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As some of you may remember I had to have Meniscus tear surgery plus MicroFracture surgery on my femur..  I am happy to report that surgery went well on May 13th.. Recovery although slow and tedious, no complications and knee feels pretty good.  I got cleared on Monday to ride the stationary bike, so that is nice to be back at something!.. I am still on crutches another 4 weeks as the healing process is strictly weight bearing restrictive.  Doc says that he hopes to clear me to resume running by Sept 1st...  so I am seriously going to shoot for an October 25 Sprint Tri in Inverness, Florida: Great American Cooter Triathlon...  this race last year was/is my first and only race... so it will be interesting to see a comparison of time... even with the knee surgery..

Anyway, keep training and racing... I am racing viacariously thru all of you...

Tossing around the idea of buying a charity spot and doing Beach to Battleship HIM just to prove I can do it.  I kinda ruined my "Disney Magic" cause I took an unplanned sidetrip to Disney World last week while on vacation.  Would have been more exciting if I hadn't been there in 20 years.

Not sure if anyone is still out there but I have officially joined the ranks of "triathlete". 

I finished my 1st tri this weekend and really enjoyed it!  I did pretty well considering it was my first race.  It was a 750/17/3.1 race and I finished in 1:32. 

It was mostly what I expected except for the fighting for position on the swim.  Nothing prepares you for the kicks in the face and being swum over/under.    The swim was about what I expected, the bike went better than expected, and the run was just *ahh*.   I was very happy with my overall performace. 

As soon as I crossed the line and gave the wife and kid a hug I said to my wife, "which tri are we doing in July?"


My proudest moment:  On the way way home from the race my 3 year old daughter says to my wife, "Mommy, we need to stop at Harris Teeter and get Daddy some beer."  I wanted to cry.

My wife also did her first tri on the Sunday portion of this race (two day race).  Although she swam about a 1000m on a 750m course (she was "that person" that you make fun of), she really enjoyed it and is also ready to do another.

Thanks and congrads to you!

I did feel great to finially get one done.  I actually changed my tune a little bit.  Before the race I wanted to jump right to an Olympic but after the race, I want to do two more sprints this summer because I feel like I left too much on the course and my competiveness wants me to get better before before I move up (that and I start marathon training next Monday ;-} ).   But I have put on a half ironman on my schedule for 2010 (beach to battleship)!  Gotta have long term goals!
 
Oh...and if anyone out there has a nice tri bike and some aero wheels for free...I would really appreciate it!  Some of the experienced guys blew by me like a freight train (and the guys with the disc rears sounded like a freight train).

Anybody got hard case tires on their bike?

if so, do you like them? what kind do you use or have you tried? I had my bike tuned up and the guy had mentioned them being really great against flats etc. Just don't want them to slow me down. He said they wouldnt but I thought I'd ask around here first.

Holly