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Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you all have a great tuesday.  I want to thank everyone for their input on the half marathon plan, it looks like I will go with the Higdon one.

Steve -Awesome job on the back to back.  Heck I just had a sprint on Sat and I still feel tired from it so I dont know how you did it.

Gene - Great new profile Pic, I think you also did a back to back and then 1 week later did another one??? Man yall are like 8 year old kids In a candy store, where do yall get your energy from.

David - Awesome job on your race and congrats on the 10k time.

Alex - I hope your jaw feels better and it does not lead to a root canal.  I had a mouth issue about 1 year ago and I was on pain pills for 1 week.  I ended up seeing 3 different dentist before the 3rd one said I needed a root canal.  The 1st dentist gave me a crown, so that was a waste of time, money and pain.  Good luck and I hope you will be sinking your teeth back into a big juicy thick hamburger with all the fixins.   YUMMMMMMM

Johanne - Hows the bird building (sorry I forgot what its called).  Man my kids would love one like yours.  Are the birds tame enough that when you go in there with some food that they fly to you?  Me and the family went to the Birmingham AL zoo last year and they had one that you would walk into with some sweet liquid in a cup and they would fly and land on you to feed them.  The kids loved it and it was pretty cool.

Jeff - I bet you are starting to like some of this cooler weather we are getting down in the South.  Maybe next year we can find a race somewhere in the middle where we can do and meet up.

Ellen - If I can save the money up, I would love to bring the family up to DC next year for Nations.  I was really looking forward to that race.  I need to put a Nations Jar out on my counter and start dropping $ into it for the race.  That would be cool to go up there and if Steve does it again we can all get together. That would really be fun.

Hey that is an idea, lets make it a group race event.  All the Mojo's start saving $ and we will meet once a year at a race for a group together.  Johanne, you can bring the horses and we all can go riding around DC on them. 

Well gotta go wake my little angel up for school.  I hope everyone has a great day.

George,

The aviary is good. I started with 3 doves (thinking they were all girls) and then had 2 babies. After sending what I thought was the boy back to my friends house, I had 2 more babies. They just came out of the nest. Now, the nest and any eggs they lay are coming out. Doves are like mice and I'll be overrun!

I have a pair of finches that are laying on eggs but it's late in the year and the female is really young so I think they might not be good. 

They won't come and sit on my hand but they do all look at me when i go out there to see if I'm bringing treats

Everyone seems to be winding down with training. I still have another HIM in 2 1/2 weeks so I'm still plugging away. I signed up for another marathon in February so my official training for that starts this week. I'll adjust it for the next few weeks until after the tri. I'm hoping that a years worth of fitness might make this marathon a little better for me. We'll see.

We took my youngest to Vegas for her 21st birthday last weekend. It was tons of fun, went to an Ice Bar and a show and walked through a lot of the casinos. I can do Vegas for a couple of days then I have to get out of there! I'll try to attach a pix. If it comes up, she's on the right. My kids have all grown up now!

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The weather is a blessing for sure, October and Early November is the best time of year in Texas IMO, we still had a couple of 100+ days in late September but those are easy to take when it doesn't go on for weeks and weeks!

So a  Louisiana or Mississippi race? Interesting

stevebradley - 2011-10-04 10:58 AM JOANNE - SOMA! I forgot about SOMA! It is very cool that you are doing that, and I'm really interested in your view of it. It might be in about its 8th year now, and it was there before IMAZ, and for a couple of years in my manic-driving days I thought about hauling myself out there for it. But that was then, and this is now, and I doubt I will ever do it. So, I will live it vicariously through you!! Winding down with training is about where I am at, too. After last tri season I did a 10km and a half-marathon and thought about doing several more road races, but the H-M messed up a bunion AND got my neuromas going, so I am hesitant to get agressive with straight running races. Right now I am "at peace" with the season being over, just because it has been so race-full since 9/11. But i think before lonmg I will hanked for another......and there is a half-iron in NC on Oct 29 that is subtly beckoning me. I think I can rebuff its advances.....but I am historically weak in the face of race temptation! Now family photo!!!!

SOMA is part of my grand plan for this year and next I did an Oly in Tempe last May and now SOMA. I'm already familiar with the area since my daughter went to ASU. This was/is all to get more comfortable on parts of the course so if I pull the trigger and sign up for IMAZ it won't be quite so scary!

It's supposed to be a really nice race with good support. I'll keep you posted.

Off season is tricky, isn't it? I think by the end of the season our bodies are tired and prone to injuries. Off season seems to be the time to work on weak areas which kind of makes it a season in itself

Would you have to put in a lot of extra time to be ready for a HIM or do you keep yourself pretty fit for that distance? Are there any races in Canada? You're always traveling

Question for you all:

I'm finishing up my HIM training plan and this week starts my marathon plan for a early February race. I'll make some adjustments for the next 3 weeks and then follow the run plan as closely as my body lets me. I also want to keep my bike/swim fitness up and work on specifics so I was planning on 3 days a week on the bike and 3 in the pool. What do you think? Reasonable? Too much?

STEVE

Had to have my tooth extracted Monday afternoon.  not a lot of fun!  It is probably a really good thing I didn't push to go down to NJ and race.  I have been nursing it along for a week or so which was a mistake.  

In terms of racing, I am only planning a sprint in Florida the first weekend in December.  My friend down there has picked one in Miami that she wants to do.  Other than that I am focusing on my off season planning and what my focus should be.  

Sounds like your races went well.  great job!  

Once I get more focused on what my off season plan will be I will start posting questions for the group!

Alex

White Rock is first The New years day marathon is second, they also have a half and 5k New Years Eve and new Years day-conceivably I could do a Marathon on the 31st and 1st I wont do that.

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I think White Rock will be the priority since it will be my first, let the NYD run be for fun and to support relatively local races

Steve,

My marathon plan has 2-20 mile runs in the last few weeks. I think the timing of being 1/2M ready in October and getting myself full M ready by early February should work well. I really want to work on staying healthy for this one. I didn't 'break' anything last time but it took many visits to the chiro to keep me moving

I agree with the bike advice. It would help me a bunch to work on some specific bike stuff which shouldn't take as much time as the long rides. 

I want to keep up the swimming because it helps me so much in recovery and I feel a huge difference in my swim when I get in the pool consistently. Go figure!

Strength training is getting back on the calendar after SOMA. I was doing pretty good last off season and if I'm going to do an IM next year I'll need it

Thanks for the advice!

I had a great swim this morning, 3000 yds! It's been a good training week but I'll be ready for my taper coming up.

Hello Everyone,

Steve - Man you sure can rock it on your race. You ran a sub 7min mile on your race and that is after biking 28 miles. Man I want to grow up to be like you.

Johanne- Good luck on your HIM on 10/23, the way you have been training it will be a cake walk.  Nice family photo.

Alex - Sorry about the tooth, so was it to bad to do a canal.  If I could have it all back on my root canal, I would have had them just yank the darn thing out, because it turned out the tooth that I had to have the root canal on also has a crack and he said one day I will need to get it pulled, but we did not know about that until the canal was completed.

Is there anyone racing this weekend? I think most of us are pretty much finished with tri races until next year.  My Tri group that I joined does an indoor Ironman, so I guess I will be an IM pretty soon, I hope.  I think they are looking at doing it in Feb.  What I know so far is you have 1 week to put in the full IM distance and your times have to be turned in.  The only ones that will count are the ones that got the distance.  So I guess I will be biking and swimming indoors for 1 week and taking the running outside if its held in Feb.  They are going to give trophys out also.  We have our meeting on Monday so I hope to find more about it. 

Well I hope everyone has a great evening and a great weekend