Stef's Peer-Support Group - FULL (Page 5)

Kerilynn - I'm going to agree with Andrea.  Do you want it to be a stressful experience or do you want to have fun and enjoy your day. 

I'm all for going for the gusto - but making it stressful just so that you can say you did it is probably not as much fun as enjoying building up the workouts so that you are really ready.  It's early in the season and there should be lots of opportunities throughout the summer. 

Whooohoooooo!!! Hopefully it warms up soon for you!! I know that I am much happier about training when I'm not freezing my butt off!! *laughing*

Keep checking in and letting us know how it's going!!

Ladies and Gentlemen!

What's up for the weekend??  Hopefully everyone is looking forward to nice weather for the weekend!!  (I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sunshine and not a lot of wind!!)

Hey!  Have I been kicked off the island?  I hope not.  Because I am pumped to be back in the swing of things.  It's been a real challenge.  After the first triathlon, I ran a 5 miler with my husband.  The next day, I left for a week for photography school.  8 am to 12 am schedules left me with no time to workout.  I was so glad to be at home and I was excited to get back to working out - then I headed out to the trail and BAM!  It was like a full body injury.  I don't know what happened.  I went running and right ankle, shin and hip hurt.  I was really concerned because none of those things bothered me previously and then all of a sudden it was all at the same time.  So I took it easy for another week, then began to run again. I'm starting to swim again tomorrow and the biking started today and so far no pain.  I have no idea what happened but I am better now.

My next triathlon is scheduled for late July and this time in the open water.  A little nervous about the open water but I am sure I am going to get it done!!

I've missed you all.  I'm getting ready to go update my logs.

Kerilyn - sounds like your training is working!!! It's so great to have those workouts where you realize how far you've come and how strong you are!! Congrats!!

Marie - Keep us posted on how you're feeling.  I'm glad that you seem to be doing better and easing back in will hopefully go well.

I wanted to write to let everyone know what is going on with me.  As some of you may have noticed, I haven't been logging in many workouts over the past week or so and haven't been updating all on my progress.

Due to a medical situation, I think I am going to have to stop training for the triathlon in September.  I don't want to get into the details right now (but will after some tests are complete).  Right now I am trying to stay active, but have really slowed down what I was doing and how much I was pushing myself.  I think that the new plan will be to do my first triathlon in the summer of 2010.  

I am bummbed that I won't be able to it this year, but know that I will be ready to go for next year! 

Bad News Brittany.  I hope everything is ok.  I'll be thinking of you today.  

Your tri-friend,
Marie 

I'm so sorry Brittany.

Hey there everyone so looks like i have not been keeping up. Looks like were missing a few folks thats too bad. Anyways i got the kick butt from in laws this week not i have been doing nothing but they were like so are you still doing the triatlon this summer and the asnwer ofcourse well yeah. So getting on the ball today again i went to the pool and swam 800 m and tonight im going for a run since its mosquito season here so i gotta pick the right times. Oh and the pool is closing as of today so now i gotta find a new place to swim as of today. Oops oh crap should have planned that a little better i knew that was coming. Why are they closing now its still freezes some nights now im a chicken the open water is still really cold, help.

Hey there everyone i have paid my entry fee for my race this fee and signed now there is no way i gotta do this. I wanna do this lets go. Gravenhurst here i come

Congrats on signing up for the race! Happy training!

Whooohooo!! That's exciting!! It's always fun to have races to look forward to!

Yup it is exciting. Going for a big trip tomorrow running shoe shopping gotta love it when you live in small town this is defintly exciting going to Barrie running store. Im not a good runner so i think a good pair of running shoes will help and keep me motivated. My shoes keep falling of my feet as im running so recently i have been running in my sandals at least they stay on my feet lol. So were gonna fix that. And another bike ride in the morning. My training has been a bit all over the place but hopefully it willbe good enough when i work night shift it just seems to screw things up. I do much better on the weeks i work days. oh well i will proof it to my self in gravenhurst if i done the training by cvompleting my race. I can do this...Just keep telling myself that.

Hey there everyone this weekend is my big race. I'm so excited i got ants in my pants my first race yahoo. Oh and i did get running shoes that day. Everyone else have a great race this weekend thats racing this weekend and kleep training if your not. Ooh Im so excited.

That's SO exciting!! You're going to have a great time!! I hope you catch up with a couple of the BTers that will be there!!

Hey there everyone. I complete my first give it a try yesterday and had an awesome time. I wanna do anoter one. I'm not fast by any means lol. But put up my race report for anyone who wants to check it out. I came 169/199