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The weather has been fantastic!!  That combined with having a little more energy is making me really excited to get out and train. 

It's going to be in the 50s this weekend, but that will be perfect racing weather.  I'm doing an 8k on Saturday and a half-marathon on Sunday.  Should be a good weekend for me. 

Good luck Jen!!!

My season starts with a duathlon with a friend (relay team) next month!  I can't wait!!! 

Well, Jen got the season start with her races over the weekend, so I guess it's time to say: IT'S RACING TIME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My wife and I signed up for the Hospital Hill 5k/10k race in June.  We've got a playful wager to see who will cross the finish line first.  She's running the 5k, but said she doesn't plan to run the hills (the hills are literally 1/2 the race in the 5k), so she thinks her finishing time will be somewhere around 42:00 (she averages 12:00-13:00 mile pace).  I'm going to run the 10k, and I plan to finish sub 50:00 (8:00 pace would be a 49:00 finish).  I'm very sure she'll win, but it won't be by much, as I plan to do some more hill work than I did last year! 

My races were okay.  It was really cold and I am still pretty run down - my thyroid medication is starting to work, but I run out of energy pretty quickly.  My legs were numb for a good part of the half-marathon.  Still, I managed to finish and I was about a half an hour slower than my best time in the half.  Not great, but pretty good considering the circumstances.

I think it's so cool that you and your wife are going to race together!  My husband just started biking this weekend and it's so nice to be able to get out and do it together.  It's very motivating - there's always that little bit of competition to keep you going.   

Way to go on your races, Jen!!!

I'm pretty excited about the 10k, too.  Too bad I have to wait for 5 weeks! 

Welcome to April!!  Are we going to post April goals in here and share our March results?  As for me, I made my March swim goal, but totally missed the bike and run goals.    I also got news from my doctor that I'm sidelined for a couple weeks until my leg completely heals, and even then, it's pretty much going to be like starting all over.    At least I can continue to swim (w/ a swim buoy so that I don't use my legs), and lift (upper body).  My goals for April look like this:

1. 12,000 yards swimming
2. heal up my leg and start rebuilding

Dave, I think you'll do great, just be sure to obey the 10% rule of volume increase.

I wonder if I could become a poster child for the 10% rule...now that I'm sidelined for 2 weeks...

March went really well for me.  I managed to finish all of my goals:

Swim: 24,100m/24,000m (100.42%)
Bike: 59.95 miles/40 miles (149.875%)
Run: 41.34 miles/40 miles (103.35%)

For April, I'm really going to focus on getting my bike miles increased.  I have a lot of riding events in June and I need to get ready for them.  I'm trying to do the Veteran Elite challenge in April:

Swim: 15,000 yards
Bike: 300 miles
Run: 40 miles

It's not much more than I did in March, with the exception of the biking.  I'm a little nervous about that, but I think it can be done.  I've got a great biking group that's really active and my husband is really excited about riding, too.  I think that'll help motivate me to get out there and do something. 

Good luck with April training, everyone!!   Robert, I hope you heal well.  That sounds so incredibly painful. 

Here was the progress of my March goals:

I was close on my run goal, but kinda 'fell off the bike' with my bike goal.
I haven't set any goals for April yet, I'll post them when I figure them out. 

Yeah for new bikes!!  I've seen bikes with the shifters in that location before, but I've never used one, so I'm not sure how that works out.  I'd love to upgrade my bike, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.  I may have to settle with upgrading my wheel set and be content with that.   

You make it sound so sinister....    

IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!

How much do you want to bet?