DRM's Group - FULL (Page 14)

Hey guys.  How's it going?

I just stopped by to say hi.  I've been riding a lot, at least a lot more than I was, and I ran this morning.  I'm aiming for the Tour de Cure, June 16th.  I think I'm going to be able to do the 60 miler. 

Carry on and don't forget...Good Luck and Have Fun!

Time for a checkin fellas.

What's up? 

I've for an epic week planned for this week.  I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be sick of my bike by Sunday afternoon. 

Good idea on the check-in!

I have a good build week in progress, should be the most minutes I've put for about 6 weeks or so.  Todays run felt good, I'm really surprised now that my RPE3-5 (easy) runs are sub 9 min/miles, even with the summer heat building in.  I just checked my logs from last year, for May 9th I did a 5.55 mile run at 9 min pace but at RPE 5-8 and HR was below Z3 for only 13 min!  My longest run up to that point was on May 20th, 7.11 miles at 10 min pace, wow it's amazing looking back!  Looking forward to the next race in < 3 weeks to compare with last years times.

Not sure why, but your post, Bluejack, reminded me of one of the opening scenes in Stripes, when Bill Murray's character talks about Sgt. Hulka:

"...An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe. And Sergeant Hulka is always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe... Sergeant Hulka."

Donto is our Sgt. Hulka (congrats Donto) and I, for two, am also interested in "stickin' around."  Being part of this group played a huge role in helping me successfully complete my first tri.  As already noted, lots of good info. shared among (now) compadres and probably much more to come...additionally, varied experience levels and sharing about same is only going to grow deeper and wider and therefore be that much more beneficial down the road.

Yes, Donto's call about whether or not to continue - formal or informal doesn't matter to me - and I respect his decision either way.  But if I had my druthers, I'd say "let's keep the lights on."

Are they going to shutdown the Jan Mentor threads?  I doubt it, we can just keep on posting...I'm not going to do the summer mentor as a vacation is coming!

Sgt Hulka, LOL!  Seriously you guys have come a long way, I too like this group and was wonder what will happen to it.  I really would like to head up to the Atlanta area and do a long weekend training with ya'll, 3 gaps is calling my name!!!

I like Jonathan's post, list out what we're planning on doing during the week is something we all should do too keep the list active, I'm willing to keep the "Game On"!

BTW, I did an OWS this mornign and met Tod live in person, the guy's a speedboat in the water , but that's easy for me to say being slower that slow in water!

There's a really nice Oly/Sprint in early October down here, only 8 hours from Atl!

Well I totally messed up and forgot about my kids end of school year award ceremony today and tomorrow.  Wife "you going to be ready to go to Cassidy's awards in 40 minutes?"  Me (half awake dazed and confused, thinking 'what awards?' then BANG) "Sure I'll be there"!  So revamp to the training...

Can we be part of 2 groups? 

I like you guys but I'm thinking about joining another group just to throw a friend a bone. 

Am I cheating on you guys?

Heck yeah!  I encourage it as diversity is the key to keeping a fresh mind when it comes to training.  Is the friend aka "fun killer"???

The only thing she will be mentoring is if they add shopping as a sport to triathlons. 

I'm starting to feel a bit more myself the last two days or so.  It is a bit of a bummer how fast all that fitness goes away after an IM. Oh well.

I'll start next week posting my weeks activities. I change a lot on the fly due to work constraints.

Tattoo for IMAZ?  I was thinking the dot could be a Captain America Shield.  Any thoughts?

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I like it - keeps the IM theme and adds a bit of "original" to the equation.  Go for it!

That would be pretty cool Steve! 

I told my wife that if I ever do an IM that I'll have to get the tattoo.  She hates, I must emphasize HATES tattoo's, and of course had to throw out the threat of the big D, I just had to laugh.  Of course the kids are all on my side!

Guess your wife won't be marrying me then.  I have 2 and was all set to get another until I realized no swimming for 3-4 weeks after.  Guess it'll have to wait.

After you get a tattoo, they tell you to stay out of the pool and ocean for 3-4 weeks until is heals.  I'm sure you can get it a little wet (shower) but they don't want it emersed in water. 

At least that is what I was told.

Legs a bit sore from yesterdays 10k.  Here is what I have for this week:

• Tue - 45min 1600 swim and 40min bike
• Wed - 30min 1400 swim (or Masters class) and 4 mile run
• Thu - 45 min bike and 3 mile run
• Fri - 20 min 1200 swim and 20 min bike
• Sat - Oly Race
• Sun - Off day