April is here!

It is friday night and I am nervous about my first open water swim tomorrow. I have everything just about ready to go , just have to get coffee ready and set my alarm. I sat down to enter checks and money from my spin-a-thon. I am so impressed with how everyone is so generous that I am upping my goal to $7000.00. Training is getting more and more challenging so why not make the fundraising challenging too! I will let you know how it goes tomorrow! Peace and out .....ME

Where the F is the pool!

Ok, so we get to the "pool"....... and no friggin pool! It was under construction! So the time trial saturday consisted of 1.5 mile run 5 mile bike 1.5 mile run. Guess what... I came in 3rd. Behind 2 boys! If I had swam it would have been a different story all together. I wore my new tri suit and everything...I was a little disappointed. This saturday is going to be a real test. First open water swim. I am scared to death. It has been so windy, big waves in the ocean. Wish me luck.

Week 5

Well this was quite a week. My training has been a bit off. Family obligations and having my car busted into! But today (saturday) turned out to be very nice. Not only is it St. Patty's day, but I had my big fundraising 3 hour spin at Secretcycling Society this am. One of my honored patients..Scott... arrived late! OY VEY Scott! He was a little lost in Hialeah! Imagine a Miami Beach jew driving for the first time in Hialeah! I started off giving a little opener on my mission, about scott and we had a cake for Bob's bday. Then the 4 wonderful people spun us for 3 hours. Many people left about half way through. Scott even got on a bike for about an hour and really enjoyed it at his pace.

By next week I should know what the total is for donations. Again I need to thank all those who participated their endurance and their love for fitness in my quest to help Scott and all those afflicted with blood cancers. I also want to thank Bob, Yami, Luis and James for donating their time and wonderful music and inspiration to carry all of us through 3 hours. I will return with a report of my monitary progress from the ride and triathlon next week. Next week is a time trial and the week after is our first open water swim a mini tri! WOW. Love, LISA

Week 4

Another training saturday has passed, got yelled at for changing my clothes. I guess I am going to have to go buy the triathlon "outfit". There is an " outfit" for everything now adays! Where is the time to do that! And to top it off you have to got to a "triathlon" store to do that too! Unbelievable! Cha ching!

This week we swam 1000, biked 10 and ran 2. I think I drank half the pool too....Hard to breathe working on speed. Especially since I am not a swimmer. The coach said I was doing good, so any positive reinforcement on my athletic ability makes me feel better.

Back to the grind tomorrow am 5. Swimming! My favorite! Yippee! It's all good. I will be missing my saturday training this week because I am doing a fundraising 3 hour spin. Hopefully, I will reach my goal for money and I won't have to stress out about that!

I must say that everyone this year has been so supportive and generous. It touches my heart with each donation that I receive. I thank you all for them.... Peace and out....LISA

I am a TRIATHLETE!

I don't believe what I did today. I swam 1/2 mile, biked 12 miles, and ran 2 miles. This is the first official training day that I have experienced with my team members and coaches.

They started me off in group 1 with swimming then after 2 laps moved me to group 2. Actually made me change lanes. I guess I am doing better at swimming than I thought. It is killing me though. I don't get the lingo. A whole new ball game than cycling or running. 32 laps in total today and I only started swimming in my adult life like a month ago!

My hair hasn't fallen out yet. I came straight home after meeting my teammated and washed immediately with special shampoo and deep conditioned! LOL! It also felt so good to be back on the bike. My poor little bike hasn't been ridden since the accident. She performed beautifully.

All I know is that the swimming is going to be my largest challenge. Next week 1000 swim...OH God!