JeepFleeb's mentor group - FULL (Page 13)

Wow that is kinda scary....being in Texas for the past 15 years has taken over my brain.  I just read the " Y'all'll " and didn't even notice it and understood it.  Ha.

Texas weather in March, so unpredictable.  I am not going to be able to start my season with this race as I had planned, but I will be out there supporting everyone and I am sure just standing around will be plenty cold too.  I will try not to eat all the pancakes before you finish (dont take transition too slow, from what I hear Gaary might beat you to the pancakes).

Had a better performance in all categories in my race.  My swim still sucks, but less.  Wetsuit got hung on the transponder taking it off in t1.  Bike was good, passed some fat bikes and got passed by other fat bikes.  Course had alot of turns and I actually caught people in the turns, advantage of a road bike.  Run was same pace as last race, should have pushed it harder though, still had fuel in the tank at the end, passed 4 people in the last 400m.  Laces came undone on my left shoe with .5mile to go.  Elastic laces and locks are now on the shoes.  Had a good time, but felt like I ran out of realestate on the bike and run.  Looking forward to the next.

The night before the race I was getting everything ready and organized.  I put my wetsuit on to go through shucking it off one last time.  I failed to realize I had gotten my top caught in the zipper on the way up, first for this.  When I tried to unzip it, much to my surprise it wouldn't budge.  I tried and tried to no avail.  All I could think about was the potential embarrassment of walking down to the lobby to find someone to free me from my dilemma and what I would say to people in the elevator that would look at me like I had just escaped a mental institution.  These thoughts moved me to give it one last shot, much like Clark Griswald slamming the two extension cords together in Christmas Vacation, I yanked down hard on the zipper and freed myself from my wetsuit with a slight tearing sound.  Luckily minimal damage to my top and none to the wetsuit.

This week, beatings continue in prep for April 11 North Florida Olympic tri.  The Orbea demo van is in town tomorrow, so going to go get tempted.  JF-Aaron, I'm actually from Texas, family is out in the desert, Lubbock, Abilene area.

I haven't checked in here for a while.

Did my first 10K one week ago and went under one hour. That was my original goal. After a fast training run a couple of weeks before the race, I was hoping for under 58mins, that didn't quite happen. Leading up to my first tri end of May, I will have several 5Ks and another 10K coming up.... Basically just for the fun of it... And I noticed that I don't have so extreme pre-race jitters, when I have a fairly fresh memory of a previous race in my head....

Weather is nice around here these days. So I am trying to substitute my spinning classes more and more with riding outside.

And I am currently looking for a used road bike. I know I said I won't invest money into a bike this year, but the hybrid is just getting to frustrating. Especially riding with BF. On flats and downhill, he is just rolling ahead of me, without doing much and I always get him at the hills. Well, swim coach offered me to give me one of her bikes for the race, so I really can take my time to find a bike.

Have a great week everyone.

 I am sure glad the zipper episode didnt remind you of "What About Mary"....now that would have been embarrassing.  Good job on the race, sounded pretty solid with some concrete areas to focus on for improvement.

 I look forward to a great race someday that gets close to your sub-par race time.  Those conditions were pretty harsh for a TX race.  Seemed like those guys from WI werent even phased.  We are all so used to the opposite of temps pushing 100 it seems.

 This week I am going to get on the trainer finally and test out the knee.  Tour of Dallas is coming up and I need to make sure I can make it.  And with the weather, I need to get out there and enjoy.  I started with Dallas Athletes today and that will allow me more time for training and give me access to some great stuff.

It is a single day completely for fun ride.  My friends have done it for a few years and wanted me to come along this year.  They are doing the 20 mile portion which means they cut out the 10 miles around a lake...how can someone ride to the lake and not take the time to ride around the lake and enjoy the scenary?  Oh well, will keep working on them ( they have only done the 8 mile ride and are scared to jump to 30 miles). 

I have a feeling that this week will be more about T.I.T.S.  I will be getting wet too, but I need to build back up my leg muscle and the bike will be the way to do it.  Also seriously thinking about doing a couple sprints coming up and if the knee can take it, do the run, but if it can't, then I had a great workout. 

 Good luck with your 70.3 coming up, will be looking forward to see how you did and hear about any craziness that happened.

Damn, nice job! 

Travel week for me, try to stick to my plan as best I can.  Speed work on the bike trainer and run, with some swims.  Good part is water temps are warm enough that I can get my swims in, in open water, only saw one small shark today. 

Good luck in Cali, and have a great time.  Any and all free time this week (and last week, and the...) is being dominated on remodeling my wife's day spa.  It is the never ending project.  Will be doing the Tour of Dallas this weekend, nice easy paced 30 miler with some friends.  Looking forward to hanging out and just seeing the sites of Dallas where I normally wouldnt ride.

Good luck at california!  Those are some pretty amazing shoes by the way.  Where did you find those?

Swim and 50min run today, long bike tomorrow. Put some conti gp4000s tires on the bike last night, but nasty weather so couldn't ride.  Going to try to ride the bike portion of next weeks race on sunday, seems to rain everytime I head that way though, hopefully it won't on race day either. 

The North Florida Olympic Triathlon has been RE-SCHEDULED for Saturday, May 30th 2009

Due to localized flooding in the area, the Madison County Division of Emergency Management and the Sheriff's Office have advised us that there are numerous road closures and the water is expected to continue to rise through the weekend.
We feel it is unsafe to attempt this event with high water and sudden flood conditions developing without notice and don't want athletes traveling on the roads during this dangerous time.
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New Date is May 30th. Times will remain the same & late registration has been extended to May 27th.