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Hey I'm just thinking about your well being!  ;-)  If you did Black bear this weekend, it would soothe your nerves about the Randolph tri incredibly! ;-)

I think Chicago Dave might have had sleep issues at some point.  Glad you gave up caffiene. :-)  So you just wake up in the middle of the night?

Glad your ride went well Becky!  Wow you are going to do really well in this race.

Sure wish I could figure out a way to post to this forum from my cell phone.  I can update other things, just not forums.

Ok I am thinking I really need a big bike ride this weekend.  There are several rides available, but Saturday looks bad for me.  And all of these require a drive.

The Shorebird Metric Century on Saturday in Salisbury.

Sunday:

Shenandoah Valley Heritage Ride (70 miles), Winchester, VA

Chester County Metric Century (West Chester, PA)

I would really like to do more than 63-70 miles.  Maybe one of these is easily rideable after the "ride" is over? 

Steve, want to run the BWI Trail Tuesday night?

They posted video from the Dreaded Druid Hills 10k course if any of you are interested in seeing what the course looks like. This video is right before mile 3, we haven't really gotten into the bad hills yet but this one was a nice heavy breathing one. :-)  This video captures what the hills mostly look like in the middle of the course, and also how pretty it can be.  I am at 1:17 in this video.

Dreaded Druid Hills

Yes I am smiling and laughing in yet another pic.  But it was funny, hearing him saying "3 mile mark" when we are suffering so much and yet haven't gotten halfway through the race.

Thanks. :-)  We'll see when I have to lead the 4:15 at Baltimore! :-)  I'm trying to come up with things I might want to say to people.  I love Chuck Norris jokes, I may try to memorize a bunch of those.  And they are exercise-related!

Hey, did you tell us you were doing the Cascade Lake Triathlon?

I was a 5:00 pacer for Baltimore 2008, this year is 4:15.  Becky, you are improving every week, we'll just have to see where you are when October gets nearby. :-)

The Baltimore Relay can be kind of fun with friends but if you get the wrong leg you can end up waiting around a lot.  But, if you want to run long, you can just run your leg, then run the next leg with your teammate.  I did that one year.  Then you get a supported training run.

Friends and I are beginning to think about JFK 50 this year.

I'm getting anxious waiting for Abbie to do her first triathlon. :-)

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

Have a good race Steve!  Hmm.  I wonder if Tour De Carroll crosses that course.  We were talking about doing that ride.

Way to keep racing Abbie! I've never head of a non-holiday Monday 5k before, interesting.  Remember, don't start out too fast!  I don't want to see a 6:45 as your first mile split. :-)

I haven't tried Endurox mainly because I ignore recovery drinks.  I figure I earned being able to eat my recovery, not drink it. :-)  It could be something useful, but I haven't tried it yet.  I'm not familiar with how often they recommend you drinking it, do they say every day?

I did use their racing product, Accelerade, and it seemed to bloat my stomach, it was hard to clean out of bottles, and it smelled really, really, really bad if it sat around for a while, even if I drank all I could and didn't rinse it out.  And once you smell it bad, even when it is ok, you still smell a hint of what you remember.

I changed to Hammer products and I do a lot better with them.  In general every person is going to be different, and you should experiment with different products to see what you like best.

Haha, well maybe he will follow through this time.  In any case, even if he drops out, if Roger and I are in, you will have training buddies and such.

I haven't seen a Ragnar Relay thread, where is it?  I probably wouldn't do it unless it fell into the schedule well, depending on the mileage.  I wouldn't want to trash my legs for a race that was just for fun.  Being in a van with 10 stinky people all sharing a 200 mile run sounds wonderful otherwise though. :-)  I've never done one of those before. 

I just looked it up.. oh yeah give me one of the legs that goes through the streets of Washington DC at 2-4am! :-)

Chicago Dave's post on transitions was a good one.  One of the things I do is within the last 10 minutes of the previous leg, I start focusing on what I am going to do in transition.  I walk through each step in my head, so when the real transition comes, I've already done it 4-5 times.  Now, what I learned at Columbia is that I need to include which way I am entering/exiting the transition when rehearsing in my head.

So Dave, obviously you are begging to sign up for another race.. so which one?  What's the next goal?  Try to crush the sprint distance, or move up to olympic?

Good to hear that your use of aerobars went well.  I was happy to read about Becky's high % usage last weekend as well.

2 weeks to Eagleman!

Looks like I may be heading to Shenandoah on Sunday for a big charity bike ride.  Becky, that is only and hour from you..

Doh, you said that didn't you. :-)  My head is cluttered these days.  Sounds like a run at the lakefront area is a mandatory thing to do over there.  Looks really nice.