SWBKRUN fast, furious, and closed (Page 158)

Our Lakes aren't quite that bad, but the closed beaches have the blue green stuff floating on the top of the water almost all the way to the safe swim buoys.  Thursday's aquathon will most likely be cancelled since the temps are still high and there is supposed to be a lot of rain which makes the run-off even worse.  There is a 2.4m swim on the IM course I want to do on Sunday, but right now it is also up in the air.  Poop!  I won't even mention the lake temps are 80F as far as 5 meters down.   Waaaaaaaaaay to early to start thinking about that one.

Linda--never used the gloves.  I've seen a lot of the water walkers use them for resistance, but no one ever swimming with them.

You lost me at STUDY.

Brent, great job on your LT test, awesome that your pace is improving, even with all that heat. 

way to kill the mg.  and you know its an awesome day when terps is a being a wisea$$.

almost as bad as kyla and her turnips.  that's just not fair since she's off with the bears in Yellowstone. 

the peace and quiet is over... she's back in the land of the internet. 

AND she was being a wiseass with out Terping it!!

Monona was closed for this reason the week of IMWI 2009.  It was truly gross.  Of course, the dead body didn't help much.

Water was 86F yesterday so a perfect breeding ground for crap, literally.

I am racing Sunday in Melbourne, Florida. It is a sprint, but will be my first ocean swim and first run on the beach. I hope to rock the bike as it is short and pancake flat.

Amazing what happens to people when they can't run.  Wonder how she is treating Kris / Katie / the dog, etc!!! 

Love the banters...:-)  The picture of a boy swimming in green water is gross enough.  I get a little panicky because of the stuff on the BOTTOM of the lake, not the swim itself.  It has always been that way, even when I was a kid...stupid childhood memories!

    Hope everyone is keeping themselves cool in the summer heat.

I am being nice : ).................

19 miles DONE...the longest since IM last September!!  Woo-Hoo!  Went pretty well too.

No Racing for me, but I'm participating in the Dairyland 2.4m swim on the IM Course on Sunday (assuming the lake is swimmable).

I am racing the Ripon Medical Center tri on Sunday.  Olympic Distance on a hilly technical course for both the bike and run.  However, it's a nice small local race for a good cause and a race I do every year in memory of Jeff, my friend that passed after a 20+ year battle with ALS in 2010.  We go up and stay at a Jeff's Sisters Cabin (Lake house) for the weekend with a bunch of peeps and I race on Sunday.  (Note to self, don't ride the 4000 hp jetski for hours on Saturday before your swim like last year!!!)

Race plan is to swim hard, bike at 95% of FTP, and put in a solid 10k at Z3+.  Looking forward to seeing the Hurt Locker in full color at some point in time of the day!  In honor of Skinny's IM-Texas swim and for all the 2011 IM-Moo folks, I am thinking about racing sans the wet-suit if the H2O temp is way above the 76.8 mark.  (Lake is at 80 degrees right now, but it is also raining!)  It will be a race-day decision based on who I see that is racing in my AG and how the road rash feels.    

Good Luck to all the Racers this weekend, be safe, be fast and  ......   REPRESENT!!!! 

RANT ALERT!

So, I'm out on my ride this morning and going up a hill.  I can hear a car approaching behind me, but he (or she) doesn't seem to be going for the pass.  Then, as I top the hill and see an on coming truck, I start hearing a horn honking behind me.  beep, beep, beep, beep.  I'm like, "wtf???" the next thing I know, the truck is meeting me and the person from behind is passing me and trying to squeeze in between.  I am so shocked and still wondering wtf he was beeping at, that I end up off the pavement, in the dirt and grass, and heading for the ditch.  Still don't know how I pulled it back on the road, or kept it right side up, but I did.  Stupid impatient people! 

I'm just glad I didn't hear squealing tires like Suzy did! 

I will admit (but only to my mg peeps) that having my hand off the handlebar so that I could flip the driver off may have been a factor in me ending up off the road.  Just sayin' MAYBE

Good luck this weekend racers (and swimmers)!!

I hate hearing these stories.  It should never have happened to you.  In WI, drivers (usually F150s) honk loooong to try to knock you off your game.  The fact they waited until cresting the hill is a little odd, but they may have been telling you they were passing and probably a little PO'ed.

BE CAREFUL PEOPLE.  Too many accidents or near misses when you bike a lot.

i'm glad you're ok. f them!  do me a favor though, there's a chance we might meet some day and get really drunk and who knows what else.  so, as much a mf'r these losers are and no matter how irate you are at them, keep that finger down and your mouth shut.  DO NOT give them any more reason to ever so slightly nudge the wheel over just a hair... and take you out.

let karma do its thing. 

Oh John, I tell myself this ALL THE TIME.  It's just an uncontrollable response, but I'm working on it.  I really am

Edit:  After thinking about what you said a little longer, I'm glad I highlighted the part I was referring to.