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Nice work this weekend!

It is good you have someone that can give you the insight on your IM! 

Up early as usual, headed to the pool this morning!  Lunch time run and then a test on the bike tomorrow!

I am looking forward to the weekend already as we head to St. Maarten Saturday for the week (or most of it)!

Hey all. Been a crazy week for me, so I apologize for being MIA. Hope things are going well for everyone!! I'll hopefully be around more this week.

Sunday was my 44th Birthday. I played hockey with the boys in the morning then went over to my brother's place to have pizza and birthday cake with my niece and nephew. Played some Just Dance 4 with the kids then was in bed by 9:30pm. I was up at 5:10am this morning to get in my Masters swim class. Then after work it is 1.5 hours of indoor bike followed by a 2 mile run brick.

The NHL is back and my Jets first home game is Saturday afternoon. They are sure cramming a lot of games in the next 3 months. There are a lot of home games on Tuesday and Thursday, which are my run days. I guess I will have to run at lunch instead of afterwork. I just hope I don't fall asleep during the third periods because I am used to going to bed at 9:00 - 9:30 each night.

We had a blizzard here over the weekend. 10+cm of snow, winds of over 70km/hr and temps with the windchill of -35C. I spent 45 minutes on Saturday morning snowblowing the chest high snowdrifts just so I could get my car out of the garage and drive way so I could get to my bike session. Then came home after and spend another 1.5 hours finishing off what I missed. I am looking forward to March when I head down to Weslaco, Texas for 3 weeks to visit my parents and do some swimming and biking in the nice Texas heat.

I got a Desoto T1 First wave.  It's a 2 piece, so can't wait to try it out.  I have a trishop in town that has an endless pool and they let you try them there.  However, they didn't carry Desoto.  I'm basically taking a chance on the 2 piece being good for me.  I've always had a hard time with longer than average legs and short torso frame.  I took advantage of the trisports.com 25% off this weekend and had a gift certificate for there from xmas.  Wetsuits are tough!  I'd suggest renting some before you buy.  But, like I said, I basically took a shot on this one.

No need to apologize, we have no minimum attendance rules!  But good to hear from you, I was wondering!

Lake Michigan hasn't frozen over yet has it?  Give it a try a lunch time!

Happy Birthday!  And a blizzard doesn't sound like anymore fun when discussed in the metric system!

Good to have the NHL back in action, but I don't know if I can handle watching 5 games a week!  Maybe I'll DVR them and watch them on the trainer and fast forward through the commercials.

If you click on the sponsors link about it will take you here.

Xterra is a sponsor of this site and has a pretty good deal from what I can tell.  Also, Nytro and One Tri both sell wetsuits and have BT codes for discounts.  I found with most suits I tried, the online size guides were fairly accurate.  I heard from other reports that Xterra has a fairly reasonable return policy if you get it and find it doesn't fit. 

Looks like everyone is having unusual weather!! Has been raining here in Anchorage since Sat. morning - ground is frozen so we have flooding - schools are closed today due to the water freezing on the already icy roads.

Missed my saturday workout as I just wasn't feeling it - it was a swim so not worried. Got in my 65 minute treadmill run yesterday (no way was I getting outside!).  I had a spin class and short run scheduled today but may to have alter my plans since kids will be home.

Happy Monday!!!!

I hear a lot of good things about the Xterra suits.  I just wanted something a little more "fancy" this time!

and the lake still hasn't frozen!  We were above 50 on saturday morning.  It's now in the teens so it's in the freezing process now!  I'd get some practice sighting trying to avoid all the little iceburgs though! lol

Hello All,

I am just now recovering from the emotional exhaustion of the Saturday Bronco game. I am not a huge football fan but I got sucked and it was so stressful. If you saw it, you know what I mean.

The weather here has been brutally cold! The current temp is 0 degrees!  I think it made it to maybe 14 today.  I didn't leave my house all weekend. Fortunately I have some work out equipment in the basement so I had no excuses to not get some training in.  

My coach has me focusing on running and I am now running four times a week consistantly. That is big for me. She also has me doing different type of workouts so maybe, just maybe I might see some improvement this year. Running is extremely tough for me but I haven't given up quite yet.

I am signed up to do a 10 mile race on Saturday. I might do the 5 miler instead but I haven't decided yet. It takes me a LONG time to do 10 miles and of course I have the whole "I don't want to be the last person" thing going on in my head (most or all of you probably haven't had to think that )

I am having a new bike fit on Wednesday. It is really about finding a saddle for my tri bike but along with that will come a fit. There has got to be a saddle out there that will work for me but I haven't really found it yet.

I read something here about a chart or list of races people are doing?  where is that?  It is hard to keep up with all of you So great that this group is so active.

I bit the bullet and signed up for Kansas. I also reserved a room at the Holiday Inn Express. I am not a real camper so I wouldn't even know where to start with that!

I read the talk about evening workouts. I do almost all of my workouts in the evening. I just can't seem to get it together in the morning. 

All for now.

Interesting post Becky! I get the IM dreams once in a while, but not this far out from the race! 

I was hoping Denver would win that game too!

The running consistancy will help more than you probably realize.  It will take a bit, but you will get there!

The beauty of having those dreams this early is they'll really make you get prepared! It'll be a fun year for you.

Ditto! Slow is still faster than the people not getting out of the house. I'm a slow runner too. It's only been in the last year that I feel like I could really work on some speed and that has taken me to an average pace Whichever distance you chose, just have fun with it.

Failed at getting up yesterday morning for swim I got 3 swims in last week but looks like this week is only going to be 2.

Went out for a run with my daughter last night. I'm doing a walk/run program with her to get her going. We walked 2 min and ran 7 min and averaged 10:40 for 3 miles. That was the fastest we've gone so far. I'm getting used to these walk breaks! After our 10K next month I really need to get back to regular running but it's been fun to ease back into running.

Here's the lastest puppy video in case anyone needs a fix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdRu7cWy8s