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LadyNorth - 2011-02-02 2:03 PM SteveB/ and Anne and anybody else,

I've only done sprints so never had aid stations for the bike leg.  How do they work?  Do people hand you bottles of water(I assume not cups)? What's the biker protocol when getting the water?  If it's a crowded race, it seems it would be dangerous..  Please help me with all you know.
Thanks, Denise

lufferly - 2011-02-01 9:55 PM Woohoo, finally got back in the pool tonight ... no swimming for me since September, yikes.  Did a easy continuous 600y swim and it felt SO GOOD.  I don't know what kept me away for so long.  Hope to get another swim in on Thursday evening before driving to Fort Worth on Friday morning to meet my daughter. And, of all things, we have a 60% chance of snow on Friday. It was 70 degrees here this morning, the temp dropped to 40 degrees in a matter of 15 minutes, and it is now below freezing with temps tonight into the teens and wind chill of 0. We have the craziest weather around here!

LISA

stevebradley - 2011-02-01 7:42 PM ANNE again - Got it! Australia! Jane was sent there by her company to conduct some training of the people in the Sydney office, so she's there until March 19 (arrived Jan 4); that's the reason for this. It bugs me that I'm not going, but (a) we don't have anyone to take care of our sweet, aged dog, who gets homesick when we're gone for more than 4 or 5 days, and (b) I get terribly uncomfortable in airplanes. It was bad enough for me flying to and from Newark/Madris 2+ years ago, and those were just a six- and an eight-hour flight. From anywhere on the west coast to Sydney is 12-14 hours, and my hip/groin continuum would be badly compromised. Planes don't really come in Steve-size portions in economy class, I'm afraid! So, Lynn'll be going with a dear old friend who lives in Lethbridge, and I'll stay home here with Luna. She'll be away from Feb 21 to March 19, giving me lots of time to contemplate this golden opportunity passing me by. Also, it's bloody expensive, so if I stay here then Lynn will have more financial freedom to play while there. And seeing as how she's the bread-winner, she much more richly deserves this than I do! Boo-hoo?

stevebradley - 2011-02-03 8:32 PM DENISE again - I know we've talked before about USAT rankings, and an interesting thing happened in the past few days -- I bumped up five places, from 39 to 34 (out of 630). One of my scores got adjusted higher, and if that holds and is not an ephemeral aberration, tat'll be good. Sort of. The "cut-off" for straight All-American is 31, so I'm just three places back......which is more agonoizing than being at 39th, eight places back. Argh? For 2009 I was 52/570 in M60-64, with a "score" of 77.10338. 2010 has me at 34/630, with a score of 78.70747. Plus, in '09 I was 2.08936 points from the final A-A guy; for '10 I was just 0.18908 behind him. So, I guess it was a pretty successful season.......but still a bit more work to do to get into straight A-A from my spot in A-A HM. Oh! The recent movement has bumped me a couple of places above Ben Ewers!

manfarr1974 - 2011-02-05 5:51 PM Hey guys!

I hope all is well.  Sorry to be a no-show for so long.  Life is BUSY. Just got back from Baxter Park. Had a ball.

SO if anyone is thinking of doing a Rev3 Tri, here is a code for a $10 discount - feel free to share (Steve, share this and the info below with your other group if you want).  Let me know if it doesn't work - they hand out 10 at a time, but I get an unlimited # to give out. The code is: TRAKKERS29

AND also, if you order anything from All3Sports, the code GOTRAKKERS will get you 15% off.

Just thought I would share the love! 

I swam 3000 yards today. My arms are tired.

Mandy 

latestarter - 2011-02-04 1:40 PM DENISE,

Nice long run today.  I am envious.      

FYI, I have been doing some interesting swim sessions lately.   I have a BT friend, JOBLIN (you can link to her from my page), and she belongs to a masters swim club, I think.   Anyway she posts her swim workouts in great detail and I have been cutting and pasting, and using them for Ken and I.    I just adjust the pace times to suit our abilities.   You might like some of them. 

They are fun, and sometimes hard, but they give real focus to the swim session and the time flys.   

stevebradley - 2011-02-05 7:37 PM DENISE - One place above Benjamin Ewers Jr. You're going to have to choose between us!