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nice job, again, Steve!!  though, we've all come to expect stellar results every time you race!!!

jess!  uh oh is right!  you're buying IM books!?  you're just one small little nudge away from registering. 

that's great that mark is back near you.  life sounds really good right now for you.  i'm glad.  you deserve it.

ryan and i have one hell of a week coming at us this week.  in total 21 hours of swim/bike/run including 2 more century rides.  ugh. 

it's hilarious how messed up the triathlon mind-set is.  today we got a note from scott (coach) telling us to "rest up" today.  i then looked up the schedule and we had a 3000m swim and a 5 mile run on the agenda.  since when is that rest?!  oh brother. 

...on a sad note, did you hear about the death during the philly sprint on saturday?  a 40 year old man never got out of the water.  his poor family was at the exit waiting for him and he never came out.  i cannot imagine how devastating this is for a family.  he was married and had two sons, ages 15 and 17.  we had a handful of fexies doing the sprint on saturday and said the water was extremely calm with almost perfect conditions.  makes you think that it almost had to be a medical condition.  either way, it's terrible.  they turned sundays oly into a du because they were still searching for him the next day.  they found him sunday afternoon.  terrible terrible terrible. 

on a happier note, a fexy woman was the overall winner at yesterday's celebration sprint.  this is the first annual sprint started by the columbia tri folks.  she is 47!!!  awesome.

any word on neil and how is injury is coming along?

hope you are all doing well!

all of those facts about that race would pretty much have me never doing it again.  i understand your frusturation.

i did to my 3000m swim.  the run ended up being 4 due to a major thunder storm that crept up out of nowhere. 

we have both remained remarkable healthy during this all.  i daresay way more healthy than either of us have ever been on our own in training with significantly less volume.  if left to my own devices, i slack for a while and then panic that i'm not doing enough and then do way more than i have the base to sustain, and then get injured.  i am actually shocked that other than normal fatigue, i feel great. 

i'm still getting lots of sleep, but am still pretty much tired all the time.  can't sleep all day though. 

i dropped the ball on nutrition for a few weeks, but hopefully am back on the wagon.  after eman i also allowed myself to start drinking again.  it took me about a week to realize that i am doing way too much training, it is way too hot  and i'm loosing way too much fluid to sustain that.  back to being dry for me.  i felt like death last week and i attribute it entirely to poor hydration and diet. 

i do have iron girl sprint on the agenda the week before imloo.  i'm not entirely sure i will be doing it, though.  i did the reston sprint the week before eman and i felt like i tweaked my hip a little in the hard sprint effort.  my thoughts were that the distance wasn't a big deal to do a week before a big race.  i didn't think about the intensity, though.  sure, i could do iron girl and just reel in my intensity, but i know me, and i know that won't happy.  i'll make that decision to do it or not come game time.  we'll see.

as for the volume, i am enjoying it so far, but i haven't completed the real heavy stuff yet.  ask me this time next week.  i am definitely feeling like ironman might be a once every 3 (or so) years event for me.  the volume makes it hard to keep up at work and have any other life.  i do, however, think that i will do a half every year.  i REALLY like the half distance and i think if i focus on it I could get quite good at it....which will only make me better at the fulls when i do them.

there are several century routes that start from my very own front door.  we are so lucky in that we live in a busy area, but it gets significantly more rural very quickly.  we had a great ride this past saturday.  it took us out to the historic whites ferry, across the potomac, into maryland, up sugarloaf mountain and back.  so much fun.  i hadn't done it before.  the ferry was cool (and only $1 per bike).  there are pics up on facebook.

agghhh.  time has gotten away from me.  have to run (not literally, thankfully) to work.

Hi all!  Hope all are well.  I've been at the beach this week (translate - no exercising except playing in the waves.)  Been highly unmotivated even before that.  Hoping things will change when I get back.  Need to get my mind in the right place I guess.  It's been awfully hot, but that's just an excuse.  I have been enjoying keeping up with the updates on Facebook - Steve, you're going to have to learn how to do that.  A few days more here in Florida (leaving the 5th) and then back to reality.  Hope everyone has a happy long weekend (for those south of the canadian border anyway...)  Mindy