A word to our readers - are you out there?

Here ye, here ye...
So clearly to keep people interested, we need to be posting more often. As a wise media expert once said in a digital 201 meting that in order to have a successful blog, you need to devote enough time and update it frequently so that the information stays fresh and readers always have something new to look at. So, to the few readers we have out there - we are sorry for our lack of attentiveness to this site. But we promise, we will get better! We promised we'd keep you updated, and by golly we will do that. But readers, if you're out there, let us know! Feel free to post comments - whether they're words of encouragement, or making fun of how stupid we look in our goggles - let us know we're talking to someone :)

A TRI-ing experience

This week was rough. Really rough. Wednesday morning, in particular. My alarm went off at 5:55am, so that I could snooze once, get up, put on my bathing suit and head to the pool at the Atlantic Station LA Fitness. Needless to say, one time was not enough for the snooze button - I needed about 2 more hours. But I made it in time to meet Crystal. We were both struggling. The swimming wasn't the hard part though - it was trying not to fall asleep while doing it! Between sets of laps, we'd rest our head on the side of the pool, on the ladder - whaever we could find - in hopes of getting 5 more minutes of sleep. But we made it through our 24 laps - and in record time for a morning session! Moral of the story? If you don't fall asleep in the pool, you'll be just fine. Good news is that today is Friday and we have the day off!

Two down...

Today is the officially the end of week two and we celebrated with a little pool party. You would think we wouldn't want to spend anymore time in the pool but it never gets old. This was the first full week (6 days) of training and it was hard to say the least.

Swimming is getting better everytime and thankfully I have resolved the google issue, the breathing issue is still there. Every time we are swimming the full distance just trying to cut down on the amount of "breaks" we take. In case you didn't know...it is very difficult to be out of breathe while swimming. I'm still not convinced that I won't drown in the pool.

We learned a valuable lesson this week...running outside is more difficult that inside. You may be saying to yourself, "well, duh!" but remember all this is new to us. This week starts our interval training with running so cross your fingers.

Thanks to spin class, biking is going well. We know, we know...we have to get on a real bike soon! Which leads me to my next point...If anyone knows someone with a road bike I can borrow please let me know!!

Here we go with week three...

Goggles are for the cool kids

This is my first blog post ever. So thanks to Crystal for setting this up and getting us started. I think it's a great way to keep our friends and families up to speed on our activities leading up to the big day!

So first of all, I'm sucking it up and posting this STELLAR, yet embarrassing picture of us for the world to see. But we told you we'd keep you posted, so I feel it just wouldn't be the same without it. Day two of swimming shaped up to be much more of a success than day 1. We finally

managed to get the hang of things, with only a few more goggle issues. Despite the foggy goggles, and Crystal's "defective because they are leaking" goggles, we managed to do do the whole length of the swimming portion of the triathlon...all 24 laps (1/3 mile). With a few breaks in between, of course. And by a few, I mean a lot! :) Turns out, that swimming is actually a lot of fun! Even though I was on my neighborhood's swim team for a number of years when I was younger, I had forgotten what a good workout it was. What made me realize it was when I was driving home from the LA Fitness pool yesterday and had to call Crystal because I was swerving all over the highway because my arms felt like Jell-o. Let's just say I will have a greater appreciation for the swimmers in the Olympics this time around. And so the training continues...

What had happened was...

About a week ago, I went to Robyn to talk about how to start training for a triathlon. Within about 10 minutes, we were looking up upcoming races and ready to start training. By the end of the day we had two other victims (Ali and Caryn) and were ready to devise a plan. After talking with everyone I could think of who has done, will do, or knows anything about triathlons it was official...we were doing this.


Robyn and Ali are old pro's at the whole working out, competitive racing thing but Caryn and I are a little more freaked out. Thus, the type-A personalities came out and we decided we needed a training schedule to keep ourselves on, let the games begin!

Thanks to all those who gave us advice and those who will :)

-Crystal



Meet the Tri Babies...



Ali


Caryn


Crystal


Robyn