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Water was pretty cold.  Air temp was 48 degrees.  Water temp was probably 55ish.  Wetsuit was perfect.  My body was fine, but when I put my face in, that was a different story.  Just sort of swam around for about 20 min getting used to the water.  Then we biked the race route.  It started raining when we got on the bikes, but it was a good ride.  I need to practice hills.   Getting a massage tomorrow to start my taper week. 

 Good luck David.

That's a good looking plan Claire. I've been looking at using the plan out of "Marathoning for Mortals" by John Bingham. Both of these look similar. I'm going to try and convert it to a plan that can be uploaded into BT, and if so, I'll let you guys know.

GREAT STUFF, DAVID!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS

I'm glad you had some much fun and way to rock the clydes category!! Hang your plaque with pride. Nice work. Now, relax, drink up, and eat lots !

vball03umd - 2008-05-04 1:12 PM Awesome job David  Let us know when you post the race report!

Log is in... I might add more later but for now I'm going back to sleep.  Have a great day everyone!

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Wow!  Congrats on the race!  I can't wait to read the detailed race report!  Way to go!  Winning Cyldes (super clyds) is still a great accomplishment.  So GREAT Job!

that is soooooo fantastic!!!  woooohoooo!!!!!!!!! 

Awesome job David.  We have an All-Star in our group.  

Didn't do any training today.  I had to get "real" life stuff done today since next weekend is my daughter's birthday party and my race.  Put together patio furniture most of the day.  I did get a massage this morning.  

Have a good week folks.

OH MY GOSH!!!!  So Awesome!!!  Can't wait to read about it!!!!

Nothing helps motivation like a podium finish (not that I would know). Congratulations!

owl_girl - 2008-05-04 8:40 PM I decided to bag the half-marathon and did the 10K instead.  I just wasn't feeling up to it.  Anyway, I got a 10K PR!!!!  Woo Hoo!!!!  Race report will be up soon!  Cheers!

Congrats on the PR! I'd take a 10k PR over a bad half marathon any day. Good job!

owl_girl - 2008-05-04 9:40 PM I decided to bag the half-marathon and did the 10K instead.  I just wasn't feeling up to it.  Anyway, I got a 10K PR!!!!  Woo Hoo!!!!  Race report will be up soon!  Cheers!

AWESOME!!! CONGRATS!!!

Hey guys,

I am not going to be on BT this week as much as usual. I am out of town on business Wed - Fri, and so today and tomorrow are just going to be pretty hectic at work and my free time outside of the office will be quite limited as well as I am continuing a few days a larger training volume before I head into the three days of not so much training.

Have a great day !

GomesBolt - 2008-05-05 6:00 AM

owl_girl - 2008-05-04 9:40 PM I decided to bag the half-marathon and did the 10K instead.  I just wasn't feeling up to it.  Anyway, I got a 10K PR!!!!  Woo Hoo!!!!  Race report will be up soon!  Cheers!

Great job on the PR!! Your mind was probably tricking your body into thinking that it was getting-off easy doing just 10K and you ran faster. I have a theory. If you really don't want to work-out and do anyway, you burn an extra 10% of calories because you're fighting yourself the whole time. It has to be true because when you want to work-out, it requires significantly less effort than when you don't want to. Just my theory.

Hee hee!  I like your theory!  I think you burn that extra 10% before the workout with all the worry of how bad the workout is going to be!

Ha!  No worries mate....  We got your back....

Hang in there during this long week!

owl_girl - 2008-05-04 6:40 PM I decided to bag the half-marathon and did the 10K instead.  I just wasn't feeling up to it.  Anyway, I got a 10K PR!!!!  Woo Hoo!!!!  Race report will be up soon!  Cheers!

BooYah!!!  Good on ya, mate!  Can't wait to read the RR!!!!

Going through a little decision problem....  I have a "b" race this weekend (and that's probably being generous...)  I don't want to mess up my training and motivation and start a long taper, but I kind of have a goal to break 3 hours (I'd have to get lucky to do that).  How long can you wait to start a taper I'm wondering?

My plan has an OK day today, but I may add 30-45 minutes MORE biking tomorrow....

Are you talking about how to taper for your Oly this weekend? Well, if it's truly a "B" race, you don't want to taper too much; but if going for sub-3 is a tough goal for you and you really want to achieve it, you need to be ready.

I tapered for an Oly last year. the weekend before, I did a big ride (HIM training), but I think my long run was cut back. You can check my log to see what I did (I think it was around June 24). Also, three weeks prior to that, I did a mini "test" taper prior to a sprint (just like 2-3 days) just to see how my body would respond to some things. That was Jun 3ish. Feel free to see what I did for that as well....

Yeah, the problem with cookie cutter plans.....  I grabed the last week of the current plan I am working on (the taper week) and droped in for this week.  But after I did that, I siad to myself "WOW, this is a LOT of taper for an Oly".   I may revisit what I was supposed to do for my HIM and go with that instead.  Or just add some more Z1/Z2 biking as I feel warrented.  I think I will just go light on Thr. and  Fri. before the race and that's it....