Dear Ladies,

Well, that week FLEW by!!! I heard from a few others who might consider joining - I hope so. Tammy Eng is hoping to join us soon when things quiet down (missions, marriages and Jim's work). We also have a couple of others who are exploring the site thinking about the idea. THERE IS NO AGE LIMIT TO OUR GROUP (but there might be for the races, but I don't think so (Sage Crook might join us!).

Shari is hard at work training for the Huntsman games the first week of October (5,6,7), but still doing everything as well. We met up for a BEAUTIFUL bike ride up to Bridal Veil Falls on Saturday and is was, dare I say it?, actually fun (especially the coming down the hill part!). If you are considering doing this crazy thing, just know that you will never find the time you have to make the time, and its never too late to become what you are meant to be (how is that for tossing out some favorite quotes as a "two-fer-one". Please add comments to this weeks list - thoughts, times you will be working out, if you will be joining us, and follow the links to REGISTER!!!! November 6th and the turkey tri will be here before we know it!!!

The official workout schedule for this week is:

Mon - Run 4.0 miles, swim 30 min.

Tues - Run 2.5 miles, strength training of your choice

Wed - Swim 30 minutes, Bike 30 minutes

Thur - rest and strength training of your choice

Fri - swim 30 minutes

Sat - Bike 30 minutes, Run 3.5. miles

What I am doing this week

Mon - Run 2.5 miles in a.m. (right after this post) (might meet Shari at BYU pool tonight)

Tues - Run 4.0 miles 6:30 a.m. around here, swim at Waterford 1:00)

Wed - rest day, strength

Thur - Bike 30 around here, swim 30 at Waterford (times location TBA but will be early)

Fri - run 3.5 , strength (6:00 a.m. around here)

Sat - Bike 30, Run 3.5 (early 7:00 probably Riverwoods, Bike around 10:30 Bridal Veils again?

Please remember that I do not do any of this continuously (read previous post to see how my swims go:) This is DOABLE and really does not take much time.

HAPPY TRI-ING! I think you all are great! Remember Fall is on September 23rd so the weather should start cooling down. Wish me luck with classes and clerkship, and I speak at BYU on Friday. And anyone who saw me hit my coconuts and pineapples, will know how seriously inept I am at physical things....there was a reason my mother signed me up for dance classes - I kept running into walls:)

Warmest friendship,

Candilyn

Dear Ladies

We are down to the final 8 weeks. Do not worry if you have not been training - I have not been training either!!! I seriously swim a length, rest for about 5 minutes, then swim a length and then rest. Biking is okay, although I have yet to do ANY hills!!! Running is running for about 2 minutes, and then walking for about 2 minutes. This week I am just going to distances - not times (except for the biking and the swimming - when the timer goes off on my little swim timer I am OUT of that water - you think I would have seen a snake in the water I am moving so fast - if only I could move than fast when I am actually swimming!!!) However, this time around, my objective is just to finish, although I think Shari (Rosenberg) might seriously win the whole thing the way she is going:) Go at the Huntsmans Games Shari! I mean seriously ladies, the first time I saw Shari swim, I had done one measly lap (that is going from one end of the pool to the other and back for us newbies), and Shari was worried because she had only swam a MILE, and was tired. A MILE - in my dreams....but she is so fun to visit with and funny to be around, and really dislikes running, so I still love hanging out with her (or rather the idea of hanging out right now because schedules have been so crazy).

In any event, here are a few helpful links to get you started. The first are for pools in the area you might want to consider using for the swim (unless it is a beautiful day and you would want to see something really funny and that is me swimming in circles in the little Waterford Pool - actually it is me swimming one circle resting, and then swimming another circle:)

There is also a link to register!!! I hope by this week we can kind of figure out who is actually going to be doing this. I will post my training times, and then Judi and Shari are going to post their comments as training places and times as well, so you will have a variety of places/times to meet someone to workout with. Don't worry if you are not at the same level. When Judi it running she just laps me, and then takes a slower lap every once in a while so we can visit (by the way won't she be a GREAT Young Women's president:) Shari just swims laps by me as well, so I pretty much just get used to be slow - but hey I CAN ORGANIZE!!!

Future posts will not be so long! Consider this a first, and feel free to post comments as well during the week. I will archive each week on Sunday and post the new week's schedule. This is going to be fun:)

http://www.cartegic.com/poolsense.htm

http://www.provo.org/rec_center.main.html

http://www.oremrecreation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=2&Itemid=3

Registration link:

http://www.active.com/running/orem-ut/telos-turkey-tri-and-5k-turkey-trot-2010

WORKOUT SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK:

Monday: Bike 30 minutes, Run 2.5 miles

Tuesday: Strength (do any type of your choosing for 20-30 minutes), Run 3.0 miles

Wed: Swim 30 Minutes, Run 2.0 miles

Thursday: Strength (see above)

Friday: Swim 30 minutes

Saturday: Bike 30 minutes, Run 4.5 miles - like that is going to happen:)

I will post my times and places in the morning for Tuesday through Friday. Right now I just wanted to get this out....Try to do the days with 2 things as closely together as possible. However, do not worry if you can't. The important days called "bricks" will be coming in week four. This is doable - remember I am not anywhere near to being able to do any of it, but if I don't do something now, when is it ever going to change. Remember

"It's not too late to become what you were meant to be".

Have fun "tri-ing". Feel free to post your successes and your struggles (humor is always appreciated:). That is why I set up a tri. And wait until you hear my great plans - can nayone say Ragnar (and I am serious:)

Warmest friendship,

Candilyn