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I think Sept/Oct.  I would hope early Oct.  Weather is tricky around here.  Can't do summer - brutal temps and Sept. is the end of hurricane season and I swear that is when we tend to get the storms.  I suppose if they push it into 2014 b/c originally the talk was late 2013 then it opens up the spring.  Not sure - there is a FB group and the organizer posts sporadically.  That area does a lot of races so I don't know if that is good or bad.  Word around town is IM really, really wants more East Coast opps and that area has the infrastructure to support a race of that size.  I hope it goes through.  It is the one place I'd feel comfortable pulling the trigger.

all good!

Ha, I think I'm caught up. Podium finishes for Suzy (1st in ag) and Sam (2nd in ag), Aussie David ran his first marathon, Trevor's back held up, Atlanta David ate and drank his way through a 10k, Linda and family, Kyla, and Julia rocked it out in Portland. 

What did I miss?

I'm having trouble getting back to the regularly scheduled program.  I need a good kick in the A$$

I'm not big on posting voting things, but this guy is a local cyclist and triathlete, he's a Hemophiliac racing on the road and in tri's, which is pretty amazing.  My brother is a Hemophiliac also, thankfully it seems to be a pretty small club.  It's kind of a crappy disease where your blood doesn't clot, which plays havoc on your joints among other things, I am amazed this guy can run a marathon and still walk.

It's a contest for Kona Slots, so if you want to vote for him.

 http://apps.facebook.com/konainspired?x=us_facebookapp_354_16

Congratulations to all our fabulous athletes. I am super proud of all of you.  Life has gotten kind of ugly for me right now so I enjoy escaping through your race reports and wonderful stories.   Sorry I missed my Monday inspiration of the week.  Here is one of my favorites.

The  jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be….but for all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!   M.C. Hershey

Wait how can he be a cyclist and a triathlete?

11:29 Kentucky. Good for him.

Silly question - What happens if helays his bike down and starts bleeding?

Depending on how severe his condition is it won't stop bleeding until he gets a shot.  My brother has been giving himself shots for years and years, before that my parents used to do it, when he was a kid they didn't have the medicine that could be given at home so he had to go to the hospital for a transfusion.

SO it would be almost like riding with an epi-pen or something like that?

It's actually a box of medicine with 2 bottles in it that need to be mixed then put into a syringe.  Not something that you could carry.  I would imagine his wife or someone comes to races with the medicine if needed.  It's not where you would bleed out completely at a simple scrape or even hitting the deck, but it either won't completely stop either. 

The biggest worry is the pounding of the joints creates internal bleeding, they bruise very easily and the jarring of the body in running I would think his knees are one big bruise after a race.

that's scary. Either way, I voted for him!

rr to follow soon - I'm off to PT.  Julia podiumed - (2d); Kyla just missed it (4th); I podiumed (2d); My son won his AG. Only teenager out there!

Great job to all the racers!!

Oh how I needed this today.  Thank you.

Another great summation Jayne!  It keeps me in the game.  Congrats to all the MG racers, everyone is SO fast!  

I have been getting caught up on all the projects I put off when the training volume was high.  I only meant to take a week off but it quickly turned into 2 and a few days  Been out and about with the new puppy which has been really great. 

Hope everyone is getting some relief from the heat and having a great week.  Sorry Tracy for the rough patch but thank you for the quotes.  Hope it all turns a corner soon.

sam.   it's official.  i'm gonna kick your a$$ all over williamsburg. 

tony.  no bikes races that day so sign up as well so i'll have more than your wife's a$$ to kick.  (and i'll vote on fb when i get home, it a pain in the a$$ from an iphone)

i hear a spouse may be getting his a$$ kicked by me too... anyone else need a good whippin'

I'll enter Portland again next year if you do. And I'd whip your arse sideways all over the hills. Even at my slow speeds! Ha!

Seriously, though, yay for all of you!!!!!

Edited because I tried to type a "bad" word.

I'll most certainly vote for him.  One of the major rewards of my job is the role I play in making hemophilia drugs to support people like this being able to live their dreams.  

I assume you are talking about my Doug.  He called me this afternoon with, "Have you talked to John yet? Are we racing Rev 3?"  Good golly, what are you boys getting me into?

I have a lacrosse game tonight, does that count?

Calgary Stampede is cutting into my training time. It's knocking me down hard.