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Good luck on your race you all. Once I get through today- 5:30 am swim and run I will have an off and travel day tomorrow and be Skiing in Snow Mass CO (Aspen)  on Sunday. Hope to get downhill and x-country in all week

I'm hoping to squeeze in 12 miles tomorrow morning.  We'll see....I do not do well when I run first thing in the morning.  Unfortunately, it's the only time for the long run.  My husband gets the kids up & makes breakfast.  I'd love to get in a long bike ride on Sunday (if I decide on a bike, that is!). 

I'm looking at the Giant Defy 1 & the Felt F75.  Any opinions?  How did you go about picking your first bike? 

No workout today.  Have either a head cold or a sinus infection, hoping for the former, so I'm shooting to get in at least a long run this weekend.  We'll see.

I've got family visiting, so I'm going to try and get a run in this afternoon or tomorrow. Then something Sunday evening after work.

Good luck on the 5k everyone! 

Good luck at the race and I hope your cold goes away. I hope to get a couple of workouts in but , I have a busy weekend between relatives in and daughters away (1 1/2 hours each way)soccer match. Should make for a great wieght in on monday.

I start my bricks pretty much right away, but how long does the run have to be?  Is 10 minutes good enough to get the junk out of your legs?

When deciding on a bike, here is how I rank my decision making priorities:

1.  Budget (including cost of accessories like pedals/bottle cages/speedometer/etc)
2.  Frame material (largely, this is driven by budget) [Carbon > Titanium > Aluminum]
3.  Component level (minimum Shimano 105) [Dura-Ace > Ultegra > 105]
4.  Manufacturer (the manufacturer that makes the bike that fits you best)

I would go to your local bike shop and ask to test a few rides.  Give them a range of your budget so that they know you are serious about buying and they don't end up showing you a bike you won't buy.

Good luck and we want to see some bike porn when you're done! 

I think a 10 minute run is a good starting point.  As you get closer, you build up the amount of time you run post-bike.


For me, my brick runs will start at 15-20 minutes and I'll get up to 60-70 minutes of brick running closer to race day.

Unless the brick is part of your training plan, the first few should (1) to figure out how to get your bike stuff off and run stuff on as seemlessly as possible (i.e. don't run with your helmet on) and (2) just long enough to get the wonky feeling out of your legs and run a little warmup.

Since we've been talking about diet I thought I'd throw this out there.  Just saw the diet set up for a bodybuilder and what he eats on a daily basis.  If anyone wants to compare and contrast I'll throw it up here.  Just let me know.

Yeah -- put it on up!

I giving a seminar to CPAs on tax issues in bankruptcy and financial reoganization from 8-12 tomorrow.  I am sooooo exciting.  will try and hit the trainer for an hour in the morning and, if feeling sassy, again at night, then i'll going to smoke erica and kelly on sunday. BOOYEAH!  (yeah right)

Thanks for all of the well wishes.....Sunday should be fun.  Just spent an hour and a half driving home for what ordinarily takes me thirty minutes.  NOT FUN.  I think I got up to 10 miles per hour on the highway.

I'm going to try to hop on the trainer for an hour and a half tomorrow and then I'll probably use my parent's dilapidated(sp?) treadmill.  Sunday, I will run with the crew. 

I did get a 6.5 mile run in before work.  It was a pretty good run.  I'm looking very forward to sleeping in tomorrow, which for me, means 7 or 8 a.m.

Have a great weekend to all.  Happy training!

Got a 3.91 mile run in this evening after hanging out with my Uncle all day.

Did a 2 hour + NIGHT mountain bike ride tonight.  Tough to get used to that, with pretty technical, rocky downhills in CT, but what a blast. 

How accurate is the Garmin in calculating calories burned?  I do wear the heart monitor with my Garmin 305, and it showed 1,800+ calories.  The training Log here shows 1,400+.  MTB is a lot of intervals, climbing, descending etc.  Just curious.

didnt have time to ride this morning, sigh, so many new tax cases to read.  will ride tonight, after sleddign with the kids (one good thing about having kids is you get to go sledding) - then I need to cook a good dinner: anyone have a favorite healthy recipe  Kelly's scallops with root vegies from max amore looked good.

90 minutes easy on the trainer then 30 minutes running outside in the snow with yak trax -- I feel like its a good day to bring the camera on the run with me -- pretty snow.

Preworkout-
1 scoop Maximize V2 (preworkout supplement), 3 scoops bcaa, 5 Hemavol(preworkout supplement), and sea salt.
3 scoops Iso (whey protein), 2 cups oats, 2 cups full fat yogurt

Post-
3 scoops iso (whey), strawberry soda (80g carbs)

M3-
10oz chicken
2 cups rice
1 tbsp oil

M4-
10oz chicken
2 cups rice
1 tbsp oil

M5-
10oz chicken
2 cups rice
1 tbsp oil
greens

M6-
16oz flank steak
12oz potato

M7-
10oz turkey
greens


Lots of food there.  Crazy.

Almost any vegetable can be roasted with a little olive oil and salt.  The only things that don't seem to work for me are onions and eggplant.  Cut into roughly 1 inch cubes, toss them with a teaspoon or so of cumin, curry, cardamon (or really anything) and road for 30 - 40 minutes.

Another easy recipe is just plain salmon cooked in a frying pan on the stove top.  I put in a little oil, other people think that you don't need it.

There's a BT Cookbook thread somewhere that should be pretty good resource.

Too cold and icy to run outside today, so I slept in and went to the gym.  9 miles on the 'mill:  6 miles, walk 5 minutes, 3 miles, walk 5 minutes.  The break is mostly because the 'mills at the gym have a 1 hour limit and I don't feel like breaking into the menu to override that.

Two and a half mutha-fukkin hours on the trainer.  My taint is SORRRRE!!

It was an interesting selection of entertainment during the ride.

Kel rode the first 90 minutes with me so we watched 30 Rock episodes on Netflix.  When she was done and headed out to run, I turned on a Motley Crue concert video.  Unfortunately, Kel got back before I was done on the trainer so she ridiculed my choice of energizing music.

Wow!  That's a sick amount of food.