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the lure of the bed in the morning is tough to beat, especially when you aren't feeling that great to start with!

Get some rest in and get ready for the first of the week

Congrats on getting out of Wichita! Even when I'm on a "real" vacation, after a week or so away from home I'm ready to get back. I dunno how I'd handle a forced trip like that.

I just went through the "Road vs tri" bike decision myself.  I went with the road bike.  Trek 1.5.  I already have 2 other bikes (mtn and old road) and when everyone was mentioning how they typically train on their road bikes it kind of made up my mind that I don't need a tri bike right now only to want a road bike to train for. 

Hit the pool this morning.  Felt all out of sorts for a while, don't know why, but I ended up doing back to back 300's which was a pretty good distance for me.  Back there tomorrow morning.

Did an FTP test on Trainer Road tonight.  I was kind of disappointed by the increase, but then I remembered that before I did that Tour thing a few weeks ago I added 10 points because I knew it was low.  Then after the tour I added another 10 points, just because.  Then tonight the increase said 6 more points, so I'll take it as a 26 point increase all together over the last month or so.  Ok, now I feel a bit better.

Made a dr appt for this Thursday to get the foot looked at and hopefully get the Ok to start running again.  Went for a little test jog yesterday and it felt good.  Still a bit tight but I can live with it.  Even tough there's 2'+ of snow everywhere I look, I can't wait to get back out and run again.

Sounds like a good improvement on the FTP. I get excited when I add 1-2 watts :P

So has everybody committed for an upcoming race? It's almost season.

April 7 is the Knoxville 1/2 Marathon for me! Hoping to be back in the big mileage weeks by then.

I don't have my FTP dialed in like you do, so I'm sure my jumps for the first year will be pretty significant.

There's a HM I want to do at the end of April but it all hinges on how my foot responds to running again.  Tri's don't get started up here until May at the earliest because of the water being too cold, unless they are indoor pool ones but those are hard to find.

Never done one.  They don't have that many in my area.  Maybe one or two but it's really more traditional triathlons or just road races.

Had my follow up Dr appt this morning for my foot.  As I already knew, the x-ray looked good, no sign of fracture, stress fracture or anything out of place.  5 toes per foot, so good sign in that regard.  He recommended a running store to me that will fit me with a good insert and make sure everything is in order.  He said to slowly get back into it, this week just 1 mile for a couple runs, next week 2 miles at a time, then after that pick it up as long as there is no pain.  I wanted to do a HM 9.5 weeks from today (4/28).  Assuming it will take me a month to get back to my typical 6-7 mile runs, that gives me 5 weeks to feel comfortable for 13 miles.  At 10% increase per week that puts me around 10-11 miles by race day.  That's the hard number version of it all, but it really all depends on feel.  I'm definitely going to ramp up slowly as I don't want to re-injure, so I'm thinking after this first month I'll see where I am and go from there.

To half build on the foot/sneaker thing.  I did 99% of my running last year in Nike Dual Fusions.  Nothing fancy but they fit my feet well and I had no pain.  Wife got me a pair of Sauconys for xmas, did my 10k in those a week later and then the pain started.  I noticed on the Nike's that the bottom of the shoe is very flat and curves up at the back which to me makes it look like it would hit the ground smoother for a heel striker, which I am.  On my Saucony's, the back is not curved up and the bottom of the shoe in general is not one flat piece like the Nike.  I have no clue if this means anything.  Figure I'll pick the guy's brain at the running store as they are supposed to be one of the better stores in the area for running.

Auquathon is a swim and a run?

Sounds fun.

Sounds like good news!

Good luck at the running store. I went to my local one a few years back, but the kid behind the counter was clueless :P Fortunately I fell into the Wave Riders and they've always been good to me.

No runs so far, even though I had planned to run 3-4 times and I will only manage one swim session.

Need to sort out a better routine!!

another snow day. didn't do anything. couldn't leave the hotel.  

i really hope my flight happens tomorrow.

That blows.  At least you'll be fresh once you get back home.