Pshorty's Group-GO NATHAN!!! (Page 14)

gracetheterp - 2008-02-21 3:48 PM

pshorty - 2008-02-21 4:28 PM Just started snowing again.

It's supposed to freezing rain & snow all night & tomorrow morning. Praying for my only Friday class to get cancelled. Any support from BTers would be appreciated

But the freezing rain and snow might also interfere with your training.  We can't have that if you think you can catch up to me in the pool.

gracetheterp - 2008-02-21 4:48 PM

pshorty - 2008-02-21 4:28 PM Just started snowing again.

It's supposed to freezing rain & snow all night & tomorrow morning. Praying for my only Friday class to get cancelled. Any support from BTers would be appreciated

Sorry Grace -- while I empathize with your desire for a snow day (thanks for the back-up, BTW, on the "I'm a teacher / yay for snowdays" thread in COJ), I'm on winter break this week. So while I will offer a prayer or two on your behalf, I'm saving the spiritual strength for snow days when I need them. Like, next week. And once a week through my spring break.

But its gonna come down during the day here tomorrow. Over six inches of powder, they're saying. Maybe I'll do the run in snowshoes?

 Thanks for the rec' -- thats the best case scenario for what I can afford. A used road bike with 105 components, and hopefully tricked out with aero's already, at the very least. My concern is purchasing something from afar not having ridden enough to know what I'm buying or what feels good to me. I mean, I can research the components and their objective quality. But I won't have the opportunity to ride 30-40 miles on a bike to know if the angles are a bit awkward for me or if I'm reaching just a half inch too far. So, I'll be trusting measurements and be doing a few in-house ride tests at local shops. Am I taking this all too seriously? Should I just lighten up and throw down the cash for the next thing that comes up? It seems like a big investment for me, and something I'll want to have for 3 seasons.

So, again, thanks for all the advice. Tomorrow my plan is to have my wife measure me based on the bike fit websites recommended to me in other threads, and then begin to see which frames seem like they'd work best. Then, I'll be surfing classifieds for a month until the roads clear up. If tomorrow is to be any gauge, I do have the time.

pshorty - 2008-02-22 9:42 AM

gracetheterp - 2008-02-21 7:36 PM

sesh - 2008-02-21 4:53 PM

gracetheterp - 2008-02-21 3:48 PM

pshorty - 2008-02-21 4:28 PM Just started snowing again.

It's supposed to freezing rain & snow all night & tomorrow morning. Praying for my only Friday class to get cancelled. Any support from BTers would be appreciated

But the freezing rain and snow might also interfere with your training.  We can't have that if you think you can catch up to me in the pool.

Pool's still open on snow days, don't you worry. You're going DOWN.

is this some sort of swim-off? If so, who is winning and can I wager on it?

We're on the same team in one of those monthly challenges.  I've got to swim 25,000 yards this month, and FinstheTerp is going for 40,000.

If you want to bet on who hits their goal first, load up on me.  I was supposed to get there this morning, but I was up till 2am because of bad weather.  I'll be topping 25k on Monday.  However, if you want to bet on who finishes with the most yards, Grace is who I'd put my money on.

Can we have a bike off immediately after that so I can redeem myself?

Extremely slow.  You win.

Maybe we could settle this at the ping pong table.  Table tennis or beer pong.  Either way.

Hmmm.... running followed by beer pong recovery then.

Rockin swim today, Grace.

I forfeit.

I'm familiar with that training plan; I believe many similar events were brought together under a single umbrella, the collegiate decathlon. For what I can remember (and I remember very little), the events included headstand push-ups on the top of a very large can of beer; riding bicycles with alternate hydration systems; and sprinting across open spaces in less fabric than a speedo.

Umm, did it just get quiet in here?