What it takes. . . September 2012

penlynwilson

 Hi All!

How is everyone doing?

I've been really busy with travel, work, travel, work, trying to train. We had a good time in LA for the Disneyland half marathon last weekend. I'm in Las Vegas this weekend for the 70.3 Championship. Redman is in a couple of weeks. My training has really dropped of for a number of reasons. Trying not to stress about it but make the next couple of weeks good ones.

I wanted to let you know something new I learned the other day. My prolactin levels had been rising. I'm not pregnant or nursing so this was a problem. Found out from my doc that Unisom (dyphenhydramene - I probably spelled it wrong) raises prolactin levels. So, no more Unisom for me. I'd only been taking 1 - 4 a month, but it was enough to raise my levels.

Check in when you can!

Michele Cellai

Wow Penny- Unisom-Prolactin correlation. Good to know, but scary. I always say, there is no drug without risk/ side effect.

I am training for IMAZ. Hoping I will have a good amount of fitness carry over from failed IMSG and successful Vineman.

Nothing exciting to report.

kimmydct

Not much excitement here either... jsut training for first IM in FL in less than 6 weeks! Looking forward to the taper. I feel OK physically, and don't mind the long weekend training, but I'm having a harder time getting the motivation to do the shorter stuff during the week. Trying to maintain SAUs, but I just feel like I want to go home and chill some nights. I'm surprised my dogs remember who I am. Like I said, it is more mental than physical, but I just want to be done. I'm definitely psyched for the race though! I try to shift my training around as much as I can (and I have to more often than not) and give myself at least one day off per week (2 swims is plenty).