....besides How is Training Going? is Have you lost any weight? NOPE, in 9 weeks I've only lost 2 lbs putting me at a total weight loss of 14lbs since I started weight watchers. As I learned with doing marathons, these sports aren't ones you diet on and lose weight on. You have to keep fueling your body because if you don't you will BONK and that's not something you want especially when you are on the bike or run.
However, my body is changing and I have lost some inches. I'm sure the fat is melting and I"m gaining muscle. I wish I had measured myself when I started. I am wearing jeans today that I have not worn in over a year :o) YAY! So although the scale is still the same I have lost enough inches that I fit into some of my smaller clothes :o) YAY!
I was feeling under the weather last night so I went home and crawled into bed at 7pm :o( I feeling better today so hopefully it was just that I needed rest and not that I'm getting sick. I have no time for icky an cold or flu.
Tonight we also have the night off since we have Cause for Celebration. I believe I earned another TNT sweatshirt :o) for getting half my minimum in by a certain time. THANK YOU to everyone who has donated. I am still $848 from my goal :o(. It's not too late and if you are still interested in donating please do :o) It would be much appreciated. Remember that even a little bit helps. Click here to get to my fundraising website or on the link on the left hand side.
$1000: Supports one week's salary for a university medical researcher who may discover key information to developing a cure for cancers
$500: Allows 10 patients to log on to a webcast and hear the latest information in treatment for their disease
$250: Provides a Family Support Group Program for one year for a patient and family
$100: Provides 3 patients access to an information teleconference
$50: Covers the cost of sending a comprehensive packet of information for children with cancer
$25: Covers a single prescription co-payment.
$5: Is the cost of sending a newly diagnosed patient information about support and their disease
I think I'm finally recovered from the Saturday craziness. I still feel a little sore in the ribs when laughing and it'll be a while til the bruising is gone but for the most part I'm better.
Sunday was a mellow day, it had to be :o) I had a nice pedicure while my hubby taught Kali and then we met for brunch at Chow's in Lafayette. After brunch Rocky headed home and got a head start on cleaning the house while I went grocery shopping. We were able to get most of the chores done with enough time to be able to relax before dinner with our friends Chris & Meenu. We met them in Piedmont at Cesar's, it was a tapas style restaurant so we tried a few plates and shared, it was all very yummy. Meenu has been telling me about yummy yogurt place in Berkeely that we should try so we headed there after but it was closed :o( we ended up going the crepe place instead and had dessert crepes. We had a fun time and afterwards we headed home to bed.
Last night I swam with Amy & Phil, AGAIN. I think we are all over dosing on this swimming thing but we must push on. Schedule had us doing 2900 yards, yikes. We got it done in 1 hour and 16 minutes. Not bad at and and yep, we were all pooped at the end.
Warm Up: 300 LVL28 x 50 (25 LVL2, 25 choice drill) 12 x 25 LVL6 (10" RI)
Main Set: 200 LVL6 (20" RI) 2 x 75 LVL 8 (15" RI) 30" RI repeat above 4 x
400 (200 kick, 200 LVL3-5)
Cool Down: 100 non-freestyle
2900 yards = 1.65 miles (1:16)
Oh yeah, I had also run before the swim :o) Olivia came out and meet me and we did a short 2.75 mile run which took us about 35 minutes. It was a bit hot and I think we were both a little tired. It felt good to run though...thanks Olivia!
So for his 32nd birthday our friend Lael decided he wanted to do a trapeze class, he'd done it a few weeks ago and really liked it so he thought it'd be fun to do it with a group of friends for his birthday. Rocky had to help a friend so he couldn't make it but I went along and so did Olivia. I was scared the few days leading up to it I was scared on our way there and I was scared when I was on top of the platform and it was my turn I was scared. YIKES, what did I get myself into.
Remember too that I had a rough morning so I was beat but luckily I had food in my belly thanks to Ms.Olivia who'd picked up a sandwich for me...THANK YOU!
Anyway, there were 4 of us who'd never done this before and 3 that had. The trainers there taught the 4 of us newbies on a bar closer to the ground :o) how to do a knee hang and the rest of the group learned a new position since they had already mastered the knee hang. After we all figured out how to do what we needed to do and the trainer went over the the rules of the property we figured out our order of going up to the platform and then it was time. It was time to climb the tall tall ladder and do our knee hangs.
We were harnessed in so that made me feel a little better but I was still quite nervous when it was my turn. When they say "ready" you bend your needs and when they say "hemp" you jump. They guy said HEP! I did nothing. He said it again and I did nothing. I was too scared to jump but I think after the 3rd time I finally did it. It was a bit scary but it was fun :o) We pretty much did this for almost 2 hours and OMG, I have the bruises on my legs to prove it. Towards the end of our class they taught us how to let go of the bar and try to grab on to the "catcher" and on my second attempt I almost did it but I did fall to the net before he grabbed me. That is what you see in the video I posted yesterday.
I'm sure I'm leaving out a bit but the day is a little of a blurr to me. I had a GREAT time and would love to go back with Rocky. I think he'd be great at it. I have to say though that on Sunday I HURT everywhere and today I have some nasty bruises in every color of the rainbow on the back of my knees and legs. Pretty darn funny.
This Saturday was an insane day for me and I can't believe I survived it (umm, barely).
Saturday our coached workout was to do the Aqua Challenge and then go on a 50 minute run with our team. Amy and I had agreed to carpool because it was about an hour drive and since we didn't need to bring our bikes it'd work out great. I was to pick her up at 6:15.
Del Valle Aqua Challenge - Saturday Morning
5:53am I turn to look at my alarm clock
Me: OH SHOOT OH SHOOT (or something like that, haa, haa) hubby: WHAT? WHAT? What's going on? (he was in a deep sleep) Me: MY ALARM DIDN'T GO OFF!!!
I was suppose to be up at 5:00 and out the door by 5:45 :o( Um, reason my alarm didn't go off was operator error. I set my alarm for 5:00 PM....oopsy.
I called Amy to tell her I was WAY running late and she said she'd wait for me. My hubby made my breakfast and loaded up my car....THANK YOU HUBBY...while I got dressed and then scared the oatmeal down. I was out the door in 7 minutes. By the time I got to Amy's house we were 25 minutes behind schedule (Coach Paul had asked us to be there at 7:15) and we thought we'd be late but weren't to worried about it since the race didn't start til 8:30. We drove at the speed limit and figured we'll get there when we get there. We arrived at 7:10. HUH??? How'd that happen. I guess google maps was wrong and it didn't take all that long to get there. So we started out 25 minutes late and arrived 5 minutes early, pretty funny.
I realized half way there that I had left my water bottle in the fridge :o( this was HUGE later on in the day.
Parking was not big deal, we found the rest of our group, got our race number and just hung out. We later found out that our group, the 1 mile group, wasn't even going to jump in the water til 9:10, sigh!!!
Coach Paul gave his morning speech and then we watched and cheered our Sprint Distance Triathlon people as they did their 1/2 mile swim race. They all did great and once everyone doing that swim was out of the water it was our turn. At this point it was already getting pretty darn warm. Not good.
I have to say that I am very very happy with my swim. By my watch I finished 1 mile in 41:35 :o) yay! I felt great the entire time and because I had waited at the back of the pack to jump in the water I was able to find a nice wide open spot and I just swam swam swam with no issues. I was a bit zig zaggy and one lady did smack me but other than that it went very well. I'm hoping that Pacific Grove goes this smoothly.
By the time we got out of the water, changed and were ready to go on our run it was well over 95 degrees, it may have even been 100. We were suppose to do 50 minutes total on a super hilly dirt fire trail. It was awful and I was a bit worried before, during and after the run.
I had asked Coach Paul when I first got to Del Valle how far we were running and at that point he wasn't sure he said it'd depend on how hot it was after the swim. I told him I had forgotten my water bottle but he said not to worry we'd have water stops.....HAAA!!!!! That was not the case.
I had brought an extra water bottle with tap water in it to rinse my feet off after the swim so I emptied that out and put nice fresh water in it and mixed in some of the Powerade powder the team had brought. I figured that it was better than nothing. I took off on the run and was feeling okay but about 4 drinks of Powerade later I was feeling icky and my stomach really started to hurt :o( so I had to stop taking it. I now had nothing but wasn't worried since we were suppose to have water stops :o( The Olympic team was suppose to run 25 minutes out and 25 minutes back and I think the water stop was about 20 minutes out, I stopped and asked for water and to my surprise there really wasn't any. Two of the coaches had ridden their bikes out on the trail and in their backpacks they had thrown in some of the NASTY Joint Juice the swim race had provided and 1 water bottle. 1 water bottle for the entire team!! are you kidding me??? I had what was left of it which was about a 3 oz cup of water and then on my way I went. I walked the last 5 minutes before I had to turn around and then I walked the other 25 minutes back.
I have been trained by some awesome marathon coaches (THANK YOU COACH AL & MAMA LISA) and I know when to quit and how to train smart. Smart was to walk the last 25 minutes because I was dehydrated and I started feeling the signs very very quickly. If I would have run I think the outcome would have been much much worse because of the intense heat and my intense sweating. I have to tell you that I am really surprised I did not pass out on that stupid trail. I again tried to get water from one of the other coach's that had ridden his bike and NOTHING no water just that nasty Joint Juice which about made me barf :o( I continued walking and finished 3.67 miles about 50 something minutes later. I looked like hell and so did most of my teammates. I have to say I was pretty disappointed with the support we got. I know we are suppose to be prepared for anything but that was crappy.
It took me til sometime Saturday evening to finally get rehydrated and not feel sick. I know that affected me all day and into my afternoon activity :o(
Anyway, I had plans in the afternoon so I had to get out of there. I took Amy home and then headed to Olivia's house to shower and change to head to Sonoma.
Sonoma Trapeze for Lael's Birthday - Saturday Afternoon
TO BE CONTINUED (I have to go now but I'll write about this later, here is a little glimpse though of what we did), hee, hee. Yes that is me :o)
Last night's swim was 2600 yards and lately it's been taking us about an hour, last night it took us an hour and fifteen minutes :o( waahh happen? Well although the amount we had to swim was the same the levels were very low so it took us forever. It was the swim that never ended but hey at least we weren't dying when we were done.
2600 yards - 1 hour 15 min - 1.48 miles
Warm Up 300 LVL2, 10x50(25 LVL2, 25 choice drill) 20"RI 200 Kick, 300 LVL2 (NO RI)
Main Set 4 x (25 LVL4, 25 Balanced Body Position) 20"RI 200 LVL4 (Negative Splits) 30"RI 4 x (25 LVL4, 25 Finger Tip Drag) 20"RI 200 LVL4 ((Negative Splits) 30"RI 4 x (25 LVL4, 25 Distance Per Stroke) 20"RI 100 LVL4 (N/S) 30"RI 300 LVL3 (FORM)
Cool Down 100 LVL2
Tomorrow I'll be up super duper early to head out to Del Valle for the 1 mile Aqua Challenge (with wetsuit). This is an offical event and then afterwards we are running with the team. I'm super duper nervous but it'll be a great way to gauge where I am with my swimming in the open water with my wetsuit on and with a bunch of people swimming around me. Wish me luck :o(
The Mean Mean Man, Coach Paul, scheduled our workout at the Alameda Ferry Terminal last night. He kept warning us about the wind there but I've run there before and it's never been horribly bad, umm boy was I wrong. What a difference between the morning weather and the evening weather :O( It was CRAZY windy which explained why we were doing our brick there. The crazy 20 mph wind while riding our bike was like going up a never ending hill and we were suppose to ride into the wind at Level 7 or 8.....YIKES!! Everything about the workout was a bit tough but I felt good and it was, I must admit, a great workout. It made up for us skipping swimming on Tuesday.
Run 4 minutes out and 4 minutes back (0.83 miles - 8.58 minutes)
Bike down Harbor Bay Parkway from Ferry Terminal and ride into South Loop Road at Level 3-4. Turn back to Harbor Bay Parkway with headwind and ride at Level 7-8. (3.48 miles - 15:48 minutes)
Run 5 minutes out and 5 minutes back (0.97 miles - 10:51 minutes)
Bike down Harbor Bay Parkway from Ferry Terminal and ride into South Loop Road at Level 3-4. Turn back to Harbor Bay Parkway with headwind and ride at Level 7-8. (3.52 miles - 17:28 minutes)
Run 5 minutes out and 5 minutes back (0.84 miles - 9:29 minutes)
Workout Totals - 9.45 miles combined bike/run took me 1 hour and 2 minutes.
Tonight we go back to the pool.
and he's not really a mean mean man :o) he's a nice man who pushed us like crazy last night. THANK YOU Coach Paul.
