left.right.repeat group -closed - Full of a bunch of winners...YEAH! (Page 168)

While I am totally not qualified for responding about cold weather running, I will anyway.  I am a big layer guy.  I buy $1 gloves at Target or Home Depot in packs of 6-8, like Mav, I can drop them and not feel bad although I honestly have never lost a pair or dropped one.  I stick them in the waistband of my shorts in back and they seem to stay there and not bother me.  This is what I was doing when I lost a nice pair - that's the reason I went to the cheapies.  Also, if your nose runs, use the gloves, throw them in the washer with your running stuff and they just keep getting softer.  Also, I prefer a vest over a windbreaker, it keeps my arms more free -- now obviously, if it was really cold, like what you all deal with, it might be a vest and a windbreaker.

On the challenge....I am on track with running, a few miles short of halfway on the bike and about 1500 short of half on the swim....feel pretty good with where I am right now...

I posted this on my new group this afternoon -

"So here is what I want you to do....post here - get to know each other - be open - be honest - have fun - you all seem to be off to a good start.  Additionally go to the Forum home page, then click Mentor Program Archives and look for left.right.repeat group closed - full of a bunch of winners (it is usually one of the first three or so) and click on it.  Go to the early pages and read some history - see the evolution - go to the most recent pages (209 currently) and work backwards to see where we are today.  You are welcome to post over there too but I would like to personally introduce you so the team today can get to know you all together."

Here are the names of our new people who will be joining us soon - ChrisM, Graham, Phil, Todd, IDMtnGirl, ChristopherM, Glenn, Jennifer, Jeff, Dan, Andrew and Ali.  We may add a couple more - we will see.  I will post their bios here later but if you want to read about them now, go to left.right.repeat group 2011 version on the new mentor group page.

John - not running has helped you get 4.8 miles of swimming done quickly...good job!

OK I have a question concerning the 2xIM challenge. For my bike Thursday I took a 1 hour spin class. How do we guesstimate what distance to put down in our log?

Planned doing an 8 mile run but got a bad case of acid reflux part the way into it. I ended up cutting the run short. I hope to make it up tomorrow. It's suppose to rain all day so we'll see.

Great, sounds good to me. Thanks