CactusTri's Group -- RECLOSED (Page 7)

Karen,

Great job on the BF test!! I'm waiting on my second test myself. I just have three more lbs to go.

Love your new avatar! Peep peep!

Good luck on the bike challenge! Keep up the great work!

I'm up for a weekly check in. Glad to hear you are OK, Karen. I was getting a little worried about you.  I'm sorry to hear you are stressing and jammed up with work and life issues. Keep your chin up, its bound to get better soon. I'll be thinking about you.

Steven, I am thinking about you and cheering you on the whole way. Do you have to travel far and when are you leaving for the race? Is your family going along, too? I wish it was televised so we could watch your progress! Is there a website that lets you track racers by bib number? Just remember, your little chicks are rooting for mama hen!!

BTW, did anyone catch the rumor that NBC is televising the Nov Ironman National Championships 70.3 held in Florida on Saturday night? I thought I read 5-6 pm. Take a look at your local listings and see if you can catch this.

Let's see....Scot and I are in the April ABS Challenge group. We both want abs for summer and now is as good a time as any to start working on them. Hey Kim, you should jump in here now that you have a few new exercises to try out!

I just received a few books I ordered. "Triathlon Swimming Made Easy" by Terry Laughlin. (finally, where has this been all my life?), "Complete Triathlon Book" by Matt Fitzgerald, and "Training Plans for Multisport Athletes" by Gale Bernhardt. I'll let you know if they are any good.

My River to River Relay Race is next weekend. What a great way to celebrate my 26th birthday, huh? So far, the race is still a go, although they had to cut out the first leg due to landslide that can't be cleared in time. So guess who runner 2 is? I suppose it's appropriate for the team captain to start off the troops, but I was hoping a better runner would start everyone off on the right foot. (Get it?) So runner 1 only has to run 2 legs. I think there will be some deal making going on before final assignment is made. On Sunday, we are having our team pictures taken. When I get them back from the photographer, I'll post. We are a FINE looking bunch, I assure you. We have a blogspot for the team that I can post to from my mobile phone. We will be taking pictures along the way and posting them up to the minute so friends and relatives can join in on the fun! The address is in my profile, if you care to take a peek.

That's my boring life in a nutshell...

I'm logging in on sunday to watch you if I can! Go STEVEN!!

That was a joke about my age, I'm 40 something, too! I feel better that you actually thought it might be true!  I never get carded anymore at the grocery store, either. BOOOOO!

Well, hello there.  I finally put my nose to the grindstone and Tuesday I finished my taxes and then yesterday was crazy getting caught up at work.  So finally got home last night and started working on the race report and got it finished early this morning.  I like the ease of the BT RR format, but I like to include more details, so my "full" race report is up at http://andertfamily.net/20080413_IMAZ.aspx

I will be checking in on all of you by this weekend, so make sure you are working out and logging your workouts!   

Well, I actually ran tonight (Sunday). 3.1 miles, but that is my first post IM workout. I meant to sooner, but some family "issues" kept me otherwise engaged.  Good side is, we seem to be making progress on the issues.  Hopefully, I'll get a few more workouts in this week and also be able to check your logs, so better get crackin and log some time

Have a great week folks! 

I see they have started an April Mentor program. Do I have to go to the archives to pick up on this thread now? Can we keep going with our group? Anyone have anything new going on this week? I guess I'll chime in with my weekly update:

I have 8 days to learn to swim like a champion for my May 4th Try the Tri. I'm thinking based on my performance this week at the pool, I will fail miserably. I still haven't signed up for it yet. The thing holding me back is I don't know what time to put down for my estimated swim. I've only been timed in a 150 once and I didn't like the result. I was timed on a 100 once and I liked that outcome, so how come I can't swim one more lap in the same time? What happened to the nice numbers? Oh well, 8 more days, 8 more chances.

The April ABS/CORE challenge is going pretty well. My first week I did great. Second week less than great. This week I am at 33%, but I still have 3 more days to get 2 more workouts in.

That's about it for me. Hey, what ever happened to Mapledave? Who's got a race coming up next?

I have another race coming up on Sunday--The Cherry Creek Sneak.  It a 5 mile run and I am running, oh, about 10 minutes before I have to stop right now.  I plan to try to run at least.  Last weekend I ended up volunteering at my 5K race b/c I couldn't run.  It was good, though.  I never volunteered for a running race before (only ski races).  There's alot more involved than I thought.  Just collecting timing chips, taking down tables and tents, and the clean up!!!  I never realized how messy places get.  Anyway, oh yeah....I have a race.

I didn't realize much was going on here still.  Sorry I don't drop by more often.  It's good to get caught up, though

Good luck everyone else who's racing this weekend!

Still trying to get back into things.  I did get a 4 miler in yesterday!!! Woo-hoo! Maybe 3 tomorrow morning if I stop surfing and get to bed,  LOL. 

Take care folks...