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5k tomorrow, I plan to ride to the start (20 miles) then stretch out a long ride home afterwards....I have pretty much decided to try to win my age group -feeling cocky so I'll probably get knocked down a couple of notches.

Long lake swim Sunday followed by a short ride, long run later

Yes! 2nd place men 40-49- 24:34

A cold front blew in cooled us off, there is a cold North wind blowing and my wife wanted to come so we drove down. I never got warmed up the way I like but did run a bit. Went out fast and settled into a pace I could hold. I never felt real good but that was because I was running much faster than I normally do. I thought I was 3rd or 4th judging by the bald heads ahead of me but at least one turned out to be in the next age group up and the other got the overall at 18.xx. I am satisfied with the result and happy to get the "hardware" my first in a very long time, I have a small collection from my cycling days.

Well this is why I do not feel safe cycling in Mobile.  http://mobile.al.com/advmobile/pm_29193/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=vCT6cwwj

Mobile held a Duathlon on this past Sat afternoon and a friend that I met with the triathlon club here is Mobile was hit by a car. This was in a controlled area.  There were 50 police and over 100 volunteers helping with the race and it still happened. The folks down here that drive have no clue what they are doing behind the wheel.

Last night was not a good night for sleep.  Me and the family were heading home from my inlaws when in the opposite lane heading our way was a car and it lost control.  Im thankful that it went right and not left because we would have been hit.  They were going really fast and we were heading about 45mph.  The turnout was not good. They lost control of their car and went into the woods where the car snapped a pine tree and still manage to roll about 40 yards past the pine tree. The woods were pretty thick but they were going so fast that no tree was stopping it.  I jumped out of my truck and so did several other drivers around.  The sad part was the driver was 16 and the passenger about the same age.  We thought both had passed away at first, but the driver came through, her friend was not that lucky.  They think their might have been a third passenger that got thrown from the car, but no one could find another body.  Man I'm still shaken from this, I could have possibly lost my life or my families life.  Its sad knowing a young girl was killed and also knowing that the driver will always live with that.  I have seen accidents before but nothing like this, that car was so crushed that you could not tell what kind it was. The driver was pinned down on the floor and they had to cut her out. Please Please pray for the families of those kids and also for the driver.  I tried to find some news on it this morning and nothing has been posted at this time, I just hope the driver makes it.  Yall have a great day and please be safe out there.

Hi everyone!

I'm back from a long but really fun, busy 10 days in Arizona. Started with my first Oly of the season and ended with my daughters graduation from ASU! We had a great time and I'm so proud of her

I managed to get most of my workouts in. Since my plan doesn't account for the Oly I did last weekend, I just did everything a little shorter to give myself a little rest. I got some good running in the heat practice too. I'm glad to be home though!

It looks like everyone is doing well and working hard here. 

After maintaining my weight for several months, I decided to buckle down and work on losing a few pounds again. My youngest daughter is going to join me so we can encourage each other. She's down in L.A. and we're going to track our calories so we're more aware of how much we're putting into our mouths! We both weighed in this morning and gave each other our passwords to the website we're going to use to track our food and weight. Your job, Mojistos, is to ask me now and then how it's going and force me to report

On another note, we are down to one old dog. He has a tumor growing alongside his back, kind of near his kidneys. We've chosen not to treat it. He's a big dog and he's 11 1/2 and we feel he's not a surgical candidate. Our last dog strangely got one in the same spot which led him to doggie heaven. He was an older guy too. So after not seeing Buddy for 10 days, I'm noticing some changes. He's happy but I'm seeing some weakness in his back end. He has a great life and gets to go with me to the barn and to run errands. He's my ego boost because he just stares at me with hearts in his eyes  

I'll try to post a picture of the Buddy dog

Happy Monday to all!

Johanne

Here is a link to a write up about our Ride of Silence this Wed. http://blog.al.com/jdcrowe/2011/05/ride_of_silence.html

Alabama ranks 50 out of 50 states in Cycling Safety and there was another article I cant find that showed Mobile ranks last in all the cities in Alabama. So I guess I live in and bike in the worest place in the US for cyclist.  Yikes...

Ok, Im back with some more calorie questions. (Sorry, this stuff is just over my head and I want to make sure I understand and do it correctly)

According to Caloriesperhour.com - My BMR is 2383 and RMR is 2212 (Little or no exercise & Desk Job)  My BMR is 3426 and RMR is 3179 (Very Active, Hard exercise 6-7 days week). This is based on age 42, Height 5'7" weight 217. 

My questions are:

1) Should I use the BMR or RMR?

2) Should I use the one for Little or no exercise since the system does not no what I actually burn on training and then log in my training to see what calories I burned off training, or should I use the very active? 

3)My understanding on losing weight off the website is a deficit of 500 calories per day equals 1 pound a week lost and 1000 is 2 pounds per week. (I like the 2 pounds because according to fitday I need to have a calorie per day restriction of 952 to hit my weight goal on 12/31/11.

4) So if I use the RMR no activity log which tells me I burn 2212 calories a day without training, then I add a 1 hour bike ride and according to my log that activity burn 820 calories, so my total burned calories for the day is 3032.  So I will then take 3032 - 1000 restriction = 2032 (So i guess I need to eat no more than 2032 calories per day to lose 2 pounds per week.  (this is if I biked 1 hour that day.  I guess if I trained longer then my calories intake will increase and if I did less training then my intake will be lower.  If this is correct then I like it because I can plan my day of eating based on my workout activity for that week.

When I get home tonight Im baking a double chocolate fudge cake with Peanut Butter filing inside and nice hot triple chocolate icing.  I plan to eat 1 24oz slice and chase it down with whole milk.

Johanne,

Congratulations are in order to your daughter for graduating. As well as your unplanned Oly! Was it a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing? It's pretty awesome nonethless. As for the dog, he's a cutie and sounds like he's had, and continues to have, a good life.

Ok all of you long distance runners, what do you take with you for fluids on the long runs.  I know you are not carrying a water bottle that goes on the bike, or are you??  I always need something to drink.  Does anyone watch Survivor?? well if you do, I'm like Phillip (only in the case about being thirsty, not crazy).  In the episode where he could not pronounce Francesca's name and he said he has a medical condition where his mouth is always dry.  Well that is me, but I dont think its a medical condition, I just need a lot of water.  So I was wondering on the long runs, do you just take cash with you and stop off at the gas station and buy a bottle water? I seen those fuel belts and thought about buying one and putting water in them, but I dont know if I will like running with something like that around me.

Lori - Great job on the run. You should be very proud of yourself to run that kinda distance.  I need to come out and get training lessons from you and Johanne since yall are the long distance runners. 

Ok all of you long distance runners, what do you take with you for fluids on the long runs.  I know you are not carrying a water bottle that goes on the bike, or are you??  I always need something to drink.  Does anyone watch Survivor?? well if you do, I'm like Phillip (only in the case about being thirsty, not crazy).  In the episode where he could not pronounce Francesca's name and he said he has a medical condition where his mouth is always dry.  Well that is me, but I dont think its a medical condition, I just need a lot of water.  So I was wondering on the long runs, do you just take cash with you and stop off at the gas station and buy a bottle water? I seen those fuel belts and thought about buying one and putting water in them, but I dont know if I will like running with something like that around me.

Lori - Great job on the run. You should be very proud of yourself to run that kinda distance.  I need to come out and get training lessons from you and Johanne since yall are the long distance runners.