SWBKRUN- Miles and Miles ahead!!!! CLOSED (Page 199)

From Miami Olympic Nov 08

LOL, I need to see if I can find the series of pictures of me getting out of the water from my first OWS, I took so long walking up the ramp I was in 5 pictures....

EDIT: LOL realized I have lost so much weight I am 2 shirt sizes smaller than the one I wore in this race, WOOT!

Edited by dalessit 2010-03-19 9:49 PM

do you two really need more than what tony posted?   POST YOUR PICS!

fixed that for ya...




Edited by fattyfatfat 2010-03-19 11:20 PM

WTF??????????!!!!!!!

Totally LOL!!! 

rodeo time here in houston.  took the kiddos yesterday.  animals everywhere.  smelly.

                      

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                                                                                AWESOME


                                                                 SWBKRUN ROCKIN' OCEANSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, John, I was wondering when they were going to post the bib #'s.  I suddenly feel a little bit short of breath!

WOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!! That rocks!! Way to go and congratulations!! The first racer of the weekend! Well done! 

Great job, William, that is a GREAT time! 

Thank you, thank you a thousand times thanks! I am starting to see that it's as much mental as it is physical. I thought I had the mental part whooped just mentally toughing out some of my training sessions, but I see now that the mental is ongoing. I've always had a "trick" I've played on my brain for events that I'm nervous about: I tell myself that I'm not really going to do it, that I am just pretending that I'm going to do it, and that I will back-out at the last minute. This typically applies to having surgery, or going on a long trip alone to a strange city, or other daunting events. And it always works. Last time I had surgery, I walked into the hospital telling everyone I was just there to think about having surgery. As they were inserting the IV I told the nurse that I would probably still back out. When I felt the anesthesia coursing up my arm I muttered something like "Ok, I guess I'll go ahead and give it a try." 

So when you see me at Lonestar don't be surprised if I say I'm just there to watch.  

Love the quote. Going to print it and keep it on my bathroom mirror.

Forgot:

WTG William! Very impressive AND a PR! Woot!

Congrats Birdy! You did indeed rock Oceanside!  

DUDE!!!  THAT IS AWESOME!!!!  CONGRATS!!!

sorry that's my bad...  i sometimes use steve's handle when referring to someone in the MG racing.  kim is the one that's gonna crush oceanside.  he's crazy enough to run this show so its kinda my shout out to him and all you peeps.  i know that probably doesn't make any sense....

I can't find your race report or I would post it for you!!!  You can't get away that easily....how did your strategy work for you?

Awesome run Bill!!!!

Great time man.  Sub 2hr is awesome.

What time did you finish?  It was nice and cool this AM but getting a bit warm out there now. 

How was the race itself?

If you go to your race entry you can publish it, there should be a button to make it public.

Awesome job!  And a PR to boot.

We've had a great day here too.  I ran an 8k with a friend.  She blew her goal of sub 11/pace out of the water and held a 9:54 pace.  And that was with running around all the walkers.  And, I got to be there with her....doesn't get much better than that.

Looking forward to tomorrow.....now that is going to be an interesting day.
Foot is uncomfortable, but not painful...so I'm going for it 

Congratulations William! Awesome!!!!!

Thanks Tracy! I'll check out the article!

I just got back in The Dalles after dropping my girl off at the airport in Spokane.  She's off to FT Polk, Louisiana.  I hope she can come down to Lonestar since she won't be too far away!

Finally done with all the traveling for awhile. It was fun, but it's always nice to get back to a normal schedule. Now, I just need to find a new pool to go to since the one we were using here in The Dalles closed the 15th for remodeling that will likely take months.

that's a real easy drive down.  ~4 hours. 

very cool!  tomorrow, i'm going to sound like your mom again.... please pull out if you really start feeling some pain. i might need help unpacking he moving truck.  can't have ya hurt!

As I said, I am a luddite so I do not know how to save/publish a race report.  I clicked "save" not "save as draft" but it is still showing up as a draft. 

Here is the URL at the top of the page when I am viewing the report:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/races-view-container.asp?raceid=142210


Overall - a really great day and am ecstatic about having run it.  I was almost successful in my strategy.  Slightly slower in the 2nd half, but kept the numbers closer than expected (first 4 miles were really flat or downhill, miles 6-10 were real rollers).  Here is what I wrote in my race report:

Only real negative was the crowds.

hehe welcome to running races in DC.  If it's one of the big ones they are all packed.  I am pretty much one and done with all the races in this area.

If you get a chance check out her race reports

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=199964&posts=21#M2737879

We met her a couple of years ago at Miami, she puts some serious work into all her race reports.  Always tons of pictures of the course and goings on.