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Off to a lecture by Alain Robert the Human Spider tonight, should be good!

thanks, picked it up today and it is awesome.  ridiculously light compared to my aluminum felt road bike.

got in a trainer session this evening, going to try to put in a run before my bar crawl tomorrow.  also signed up for a st patties 5k next saturday today, haven't decided if im going to try and race it or just run it (entry was paid for by my employer).

Got in a 5k today, 21 mins exactly.  We had our work Christmas get together last night, was interesting.  I volunteered to DD so I was happy to get up early and go for a run.   I am on vacation this week, so 9 days off. 

I am going to my LBS tomorrow, made an appointment for noon to get my fitting and all that.  Still not quite sure which bike I will get.  Wanna see what fits better.  The owner is the one doing the fitting and he has a S5 he is letting me test ride.  I told him anything is going to feel better than my 1989 Cannondale Aluminum jobby. 

I will let ya know and post a pic for ya.

21 min 5k, vacation and a new bike w/fitting, dude that's a pretty awesome couple days.  Good luck on the new bike and fitting and hopefully the weather cooperates so you can get out there and rip it up.

Got my new Bike today,  went in still thinking about the S5,  got fitted and the Cervelo was definatly my  best fit,  So Instead of buying the S5 I chose to buy the S2 and Upgrade Wheels, to the Zipp 60 Clinchers,  they are brand new and not even shipping out yet so i have to wait a few weeks to get them.  so untill then I am riding the stock wheels.  I am so happy that I was able to get this ,  also got new shoes,helmet, and Look pedals.

And now I get to ride it all week.  yippee

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The S2 looks awesome! Congrats!

Off day for me today. I got in a long bike and a long swim (and a very short run) yesterday, along with date night, so I think I've earned a day off :P

boo no riding,  Rained all night, off and on all morning.  Don't want to get my bike wet yet.  

Ran instead in the rain, I really like running in the rain!  really exhilarating!  

Ran 8.65 miles in 1:02:00  did a out and back to work on my negative splits and I got it!

31:35 out and 30:20 back.  I am still kinda bummed though that I am not able to ride.  I thought it was supposed to be nice all week but surprise surprise the weather man was wrong again.

So I spent some time this morning looking for races to do and kind of laid out a ballpark for my wife.  

4-20  5k at the Cleveland Zoo,  more or less just to help raise money

4-21  Duathlon Hinckley Ohio, 5k run, 15 mile bike, 5k run  (pretty hilly)  and the loop is 3 mile so 

                                               you are doing 5 laps with the bike

6-9  Oly Tri  Ravenna Ohio

6-22 & 23  Relay around columbus my portion is about 19 miles

7-7 Oly Tri  Milton Man,  this is the one I did last year. (wanna beat my time)

8-4  Oly Tri  Greater Cleveland Tri

9-2  Century Ride , found a local cycling group doing a free century ride on Labor Day, not supported but will provide maps.

10-13 Half Marathon  Peninsula Ohio, on old Canal/towpath

Then of course our Turkey trot on Thanksgiving as always our church puts on.

I don't think that looks too bad for my 2nd year out.  I still dont know if and when I want to move up to try a Half Ironman.  I think I could do it just don't know when My better half is going to approve and how much I will actually be able to train for it.

I will post another pic once I get my Aero bars and new wheels on it.  At the store I held up a pair of Zipp 404's and it looks sharp. 

That is not good clempson. 

Whatever happened to you going out of town for 6 months on business?

Well, snow today didnt feel like dressing like an eskimo to ride the new bike so I hooked it up to the trainer.  Felt like I was riding a trainer, didnt really feel much different from my old bike.  I really hope this bike feels better outside.  

Swim tomorrow and run.  

ohh and My wife and I stopped at a running store we had never been too like 3 miles from our house and they have tons of Inventory and apparel, they also do Sat and Sun morn runs like 2 miles from our house.  SCORE!!!   I am looking forward to those,  only bad thing is getting up at 6:30 on a Saturday or Sunday.  

fell through luckily.  then another scare came up, but i was told i don't have to worry about that assignment.

leg was in immense pain this morning and hurt to walk/stand and using the foam roller caused me to see stars... feeling much better as of right now though; suspect ill be able to take out the new bike tomorrow evening even. got my new gopro mounted to it, just waiting on my new garmin cadence/speed sensor in the mail.

snow sucks.  thats awesome you found a place so close, you will be surprised how often you end up "just stopping by" to check stuff out.  

most shop rides/runs are pretty early so the staff can finish before they have to open up. i have to get up at like 5.45/6ish for my local shop ride on the weekend.

Its never a good thing to just "stop by" a running store, or bike store for that matter.  I would end up buying way too much stuff I didn't need.

that's how i got a bike last week....

Expensive window shopping!

hills are always good to run. enjoy them, they are making you a stronger runner.  everyone hurts on them, not just you.

I have 3-4 different loops I like to do at my house to mix it up a little bit.  If I do the same route back to back I just try to beat my last time,  So also you can Race the clock on the same loop, or you could work on hill repeats, Negative Splits,  or Fartleks.  

Just don't go too fast that you are going to hurt yourself.  Don't run a 25 min 5k one day and the next try a 21 min 5k.  It takes a long time to build speed up.

Pretty crappy workout today,  Went to gym Swam like 900 yds, just in one of those moods, wanna workout but just would rather sit on the couch and watch TV, cause I am on vacation after all.  

Did do 4x50 speed swims though, fastest was 47 sec then 49, 51, 50  so Thats not too bad

Did some speed work on the track around the gym running just messed around.  

I challenge myself on the stair climber to climb 100 floors in less than 20 mins, I haven't missed it yet. 

Then ate 2 hot fudge sundaes and called it a night. 

Might be going riding on friday morning in the National Park up here,  found someone on FB going so I might tag along with her.

eh better than me. hit them gym then did 20 minutes on my bike. i felt myself tweak a muscle in my lower leg monday at the gym when picking up a couple 80lb weights; pretty tight now.  upside is my IT-band issue is pretty much gone; feeling only tender on the foam roller. 

i still have a 5k saturday and i'm not sure what condition i am going to be in to "race" it. a coworker of mine has been wanting to beat me in a race for some time now. he is looking to go sub 20 and i think he can do it, and i would give him a good race if i wasn't afraid of pushing back my 70.3 training. le sigh, looks like i will have to "settle" for the beer at the end of the race

Been stupid busy lately but luckily training hasn't taken a back seat totally.  Got a run in Monday, bike last night, maybe another run tonight.

Life is crazy because the wife and I have decided to go the route of dual property owning.  We have a  townhouse that we've lived in for 6 years but with the kid growing at our rate (I'm 6'6", wife is 6'2") and life in general we'd like more room, so we found a house in a neighboring town that we love and plan to make an offer this weekend and then also put up the townhouse for rental.  I've ran the numbers a million times and we're fine to do it financially, but to say we're not anxious, stressed, scared, etc, would be lying.  I'm trying to digest having two mortgages, but the expected rent from the townhouse would pay for 95% of the mortgage, and I've done quite a few upgrades to the place and we know it will fetch what we're looking for.  This also will mean my summer could take quite a hit in terms of having time for races and such with moving and whatnot, but I'm not even worried about that yet.  I'm going to continue working out like I have been and let things sort themselves out.