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stevebradley - 2010-12-13 5:59 PM ANNE - Do you ever hang out at the forum at www.slowtwitch.com? If so, have you seen the thread pertaining to OAT insurance? If not, you might want to go there. The thread was on the first page of the forum a little while ago, and the author is HR (Richard Pady, if you know him), who was hit by a truck during Welland half-iron in June. How much snow are you getting today? Son Peter in Guelph told us last night it might be about six inches, but by the time it gets here it will be only 2-4cm. Stay warm!

stevebradley - 2010-12-13 4:33 PM MANDY - GREAT news that it is now official! Does that mean that we all now get 11" x 17" autographed glossies of you, decked out in Team Trakkers gear? I'm also glad you decided to "upgrade" to the SL; it really does sound quite similar to my P2C. I am sure you will benefit immensely from the carbon-lightness of it as you climb up twice from Wilmington back into Placid! Did you check to make sure that the 47 is the right size for you? It should be.....but as I said, I'm not any too clear on body sizes and bike sizes. For me to get to west of Cleveland, where Cedar Point is, would be about 8-9 hours. So for you, probably 12 isn't a bad guess. Do the race, and then ride the rides at the amusement park! You seem like the kind of person who was maybe born on a roller-coaster, yes? I hope all gets better with family matters. Hang in there?

stevebradley - 2010-12-16 6:25 PM ANNE - That's fine about the HVJ photos! It's just I didn't want you to have sent them, and me not reveive them, and then seem ungrateful by not thanking you for them. So, in advance, whenever you send them.......MANY THANKS! I just learned about a new oly near Newburgh, NY, with a point-to-point swim in the Hudson AND a single-lop bike AND an out-and-back run...........and then learned it is going to be $175. $175!! That is REALLY high for a first-time tri, but the RD wrote and said he has over 100 entrants already. I would love to be one of them, but that's way high for the average oly. Sheesh. This is what I worry about with WTC dipping into olympic-distance races -- skyrocketing costs there, too, just like 70.3 has affected many half-irons. Sheesh again. Did you see that Bracebridge is not going to have a half-iron, but an oly on the second day instead? (Or maybe it's all going to be one day now.) And did I mention this to you a couple weeks ago?

stevebradley - Hey! When are we riding the Lake Placid course?? We must think climatically clement thoughts! How are your weekly swims going?

stevebradley - 2010-12-13 9:00 AM ANNE - Hey! Congrats on being alive! I was just heading out and decided to do ONE last check HERE.........which is never the brightest move to make before heading out "quickly". So, let's see..... You and Mark and those squats and your respective knees! Squatting is the devil's posture, i think, and whenever we humanoids try to do it, bad things happen. I have said that I never do lower-body in ther gym anymore, and even though squats were not a regular part of my lower-body regimen back when I was doing lower-body stuff (pre-meniscus tear days), they always strike me as way too hazardous. As for squatting when doing domestic things, such as what happened to you and Mark, i can have problems there ---- so I try to avoid those particular tasks. (I could say that better for Lynn to hurt her knees rather than me hurt mine.....but I'll just quietly think it instead!) Moving on to water running, I have a video on it which I will send to you if you think you will be doing it kind of regularly. It's called "Water Running for the Serious Athlete", and even though I haven't used it in year, I seem to remember it as being quite good. It definitely reinforces the idea that water running to best effect is not as simple as just getting in the water and moving one's legs in a simulated running motion. I also have a water-run-specific belt-buoy thing, and while it is kind of large it weighs very little, so I could send that, too. Or, i could try to get them to you in a couple of weeks when we are in Guelph. Do you have updated plans? I seem to remember you being in Oshawa until the 26th, and then returning midday ---- which is about when we were considering coming back home. Nothing is carved in stone yet, so let me know your updated plans. As for mailing stuff, were you going to send some photos to me, ones from Half Vemont? I think I gave you my address, and I think it was for that purpose, and I'v ekind of been looking for somehting from you for a while now, so (a) you sent something that didn't arrive, (b) you haven't sent anything yet, or (c) I'm more confused than normal. Anyhow, that's that. On the main BT forum there is a mnetion of a very cool section of the www.swimsmooth.com website, and it is on swim types. Go to www.swimtypes.com and have fun with this! I am quite clearly Overglider, with some small bits of Swinger thrown in just to muddy the waters some. I am think about getting the correction guide for Overglider, but....... ......some of the things I reported on a few weeks ago, vis-a-vis my swimming improvements, and likely part of the correction guide. (Another way to say this, amybe, is that in all my reading I KNOW what I should be doing (better), but either neglect it or cannot quite opull it off.) I continue to enjoy some modest success in trying to improve my stroke, and as I said about a month ago now --- I will let you know what I am doing and how/why it seems to be working. Okay, I REALLY gotta split the scene now, so I'm off. Bye for now!

manfarr1974 - 2010-12-16 9:56 PM

Yeah yeah yeah!! Are we going?? You want to?  Be my lucky charm again?? Maybe Juneish??  We can talk but either that or May I guess! 

Been getting there every week to swim!!

Sounds like some solid training there.  This week I am 10ish hours....working on the build.  Had an awesome run today.  Saw Canada Lynx tracks which was really cool.

See, there are a lot of people who would say that WS puts them to sleep! I am not one of them though! 

stevebradley - 2010-12-16 8:10 PM ANNE - With Slowtwitch, you should be able to view the forums, but not respond -- at least until you are registered. Even when I am not looged in, I can at least see everything that has been written. Maybe try it again? Just click on Forums, and then when a box with five different categories comes up, click on the triathlon one. I haven't been there today, so I don't know where that thread is; probably 2nd or 3rd page. And I will look at your log later. For now -- onto the bike!! (Northern winters - what a dopey concept....... )

lufferly - 2010-12-13 10:03 AM MANDY, congratulations on making the race team.  Very cool perks to go with that it sounds like!

I've been thinking about DENISE and MARK, what with all that snow.  MARK, sounds like you faired okay but I think I heard them say this was the 5th worse snow storm in Minnesota ever?  I'm thinking DENISE might be buried in snow at this point!  My daughter is flying home today out of Rochester with a layover in Newark.  Hoping she gets out ahead of the snow they are predicting in Rochester.

I'm hoping that these foot/knee injuries are not catching!! Sounds like we all just need to lay off the domestic jobs. I do tend to let my gardening go when I'm in training because I can certainly feel it in my legs after a good day in the yard!

I am beginning to think that our new truck is jinxed.  My husband and I were in an accident yesterday ... with a Sheriff's Deputy ... URGH!!  We both saw him pull over into this v-shaped median and stop.  We assumed he was setting up radar but as soon as we got by the side of him, he u-turned right in front of us!! Talking on his cell phone!!!  My husband laid on the horn, tried to swerve to miss him, and almost avoided him.  The deputy rolled down his window and told us to pull over ... my response, "You bet we'll pull over!".  Thankfully, both vehicles ended up with minor scratches (if there's such a thing as a "minor" scratch on 4 month old vehicle!).  We had to wait around for 1 1/2 hours for the county traffic investigor and the deputy's supervisor.  The deputy totally accepted all fault (oh, really?) and the county will be footing the bill for our truck and a rental car.  Poor guy, all he saw when he turned in front of us was this great big truck coming at him with some crazy woman with her arms up the air yelling "What the h... are you doing, you idiot??!!).  

LISA   

stevebradley - 2010-12-12 6:09 PM



GANG!

Yeah, really -- as I just said to Mark, I hope you all are still alive. ANNEDENISETRACEY especially, so quiet for so long.......is all mostly okay??

stevebradley - 2010-12-18 3:00 PM MANDY - Juneish would probably work well,a nd even into early July -- although you might want extra time to allow it all to sink in and become of your Iron Essence. I have absolutely positively no clear idea what I'll be doing next season, but it's likely that I'll be tied up that first weekend (Keuka Lake? Mooseman? Quassy?), as will you if you do Quassy. I will probably do a race the last weekend in June, but other than that I'm seemingly free. The weekend after Quassy might fit best, cuz the next weekend the Ottawa Fringe Festival starts, and that's good for me to help keep my life balanced (such as it is......) Very fine on the swim regularity, Ms. M! I have oredered some replacement parts for my Vasa Trainer, and that should allow me an extra day of swim-related activity. As it stands now, I am 3-5x a week at the pool, but some of that isn't necessary - especially given the drive and all. Hopefully I can FINALLY do justice to the Vasa! Lynx tracks! That has to bode weell for something or other, yes? Rumors continue to circulate that there are fishers around us, which isn't great news if it's true. Our dog is medium-sized, so maybe off-limits to an other-than-starving fisher.......but pity the poor cats! The best wildlife story for us is wintering cardinals -- a male and two females regualrly around our house. It wasn't until less than two years ago that we heard them during the summer, and that reflects 19 years in this house. I should probably go to a bird census website and see how their range has exploded over the past couple of decades. And there mighta been a flock of redpolls out back yesterday, which would also be good if they decided to kick around. I'm almost done with Richard III, which is jaw-dropping stupendous. Mercy!