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I will find out on the weekend.

Telling you about the trainer and DVD got me started - I pulled my trainer out and got on it.  Did some 45 minutes of HILL WORK (Spinerval video), it was these videos that got me fit from Jan thru march, so I should incorporate when the weather sucks like the last 2 weeks.

I'll check out the website. 

Nesxt race: 8 days and counting

Mike, where did you find that quote? 

Also, I took pretty much all but Wednesday off this week.  I was burnt for some reason.  Instead of blindly pushing through it like I would have in the past I pulled myself back.  I find that I am foaming at the mouth for tomorrow's 70 mile road ride.  I may even have a riding partner for at least a portion of tomorrow.  At least that is what I hear through the grapevine. 

Oh, next Saturday is National Trails Day.  Get your to the local trail and ride your MTB or do a trail run.  I'm organizing a volunteer effort to do some trail clean up/maintenance on one of the local trails that had large sections under water during the flood.  Hopefully I get four or five people who are on the fence about cycling or just beginning to join our community.  Hell, I'd be happy to recruit one new cyclist that takes it up and stays with it the rest of their life. 

I'm really deep into organizing the race I am hosting July 25th.  The bills are starting to come due and I need to find some sponsors ASAP.  So far I've raised about $3600 just from sponsorships.  That leaves me about $500 short to do everything I want to do.  Just the chip timing and results are $1500, then if you offer a social or cater a meal for afterward, that's another $1k.  In ND, stuff has to be an event or you won't get people to drive 100+ miles to participate in it.  The people that are helping me organize don't understand that.  I WILL NOT be happy with 10-15 participants.  I want 50-75.  The "fun run" that they organized last year I think had maybe 20 or 25 people that came, all of them local.  And the caliber of athlete was not high.  I won the 5k without running a step in over 10 years and stopping to puke 200 meters from the finish.  In addition to the off road tri, there is a trail run and a relay race where instead of swimming they can use canoes or kayaks.  I want families to take part and make a weekend of it at the awesome facility we have right outside of town.  I hope it does well.  Either way, the race will be an annual event.  I still have to get it sanctioned with USAT(which is way more paperwork than I realized).  I need that to even be considered for the XTERRA points calendar.

Jeez, I'm rambling.  I gotta go. 

Steven, good to hear from you. Was about to come looking for you!! Sounds as if things are moving forward for your event. I know what it feels like to organize something like this. My local swim team will be hosting an Invitational event in July as well. The 11th&12th. And it takes about $4500.00 up front to put the event on. Which I usually end up floating a loan to the team to cover some of the up front costs. My wife thinks we are a bit crazy for working so hard to only make a relatively small profit, but it is necessary to have the extra cash available for the remainder of the year. Your efforts will be rewarded, and remember you got to start somewhere.                                            Man I wish I had to time to do an long ride like that, about 40 seems to be as far as I can get. Maybe next weekend, I'm hopeful to get at least a 50 miler.

Yesterday my youngest daughter graduated from High School, great feeling of joy and sadness. Both my girls are about to be real grownups, well  in there minds anyway. They both made it from K-12 in the same school system, which has always been a goal of mine, and we made it. Yahoo!!!! They will both be at the same college Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, with my oldest being a senior. Can't believe this day has come, seems like it went by pretty fast. You know what comes next, EEEHHHH! Some guy is going to be calling me father in law.

Oh well have a great day fellows.

Roy, I have a son that will be a senior this year and a daughter that will be a junior.  I'll be an "empty nester" at 37.  My wife is already sad about it.  I look at it as we spent their whole lives teaching them how to be real people and live right.  Now it's time for them to demonstrate how well or how poorly we did.  Man, there are so many things I would do differently looking back, but that's the name of the game being a parent when you are a teenager.  We have fantastic relationships with our kids, though.  Several parents of their friends ask us how we get the kids to talk to us.  Ummmmm, talk TO THEM LIKE THEY ARE PEOPLE, take a real interest in what they are doing, and share your experience with them while letting them make their own mistakes. 

Ok, I'm off my soap box. 

My posts have been limited because it is summer time in ND.  I cannot be inside very long.  As a matter of fact, I'm leaving right now. 

Have a great week!!  Tomorrow my daughter has ACL surgery.  Ugghhh!!  At least it's not her senior year of sports she'll miss.

gUYS,. YOU GOTTA STOP THAT OR i'LL BE THE ONE PUKING MY GUTS OUT HERE,

my poor daughter is only 11, and she's an angel - but i have had nightmares of all that stuff coming now that she's moving on to middle school...  yikes!  I got my NRA up to date though (LOL)

Seriously, I don't know how you guys have the time and energy to put on events, but needless to say, w/o u, there would be no events, so THANKS!

Monday is my off day and after running 11.5 miles this AM I am going to need it. 

Roy: been thinking about switching my training from distance to time.  Do you know if that's beneficial? especially at my stage - meaning, I know I need to swim more, but my cycling and running are at OLY level even though I only registered for Sprints this year.  This coming year work will have much more pressure and higher goals (just like everyone else), so I need to make training more efficient, keeping in mind my 2011 goal of completing HIM. 

this coming weekend will be race #2 for me.

my schedule for this week is summed in 4 letters E-A-S-Y.

M- rest

T- swim (AM)/ride(PM)

W- run (4 miles or so)

Th- swim

F- Rest

Sat- Race   My goal is to break 1:10:47 (or at least previous month's pace)

Good Morning Fellows

Looks like summer is in full swing for activity. Interesting storylines about our children and their respective ages. Its great watching them grow into young adults, and your right Steven it is now when we'll see the character that has been  placed in them by us the parental unit. So we'll see.

Anyway, Olman to answer your previous questions about training with time vs. distance. I guess it kind of becomes relative, but it is an important aspect of improvement. If it is always about distance, with no accountability towards time then people definitely become the one speed athlete. I see it quit often with adults and their swimming. Can do it all day at that speed but ask them to speed up and their shot real quick. So your training is easily at Oly levels, these sprints your doing are your training distance where time is of the utmost importance. So work in some shorter runs that will up the HR, you'll notice alot of Mike and Stevens runs are varied in tempo. This is just training the body to adapt and in the end you'll become a faster runner. Good Luck this weekend.

Mike, a little lull is OK, your getting ready to go strong for an extended period of time so enjoy.                                                                                                                         Steven did you see the Xterra Championships on TV this weekend? Also just got the latest Triathlete Mag. I had no idea that top end MTB's cost that much.

The first of 4 Watermelon 5ks this Saturday. Cheap run only $5.00 basically a self timed series, usually gets about 200 runners. It looks like I'll be able to do all four for the first time. I'll get with a few people I know and we'll go another round to get in some more miles after we turn in the time card.

Have a great day!!!!

Roy, I just got that edition of Triathlete in the mail.  Yes, MTB is just as expensive as everything else.  I have a Stumpjumper FSR that I bought on a closeout deal.  It is a heavy beast, but full suspension is the way to go.  I loved the editor's note "Stop Thinking About Doing Your First XTERRA."  I like the way he tells people not to do them because they're too hard (tongue in cheek).  It does kind of express some of the stereotypes of the hardcore roadie tri people.  I know guys that won't even look at a mountain bike, only road/tri. 

I did not catch the XTERRA race on TV.  I always look for things like that in the TV listings, but then I remember that I'm not going to be inside when it's on anyway.  I spent the whole weekend either training or working in my garage.  I watch about an hour of TV a week at most and that is when I'm waiting for someone to get ready to go.  Aesophs are cursed with an inability to focus on anything but the TV screen when it's on, so I try to stay out of rooms with TVs or I ignore everything and everyone around me.  I don't like that.  

The first of 4 Watermelon 5ks this Saturday. Cheap run only $5.00 basically a self timed series, usually gets about 200 runners. It looks like I'll be able to do all four for the first time.


What's the watermellon series?  Is it in lakeland, or around here?   My family will go to PR after 7/5 so I will have at least 3 weekends to do whatever the heck I want, well, 2 cus I am meeting them the last week and we're all coming home together.   Let me know.  Great day ya'll

They are in Lakeland around Lake Hollingsworth, certified 5k route perfect circle and pretty much flat. A stud can do it under 15 minutes. 4 races on Saturday mornings 5.00 each, very casual sponsored by the Lakeland Runners Club. Start at 7:00. I going to prepay for the 4 since it looks like I can do them this summer. 4 for $15.00 if you pay in advance. I'll get you the dates of the other races, I know there is one more in June, one in July and one early August.

I gotta figure out how much they're going to cost for shipping, if less than $10, I cover it, otherwise we'll need to talk.

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Congrats Mike, a little bit of confidence can take us a long way. Thats a great way of knowing you can make it without struggle and feeling fresh. It will make the day go alot better. Also there is a thread that started yesterday asking if anyone has joined an HIM and Marathon plan together. Most were not quite like your doing it but you might take a look at it and see if there are any nuggets of info you can use.

On the aero bars from Olman, my daughter has the same set up on her bike. If you are using an aero bottle I think you are going to need the bracket to hold it in place. I rigged up something on hers, it works so you might ask Olman it he need the bracket with his.

Good luck Olman, I'll be checking the results this weekend. Go hard, Go fast and have some fun.

Steven I wont leave you out. Enjoy the outdoors, it will be snowing soon. LOL.

Can you guys believe that we have almost 20 pages of chatter> Amazing.

WOW, That's great.  I gotta get my in the water more often.

I still gotta pack the bars bit they don't have a bracket for aero bottle,  they sell that separately and I never bought it.  In fact, for Sprints i think its just a load of weight as that setup (full of liq) add about 1.5-2 lbs.