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Is this your first marathon? (question also for Traci). I would recommend doing only the hardest 3 runs on the plan each week, and swap out all others for riding and swimming. Just be careful to listen to your body and don't ovetdo it. The swimming can be an excellent recovery workout. The biking you may need to dial back a bit if your legs need the rest.

boston_beginner, you should seriously try raining in the run (so long as you can do it safely at night) -- you might find you love it!!

As for the garmin, I don't have one, but I always put my bike computers at autostop. If you need to stop and go to the bathroom or get held up at a light for longer than planned, it's nice to have those stops in there. My powertap runs for 25 secs after I stop, which is a little annoying, because pretty much each time I stop (for a light or something), it's still going .

Happy Friday, everyone !

The garmins are really nice.  You can basically set a low speed that is counted as rest speed and it will keep track of it.  You will basically end up with 2 results.  A total time and speed and one that doesn't count your stops/too slows.

That's a pretty fierce pig.. yipes!!

Matt --I'm definitely up for starting the plan on June 8th!  I'll be more likely not to skip out on any runs!  Are you going to use the BT plan? 

Claire -- Yeah this will be my first marathon.  Thanks for the recommendation!  I definitely want to keep up with the swimming and biking too so that will work out well

Happy Friday! Lot's of good training going on. What's everyone got on tap for the weekend? As for me: new running shoes, Iron Man, (hopefully) long run on Sat, bike ride on Sun followed by Jazzfest!

Oh, and by the way, damn you all for all of this talk about the Garmin! Now I'm *this* close to pulling the trigger on one from REI. If I found one any cheaper, it would definitely be over.

Sounds like a great weekend, Jeremy. I hear Iron Man is pretty good .

I have a long run/aquajog tomorrow and long bike on Sun; I might have to flip flop them, though, as it appears Sunday will be a rainy day here .

The good thing is that if I make the decision by tonight and the decision is to ride tomorrow, then I don't have to wake up tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. (I normally have to get up at 5:30 a.m. on Saturdays so I can get in a decent aquajog before the pool gets crowded). It'll be nice to have a Saturday morning without an alarm and a Friday night in which I don't have to rush to get to bed by 9:30 .

Dito on the Auto stop.  I have it set....  However, I forgot to turn it OFF during my race, so when I spent time changing my tire, it stopped running.  So my watch time was wrong when I was trying to determine my finish time (about 9 minutes less)  I had to wait for the official race results to finally realize what I got.  HOWEVER, as clever as I am .  I needed to know sooner, so I had a thought to check our camera.  Tala took a picture of me just about to cross the finish line and you can see the race clock!  It was only two seconds different from my official time....  Clever, huh?!?!?

Ahh Ironman!  Sounds cool. 

Did I mentioin that Tala was an extra in that movie?  We are going to go and play "Where's Waldo Tala" in the movie....  Hopefully she has enough screen time to see her......

Cool stuff. Enjoy !

Lauren -- I was going to ask you this through the inspire, but this may be more of a group forum question

Do you have The Stick??  Does anyone else have one? What do you guys think of it?  I've been trying to massage my leg muscles with my hands and it's difficult to get the pressure hard enough without wearing my hands out.  I've seen The Stick advertised in running stores.. is it worth it?? 

Yes, I have a The Stick and a foam roller. I love each of them. I actually use The Stick before my runs and rides as well.

I recommend both. The Stick is great, and you can use it for almost every issue. For ITB, hip, and outer leg stuff, I find the foam roller to be more effective; for hammie, inside leg, and lower leg, I find The Stick to be much more effective.

I am a big proponent of self-massage and have a few "hands on" techniques I like as well.

Thanks for the input   I didn't realize there were so many different sticks to choose from!!  I'm checking out their website now

I know! I've used a few different ones. I have the one with the yellow handle, which isn't the "stiffest" one. I've used the grey one a lot (I think grey, now I totally forget), which is stiffer than the yellow one, but to me, it seems the same.

It's also really good for the bottoms of your feet. Stand on the handle with one foot and roll your other foot over it (put your body weight into it). Healthy feet make for healthy plantar fascia, posterior tibilas, achilles, etc....

That's so COOL!!!  Have fun trying to find her!  My Grandma was an extra in one of the Jaws movies.  It was either 2 or 3.  She said it was fun.

I'm out - have a GREAT weekend all.

Train Hard and Healthy!

A good friend of mine just uses a regular rolling pin and it works great for her. If you have one in the house you could try it before getting the real type. (and then you could bake some cookies)

Just got back, that movie was AWESOME! Great action scenes, and Robery Downey Jr. did fantastic. I give it two big fat thumbs up! I did notice where a few scenes were filmed in Vegas. Hopefully you guys are able to find your wife in there.

Is this your first marathon? (question also for Traci). I would recommend doing only the hardest 3 runs on the plan each week, and swap out all others for riding and swimming. Just be careful to listen to your body and don't ovetdo it. The swimming can be an excellent recovery workout. The biking you may need to dial back a bit if your legs need the rest.

Traci and Matt,

I don't want to change your plan if you already have one, but I just wanted to point out that there is a very good marathon training plan out there with 3 days/week run + crosstraining that many people have used to do very well in a marathon:

http://www.furman.edu/first/2006%20marathon%20training-first%20marathon.pdf

If you guys get Runners World there was a write up on Lance's training plan for Boston marathon in the issue last month and it looked somewhat like the above

One other link for this morning, this one is for dlswimmer because you are in OH and looking for races (although this is not a race):

http://www.active.com/images/newsletters/americanCancerSociety/active_email.html

Hey all, bad couple days for training because of the weather.  I am still hoping that it clears up a little so I can get out on my bike and maybe go for a run today.

Wish me luck on my sprint tri tomorrow! :-)

dlswimmer - GOOD LUCK TOMORROW, we'll all be cheering you on!!!!!

boston_beginner - I hope you have a great time today. Let us know how the training went .