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Men get pedicures?

some shave their legs but thats a bit feminine for me.

DUDE clean up those legs....

you mean those 808's i had a lone star didn't help me enough.  ha.

The 808's may have helped a little but all that hair slowed you WAY DOWN!!!

Actually you could use it to your advantage, to determine airflow while riding.

See this video from Lance. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4oQ03HqyE

Look no further than BT.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=633

Lists field tests for determining Bike and Running LT's.

anyone want into thin air.  kinda beat up paper back but still an awesome read. 

Not allowed to tell us to hold off on the joke!

You are going straight to Daddy Hell for that one!

Double oops!  Blank post and ^^^ was me!

And on second thought you are going to Costco so that is like hell especially w/ 2 little ones!

and he's to cheap to get a business membership so he can't even get in an hour early. 

book is gone.  but i'm thinking the paperback is gonna burn up pretty quick where he's going.

Tony's link is a good read, but one thing that I think would come close on the run LT is taking a recent 10K race average HR or if you haven't done one in awhile, there's no time like the present! Just remember 10k should be a good, hard effort. Puke at the end kind of hard! Go get 'em, Rob!

Oh, just another post to try to get past John's hairy legs.Have fun at the circus, Trevor! I tried the portobella mushroom raviolis last week and they were quite good.

Back and beat.  My half was this morning.  Went out shooting for a 1:45 or roughly an 8 minute pace.  My wife was supposed to run but did not due to getting hit hard with a bug about a month back and has not fully recovered from it yet.  Someone we know said don't expect to PR on the course, its not overly hilly or challenging, just not a good course to set your PR, although she didnt specify why.  Then again its my first half marathon race, so whatever I run would be a PR unless you factor in my marathon split.

Showed up early as normal, stretched, ran a bit to get the legs firing, and then ran into a person I know from work and the race director for the Miracle Kids Triathlon that I have been working with this year.  After some conversation we figured out that we wanted to run the same pace, so we stuck together.  I have had a lazy week in  terms of training due to life, with only a moderate swim in the past 3 days, I guess this let me fully recover for this race.  We took off and were keeping good pace.  About mile 4-5 I noticed that one of the guys was dropping back a bit and just hung behind us a little ways.  I wanted to stick together and get through it, and I knew Tony would be fine pacing, so we adjusted pace and kept chugging. About mile 7 I noticed Mike had dropped back a ways so we waited at the water stop.  After not much longer he told Tony to stick with me as his pace was not going to happen.  Tony ran back and forth between us a couple of times.  Each marker we passed I realized we were picking up time from the pace to hit 1:45.  About the 10 mile mark, we figured that under 100 minutes was possible if we kept the pace, as the rain started to come down lightly.  Thankfully Tony stuck with me, my HR was up, legs were burning, and mentally I hit a wall.  11-12 was the hardest mile, knowing I had around 15 minutes to go.

I managed to stick it out although I about lost my guts right around mile 12.  The last mile was painful, but the adrenaline kicked in and made the last half mile much better.  Tony ran back to catch up with Mike letting me finish in 1:39:4x.  I was shocked I managed to break this barrier as I thought the 1:45 mark was going to be wishful thinking.   

Post race, I got my first after race massage, which did wonders for my legs, and then stood around for a good while talking with others we knew.  I was shivering by the time I got in my car, to come home and make an ice bath to soak the legs.  A nice relaxing rest of the day and plan to ride the tri course tomorrow for next weekend.

A new PR for a half, and some inspiration along with it, that if I play my cards right over the next year or so I could realistically qualify for Boston.

Splits:
7:40
7:31
7:41
7:54
7:57
8:00
7:33
7:17
7:26
7:16
7:16
7:31
7:37
:44

Now that I look back at the splits, I can clearly see that mile 9-11 were significantly quicker than all but mile 7 and would set me up for a really rough finish.  I learned a lot about pacing, my body, and my limits.

Good luck to all other racers this weekend! 

WOW!!! Congratulations, Jeff!! That is an awesome time and a great effort. Good for you! I'm in awe!! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Hope your wife is feeling better too -- that's a drag, poor her!

damn.  nice job jeff.  looks like you had some fast guys in your a/g.  lots of top 10 overall.   well done!

Nice job, Jeff.  I had no doubt you could hit 1:45. 

Geez, with your fast run splits on your tri's, I figured it was a very modest goal unless it was a trail run.  Great job holding on at the end! 

AWESOME job Jeff.  Way to push yourself and test your limits.  Great race.

Just a quick stop by to let you know the day went great!  Haven't uploaded the data yet, but really happy with the output on both bikes and both runs and the nutrition was spot on! Pysched!

So...after all the discussion earlier about how not to wear race apparel for a race you have not done....how about during the actual race itself?   For tomorrow's tri, there was a cool Headsweats cap with the race logo on the front.  I usually wear a cap or visor during the run and thinking about wearing this one....but, is that uncool?