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Great race lists. It's worth the time to think your race through and get your stuff in order. I remember walking to the transition area at Lake Placid at 6am and realizing that I left all my Gatorade in the hotel fridge.

And I've learned that tire changing is an art. I could never pop a tire in a race and fix it. That's one of my personal goals for this season -- to learn how to do it quickly. Speaking of which, I need to switch my rear tire out from the old one I use for the trainer to the new one I'll use this summer on the road. Maybe I'll work on that today since it's supposed to be cool and rainy all afternoon. 

My trisuit arrived in the mail yesterday. I've never worn one before, and thankfully I don't look too much like a sausage in it. However, I'm not exactly lean, either. I have an olympic race scheduled for the 30th, so I'll wear it then and see how I like it. If it feels good, I'll wear it at my "A" race in July. I'm actually tempted to just put it on today and wear it around the house.

I have to get my wetsuit out, too. Last time I saw it, I believe it was under the bed in the spare bedroom.

And now, the challenge for this week.

Remember those personal goals we did a month ago? Pull them up, and ask yourself what you've done to achieve them. Have you altered your training in any way? Started a training plan? Worked on your diet? Practiced?

Sit back and truly examine where you are right now. If you're happy with the course you're on, good. But if you're not, think about how you can/might/should alter it.

And if you think you need to refine your goals, now's the time to do it.

You don't have to share yours with the group, but we'll all give you encouragement if you do.

Here are the 3 that I listed on April 14:

(1) finish the Providence 1/2 IM on July 12 in 5 hours;
(2) weigh in at 174, which gave me 14 pounds to lose; and
(3) Complete a long distance swim.

Right now, I'm in trouble. I haven't kept at my running, and while I ran a 1/2 marathon a few weeks ago, it wasn't a great day for me. And I still have not biked more than 15 miles on the road. Which means that I have to seriously step up my training so I can just finish the race happy, let alone in my time goal. Today, I will re-evaluate my training plan and literally pencil in long rides and runs on my calendar for the next 6 weeks.

My weight is the same as it was a month ago. Time to start a food journal and count calories.

The swim is coming along. I'm scheduled to do a mile OWS on June 20, and I swam 2 straight miles in the pool the other day. I also have 3 olympic races with OWS scheduled before July 12.

Obviously, I have some work to do here.

Well, I did the brick last week.  Did a 26 mile bike and a one mile run.  Still easing into the running.  Foot feels good but don't want to push too hard too quick (this is completely contrary to what my brain wants to do).  I'm a bit concerned about my training schedule the next few three weeks.  I have to go out of town the better part of the next three weeks for work and it is going to be very difficult if not impossible to stay on track due to long length of meetings and travel.  I'm going to do what I can and hope I can at least maintain my conditioning.

Great job everyone! I'm so impressed with the results everyone is achieving.

I'm been MIA lately because my back injury has kept me down now for almost 2 weeks.  I'm really frustrated.  The pelvic misalignment has caused my sciatic nerve in my left leg to become inflamed.  For the better part of a week I've been trying to stop the tingling in my lower left leg.  Doc finally got through to me that I can't do ANY exercise (I was still trying to swim and bike) until I get this sciatic nerve calmed down and re-aligned.  I'm extremely frustrated.

Fortunately, I still have 6 weeks til my first ever sprint tri.  I'm hoping that this setback hasn't completely ruined my training so far.  I finally realized that continuing to train like I was only slightly injured would only prolong the complete healing process.  Also trying to remind myself that my primary goal was to just finish and enjoy my first tri experience.  That said, I may not be in full training form to bike as fast as I wanted or run the entire distance as planned.  It's been difficult to keep my spirits up, but reading everyone's achievements has helped. 

Worst part is that I don't even know exactly what I did to cause this to happen.  There wasn't one particular move that said - OUCH.  For me - weight training must become an integral part of my training plans.  I was just a casual weight lifter before.  Can't do that in the future.

Hopefully in another week I can start logging in some training again.  Til then - I'm still out here and rooting for you all!!

Nadine