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HA!  love it!

big series this weekend. 

The 2 or 3 I have been to, all you have to know is Freestyle.

Maybe cheesy but this commercial gets me psyched.

http://www.versus.com/general/videos/versus-you-vs-them-promo/in-stream/sort/most-recent/i/2/

Edited by dalessit 2010-08-12 9:07 PM

This is one of my favorites.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPq0hDdDhs

the deep fried turkey comment makes me laugh everytime!

Dino

Edited by badgerintx 2010-08-12 9:38 PM

No, you don't need to be able to swim butterfly, it's OUR Giants, and where are you looking to swim?  I raced my first masters meet at Koret.

I had a GREAT day.  35 mile bike ride with my great friend who has agreed to do IMAZ 2011 with me!  She's faster than I am, and will really motivate me.  Then we went to lunch, had a massage and participated in some retail therapy.  Went to lululemon for the first time!! Just opened a 1997 Beringer Private Reserve. 21 year old's hangover is better, 17 year old is seeping leaves, other two are backpacking.  Life is good.

I love this one too, but I seriously doubt we'll be seeing any more commercials with those two together. 

You beat me to it...I was just thinking the same thing.

All MG racers have a GREAT and SAFE race this weekend....MG trainers train hard this weekend.....and John...you just try not to burn your sensitive "wittle toes"   

So I did a brick worlout last night, including a 90 minute bike ride (on the CT completing 30.45 miles) and then ran twenty minutes. I ran 2.46 miles and felt great. It was wierd. My running has been carp all year, but when I do late night bricks they seem to be really good (for me). Why can't it be like this during a race?

You need to find a race that starts at 8:00 pm, not 8:00 am.  The "Night Owl Tri"  or something like that. 

Its probably all those Mens league hockey games that start at 1:00 am that have your work out endorphins, etc. all messed up.



Dino 

i might have my first velodrome race coming up, so i gotta take care of the pigs!

Michelle--LOVE THE PHOTO! priceless really.

Tracy--totally feel for you on your kitty situation.  Lost my dog Newton several years ago and I know how hard it is to watch a pet decline.  Hang tough.

I had a good time watching the commercials and I have to agree the butterfly guy is a whack job!  LOVED the Versus commercial...the number of times they inserted their brand name with "It's you vs....is really clever! Of course, Im a marketer

Doug--circadian rhythms play a big role in when we should exercise.  I'm an early bird so doing those 7pm aquathons kills me. If life permits maybe you try to do some of your training late to get the benefit and then introduce early sessions as races draw near???

Been kind of distracted lately so lost track of exactly who is racing this weekend, but as Dineen always says REPRESENT!! 

I've taken a lof of good advice from the group on the saddle situation and hope I have covered my basis.  Going in with my bike to test several on Monday afternoon at the place that salavaged my RU and ordered a Cobb V Plus to throw in the mix.  I need to grin and bear it tomorrow on breakthrough workouts #3!!!!  Time to show my steely resolve!

Enjoy the weekend Peeps!







Edited by SSMinnow 2010-08-13 3:00 PM

This is for Tracy and the other MG members.

    I went to my vet today to talk about the situation with Keno. She's declining quickly, and she is also on borrowed time. She has lost so much weight and her blood count is extremely low (even to the point where the vet is shocked to see a cat alive with such a low PCV).  We stopped the EPO therapy today as it is not working (which was kind of expected).  The only thing we could do is make her comfortable for the weekend, then it will be time for her to travel the Rainbow Bridge.  We both are in the same boat this week. :-(



Also on Las Vegas front - one member from my biking club was killed last week while cycling - the driver was drunk, and it was a hit and run accident.   The driver's lawyers got his bail lowered from 100k to 50k, is on a house arrest and not allowed to drive or drink.  That's it. WTF?!

THEN - Today - a teenager bicyclist was hit badly by another drunk driver. The driver ran off, but police caught him. Teen is in the hospital in critical condition, but will live. 

Lastly - a cyclist friend was clipped by an 18 wheeler while inflating his tires. Lost his front wheel, but he's fine. If he was riding the bike, he would have been killed.   My friend was WAY over to the right in the dirt shoulder, and is wondering why the truck driver just kept on going as well as the car behind him kept going.  He didn't understand how could no one stop to check?!

What's WRONG with these drivers?!

*siiiiiigh*

The only good news is that I'm finally healed from my cold, and will go for a nice brick tomorrow.
      

So I am getting a road id, what should I put on the last line.

Trying to think of something good, most of the ones I was thinking about are obscene. 

The only clean one I have come up with so far is.

"DON'T LET HER PULL THE PLUG!"

Don't know if you have tried doing a search of the threads in the main forum but there are a couple of threads there that speak directly to this....I tried to do the search and it wouldn't display for some reason 

There were some real good posts there that should give you some great ideas.

Thanks, I 'll look for it.

Tony, I like that it is funny.  I am getting one too and need to come up with a one liner.

Linda

hilarious.  i need to get one of those, too.  mine might be, "save the corneas!"

Did my little 5k torture-fest today.

Race Report

Honestly this was miserable for me. I totally went into it with the mental attitude of "You can push for a bit more than 20 minutes. Hang on. It's finite. Be tough. Be strong. Run fast. Run hard." After about 1 mile I was done and spent the next 1.5 coming up with reasons to stop, LOL! I haven't done any speed work and that hurt me physically, and probably mentally as well. This was all about gathering data for future tempo runs and speed work, so it is what it is. And thank goodness it's DONE!!

Time was 24:03 (I was hoping for sub-24... pissed that I could not pull 3 seconds out of somewhere, but really, I don't feel that I could have!). Miles were 7:24,7:45,8:15. Clearly I choked at the end. Glad it's done!!!