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Thanks JoAnne. My friend Trevor is doing really well. A couple of guys from our office visited him this morning and they said his spirits are up. The hospital has had a prosthetic expert see him a few times already to make sure he is healing properly to use one when the time comes. Our boss talked to him and said they were talking about moving him to a recovery/rehab center as early as this afternoon.

I have been reading up on the posts from everybody for the past week but comments have been brief for the most part.  Last weekend was pretty busy as I was trying to diagnose and repair Laiken's car........unsuccessfully.  I am in no way shape or form a mechanic with diagnostic skills.  After spending a few hours on it and sinking money into items that essentially did not do anything we took it to a mechanic.  We had, what some of you have seen I suppose, a lot of pictures to take of our youngest daughter and her boyfriend before the ROTC Ball.  Trust me, that was far more fun than working Laiken's car!  Anyway, it was all time away from anything else.

News for my knee;  I completed my third PT appointment tonight and it was another successful night, I suppose I can say it that way.  Todd beat the trash out of me tonight with some insane exercises, some of which I'll not be able to duplicate at home.

I'm glad to see you're getting some workouts in Jeff but I'm not sure I would do the same thing.  I guess your injury is different than mine in that mine has become chronic (kind of).  I am slowly learning that I have placed myself into a category (with my knee) that if I have issues I won't be able to push through anything any longer.  I'm curious if you're wearing cycling shoes or street shoes on a spin bike at the gym.  I guess really what I'm asking is if your foot is in a soft cast/walking boot and are you on crutches so that you have to change your footwear to ride?  

Obviously your racing plans for this year have been changed.  Had you sunk a bunch of money into registrations prior to this injury?  Part of my struggle this season has been whether to register for races early or not.  Most of the races I do aren't ones that are likely to sell out but I can get a discount for early registration for a few of my normal races.  I have actually just begun to look into my race schedule a little more seriously this week.

You'll be back up and running soon enough, just keep healing up well.

Great race Derek.  Any PR should prove a successful race and training strategies.  I'm sure the time you have been riding the bike over the winter paid of running.  If the this race is an indicator of how well you'll perform in the coming race season, you should be pretty successful.

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I just finished a pretty solid week of training.  According to the time graph in my training log I spent over 13 hours doing some type of training last week.  I'm sure it's not the biggest week of training I've ever done but it's higher than average.  The bulk of my training was in the strength category but the bike was only a few minutes behind.  This week I hope to be able to get on the Arc trainer a little more and keep some of the cardio work going to keep that engine developing and get my running muscles feeling a little more of those types of stressors.

Happy Easter, Junkies!

I just got home from church where I was on security patrol for the late service. I took my mountain bike like I almost always do and rode 6 miles on patrol, then after services were over I rode the 7 or so miles home and turned it into a brick with a 3 mile run.

As for upcoming races I only have the Olympic in June and HIM in July planned for now. I might do a couple of sprints or super sprints in August and September. If I really get crazy after the HIM I might train for my first Marathon in January 2015.

About a year ago someone broke into a couple of cars in our church parking lot during sunday worship service so a group of us organized a schedule where we always have at least 2 people in orange vests patroling the parking lots while services are going on. Each of us takes one service a month on patrol. It's more of a deterent to theives than anything. We are not actually supposed to physically prevent theft or vandalism, but our presence is enough to make those looking for a full parking lot of unattended cars think twice about it. More often than not I'm pointing people to empty parking spots, giving people a welcoming smile and chat as they arrive, and then cruising around the lot looking for anything out of the ordinary.

Wow! 3 hours on the trainer? That is true dedication to workout.

Terry - Good job on that swim. It would have been too long for me, especially getting your bell run halfway through, ouch.

Dirk and Jeff - Good job, guys. Stay patient with your healing!

Derek - Great job on the 10k race. That is a smokin fast time in my book!

Tony - Hill repeats on the bike and a long trail run. Thats some serious training. Nice work.

I hit the pool for 30 minutes this morning to start the first day of my 12 week buildup to Vineman 70.3. Starting to get excited.

Have a great day everyone!

My race schedule is virtually undetermined other than Ironman Wisconsin.  I have a few I would like to do but I won't commit until I've done some running and feel like I can handle the impacts and stresses of racing.  I am fairly certain I will be doing a TT next month.  The way I have been able to ride the bike the past couple of weeks leads me to believe I will be just fine for that style of racing.

May 18, Colavita TT

June 28, Warsaw Sprint

July 26, Challenge New Albany HIM

Sept 7, Ironman Wisconsin.

I had a fantastic run this morning. 5 miles at easy pace and I was on a serious runner's high when I finished it.

I had negative splits for each mile except mile 3 (I had to wait for traffic to cross the street during that one) and I finished with a sub 9 minute per mile pace average. That's the first time I have been sub 9 m/m pace for an easy run that I can remember. I'm seeing the results of the slow build up after the shin issues earlier in the year.

I posted it here right after but it appears the internet doesn't like me today and the post disappeared.