Marina & Bopper's Mah-velous Mentor Group - Closed & Kickin it hard! (Page 13)

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Shortly, I'll be nosing around everyone's blogs to catch up with all y'all!
(teehee, I love them southerners!)

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Triathlon of life

Hi All.

 Yes I am still alive!

It's been a while. Work has been crazy. I have been monitoring a drug study down in kansas and it has taken most of my time, day and night as I have been the on call computer person for this study.

I plan to get back into my training in MAy. I have the study to complete then off to the caribean for a couple of weeks to refresh.

 Hope you all are doing well and your training is good.

Peace Out

Jim

It feels good to be back in a routine. A butt-kickin? Well, remember, you asked for it!! 

Good to hear...hope that you didn't have any run-ins with those tornadoes!

I'm off to check blogs...

TR, you got me curious. I knew about the food co-ops in other places but didn't know if we had a local one here...and we do! They have them all over Canada: Good Food Box.

I'm going to get me signed up. It's pretty basic - veggies and fruits only, and not necessarily organic or locally grown (hey, Saskatchewan doesn't have too many orchards). And, we have to pick up from a local depot which isn't a big deal since there's a participating school a mile from my house. I'm excited! I just hope that I can eat all the food or give it to someone before it goes bad. And, during the summer, my Dad has a huge garden that I can raid at will.

One of my big new year's resolutions was to be way more environmentally conscious so doing the food box thing is an awesome move. The big thing for me recently was getting a blue bin (it's a paid service). I now only use cloth napkins (don't have paper napkins in the house and rarely use paper towels now). Of course, I can start bike commuting any day now...well, not today because it's snowing out. But soon!

I responded in the thread but just repeating it here too...

Have you experimented with different thicknesses of socks? I'd sometimes get numbness on really long runs, but found that a medium thickness sock didn't let my foot slip around that little bit and I didn't have to tie my shoelaces too tight.

Hey gang? How are we doing?

Here are my queries of the week, having to do with planning and looking at our progress...

Looking back at the previous months....
How has your training been going so far? Is it going better or worse than you planned and how do measure that? What challenges have you faced that you may have anticipated or not? Are you confident that your are on your way to meeting your goals? What have you done to modify your plan if needed? Did you learn any good lessons over the past three months? How have you stayed motivated?

Looking ahead at the coming months...
What are your goals for the next month? Next three months? What will you do differently from the past three months? What will you do the more of?

Looking back at the previous months....

Well, my strength training is going awesome! It's been the shining star of my training. I've slacked off on the swiming lately and I haven't gotten the bike out yet with all the rain. This whole foot thing has been demoralizing. Whenever I have a day where it feels better the next seems like its 10 times worse. My nutrition has suffered as well. Its been a battle, but I'm still going. I've had to change which triathlon I was planning on doing, but I think it will work out for the best.

Looking ahead at the coming months...

Tomorrow I have an appt with a podiatrist so I'll let you know about the upcoming months after the appt.

Hey, if that keeps working for you look into those curlyque shoe strings for your shoes. They don't tie but they keep your shoe on.

Looking ahead at the coming months...

Well, on April 19 I am going to begin training for a September triathlon. I'm going to ease back into the running and run outside and if its raining there no more treadmill for me so I'll have to hope on the elliptical. I've chosen a balanced training plan this time instead of a run focused one now. I'd like to do a 5K in late June/early July, but we'll see how the running goes. Training and Lifting will be it for me for the rest of the spring and summer. In the mean time I'll be taking it easy until April 19 to ensure proper healing of my foot. I wrote a bit about it in my log today after my doctor visit.