Teigyr: I'm hoping to hit the Thursday night's seminar. Working Mon-Wed night so those are out. If not, I may go to the one on the 26th which is at the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle.
Are you going to one? Anyone else?
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Teigyr: I'm hoping to hit the Thursday night's seminar. Working Mon-Wed night so those are out. If not, I may go to the one on the 26th which is at the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle.
Are you going to one? Anyone else?
Thursday is at the Seattle REI, right? I get off work at 5:45pm so the question would be if I can get from SeaTac to there in a timely fashion. I could do either and Seattle would probably be easier.
After the 7th, my new bid starts. Same days off (fri-sun) but my new hours are 3:30pm - 2am so that other thursday is out.
Does this mean that I'll start getting email from you at strange hours again? I kinda missed that about your new schedule. I used to wake up in the morning to an email written at 1:30 AM thinking WTF. Until I remembered that you were maybe working.:DQuote:
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I'm going to the June 5/Thursday one at THE TEMPLE (aka REI).
Wish I could go, but I'm too far to drive in the middle of the week. :( Last year and the year before they had one on a Saturday, which worked a lot better for me... flew (or drove) out on a Friday, hung out with my mother in law at the seminar, then flew home on Sunday. Danskin is the one thing my mother in law and I do "together" (well, we do other things, but this is the one thing that's Just Us - she only had 2 boys, so I'm sort of the daughter, but not really good at the girl stuff).
It's fun to kick off your training or get wrapped up in it a little bit, and if you want something signed or to meet Sally, she'll be there. Also, if you have any friends who didn't sign up and you want to draft in, it's a REALLY good way to get them in (first timers are effectively "guaranteed" a spot by attending a seminar). I've tried every year in vain to get people to join me... ;)
Also, I can always use an excuse to go to REI... especially THE REI.
Yeah. I'll be back to being me :D:D:D I am not a day person no matter how hard I try. Waking up early makes me braindead and out of sorts. I'd much rather go to bed 3-4am and wake up by 10-11am then exercise then go to work. Only 7 more days to wake up early...the clock IS ticking!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wahine
I will RSVP for the Thurs Danskin clinic. I will drive as fast as traffic will let me and if anyone has any parking wisdom, I would gladly accept it!
Colby, too bad you can't come. Would be nice to meet you!
So...now that my consulting report is turned in, I can start paying attention to Danskin stuff. Today I did my swim things:
Tried on a Blue Seventy wetsuit. Worked reasonably well. Glad I don't have to put it ON during a transition. Came home and ordered a different one, though, that I think will fit better. But at least I now know I CAN find a wetsuit that fits! Yay. Big hump to get over.
I went local-pool-touring. The place I used to go some years ago shut down this past winter. Went to three community pools and was bowled over by the lovely setting of the third and farthest away one. Luckily I think I'll be able to get there midday now, because it's on an after-work rush hour route. Wow! It's in a state park, and one wall of the pool house is glass and opens onto the park.
Monday: the running shoe store. It's all starting to move along now...Yahoo! I'm an excited newbie.
Super Jock-n-Jill at Greenlake is the *best* running shoe store I've found.
(much better than Seattle Running Company, but I'll be diplomatic about it;))
<snort> Yup, Knott, Super J & J is where I'm going. Heard universal praise about them.
After you visit Super J+J, you can walk down the block to Title 9.
Oooooh, Title 9.....
I intend to be there tomorrow. I liiiiiiiike Title 9. (so does Trek420) http://www.titlenine.com/
And actually I DO plan to then go to Title 9. The vet tech I met at ACCES last week is in some 6-week class that Title 9 is sponsoring for people who don't like to run--all ages and types, she said. I want to ask if they're going to run it again--sounds like fun.
Boy, were you guys right about Super Jock N Jill. I said, "Here's what you need to know about me: Doing the Danskin tri in August. Have never run. Bike good--have ridden 2000-3000 miles for the last few years. Am 70 pounds overweight now. Used to be a dancer, so please don't think I am coming from eating jumbo bags of chips on the couch all my life. Thought I would walk the run for the Danskin, and maybe I will, but I also might get bored walking, so may pursue a couch-to-5 K kind of training program. Have intermittent plantar fascitis in left foot. Please help me get the right pair of shoes." They were great. We spent an hour and a half being fitted there (two of us). So now I have good shoes.
Then we DID go to Title Nine. And for those who want to know, they have a running group on Tuesday nights that is for people who don't really like to run. They do a six-week cycle, so will be starting a new one in about two weeks. I plan to try it. They said they would send me a little shpiel about it when they were ready and that I could post it on TE. They were delightful--really enthused, really nice.
Mission 3--drawing up a training schedule.
Yeeha! What the heck. Why not?
Can you give me a town that's near Columbia River Gorge, so I can Google how far of a drive it is?
The 26 is the weekend before my HIM. I guess I should be tapering, whatever that means. :p And Bowling for Soup is playing at one of the county fairs. BFS versus TE Tri Chicks weekend. It's a tough call. :D
V.
I used Hood River to get an idea. It's an 11 hour drive. I wonder if there is anyone in the Bay Area who would like to go up for a weekend...
I think Wahine lives in or right near White Salmon.
Salsa, you are pretty much there :D Let me know if 'n when you're ever in the mood to OW swim though my wetsuit is sleeveless and it still feels cold out. Who knows...you might end up liking running. I never thought I would and I really do now. In fact, I prefer running to the other tri disciplines right now.
V, you will be there for the weekend? That is fantastic :D
I LOOOOVE Title 9. If the fates were to tell me I had to spend $1,000 there, I would have no problem. Unfortunately, these fates don't appear to exist.
I have to run it by the man first. :p He's a big Bowling for Soup fan and it's their only concert date in CA this year.Quote:
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V.
Teigyr, I thought we were going to start playing the lottery...if only I could convince myself to do it.
As soon as I get this wetsuit I am ready for an OWS, and I will PM you.
What I really liked most about Title Nine was how INTO it they were--that is, the running group thing. They were just so ENTHUSED and encouraging.
Title 9 is about the only catalog I keep and just keep drooling over. I "hate" their models though. Real people aren't suppose to look that good. I think they must not sleep to have time to do all the things they do.
V.
V - Hood River is very close. It's where I work. White Salmon is where I live and is directly across the river from HR. An 11 hour drive is about right. DH and I have done the drive from here to Stockton (his parents live there), we stay off of I5 as much as possible and it takes us about 12 hours. I'd love to have you here but it is a lot of driving.
Salsa - Whooooooo hooooooo..... It sounds like you're seriously getting the bug.
I'll be on summer vacation so I've got the time. It's an intriguing idea. I wonder how much gas will cost by then...
V.
Sweet!! I didn't realize how close it was... it's June already, so only 11 weeks, good time to get thinking about stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
I haven't wore my wetsuit in the Danskin or really any sprint distance (the local one I have done is too warm anyway), but I suppose if I think I can get out of it fast enough, I might. I'm with you -- good thing they don't time you putting it ON!! Pulling it up over the hips... getting rid of excess stuff behind the knees... pulling it up and over the shoulders... WHEW. Exhausting.
OK then.
Yesterday morning I got up at 5:15 am to do the Uphill Grind before I went to work. I am NOT a morning person. But I never want to do it after work. And I'm always pretty wound up after I do it, so seemed like a good way to start a day. And I never get enough sleep anyway (a fibromyalgia thing), so I figured, why not? This may be second nature to some of you, but I assure you, it is a definite first for me. Worked great, except I need to leave about another 15 minutes of margin/shower time/cat medicating time before I leave for work.
Today Quillfred and I went to the St. Edwards Park pool! BOY, that pool is beautiful. We may have stopped after every lap or two to breathe, but we did do the requisite 12 laps that constitute 1/3 mile. First time I've been lap swimming for probably five years or so, and first time I tried to do only crawl. So now I know what I need to work on, at least in part (pacing, breathing). And I do a very funny little curly/scoopy thing with my left hand; good thing I don't have to watch it on videotape.
I came out of the pool all excited and still can't quite get rid of the adrenalin, and it's been about three hours...whew! Very pumped.
Teigyr---I know you have a pool at LA Fitness. But boy, you should come try this one with us. It is just lovely. Not crowded either.
I'm willing to go to any pool :D
I'm the same way re swimming and I really think it's a breathing thing. I don't tired but I get out of breath, if that makes sense. If I "regroup", I can go a long time but unfortunately, there's no regrouping in OW swimming.
Must work on that. The breathing, not installing handrails in lakes.
Hey everyone! I live (technically) in Hood River and we have a lovely 9.4 acres of pear orchard and horse pasture and lots and lots of nice green grassy yard. IF summer is here by the time this gathering is occurring, then anyone who would like is more than welcome to come stay at our place too. We don't have lots of room in the house but there's tons of room to park cars, pitch tents, etc. We even have a few tents of our own we'd pitch for ya (just ask Wahie, we've got a tent that could hold all of us!!).
I also have a pretty nice little shop/bike work area with lots of tools and such for anyone's use.
Just wanted to throw that out there. I'll probably be participating in some of the "reindeer games". Though for the bike ride I will be doing the local "summit to surf" where we ride from Welches (small town on Hwy 26 in the foothills of Mt Hood) to Hood River (via Timberline=lots of climbing).
Anyway, just wanted to throw the offer out there.
Thank you! That is very generous of you!
Is this now the 26th/27th? Cause if so, I may be able to come! The weekend before is the Seafair Tri.
Yes it has been changed to the 26th and 27th.
And I will vouch for SM. Her tent really could accomodate all of us. It is a tent of luxury. And, if you so chose to camp at her place you would be able to see their new baby.... it's a horse, not a human.
I have a special request.... at one point people had talked about a gift for me for hosting this little weekend. It would mean a lot to me if rather than a gift... you considered donating to Athletes for a Cure. The link is in my sig line. Thanks for considering it.
C.
Wahine, it would be a pleasure.
Although I may still bring you a tiara to wear on your next Ironman, or some other Pansy Palmetto-type thing.
Jeez, you guys, it just took me, like, three years to put on my new wetsuit. Oog. Please tell me that part gets a little easier with practice, or I'll have to sleep in it the night before....whew.
It definitely gets easier with practice. And there are a few tricks, like putting plastic bags on your feet to help them slide in and spraying yourself with Pam. I hear that works, I've never actually done it of course.:rolleyes:
Whoof. Glad to hear it, Wahine---thank you! Sheesh. If only we could suck in our butts the way we can suck in our guts...
I also went back to my new favorite book, Slow Fat Triathlete, and was glad to see she got pretty sweaty (not a good thing) and took about a half hour. Thank you, Jayne.
For those of you who can use some cheap entertainment tonight, I put on my sunglasses and one of Chris' hats, and made him take a picture:
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Cool!! Thanks for the photo Salsa. You look like you're ready to roll. A little word of advice tho, save the sunglasses for T1 and the hat for T2, got that?:rolleyes::p
Just a mild word of caution.....while I know that I've heard of people using Pam to get their wetsuits on, I have also heard that it can potentially break down the material in the neoprene so it's best to use bodyglide or something along those lines.....
Just a thought, maybe I'm way off base....as usual.
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Originally Posted by salsabike
wowie-zowie...SalsaHotMama! :D
It's true about the Pam breaking down neoprene, but it's OK for occasional use. It's a matter of convenience for some... Pam sprays on while body glide takes a lot longer to coat your legs etc. But if you want your wetsuit to last a really long time, I wouldn't use Pam. Hence the reason why I don't.
I just wanted people to be aware of the potential downside before they went to Costco and loaded up on cases of Pam! :D:p
Once ya know the scoop, then you can make informed decisions. Like you Wahine, I want my suit to last a long time. Of course at this rate I'm not the one getting the use out of it....but oh well, at least it's getting some good races in while I cheer from the far far off sidelines! :o
But if you keep telling people this stuff my stock in Pam is going to go down in value!!;);)
Seriously though, it's a really good point that I should have mentioned so thanks for catching it.:D
I meant to post on here Sunday night to say that I'd gone that day to a Mary Meyer pool clinic in Seattle, and it was GREAT. Just what I needed. All the basics of what makes for an efficient freestyle, and drills for an hour. Uh, it really HAS changed since they taught me at good old Camp Yowochas in 1963. So that was an excellent thing to do.
Today I spent starting to create the muscle memories for all that. I didn't worry about fast or even about extending how many laps I can do without stopping. I just practiced everything they'd told me, probably about 18 laps' worth of practice. I plan to do that again Thursday, and then do the pool clinic one more time on Sunday. I don't have anyone to tell me exactly what to do, but I THINK that getting the stroke/form correct and into muscle memory comes before worrying about endurance, and that doing it correctly will help with endurance/pacing/breathing/whatever it is I'm trying to say! Then, I plan to do one of their OWS clinics on July 12.
Then I hiked down to the beach and back up, just a couple of miles. Set to take a four hour chi running workshop this coming Saturday. Still have no idea whether I'll like running or not, but will find out.
I would dearly love to hear from other newbies here on how they are doing with their training and what they're working one.
PS Arggh. Water in my right ear, staying longer every time. Earplug?
Sounds like things are really on track for you, Salsa. Very cool. :D
(WARNING: Lots of whining ahead...)
I'm feeling a little blah about anything related to exercise lately. (Except weightlifting, but that's not going to help me much with the whole getting ready to swim-bike-run thing.)
I can't seem to get interested in the swimming. I think this is partly a logistics thing--it's a hassle to get to a pool--but also partly just a frustration thing. The last few times I went, I just felt uncoordinated and kind of, well, dumb. I'm not sure what happened. I didn't have these problems in the early part of the year (when swimming was all my PT was ok with me doing), they've just cropped up in the last few weeks. Maybe I should try one of those clinics. I mean, it can't hurt. (Except the embarrassment of looking like a way out of shape, uncoordinated dumb thing in front of other people.)
The bike. Eh. I'm riding occasionally, but not as often as I probably should. Definitely not as much as last year, but then again I'm not trying to get ready for the STP like I was last year. I'm not overly concerned about the bike part, I just wish it was more *fun*.
Running. Well, I try not to think too much about running. I walk. I have occasional short bits of jogging mixed into the walking. Realistically, that's probably about as good as it's going to get for me. If I try to walk too much (or mix in just a bit too much of the short jogging bursts), my knee gets cranky and starts to swell. So I just try to avoid that. Right now, three miles is my upper limit for walking without incurring the Wrath of Cranky Knee. My hope is that will improve a bit as summer progresses--the weird spring weather put a bit of a damper (no pun intended) on getting outside and doing these things earlier. But it is discouraging sometimes to think that I may *just* be able to complete this event, and it's probably going to hurt a little.
Ok, I'm done whining. Sorry 'bout that. I now return you to your regularly scheduled TE awesomeness. :o :)