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Great job with your pacing and fortitude, boo on the miss-marked course.  Give me 25 degrees over 85 degrees any day!

Good stuff!  I was visualizing the scenery as you were describing it , fond memories of when I would visit my snowbird parents in Lakeland and we'd walk around the lakes or go to nature preserves.  You and your bike will have many fun adventures to be sure!

• Weight: 363, on a Monday, with my sneakers on, as compared to last Thursday w/o sneakers.  I'm pretty happy with that considering how little work I actually put in last week.

Nancy, sounds like a great 10k, make that 9.2k.  I'm with Jim on this one, that is just poor race management.  Your train incident made me laugh.  I remember on bicycle race I was motor-refing in the now defunct Tour de 'Toona.  It was a circuit race and my first time officiating something that was national level, if not international.  I had to stop a chase group for a train, which meant they completely lost the leaders.  And the peloton caught them at the crossing.  What a nightmare, trying to keep peloton riders from taking off with the chase group.  I was NOT popular that day.

Ann-Marie, I don't know whether the bike envy or the scenery envy is stronger.

Melanie, I feel ya.  I know that if my parents were still alive I would definitely be looking for a mid-winter event around Tampa, just for the break in the weather.

Originally posted by marysia83  Nice work! I like how detailed you are in your descriptions and notes

Thank you.  Those detailed notes serve three purposes;

1. They let me look back to track progress and provide motivation.
2. I have to report to my DW every morning.  I keep hoping it will motivate her to start some kind of consistent plan of her own, obviously not as intense as tri-training.  But anything is better than nothing, she's desk-bound at work.
3. And, my brother Jack (LeatherneckTN on BT) is also tracking my workouts.  I'm kind of hoping that now that I am starting my modified C25k he will ease up on his "run more" nagging.

LOL, actually, he's just repeating what he's heard me say, that one should spend more time focusing on their weakest discipline and less time on their favorite.  He KNOWS swimming is my fav and running is the one I hate.  So he's been on me to step up my game.  I had a plan in mind, but he kept urging me to step it up.  In the end, he won.  I actually started my C25k plan a week early, but not because of him.  I started it early because I decided to add that 5k on May 9th and would really like to be able to at least attempt to jog the whole thing.

Nice work!  Sorry about the course SNAFU...  and yes, we do seem to be proud of odd things. ("I can pee on the bike!")  

Happy Manatee Monday!

It sounds like everyone had an active weekend! So much goodness!

Let's finish out this JoGo Challenges STRONG!  It's the final week - dooo eeettt!!!

I finally feel some fitness coming back.  I ran Sat morning, didn't feel great, but not terrible either.  HR didn't skyrocket so that was good.  Swam Sat evening and felt good.  Bike run brick yesterday (2:20 and :35).  Bike targets were tough, but do-able, and I kept a 5:35/km or better pace on the run for the first time in months.  Certainly not 'in shape' yet, but felt strong for the first time in awhile .  Yay iron supplements!

I have some friends that recently drove up and did a ride around the lake. I think you did part of it, it is available on Ride w/GPS as "around the lake with clay and gravel". Evidently, we are returning with a larger group, since it was so enjoyable. You have hit the nail on the head with one of the challenges I find with gravel. I find it so enjoyable that I keep slowing down and looking around at everything.

That is some ride! Looks like you start in downtown Winter Garden and ride along the west orange trail (asphalt) then onto the roads for some elevation before getting onto the unpaved miles that run next to the lake then back onto the road and west orange trail. So, you get a little bit of everything. When my mileage is up i may consider this -though those hills on a gravel tired bike will prove rather interesting! Can't wait to hear how you like it.

with everything that went on this month with my elimination diet and trying to get back to some training, I dropped JoGo like a hot potato.

I am currently three pounds behind my goal on the weight loss, BUT there is a really positive note from it as well.  My Nutrition goal was to keep my blood sugar readings within 10% of the recommended ADA guidelines, which I  have managed to do that for all but the first week (before I actually started the JoGo and created that goal).

Even better, For the last 10 days I have actually been below the ADA's recommended fasting score in the mornings!

I think it would be pretty cool to  just INSERT six to eight more weeks at the end of this one and just keep it running wild.

Azalea or White Lake? 

Hey, as long as the training is getting done, right?  Hopefully you are feeling good about that!

I definitely "embrace the suck," but peeing on the bike is one I STILL haven't managed.  Oddly, was thinking about it last night while day-dreaming about actually racing again.  Yep, we're an odd bunch!  Good on ya' both (but I definitely won't be drafting during a group ride with you)