SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 251)

SSMinnow - 2009-09-10 5:50 AM Trev--good luck at the doctor.  Make sure you take your shoes with you so the doc can see the wear pattern.  A good health care provider will be able to tell a lot from them.  Your kids are so cute....and so serious!

Andy--glad to see you back. One tough race does not define an athlete.  Take the things you learned, modify the strategy and repeat often!

One little 3m stride run left this morning and then its time to get my stuff together.  I'm off to find a head lamp since we will be setting the transition at 5am in total darkness. Heading to Lake Geneva tomorrow afternoon.  I'm ready--race strategy is in place--got the same great advice from Steve and Gordo on how to handle each section and it looks like the weather will cooperate too.  After that, volunteering at IM MOO on Sunday, signing up on Monday and then probably will scratch my head and wonder what the heck to do next.

swbkrun - 2009-09-10 1:09 PM Racing Oly on Saturday.... REALLY unprepared, but:

Good goals:
sub 30 swim
sub 1:15 bike
sub 50 10k

YIPPE GOALS
26 min swim
1:10 bike
47 min run

In the end... Just happy to race--- Whatever the day brings.  Haven't raced since June 5th, so a little rusty/and lazy !

TrevorC - 2009-09-10 10:04 PM Went to the PT...Flexor digitorum longus 1st degree strain......blah. Said it probably from overuse. Ask me 2 years ago if I thought I'd get an injury from running too much!!HA!! !Just need to keep heat on it at night. And ice it after runs if its sore. Glad thats all it is.

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 7:28 AM

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 6:28 AM

brownnugen - 2009-09-11 7:23 AM For a race that requires you to rack your bike in the transition area the day before, do you guys usually completely set up your transition area or just leave your bike there?  I'm doing the Nation's Tri this weekend and I have to get to the transition area super early Sunday morning and would like to avoid lugging all my stuff if possible, but more importantly don't want to worry about my stuff Saturday.  Is that something to worry about?

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 6:28 AM

sdalessio - 2009-09-11 7:44 AM

Tony and I did Nations last year.  Just leave your bike and nothing else.  Maybe a towel to claim a spot on the ground but we definitely did the setup Sun. AM.  Some people cover their handlebars and/or seat w/ plastic to prevent them form getting damp or wet if it rains.  Also if it's hot (which I don't think it will be), let some air out of your tires overnight so they don't pop in the heat.

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 7:28 AM

sdalessio - 2009-09-11 8:44 AM

Tony and I did Nations last year.  Just leave your bike and nothing else.  Maybe a towel to claim a spot on the ground but we definitely did the setup Sun. AM.  Some people cover their handlebars and/or seat w/ plastic to prevent them form getting damp or wet if it rains.  Also if it's hot (which I don't think it will be), let some air out of your tires overnight so they don't pop in the heat.

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 4:28 AM

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 6:28 AM

fattyfatfat - 2009-09-11 8:13 AM

Mt Pleasant, SC  Enterprise Rent a car.  I remember a lot about the day but a few things really stick out.  The first was when a buddy told me a small plane hit the trade center, next was listening the radio when the second tower came down, next was a guy came in right after he got a call from his mom that his dad was doing some plumbing work in Windows of the World (restaurant on top of the north tower) and then sitting on my back deck late that night staring up at the sky knowing there wasn't one civilian aircraft up there.  I just sat there for hours.  I was so furious. 

From 2003 to 2005 Jarrett and I worked on the Navy/Marine Corps Landing Platform Dock (LPD) program in New Orleans.  These are ~700 foot amphibious assault ships run by the Navy,  manned and armed by Marines.  She was an civilian engineer and I was attached to an EDO unit assigned to the yard.  lol! In a round about way I had oversight of her work.  Anyways.  LPD 21 is the USS NEW YORK.  She was built with ~24 tons of steel from the WTC.  The steel was brought in very early on in construction and was placed in a prominent area of the shipyard as a reminder of what we were there for.   Ships motto is "Never Forget" in honor of the vicitms and first responders of that day.  She's scheduled to be comissioned this November.  I just think this is one of those things that we'll look back in some years and be able to tell our children and grandchildren about what went on that day and the months after and also we as a family, a team, had a hand in shaping the fight against those cowards that are responsible for the attacks. 

Below is 21.   LPD 24 and 25 are ARLINGTON and SOMERSET. 

sdalessio - 2009-09-11 9:23 AM

That's pretty cool about the ship.  I know what you mean about the planes in the sky.  We are in the flight pattern for Washington National.  So for months we didn't see or hear any planes in the sky.  It was eerie at first b/c of the silence and then weird when they did start flying again.

dalessit - 2009-09-11 8:25 AM

Very strange at the pentagon the first day they let planes fly back over, everyone I saw stopped in their tracks and made sure the plane kept going.  That went on for quite some time.

sdalessio - 2009-09-11 8:34 AM

To this day, I still watch them very closely when they come over Rosslyn on approach to National.  I swear they get so close the buildings.  I find myself hunching down a bit at times.

The other odd thing about the day was how beautiful it was on the east coast.  It was a gorgeous fall day - no humidity, perfect temps and not a cloud in the sky.  I'm glad its raining today.

JHagerman - 2009-09-11 7:28 AM