Hot Pink Swim Suit
When my swim suit dies, it’s a pathetic site. It gets stretched out and see though. Well, it happened, and thus I ordered another one from Junonia, praying the one I had would get me through a few more swims before having a lifeguard at the Y kick me out for inappropriate swim attire, or even have me arrested for some form of unintentional nudity. A week later, my new suit still hadn’t arrived. I bothered to read my confirmation email only to find out that indeed, it’s on back order. I called Junonia, thinking I would just order the next smaller size. I’m getting pretty close to ordering it anyway. Nope, that one was on back order too. And then the friendly representative stated “there’s a hot pink one in both sizes, I can send you one of those.” Well, what’s a serious swimmer going to do? Not swim waiting for the black one, or suck it up and wear hot pink for a few months? Yep, I ordered it. Tuesday was my first swim in it. I had Abby with me that day, by happy happenchance, and I said “I guess it’s not that bad of a hot pink.” Her response? “You just keep telling yourself that.” ….at least I’m swimming.
Frozen Bike Trails
It’s started. I’m done with winter. Every time I pass by a bike trail or a bike/pedestrian bridge I feel this ache to be on my bike. It’s a longing, a craving, a seething desire to be using pedal power on off road tarred surfaces with the wind on my face and the sun beating down on me. It doesn’t help that when I drive on Victory Memorial with Romie, on the way to dance class, she’ll ask me if we can go on a bike ride again. I tell her, calmly, again, that we have to wait for the snow to melt. I have yet to tell her that she may be too big for the bike seat. I think, even if she is too big, I’ll put her in it for at least one last ride together. Then, we can go to the bike store and pick out the next contraption for continued rides together.
Weekly Theme: Companionship
I had the wonderful experience of sharing my training this week.
* It started on Sunday. I met a friend/neighbor at the Y. We didn’t exactly work out together, but we arrived and left together. She’s been waiting to take her child to the drop off childcare service but “he’s not the type of kid to do that well.” Romie has done fine with it in the past, and, the two are good school friends. (I know, how sweet, a strong friendship at the ages of 3 and 4). Thus, we arranged to go together so her son would have a friend there, and hopefully, decide he can do it on his own in the future. The kids had a great time, and we both got a workout it.
* On Tuesday I met Abby early in the morning to swim. She’s been thinking about joining my club, and I offered to have her check it out as a guest. It was very fun to have her with me that day. And, as I had to meet her earlier than I usually arrive, I was able to have enough time to swim a full mile. I haven’t done that in weeks! (I hope she joins.)
* I have been harassing Joanne to come and watch me for a personal training session on a Wednesday night. She always has a good excuse, you know, like Romie can’t be left in the house alone even if she’s sleeping, or that she has school work to for her class. But last night, Chad and family were there and Joanne is on a 2 week school break. So, she had no excuse. It was likely the first and the last time I’ll invite her along. Honestly, if I thought my personal trainer was tough on me before, I was sadly mistaken. I don’t know if he was trying to impress Joanne with his skills at motivating me or impress her with how hard I work and how much I can do, but he was down right MEAN. I mean, come on, I can’t lift that thing once and you expect me to do 3 sets of 12 repetitions?!? And, I hurt today, really hurt. L Joanne did get to see a sample of what my training sessions are like, and she was impressed, but honestly, did I have to be brutally tortured in process?
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Saturday 8:45 PM 1/16/10
Email Update to Tri Training Team:
So, Jennifer is going to start exercising, mostly using the elliptical, every day. I heard that John joined his local Y and is swimming, using the track, and biking daily. Great! Sara is seeing her personal trainer weekly (and suffering for it), buying the "Slow, Fat, Triathlete" book, and heading out to the sporting good store for some swim supplies. As for me, I'm hoping to write you ever week or two to tell you how things are going for me. I'm thinking that will be one more thing to help me keep focused.
But, before I do that...
1) The official YWCA Women's Triathlon opens registration for this year's event on 2/3. That's only a few weeks away.
2) Again, the distances you have to shoot for are
Swim - just under .5 miles
Bike - 15 miles
Walk/jog/run - 3.1 miles.
So, I'm losing weight still, slowly, but I am. Mentally, I'm breaking it into small goals. And, I have less than 5 pounds to go to hit my first goal. Cool! To be really transparent, I'd tell ya all how much I weigh, but hey, I'm posting this on my blog, so I'm not going to feel bad about not going there. The food thing is hard for me. That's the hardest thing. I think I am understanding, really understanding now, what I need to eat for nutrition and health. But, life-long patterns are hard to break. And, it's hard to find the time and energy to make that way extra effort to have the stuff I should be eating prepared and ready to go. However, I am making progress. The understanding is huge, and I continue to make changes here and there. My goal is to more often than not eat Zone meals and snacks, or at least Zone friendly. Toward that end I am thinking about what I want and what's available in the moment, and moving closer to Zone Friendly - which usually means increasing the protein (vegetarian version) and the vegetables, and decreasing the starches. I'm also trying to eat more fruits, drink more water (which I like anyway), and less sugar laden coffee drinks. I bought myself a notebook to keep track of what I eat. Now, just need to use it.
As for the trainings. Well, I could be all negative and tell ya all how I'm not even in sight of my goal. Or, I could be all positive and tell ya all that I am still swimming twice a week, still see my trainer once a week, and added a bike in the basement last week and that and a walk on the track this week. I think I am setting myself up for disappointment to keep telling myself I need two workouts a day. I'm not close to there yet, so let's start with one every day, and then I'll get up to two most days. Realistically, I will NOT have the time for 14 workouts a week. But, if I can get 10 in a week, that would be awesome!
I didn't actually see my trainer this week. I showed up, and he wasn't there. I was told he couldn't make it and he had left me a message. When I got back to my car after a short work out on my own, yeah, he had called my cell phone many hours earlier. I had gotten several missed calls at once and didn't realize it, checking only the most recent. You know, for me not checking all of the voice mails on my cell phone was an easy mistake, not that many people call me.
OK. Later.... I'm going down to my basement to bike.
Email Update to Tri Training Team:
So, Jennifer is going to start exercising, mostly using the elliptical, every day. I heard that John joined his local Y and is swimming, using the track, and biking daily. Great! Sara is seeing her personal trainer weekly (and suffering for it), buying the "Slow, Fat, Triathlete" book, and heading out to the sporting good store for some swim supplies. As for me, I'm hoping to write you ever week or two to tell you how things are going for me. I'm thinking that will be one more thing to help me keep focused.
But, before I do that...
1) The official YWCA Women's Triathlon opens registration for this year's event on 2/3. That's only a few weeks away.
2) Again, the distances you have to shoot for are
Swim - just under .5 miles
Bike - 15 miles
Walk/jog/run - 3.1 miles.
So, I'm losing weight still, slowly, but I am. Mentally, I'm breaking it into small goals. And, I have less than 5 pounds to go to hit my first goal. Cool! To be really transparent, I'd tell ya all how much I weigh, but hey, I'm posting this on my blog, so I'm not going to feel bad about not going there. The food thing is hard for me. That's the hardest thing. I think I am understanding, really understanding now, what I need to eat for nutrition and health. But, life-long patterns are hard to break. And, it's hard to find the time and energy to make that way extra effort to have the stuff I should be eating prepared and ready to go. However, I am making progress. The understanding is huge, and I continue to make changes here and there. My goal is to more often than not eat Zone meals and snacks, or at least Zone friendly. Toward that end I am thinking about what I want and what's available in the moment, and moving closer to Zone Friendly - which usually means increasing the protein (vegetarian version) and the vegetables, and decreasing the starches. I'm also trying to eat more fruits, drink more water (which I like anyway), and less sugar laden coffee drinks. I bought myself a notebook to keep track of what I eat. Now, just need to use it.
As for the trainings. Well, I could be all negative and tell ya all how I'm not even in sight of my goal. Or, I could be all positive and tell ya all that I am still swimming twice a week, still see my trainer once a week, and added a bike in the basement last week and that and a walk on the track this week. I think I am setting myself up for disappointment to keep telling myself I need two workouts a day. I'm not close to there yet, so let's start with one every day, and then I'll get up to two most days. Realistically, I will NOT have the time for 14 workouts a week. But, if I can get 10 in a week, that would be awesome!
I didn't actually see my trainer this week. I showed up, and he wasn't there. I was told he couldn't make it and he had left me a message. When I got back to my car after a short work out on my own, yeah, he had called my cell phone many hours earlier. I had gotten several missed calls at once and didn't realize it, checking only the most recent. You know, for me not checking all of the voice mails on my cell phone was an easy mistake, not that many people call me.
OK. Later.... I'm going down to my basement to bike.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Tri Training Team Intro
Below is an email I sent to several people on 12/30/09. I heard back from a few of them.
I thought it would be fun to set up an email team of all that are planning on either doing the YWCA Women’s Triathlon with me on my 40th birthday and/or joining me for my next informal and unofficial triathlon. We can share our training progress, tips on training/food/clothing/mental preparation, frustrations and setbacks, etc. Not all of you know each other, so you could get to know the others that have been somehow been inspired by this crazy quest of mine. Maybe we can even do some optional group training activities at some point. What do you think? Are you interested in being part of an email list serv for this? If not, that’s OK, it doesn’t mean I won’t continue to communicate with you about my progress and all that. So, as a hint, this email is going out to those that participated in my previous informal and unofficial triathlon’s including A.K., K.F., J.H., and Joanne, the two of you who have told me you want to do the official one this year with me (that be T.R and L.N.) and the two people who have more recently heard about this aspect of my life and have told me they would like to participate with me the next round (S.M. and D.D). And, we can certainly add others, especially if I forgot someone.
In the meantime, here is a link to my blog with my race report from my 8/2009 informal and unofficial triathlon
http://www.dmturrhig.blogspot.com/
And a link to the YWCA Women’s Tri
http://www.ywcawomenstri.org/
If you are looking for something to read to accompany this adventure, I suggest
The Slow, Fat, Triathlete by Jayne Willams.
I thought it would be fun to set up an email team of all that are planning on either doing the YWCA Women’s Triathlon with me on my 40th birthday and/or joining me for my next informal and unofficial triathlon. We can share our training progress, tips on training/food/clothing/mental preparation, frustrations and setbacks, etc. Not all of you know each other, so you could get to know the others that have been somehow been inspired by this crazy quest of mine. Maybe we can even do some optional group training activities at some point. What do you think? Are you interested in being part of an email list serv for this? If not, that’s OK, it doesn’t mean I won’t continue to communicate with you about my progress and all that. So, as a hint, this email is going out to those that participated in my previous informal and unofficial triathlon’s including A.K., K.F., J.H., and Joanne, the two of you who have told me you want to do the official one this year with me (that be T.R and L.N.) and the two people who have more recently heard about this aspect of my life and have told me they would like to participate with me the next round (S.M. and D.D). And, we can certainly add others, especially if I forgot someone.
In the meantime, here is a link to my blog with my race report from my 8/2009 informal and unofficial triathlon
http://www.dmturrhig.blogspot.com/
And a link to the YWCA Women’s Tri
http://www.ywcawomenstri.org/
If you are looking for something to read to accompany this adventure, I suggest
The Slow, Fat, Triathlete by Jayne Willams.
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