2017 Resolutions and Goals

[blindsquirrel]

1. Enter and finish top 3 in 2017's PoTY contest.
2. Help my kids begin their own investments.
3. Beat or repeat 2016's trading success in my accounts.

I am going to have to buy myself a single-dip black walnut ice cream cone over at Braum's. I made my first 2 goals, and crushed the third. I can't brag on myself as good as MM does, but that's ok. We can't all be MM.

[riverbabe]

Finished 300 miles this morning about 7 A.M. Left shoulder and right knee aching. Cutting down next year before I fall apart. Slowed down to 144 days for final 100. Hair is better since using Louetta's suggestiion of soaking before getting into pool. Also conditioner helps.

---------------billy

Congrats! At least your hair didn't turn green from the chlorine. Slow down now. You've proved you can do it. No need to kill yourself.

[Karel]

Finished 300 miles this morning about 7 A.M. Left shoulder and right knee aching. Cutting down next year before I fall apart. Slowed down to 144 days for final 100. Hair is better since using Louetta's suggestiion of soaking before getting into pool. Also conditioner helps.

---------------billy

Congratulations Billy, also and especially on your decision to cut back. If I understand correctly, you have been in pain from your left shoulder for 9 months this year and from your right knee also quite some time. That is just plain bad. Please take some time to recover and to check what kind of pain it is. Perhaps you already did. If it is wear and tear, training won’t help. It might even make things worse. Sorry for the advice, but you give me the shivers.

[Louetta]

Finished 300 miles this morning about 7 A.M. Left shoulder and right knee aching. Cutting down next year before I fall apart. Slowed down to 144 days for final 100. Hair is better since using Louetta's suggestiion of soaking before getting into pool. Also conditioner helps.

---------------billy

Cool. Congrats.

[billyjoe]

Finished 300 miles this morning about 7 A.M. Left shoulder and right knee aching. Cutting down next year before I fall apart. Slowed down to 144 days for final 100. Hair is better since using Louetta's suggestiion of soaking before getting into pool. Also conditioner helps.

---------------billy

[billyjoe]

Hit 200 miles swimming on July 31st. Starting next 100 . Should finish 300 sometime in December. Am conditioning hair and wetting before entering pool. It's helped.

--------------billy

[Louetta]

Only if it has a Kennedy hair wig attached.

-------------billy

Well let me say this-s-s about that-t-t. The Kennedys are so yesterday, Billy. At least in Massachusetts. Except for Jackie. Because of the movie.

[billyjoe]

Outstanding work, Billy. You might try wetting your hair with tap water before you swim, so much that it can't hold another drop, then put on a swim cap. The idea being that no treated water can get in since the hair is already filled to capacity.

Only if it has a Kennedy hair wig attached.

-------------billy

[riverbabe]

Outstanding work, Billy. You might try wetting your hair with tap water before you swim, so much that it can't hold another drop, then put on a swim cap. The idea being that no treated water can get in since the hair is already filled to capacity.

Great idea! Mine used to turn green from the chlorine. So I quit.

[riverbabe]

booyah! Today i completed the 100 mile swim in 76 days. My hair started rapidly turning grey, broke off, and stopped growing. The bottom of my right foot split open like an overcooked hot dog. I glued it back together with super glue, it split again yesterday. My left knee developed nasty stretch marks. There's a constant ache in my left shoulder. Other than that i'm fine. Next year goal is 70 days.

--------------billy

stop already!

[Louetta]

Booyah! Today I completed the 100 mile swim in 76 days. My hair started rapidly turning grey, broke off, and stopped growing. The bottom of my right foot split open like an overcooked hot dog. I glued it back together with super glue, it split again yesterday. My left knee developed nasty stretch marks. There's a constant ache in my left shoulder. Other than that I'm fine. Next year goal is 70 days.

--------------billy

Outstanding work, Billy. You might try wetting your hair with tap water before you swim, so much that it can't hold another drop, then put on a swim cap. The idea being that no treated water can get in since the hair is already filled to capacity.

[Karel]

Errm... congratulations, Billy...

[jiesen]

Nice job billyjoe! yesterday I swam 9 laps in the pool, which for me is a lot of swimming!
I also ran 20 miles this week, which for me is not so much.
Still haven't made a dent in my goal for 2017
So, I'm still gaining weight.

[billyjoe]

Booyah! Today I completed the 100 mile swim in 76 days. My hair started rapidly turning grey, broke off, and stopped growing. The bottom of my right foot split open like an overcooked hot dog. I glued it back together with super glue, it split again yesterday. My left knee developed nasty stretch marks. There's a constant ache in my left shoulder. Other than that I'm fine. Next year goal is 70 days.

--------------billy

[riverbabe]

Louetta, You must weigh about 110 pounds. I weighed that in 1959.

-----------------billy

What is 110 pounds??? I am only a few pounds away from my goal of 180. I weighed a very skinny 138 on the day I was married at 21. I'm quite a bit taller than Louetta I think.