SWBKRUN Mentor Group-"Off Season?" What is that?!! (Page 253)

that's awesome.

Ohhh, so wrong!  It's painful to watch.

Ok, 1 more time.

The jerseys are clean and ready to go...but the face painting really starts happening more towards the end of the season-'cause we're still going strong .    I have to confess I managed to rearrange date night to tonight (husand not a huge SC fan) so not to miss the game Sat. night 

Is SC the only rated team to take on another top 10 this week?  Want to talk about strength of schedule??????????


BTW - anyone see the Steelers game last night?  Man, Troy Polamalu (a SC guy) had one heck of a first half.  Hope he's back soon....not a Steelers fan, but I do follow my SC guys      

HA! I love your way of taking a shot a LSU.   You guys are the only two ranked teams playing each other at all this weekend.  Notre Dame and Michigan should be a good game, of has been's. 

Strength of schedule?  Yeah lets talk.  What on earth can a PAC-10 team have to say?  I hate Texas just as much as you but....

The Pac 10 never gets credit for strength of schedule.  Look at the top 3 teams....
Florida - plays LSU (11) and GA (21)
Texas -  plays OK (13), Missouri (25), OK St (5) and Kansas (24)
USC - plays Ohio St (8), Cal (10), ND (18)

USC usually doesn't have a probelm with games out of conference.  It's those in-conference games that get them.
Yep, Pac 10 is tougher than they get credit for     

John, Good luck this weekend. 
I know you're not racing...but 2 young kids by yourself and no beer.  Makes for one tough weekend 

On right now...
http://www.tourofmissouritracker.com/

Until ND gets beat this weekend.  And we'll see where Cal stays.  Lookout for Texas A&M in the Big 12... never mind.   The west coast never gets any respect.  ;-)

Thanks for the well wishes for the weekend.  Its going to be a tough one.  I'll be yapping at you some point Satuday night. 

I too am at my race site in Lake Geneva.  Found out when I got here they added another timing mat so added another loop on the bike.  Of course that meant I had to drive it since the signage is supposed to be poor.  It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be....only got out of my car once to correct a sign that was pointing in the opposite direction! Not sure if the course is 56m or something more.   I am taking it all with a grain of salt. My only wish is it was 6:15am and I was already mashing my way through the water!  Talk to you tomorrow afternoon!

PS Birdy, thanks for the well wishes. Do you really want me to pick flowers along the way?  I mean it might slow me down a bit, but for you....maybe.

Edited by SSMinnow 2009-09-11 7:36 PM

Good luck Rob - you'll do great!

Good luck Suzy - can't wait to hear how you tear the course up!

Good luck this weekend everyone.

Hi guys and gals! Sorry I've been MIA lately. I've just been busy and a bit burnt out. Working on pulling myself out of it though, as I still have a HIM coming up on 9/26 and there's also that 50k run that I am terribly behind in training for.
I did have an awesome backpacking trip that included 60 miles of hiking with a 32lb pack with a total climb of 10,000 ft. Not exactly s/b/r, but ought to count for some kind of training. I also PR'd an Oly last weekend with a total time of 3:04:20, but I think it was mostly due to the swim being short, because there's no way I swam it as fast as they say.

I'm working on catching up with the pages of posts I'm behind on. I hope everyone is doing great! Good luck to all the racers this weekend! OH, and especially to our amazing first time HIM racers... GO SUZY!!!! GO ROB!!!!

Go you crazy HIM'ers!!!! Wishing you good weather and great races!!

And John too...sneek a beer when the rugrats are in bed.

X at least a gazillion!!! go suzy and rob!!!!!! excited for you both, you will do great! 

I just had a great workout that I thought I would brag about.  I mean I posted on Thursday morning about how crappy of a workout I had, well this morning made up for it.  Did a 54 mile ride this morning with our group, and we really pushed it, but felt like there was no chain on the bike.  Off the bike I did a 4.5 mile brick and ran faster and easier than I ever remember.  It was a great feeling after being deflated thursday after my "long' run.   I think I really needed this as a confindence booster going into the taper weeks. 

Rob and Suzy should be well into their races right now.  Hope they have the wind at their backs

Got my first tubular flat this AM I was only 2.77 miles from home. I am working on setting up my clincher training set. I need to figure out what type of cog the rear wheel will accept. Unfortunately my wife has left me at home with the kids so I can't make any progress until she returns.

I was thinking about suzy and Rob during my morning brick workout.

I think it should be mandatory from now on that any HIM or above, which will include crazy 2 mile ocean swim's, that we race must have athlete tracking!   Rob's race venue looks amazing on the race site.

Great to hear Barry!

Congratulations, Ms. Half Ironman!!!  Sounds like the swim and bike went well, that course sounds BRUTAL!  Could you have picked a hillier (bike and run) half ironman for your first??  I guess you love a challenge .  You sucked it up for the run and finished it.  And that is what counts.  So proud of you! 

CONGRATS MISSY!!! That is great! You had issues, you had a BALLISTIC CRAZY course, and you did it!  I am EXTREMELY HAPPY and Proud of you!!! WAY TOO GO!!!!!! 

BOOYAH! Congratulations! That's a tremendous accomplishment. Sooooo awesome!

And I just got back from watching Birdy and Kim do an Olympic. They EASILY took the "family championship", since Birdy got 2nd in his AG (and a new PR too, I think), and Kim got 3rd in hers.

Way to go, all you speedsters!