SBR Utopia - OPEN (Page 127)

Umm...hate to break it to you...but you're not going to save any watts doing that.

You really ought to work on tucking your thumb down.

ChrisM - 2013-03-29 6:45 PM Checked in. Bike prepped. Laying on the bed waiting for dinner. Weather looks perfect. Didn't buy anything for myself at the IM tent.

Good luck tomorrow Chris. 

I didn't get anything at the IM store at Branson but I went to the online store a few weeks later and they had stuff marked down.  I got two visors for $5 each and a bike jersey for $35 something like that.  I got two IMKS 70.3 T-shirts for $5 each but it was a few months after the race.  Some races don't have much left afterwards though.

Good luck tomorrow Melissa.  Love the BT sign!

for reference I am 5" 3 and a half. I weighed 115 when i was 16 years old and was running ten miles every single day. I also had to watch what i ate. That was during my senior year in high school when i was running cross country. So she does or doesnt want to lose weight? 110 sounds pretty slim for an adult female...but i understand if she is just concerned about "tone."

Nicole Have fun swimming you will be doing a lot of it. You can include drills like vertical treading....holding medicine ball over your head while doing that, kickboard or streamline drills, poo iside pull ups ....etc you get the idea. This is to avoid an overuse injury of shoulders from ramping up your swimming yardage.

Heater was out on our pool so I am "vacationing" for a bit. Prolly go back Monday. 

_Linda

Sa-Weet!!! Goooooo!!!!

Nice hardware, good job!

I'm curious what any of you would have to say about the course. Getting some more perspective from other areas. Locally, this would be described as pretty hilly. I have mixed thoughts on it as the volume isn't huge, but they can be rather steep. The really sharp spikes are glitches, and I think everyone can pick them out. For the rest, many of them slow me down quite considerably on the bike (I ride through here at times too). Like down to 10-12 mph (maybe less) even if I step it up some. I have to put on a fairly serious assault to make 15.

ETA: Looks like the sharp spikes have been cleaned up since I first loaded. Everything looks real now.

That hill at the 1.2 mile mark looks pretty tough.  It's hard for me to stay in a good groove with hills like that which to me makes your run pretty darm impressive.  Low 6's, wow, nice work earning the hardware.

YEEHAW FASTIE

I love the bunny.

Fantastic job Ben!!!

Yeah, none of them should necessarily be that hard, but they can really mess with your pace. Hopefully they get pictures up somewhat soon so I can put them in the race report. They had an Easter Bunny there posing with all awards winners.

2nd best trophy. Favorite is a working bobble head one (Tri-ing For Childrens).

Sweet trophy!!  Congrats!  

5:18:04 for a final time, congratulations Chris!  

Melissa has under 2 miles to go!