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Steve B - bummer about the neuromas - that really sucks.  Boo on injuries!

I lied about the temp @ Lobsterman last year - I just checked - bouy temp was 54 degrees, not 52 - so much warmer!  All I can say is I kind of had claws, not hands when I got out. 

A blogger friend just finished New Orleans 70.3 in 5:32:33 - he is pretty psyched, I will see him at Timberman (most likely, just his back)  He is eating cheese grits right now I think.

I am looking forward to hearing how Steve A's swim was. 

Cheers,

Mandy

Mark,
I just found a "fishing report" website and it said that in the Pine River area "water temperatures are hovering in the forties".
I'll check it again in a couple weeks.  Thanks again for the suggestion.
Denise

Nice Ride  Enjoy 

SHAUN -

Siamese twins, separated at birth! Just like mine from '01-'08. See:
www.zoomphoto.ca/viewphoto/10127-103-10162465/1/
www.zoomphoto.ca/viewphoto/10125-103-10130943/1/
www.zoomphoto.ca/viewphoto/10064-101-10067009/1/400/

Those are all from 2007. (And how come they didn't come up blue, and ready to click on? I never understand this stuff!)

It was a great, great bike. I am so happy you have yours, and I hope it is as terrific for you as mine was for me.

DWAYNE -

45 minutes between Mexican food and your FIRST brick of the season, or between ANY brick of ANY season?!? Man, if you survived that you must have the constitution of a canal horse!

MANDY -

54. Oh. I feel SO much better on your behalf!

And no report from Steve yet on bobbing about in the Pacific for an hour yesterday. 55....the Pacific...for an hour.......THAT'S an ice bath to reckon with!

I had New Orleans in my sights until December, abandoned it, thought about it again about a month ago, then abandoned it. Now you have me thinking about it again ------ and I'm a day too late! Aw, so it goes.....

SHAUN again -

So many books, so little time!

Okay.

Spending time with the Training Bible is almost always time well spent. When the first edition came out I treid to read it cover to cover, but I got overwhelmed and my mind turned to mush and I decided to just approach it either with a specific concept in mind, or pick it up any old time and just turn to a page and see what was there.

Sports Nutrition is excellent (Monique Ryan, right?), but again for me it is more like how I approach the Training Bible. And if you can succeeed in committing all of the aspects of the Glycemic Index to memory, you're way, way ahead of me!

Paleo Diet is fun, intriguing, even. That one rewards more of a systematic approach.......although having said that, i still haven't read it straight through.

Swim Bike Run (Wes Hobson's?) has good stuff for both the beginner and the intermediate triathlete.

Total Immersion might best be approached looking for specific drills and the concepts behind them. I say that mostly becasue you have so many books to deal with, but also because you seem to be doing really well with your swimming as it is coming naturally to you.

Chi Running is about the same in my mind as thr T.I. book, but maybe pay more attention to the introductory chapters. Chi Running (or any midfoot/forefoot running program) should be approached kind of cautiously so as to avoid certain injuries. I BELIVE in the benefits of Chi Running, but for most people it can't just be jumped into headfirst. So the theoretical and background information is probably quite valuable.

Fnk's beIRON fit is fun, kind of voyeuristically for you at this point, with no irons in your sights. But his thoughts on training sensibly are good at any level, and it's just kind of fine to know what is Out There -- if you ever choose to do that. (Steve is using Fink in his prep for IMSG.)

And you might as well read Don Quixote --- tilting at windmills, and all that sort of thing, kind of feels like what we're doing at times!

It's on their site somewhere - not sure how it works.  But my bib number is 965, so I suspect somehow you can type in my bib number and it tells you what checkpoint I passed last and when I passed it. 

Yep - it's a bit of a financial hit.  I've been paying it off since I signed up!  LOL.

Nope, not at all.  Whatever happens on race day happens!  But  knowing me, it'll be good motivation during those times when the doubting voices start talking to me to know there are positive vibes out there. 

As Tina Fey would say, "I want to go to there!"

So, up and down weekend.

Saturday swim:  COLD!!!!  Pacific took my breath away - but I got used to it pretty quickly.  Arms/core were not particularly cold once I got going.  Feet got a little cold, but nothing too bad. The face, on the other hand, was a bit of a shocker.  I've never had the face be that cold - it was like stinging nettles for the first 20 minutes or so.  I only got in about 40 minutes of swimming before I started to get seasick.  There was a pretty big swell on, and it started to get to me.  It was only 7:00 am, so there were no surfers out, no lifeguards and no other swimmers yet, so I headed into shore - better safe than sorry.  I think I'll try again this weekend, a little later (9:00ish?) and hopefully there will be some support out there.  I don't mind swimming alone if there are surfers out there, as I figure if I get exhausted or in trouble, they are often just a few hundred feet away and I can either call out and/or swim over and hang onto a board if necessary. 

Bike:  Killed it.  60 miles in about 2:45 or so.  Of course, it was largely flat PCH work, but it felt good to go fast after all those hills.  I think I had another 10-15 minutes in me if I were really hitting it hard,  but I made sure to keep the HR in the mid-Z2 range.  Regardless, the old hills seem flat now, and the downhills were no longer scary - I stayed aero in all of them...they all seemed so flat now!  LOL.

Hamstring:  UGH.  It feels worse than ever...I think.  WEIRD night - I woke up several times with my right leg completely flexed.  Hurt like a son of a....well, it hurt.  I've no idea what's going on with that other than perhaps I was dreaming and/or subconsciously stressing out about it, and that was causing me to flex the leg in my sleep.  The hammy just "feels" off right now.  Maybe just my mind playing games with me.  Sitting in my chair, I can feel it's tighter than the left, and still feels like there is a knot in there.  I SO want to just go for a quick 2-3 mile run to test it out, but will refrain. 

Tonight: Pool
Tomorrow:  Therapy and bike!

Sweet!

Fabulous race time!! You must feel great.

SteveA,

Ahh...rolfing. A friend of mine is a rolfer (as in, she went to school for it) and explained the difference between rolfing and plain ol' massage to me. Basically, massaging is like putting your fingers in a moving stream and seeing the water change course temporarily, while rolfing is like moving the rocks around in said stream and changing its course permanently. In other words, things get moved around your body to make it "better". Frankly, I don't need anything getting moved around and it sounds very painful, but it could be useful...I guess.

Kasia

Mark:

I'm not sure how much of an opportunity you've had to incorporate any of the recommendations from "Racing Weight," but would you recommend the book?

Thanks,

Tracey

As beautiful as the picture looks, I'm sure you've just about had it with snow!

Tracey,

I was getting that same vibe from my rec center swim classes as you had from your Y instructor. The adult swim lessons seem so basic, not in a bad way, but I feel like I already know the basics and just need to fine-tune my stroke (and get in shape, but that's a whole other problem...haha!). I'll look into the TI thing and maybe start out with some online videos and the book and see where that takes me. I guess I can only get better at this point.

Kasia

Shaun:

My two cents on your reading list... I'm currently reading Chi Running (on chapter 4) and highly recommend it.

Tracey

SteveB,

I think my color-coding/matching may only extend to the bike. The rest can clash. Afterall, my soon-to-be clipless shoes (they're currently in the closet since I don't have pedals for them yet) are bright pink...not my color of choice, but they're functional. And I just agreed with my roommate that we'll be wearing fluorescent in the tri to be able to see each other and keep up/do it together.

On that note, I'm still not convinced I wanna do the tri alongside her/together, which is how she wants to run it, since I want to do my best and not have to worry about keeping up and pushing myself too hard instead of pacing, or waiting in case some miracle happens and I'm faster, etc. But, we did sign up together and have been training together so it's kind of "our" thing to do and it would be nice to cross the finish line at the same time. BUT I don't want the added pressure of worrying about someone else's progress, whether it's faster or slower than mine.

But that's a whole other can of worms I'm not ready to open quite yet. We have time. Right now I need to focus on training so I can finish the thing in the first place!

Kasia

I'm still 4 pages back, but it looks like people's races went well this weekend! From what I briefly saw, there were some PRs. So congrats!

I really should stop going away from the internet world on weekends. It makes Mondays at work quite unproductive...

Shaun,

Wow, you're halfway done with work by 9:30?! I'm impressed. Today's goal was to make it in by 10:30. Yeah, I know, I'm a slacker. But in my defense...I really don't have one actually. I'm lucky in that respect since the bossman doesn't care when I come in, or if I come in at all, as long a I get my work done. So yeah, I've been making my own schedule for a while now. It's quite nice, actually, because in the winters I can skip the busy weekend ski days and go on a Wednesday or a random powder day or something. Now I'm more trying to stay with a normal M-F schedule to have weekends free with friends. I'm even trying to be a real adult and get to work at an acceptable hour.

But still...my definition of morning is a few hours off from most people's. That morning ride I was planning on Friday? Didn't happen. I went to sleep instead. I did get one in that afternoon, though. If I can't get a sunrise, I may as well get a sunset, right? Great logic

Good luck with the swims! And the weather. We seem to have the same schizophrenic weather system out here. Neither CO nor MI can make up their minds...

Kasia

Denise,

I feel ya! I'm wondering the same thing Although Lisa's pick-me-up following your post is good enough for me

Mandy,

I know you're cursing the snow to go away, but it's so PRETTY. Maybe not in April, I guess I should keep my mouth shut about wanting snow since I may just curse us with a blizzard.

Nevermind, I checked the weather. We should be ok for another week.

Kasia

Kasia - yes, it is pretty for sure - and I do appreciate the beauty of where I live.  You know when snow on the pond is at it's prettiest?  Nov-March.  I would prefer it to be snow free from April-Oct just for my own triathlon training purposes.  I guess if I wasn't such a wimp I would have been swimming out there, now THAT would be a picture.... 

Mandy

Steve A- The swim sounds freaking cold and tough.  I remember the needle in the face feeling when I did Lobsterman last year.  Getting in for the pre-swim was key, because if you didn't you were in for a tough go for the first few minutes of the race.

Great bike!  That must feel awesome.

Sucky about the hamstring.  Don't go for a run, OK?  Save it for IMSG.

Mandy