Butterfly

It was not a pretty sight in the pool today as we attempted to swim butterfly. On a positive note, I can do the dolphin kick like nobody's business. It's the arm action & the timing of it that blows ;) Last night was a evening run on my own - I did the "Two Bridges" run in reverse and it was quite lovely. And slow! I clearly need M. and A. to push me on my runs :) I am out for tonight's bike/run workout (dang!) as it's my pal's 40th bday dinner. Have a great workout and we will see you guys on Saturday!!

md

Brik Workout

Hey Ladies!


Thanks for a fantastic Brik workout on Sunday!! It was a challenging ride, followed by a surging run thanks to Daniels!


Another great ride, another great run.. and most importantly another great brunch afterwards!



Picture is of the Half Iron with team " knocked up and seriously undertrained" from 2007.

overnout.
M

Hey

Yesterday's ride, I would just like to say ladies, was an amazing ass kicker. And thank-you for that. I felt as though I worked my ass off. And I think I did as I can feel my bum muscles today. It was ALOT of hard work trying to keep up with you guys. This is how hard I thought I was working --------->

(ok, really I just like pictures of him..lol).

So thanks again everyone. I feel that everyday I get stronger and stronger and that is thanks in part to you!

Keep up the training, everyone is doing great and I look forward to the next 6 months of great training!

L.

I'm Back!!

Well Ladies, after much soup ass, plenty of aches and pains, some chills and a few hundred hours of sleep.. I am ready to rock! Back 100% today!!! I was happy I reeled myself in yesterday from going for a run. I took the practice what you preach motto, and glad I did! I swam this morning at the Aquatic Center and did my 800 benchmark swim, from a cold start no warm up, and did it in 15:01, not so great seeing as my swim time in 1999 was 13:41.. I must be able to beat that!! Anyhoo, I have a few weeks to reel that in and work on some speed! I am ready to rock for the ride tonight. I am getting a new drive train, and chain on my bike today, so hopefully it will be ready to go for tonights ride. yahooooo!!! It feels great to back in the land of the living again!

The president will not be available for coffee after our brik workout this Saturday as her Tutu Mumu is visiting from Hawaii and stealing her for the day.

Image attached is from IMC a few years back, thought it was funny.

rock out rockers.

M.

Running and swimming

Okay, Lana...I will post something ;) Yesterday was a run day for me & A. We did the "Blenheim run" which goes right up Blenheim from our house and is one of Angela's favs. Me...not so much. I easily fall back on the hills even though I have working on my "weak bum" since August . Hopefully by August 2009 I will have a strong AND nice bum! And to make my run even more difficult, my legs were shagged as I decided to not go to gym in the a.m. like I usually do but wait until 1 pm. Not a good idea as my legs were not recovered for the run. Doh! So I just plodded my way through the run and Angela was kind enough to wait for me at intersections :) Git 'er done was my motto!!! On to swimming...today was recovery day in the pool for Angela & I. Not recovery as in take it easy and float around on your back, but as in the recovery portion of your stroke. Plus we got to use fins! Yee haw! Looking forward to tonight's ride, ladies!

Ola ladies. Why am I the only one posting??? lol

Well lets see...Today was an alright day. I needed to go for a run and by lunch I NEEDED to go for that run. I sometimes get a little stressed and the afternoon run is the perfect solution. So today I ran around the seawall, first starting from athletes village, and following the seawall around and over Burrard bridge. (I don't ever remember that bridge being as easy as it has been feeling) Ran back along Pacific Ave and back to work. I needed a few more minutes so I went past athletes village and turned back. Noramlly I would of just called it a day when I got back to where I started. But not today... I got in my whole hour.

I had planned on going swimming tonight aswell but I got home late.

How is everyone else's training going??

Trails.

Did a great run today with Ang, Michelle and my friend Tracey. All in all it was really good. We went from Miranda's place , through the trails, crossed 16th ave and then 10th ave. Ran for 1:49 today and felt alright. I slowed near the end but kept on going. We all finished strong up the hill to Miranda's place again. I had to leave right after because Pete phoned while we were running and wanted me to take him to the Dr's because of his sore shoulder. Well I got home and he didn't want to go anymore. So, I totally rushed home to clean the house. Yeah!! lol. I can feel my legs a little bit tonight but it is a very subtle fatigue and I love it. I believe I am staying in Vancouver starting next weekend for a couple weeks. That means lots of training with you girls (hopefully).

Have a great night.

Today's ride.

Today's ride was pretty good. Lisa, Catherine and myself met Ang and Michelle at Park Royal. We went down to Deep Cove (although not all the way). Went up Seymour Mountain and boy was that tough. Great job Lisa for pushing hard up Seymour. You did great and everyday it will get easier!

I had a gel before we started which I think was good for me. Except it was strawberry/banana which I now find horrible. I had a few bites of a powerbar about 40 minutes in and then didn't have anything else until the bottom of Seymour. I am slowly learning when to start eating so I don't feel like crap, but then I forget, I get hungry, and that hunger never goes away. Even right now after we have eaten dinner I am still hungry and trying to fill the hunger with water.

Lisa and I went back to just under the bridge but we needed more time. So we turned around and pushed hard the other way. We had to make up time and we needed it not to be an easy time. We (I think) rode hard and strong for the final 20 minutes of our ride. Although the distance wasn't very far it was a great ride, tough enough for the day.

So thanks for the ride today everyone and I can't wait for the run in the morning. Miranda I hope you are feeling better. And we still need a picture of all of us together!

Riding.

So, last night had an amazing ride with M&A. (well, Catherine to start) Worked really hard on the warm up trying to stay close to M. The hill on 4th, lets just say, not my favorite. But was really happy with my ride. I resisted the urge to shift into my grannie gear! Yeah me :) And I had a really hard time shifting up very far. I started to feel as if I was going to fall over if I shifted to a harder gear. But the down hills... SWEET.

Today:

Went from my work down main, up Kingsway, down Fraser and along Marine drive to Peters work. I went down fraser for tow reasons. 1) it is less busy than Main and 2) I thought forsure it wasn't as hilly. I was wrong on only one of those. The incline of the road was just as bad as Main and I felt every little incline differnce of the road. I worked hard to Peters work and the riding to his work on Thursdays is going to be happening all the time now. Pretty stoked!!

Well have a good night ladies. I'm sure I'll think of something clever to say soon. ;)

L.

Benchmark Day

Nice work on yesterday's midday run, L&M! Angela & I put a solid "two bridges" run much later in the day. Today was benchmark day in zee pool for me & A (I have included a pic of me taken pre-swim. HA!). It was timed efforts on 25 m fly (yes, fly); 50 m kickboard; 6 x 100 m free (with rest/recovery in between the 100s) and then 25 m all out "swim like there is a shark following you" effort. I have to learn that a 200 beat kick does not make me go faster, just hypoxic;) Looking forward to tonight's hill workout out in the nice weather!!!! P.S. It was me that changed the blog colour. Got a little carried away :)

Yay! Blog Time!!

Hi TFNB!!

I am stoked we have this site now!! I sadly missed my swim this morning due to the Presidents nap...so I will have to make it up tomorrow I guess! Had a great run with Lana yesterday and am stoked for our hill workout tonight! Can we ride in Langley next weekend (Valentines weekend?) I will have Nooo time restrictions, as the pres will be with her Tutu (gramma) alllllll day!!! And it's a brik workout next weekend too!!! I have attached a pic of the prez with Angela and Michelle and I at the Victoria Half last year!

Good times!!

M.

Run Today

Thanks Miranda for a great run today. You always make me run harder. We met at Science World and ran around the seawall, over Burrard bridge and back along seawall to athletes village where I left to go back to work and Miranda headed back to her car. It was just what I needed in the middle of my work day. :)

Side note: Thanks to whoever changed the colours to match TFNB nice work. See you guys tomorrow for the ride.

Lana

Groundhog Day

Love the blog, ladies! Now what can I add...Miranda & I went for an hour run yesterday after much indecision as to whether were going to ride or not. The run was solid even though I felt like I was breathing through a straw ;)
Today was a masters' swim session at the YW today. Breaststroke day which is a fav of mine as I believe I can breaststroke faster than I can front crawl. Doh! I even got bumped up to the middle lane! Looking forward to lots of workouts with Coach this week now that Dylan's mom is in town to look after the President :) And maybe a Langley ride this weekend???

MD

Snow today

We bailed on the ride this morning after our ladies night. It was snowing this morning and looked horrible out. Miranda, Angela and Michelle were going for a run and I was to ride my bike today. It's 5:55pm and I've yet to get on my bike. But I will.