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julia?  yeah, i'd hit it.   but what does she have to do with this? 

I am doing the Virginia Beach 1/2 and am pretty excited!!  I would really love a sub 1:55 but will take a sub 2 hour.

It should be pretty easy to see whether the above is factual.  If you roll to the outside the wear pattern on your shoe should be evident. 

Was it an x-ray you got? MRI? Bone Scan?  Typically you would not see a white line unless some healing is taking place.

Is there follow up with a PT?  I don't know squat about your coach, but I would always rely on the advice/exercises/plan of attack from a solid PT with a running background.  Like I said before anything with feet freaks me out, especially if it is a fracture.  I know the foot anatomy well and I know it took me 6 frickin' months to be solid after I had the 4th met stress fracture. 

Keep us posted.

Very well written, clear and concise.  Maybe you should have invested in proven technology and purchased a Powertap instead!   

Good luck to all of our racers!!!!  Go out and get some.  green. 

Deb, we ladies are counting on you to CRUSH the competition.  Oh, and Trevor, of course. 

John, I thought Suzy said the 910 was the bees knees.  and why do you hear me when you run? 

Garmin FR210 review:

AWESOME!

I love my new FR210.  Anyone looking for a comfy running watch with excellent satellite pick up, very steady HR readings and all around great buy (I got mine for $110 after rebate, without heart rate strap--using my Garmin 305 strap but I've heard it picks up polar, too).  It was really easy to use this past weekend on my race. 

oh.  i thought she said she wanted to get on her knees.  i always here you yapping at me about this or that, kim!

dino, powertap is so 2011

I'm doing the Mount Cootha Ride in Brisbane on Sunday, its an 85km ride around the city with a notoriously hard hill climb up Mount Cootha half way. It's 2.5km with an average gradient of 10%!

I'm debating whether to use my old bike with its 12-28 cassette or the new one with the 11-25???

As far as stretching goes, I've changed over the years, I tend to do a few dynamic stretches before a run and then do hamstring/calf stretches followed by quad stretches and finally stretch backwards with hands clasped at the end of a run/ride.

I'm very cautious of over-stretching, I've been injured by stretching before, sometimes I just know that stretching's a bad idea and give my legs a gentle self massage instead.

That is a great price Kim.  Where did you get that deal?

This is the signature line from one of the guys in the Tritalk forum.   I have never tried the 910, but I thought this was pretty funny:

Analog Wall Pace Clock: Free. Waterproof Wristwatch: $10. Watching Triathletes get hustled out of $500 for a Garmin that counts laps: Priceless. 

I bought mine from Sports Basement for 200.00, but we had a 20% discount coupon from Kathy's Dragonboat team, that brought the price to 160.00, then I used this rebate, since I swim at the pool at my local college, my ID pass has the college name on it...so it worked for me!  I wasn't sure it would, but we do have to pay for and register for the swim conditioning class to use the lap pool, so i guess that makes me a student athlete. 

$110 is a steal for this watch, it works really well.  I think my frugal waiting game paid off.  Are you a member of REI?  They have occasional 20% promotions and then you would get the 10% end of year cash back.  I couldn't pass it up.  The only thing it doesn't have is auto pause, and no time alerts for my nutrition...but gosh, I really love the way it feels on my little itty bitty wrist, TREV.   

Sounds like a great race David.  But honestly, the only thing I understand is the 10% grade.  Everything else is in some foreign language.  What are those "km" things you mention? 

P.S. Watch out for rogue kangaroos

If you don't want it I'll have it!

No racing. 

I used to stretch quite a bit, and do quite a bit of Yoga. Especially after hamstring injury, I was really committed to Yoga and deep stretching... and I kept having insertion pain. It was getting worse. I jumped online just out of curiosity, and came across an overwhelming number of articles that linked yoga to hamstring insertion pain. Hmmmmm. So I stopped yoga. And I stopped stretching. And this pain that had been plaguing me for MONTHS went away. Go figure.

I'm not anti-stretching -- I think it feels soooooo good. But I do see where one can over-do it and create potential problems. For now, not stretching is working. If I'm really sore I may do a bit, or do some rolling, but I'm not doing anything regular. 

That's all I got.

Good luck racers. Crush your half MARY, Fatty!

km's are a Canadian invention that makes training distances sound more impressive!

I would love to live in Munich!!  Such a great city.  How cool!!

Wow.... That's not right around the corner!  Good luck with this.  Is it a situation where you either take a move or take a hike?

Good luck!

km's are a Canadian invention that makes training distances sound more impressive!

Makes us sound like we train 1.6 times more!!!

I'd 12-28 for the race.

John $50 for the watch.

Kim - Pics of that new watch on your wrist would be appreciated.

Have you decided yet?  What's taking you so long?

I do not know all the repercussions of saying "no." I do not know what my family wants/needs. There are a heck of a lot of issues involved. Cultural, my children's world, career future, extended family, costs, salary, responsibilities, etc.

I am still in Germany and I will be discussing this at length with my wife when I return. I made her aware of the situation as best as I know it right now. I am trying to talk to my other boss in the US, the General Counsel.

This is complicated.

Good luck, Doug. That is definitely not a small or quick decision. I'm sure once you have all the information and input from your family you will make the decision that's right for you all. What a great adventure it would be!

That is a life changing decision for sure. Some excitement, but a lot of stress when you have kids to think about.  Good luck making the decision.

PK (Pre-kids) I would have jumped all over it.  Years ago I was looking for an overseas job but nothing panned out.

Now with kids I think it would be a much tougher decision.

Why do some people feel the need to lie when they're not even being questioned?  Yesterday, as I was putting my bike back on the rack, some random guy rides up on an urban bike and strikes up a conversation.  We talked for a couple of minutes, then he volunteers that after riding his urban bike for a couple of months it has improved his average speed on his road bike from 26-28mph to over 30.  I asked if he meant km's (giving him the benefit of the doubt that he might be Canadian).  He said no, mph.  I told him that was really fast, to which he responds that he used to be a lot faster.  I'm not sure when that would've been since he couldn't have been 30.  And not to judge, but he was dressed like a typical high school skateboarder.  Why does someone feel the need to just flat out lie to someone?!?  I expect it from defendants, but why some random guy in the parking lot on a random Wednesday evening???