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Great job Suzy!!

David's splits every 5K have been creepy-consistent!! Hang on there buddy, you're almost there!!!!!!!!!

3:52:30!!!

WAY TO GO, DAVID!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Very nice David.  Can't wait to hear about it.

Great race, David!!  Congrats!!

Great job, Suzy!!

Fantastic run! I'm so impressed with that pacing! Congratulations, David!

Great job!  Details please!!

Congratulations Suzy and David!

Way to represent the MG today!

Race reports?

Happy July!!!!  Time to post the results of June and give us a synopsis of the month!

The word of the month for me was intensity.  I definitely traded volume for a whole lot of Z4/5 stuff. Way harder than my normal long course training.  YOWZA!

Nice, Suzy and David!!  rr?  Why a du - what'd they cut?

darn dp

plan FSJ is looking good!  Rode the neglected road bike today for 20 - felt pretty good!  Actually, it felt AMAZING to be back on the bike.  Trying very hard to not feel any regrets for loaning my tri bike to Zach - this would be a perfect course for me to be on it, and he might do better with all the climbs on a roadie - but he's hooked.

Beautiful day here.....wishing the rest of you had it, too.

Linda--awesome to see you back at it on the bike and feeling good! Not much can stop your determination.

So what's up with Sam's race?  I saw it was turned into a du?

So what's up with Trevors race?  did he forget how to use  his pc and check in?  or is he still on the course?

Hi, just posting from my wife's iPhone whilst lying in the sun looking out on the ocean!

I ran my marathon yesterday in 3:52:30 which I'm really pleased with. We had fantastic sunny weather and just a light wind.

Everything everyone says about the race starting at 20 miles is true, the whole atmosphere changed at that point with ambulances, people collapsing with cramp etc and my old ITB kicked in almost bringing me to a halt.

AWESOME SAM!!!

Way to podium! You never cease to amaze me!!

Last week I FINALLY did what I've hemmed and hawed about for about 2 years, and that is to put a compact double crankset on my tri bike. I had a double before (I think it was a 53-39) but I always, always die on hills. I rode a lot this spring with roadie friends and just kept choking on hills. They finally talked me into the 50-34. (Other triathletes I had talked to about this [mostly young, strong 20- and 30-somethings] always talked me out of it. No more.) Got it installed on Friday, took it out today...

Wow! What a difference!! I noticed I spent a lot more time in my big ring, which is a different mindset for me. But the coolest part was when I took the bike on a few familiar hills, I was able to stay aero the whole time, and I was also able to MANAGE MY EFFORT! I always would just go to my smallest gear and "manage" my effort by huffing and puffing, going out of aero, standing, and just grinding it out. Today I could, finally, spin up a hill, and then get stronger at the top as the hill tapered off, rather than just be dying and ready for a rest and a coast. Not sure how/if this will affect my bike times, but it certainly won't hurt. And if nothing else, it saves me a little bit of leg juice for running. Super excited!! (And the LBS cleaned my chain too -- woot!!!)

Congrats David!  The marathon is no joke.. sounds like you dug deep!  

Congrats to you too Sam on the hardware!!  

Suzy and Sam: congrats on the podiums!!