It takes a lot of bags to be a triathlete. Yeah, yeah... I know. It takes a lot more than bags to be a triathlete. But it's the BAGS that get you where you need to go. They "carry" you through. HAHAHAHA... I crack me up. ;-p
Tomorrow's training consists of the following...
Before work: Going for a run (includes Lusk), followed by ActiveX
After work: Going for a ride (includes Torrey)
Getting ready for tomorrow's activities requires packing several bags tonight...
There's the gym bag...
This carries all of my "stuff" that I need in order to get ready for the work day ahead. I show up to work in my work out clothes, I work out, I get ready, I go to work.
There's the cycling clothes bag...
Can ya guess what goes in here?
I bring this bag in to the office so I can change in to my bike clothes BEFORE I leave the office. Hmmm.... I think I may actually change in to my bike clothes before my 4:00 meeting so I can just leave right after. (That's the nice thing about working at Active, no one will give a "flying frog's fat ass" that I'm sitting in a meeting in a cycling kit. That's just how we roll.
Then there's the bike bag...
No, my bike doesn't fit in the bag. All my bike gear, that I don't put on until I'm ready to get on the bike, goes in this bag. Helmet, shoes, arm warmers, sunblock, etc, etc.
Can't forget the lunch bag...
My breakfast drink goes in here. Ha! Got ya! OK, OK, my lunch goes in here too.
Of course there's my laptop bag. Cause I bring my laptop home from work so I can, well, work.
That just leaves my purse. It's too cute to be called a bag.
See what I mean?
That's a LOT of bags for just one day and only two out of the three "activities" that I'm training for.
Yeah, I got me some baggage. ;-}
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
IronMom
Next year, IM St. George is on Mother's Day weekend. Saturday is the race, Sunday is Mother's Day. That means next Mother's Day I'm gonna be an "IronMom" :-) I know, corny, but hey.
Now that the shock has worn off, finally. I find that my thoughts are pretty focused on the year ahead and what I'll be doing/need to be doing. I think about my current training efforts in a whole new way.
I think about my energy levels differently. I'm already looking at food differently and of course thinking about all of the equipment I'll need. Oh and finding a coach. What should I be registering for? What century rides are coming up? Hmm, there's a Half Ironman in Oct in AZ that might be a good thing to register/train for. I wonder if it's sold out. If it is sold out, do I know someone that could get me in? Can I outfit my current bike with aero bars? Can I borrow a tri bike instead? Something with a LOT more carbon than what I have now. Oh, my cyclometer needs a new battery, but hell even if I put a new battery in it I still need to figure out how to get it to work right. Crap, what did I do with the manual? I'm gonna need to get more sleep. How the hell do I try and date AND train at the same time? Either no dating or meet a guy that swims, bikes, or runs. If he does all three even better! Yeah, I'll have time to meet him during all this. Oh wait, kinda hard to have a conversation with a guy as he goes flying by you in the water or on the road. I'm gonna need new running shoes soon. Dang, I'm really gonna need to buy more sports bras. This working out every day thing equals a lot of laundry. I really need to start drinking more water. I wonder how fried my hair is going to get with all the salt water, chlorine, sweat and multiple washings. I could go on and on and on....
So, when I say my thoughts are "focused" what I REALLY mean is I'm thinking about ALL kinds of things... sometimes all at once. I figure that my thoughts will start to calm down once I lay out my goals and training plan for the upcoming year.
This weekend's training...
Saturday - ActiveX
4 mile run, followed by an ActiveX workout that Arch himself said, "That was a hard one!" Hey Arch - I forgot to say it at the time.... THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
The run was great! Very scenic and I got to run with my AMAZING daughter. You have no idea how super freakin cool it is that we can actually be out on a run together. She's even thinking ahead about my training. "Hey Mom, when you start doing your long runs, I can ride my bike along side you." Uh yeah, she's that awesome!!!
After the run the lovely workout started with 70 "burpees" Don't know what a burpee is? Check it out here.
My response to Arch when he told me to do 70... are you SERIOUS??? (I honestly thought he was joking.) His response... you're training for an Ironman now. :-| Yep, I shut the hell up.
After that was 60 situps, followed by 50 kettle bell sumo squats thingys, 40 lunge thingys, then 30 turkish getups. I didn't get to the rest of the workout, we ran out of time. Ah well, I did 70 freakin burbees!!!! I call it a WIN!
Sunday - Brick
On the plan: Bike - 1 hour easy followed by 20 min run
Great ride with Jeremy and Kat. Felt like we were flying up the coast! Then we turned around. No more flying for us. Damn head wind. No wonder it felt like we were going so fast.
As I started to curse the "damn head wind" for making the ride so difficult, I quickly reminded myself... "You're now training for an Ironman. The wind is now your friend and will make you stronger." Honestly though, I still cursed at it.
After our ride we put our bikes away and started the run. Ah, the run. As Jeremy put it, the "after thought". Gonna swim a couple miles, then bike over a hundred miles and as an "after thought" I'm gonna run a marathon. Oh wait, I've never actually run a full marathon before. Shit, shit, shit... WTF was I thinking. Stop it Liz! You can do this!!!
There I go again being "focused". ;-p
How cool is this... My mother has pretty much read the entire IM St. George website and has recited to me the list of infractions that can cause me to get penalized or DQ'd. Already the women knows more about the rules of racing in an IM than I do. Now that's great example of a mother's love and devotion.
Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing women in our lives!!!
Now that the shock has worn off, finally. I find that my thoughts are pretty focused on the year ahead and what I'll be doing/need to be doing. I think about my current training efforts in a whole new way.
I think about my energy levels differently. I'm already looking at food differently and of course thinking about all of the equipment I'll need. Oh and finding a coach. What should I be registering for? What century rides are coming up? Hmm, there's a Half Ironman in Oct in AZ that might be a good thing to register/train for. I wonder if it's sold out. If it is sold out, do I know someone that could get me in? Can I outfit my current bike with aero bars? Can I borrow a tri bike instead? Something with a LOT more carbon than what I have now. Oh, my cyclometer needs a new battery, but hell even if I put a new battery in it I still need to figure out how to get it to work right. Crap, what did I do with the manual? I'm gonna need to get more sleep. How the hell do I try and date AND train at the same time? Either no dating or meet a guy that swims, bikes, or runs. If he does all three even better! Yeah, I'll have time to meet him during all this. Oh wait, kinda hard to have a conversation with a guy as he goes flying by you in the water or on the road. I'm gonna need new running shoes soon. Dang, I'm really gonna need to buy more sports bras. This working out every day thing equals a lot of laundry. I really need to start drinking more water. I wonder how fried my hair is going to get with all the salt water, chlorine, sweat and multiple washings. I could go on and on and on....
So, when I say my thoughts are "focused" what I REALLY mean is I'm thinking about ALL kinds of things... sometimes all at once. I figure that my thoughts will start to calm down once I lay out my goals and training plan for the upcoming year.
This weekend's training...
Saturday - ActiveX
4 mile run, followed by an ActiveX workout that Arch himself said, "That was a hard one!" Hey Arch - I forgot to say it at the time.... THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
The run was great! Very scenic and I got to run with my AMAZING daughter. You have no idea how super freakin cool it is that we can actually be out on a run together. She's even thinking ahead about my training. "Hey Mom, when you start doing your long runs, I can ride my bike along side you." Uh yeah, she's that awesome!!!
After the run the lovely workout started with 70 "burpees" Don't know what a burpee is? Check it out here.
My response to Arch when he told me to do 70... are you SERIOUS??? (I honestly thought he was joking.) His response... you're training for an Ironman now. :-| Yep, I shut the hell up.
After that was 60 situps, followed by 50 kettle bell sumo squats thingys, 40 lunge thingys, then 30 turkish getups. I didn't get to the rest of the workout, we ran out of time. Ah well, I did 70 freakin burbees!!!! I call it a WIN!
Sunday - Brick
On the plan: Bike - 1 hour easy followed by 20 min run
Great ride with Jeremy and Kat. Felt like we were flying up the coast! Then we turned around. No more flying for us. Damn head wind. No wonder it felt like we were going so fast.
As I started to curse the "damn head wind" for making the ride so difficult, I quickly reminded myself... "You're now training for an Ironman. The wind is now your friend and will make you stronger." Honestly though, I still cursed at it.
After our ride we put our bikes away and started the run. Ah, the run. As Jeremy put it, the "after thought". Gonna swim a couple miles, then bike over a hundred miles and as an "after thought" I'm gonna run a marathon. Oh wait, I've never actually run a full marathon before. Shit, shit, shit... WTF was I thinking. Stop it Liz! You can do this!!!
There I go again being "focused". ;-p
How cool is this... My mother has pretty much read the entire IM St. George website and has recited to me the list of infractions that can cause me to get penalized or DQ'd. Already the women knows more about the rules of racing in an IM than I do. Now that's great example of a mother's love and devotion.
Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing women in our lives!!!
Saturday, May 8, 2010
WTF was I thinking?!?!?!
I. Registered. For. Ironman. St. George.
No, really, I did.
Most of the shock has worn off. OK, maybe not "most". We'll go with "some"... Some of the shock has worn off. Last Sunday, I registered for Ironman St. George.
Exactly one year from today - May 7, 2011, I'll be in St. George, Utah swimming, biking and running.
Even Natasha is still in shock. "My mom is going to do an Ironman. My mom is going to do an Ironman. My mom is going to do an Ironman." This is her chant as we're driving home from dinner. Where we overheard a woman discussing, of all things, triathlons. Our ears perked up and we couldn't help but listen. She was describing to her dining partner the difference between an "Olympic" distance triathlon and an "Ironman". Besides the distances, she explained that an Olympic is "doable" an Ironman is "insane". "Who would be crazy enough to want to do that?" Natasha and I looked at each other and grinned.
Oh sh*t! I registered for an Ironman.
(The moments of realization like to slip in randomly.)
"There’s consensus that the St. George Ironman
The first time I read this quote, my stomach turned. I read this little gem a couple of days AFTER I had registered. I admit, I was slightly freaked out. Umm, by slightly I mean I was ready to throw up. However, somewhere in my dream state later that night, my brain accepted it and I woke up the next morning thinking, "F**K it! Go BIG, or go home!"
I'm still not sure I can put in to words exactly why I felt the need to register on Sunday. I was compelled to do so. Natasha tried to talk some sense in to me before I did it. "Don't you want to sleep on it first? Before you make such a huge decision?" My response, "No". Then she said, "Maybe you should talk to Arch first." To that I replied, "Why? He'll just say 'Go for it!'." So, I went for it. Can I blame this on Arch?
There's so much going through my head about what I need to do, how to do it, how do I get there, etc, etc. Luckily for me I know a LOT of people that have done all kinds of tris, all distances, all levels. I even know the guy that is known as the "Voice of Ironman". I know I have a great support system available to me and I plan to reach out to each and everyone of them that's willing to help me along my journey.
I've never been big on "journaling". (Never had a diary as a kid.) But this seems like a good journey to chronicle.
Let the training begin!!!
No, really, I did.
Most of the shock has worn off. OK, maybe not "most". We'll go with "some"... Some of the shock has worn off. Last Sunday, I registered for Ironman St. George.
Exactly one year from today - May 7, 2011, I'll be in St. George, Utah swimming, biking and running.
Even Natasha is still in shock. "My mom is going to do an Ironman. My mom is going to do an Ironman. My mom is going to do an Ironman." This is her chant as we're driving home from dinner. Where we overheard a woman discussing, of all things, triathlons. Our ears perked up and we couldn't help but listen. She was describing to her dining partner the difference between an "Olympic" distance triathlon and an "Ironman". Besides the distances, she explained that an Olympic is "doable" an Ironman is "insane". "Who would be crazy enough to want to do that?" Natasha and I looked at each other and grinned.
Oh sh*t! I registered for an Ironman.
(The moments of realization like to slip in randomly.)
"There’s consensus that the St. George Ironman
course is one of the hardest there is."
The first time I read this quote, my stomach turned. I read this little gem a couple of days AFTER I had registered. I admit, I was slightly freaked out. Umm, by slightly I mean I was ready to throw up. However, somewhere in my dream state later that night, my brain accepted it and I woke up the next morning thinking, "F**K it! Go BIG, or go home!"I'm still not sure I can put in to words exactly why I felt the need to register on Sunday. I was compelled to do so. Natasha tried to talk some sense in to me before I did it. "Don't you want to sleep on it first? Before you make such a huge decision?" My response, "No". Then she said, "Maybe you should talk to Arch first." To that I replied, "Why? He'll just say 'Go for it!'." So, I went for it. Can I blame this on Arch?
There's so much going through my head about what I need to do, how to do it, how do I get there, etc, etc. Luckily for me I know a LOT of people that have done all kinds of tris, all distances, all levels. I even know the guy that is known as the "Voice of Ironman". I know I have a great support system available to me and I plan to reach out to each and everyone of them that's willing to help me along my journey.
I've never been big on "journaling". (Never had a diary as a kid.) But this seems like a good journey to chronicle.
Let the training begin!!!
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