you keep your kids on the top of the list!  Carve out time for yourself when you can.  Cheers!

Us girls have a right to be grumpy when the weather is less than ideal and the kids have been cooped up in a van for two days!  As a matter of fact, you have a right to be grumpy, too!   Hee-hee!!!  Yeah.  Give the kids a shovel and let your wife have the house to herself.

Good job on your run!  I TOTALLY understand that elevation thing!  It just plain sucks!  Cheers to you and yours!

Can you not get Ron I think that his name to add it to the list ?

I swam 1800m this morning. It wasn't pretty. Hopefully my next swim will go better and feel better.

The new bike is ready to be picked up; I should get over for it by Thursday at the latest. 

New Bike sound promising

If you have a any kinda head cold swim can be tough.

Glad to see I am not the only one under 80 that works out mornings... Yes my gym is full at 5 am but I am the youngest by at least 30 to 40 years

I am going away this coming weekend out 3 years anniversay ( no he not popping any question cause he knows I pop him)   It a very nice 5 star hotel with a gym so I will work out not issue but want to know how u tell the KMS  ( or I guess miles for most of you ) on a bike. I never used a trainer bike. man till a week ago I never rode a reg bike since i was like 17

I know I'm coming in kind of late on this one, but I was traveling over the weekend. Did a beautiful 12 mile snowy run in Spokane, WA yesterday, and now I'm settled in in Grand Coulee for a few days. I think we've been bringing the snow with us since there hasn't been any snow on the ground when we arrived in either place, but by the time we wake up the next morning there are several inches on the ground. We'll try to lose it before we get to Portland

Anyway, as far as sports nutrition goes, I really like the Clif Shot Recovery for after my runs. I also use Hammer Gel for longer workout. I like both Hammer Gel and Gu, but since Hammer Gel is a local company I tend to use it more. It took me a little while to get used to the texture of the gels, but now I really like them and they're great when you need more energy, but don't want anything heavy in your stomach. I also eat luna bars, Go Lean bars, and Clif bars on occasion between meals and while hiking. I like the taste of those bars the best and they have more natural ingredients than alot of the nutrition bars do, which is important to me.

Great training, everyone!

Roni

I attend a boot camp class about once a week, and have been logging it under "group power" in sports, for lack of a better way to log it. Sorry this isn't much help.

Roni