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Happy Weekend All!  This has been a heck of a week,  I didn't even have a chance to update my training log.  Participation on the forum has been nil and as I type my wife is nagging to chores.  Every day this week I have been up at 4:30 AM to workout and have not returned home until 9:00 PM.  To top it all off my 10 year old had hockey practice at 6:00 am this morning.

It has been great having the forum updates sent to my blackberry.  It has kept me motivated to keep working and having gentle reminders to keep moving forward.  I will try to participate more but for now "Thanks!" to you all.

Steve

 Do you mean Kopp's?  I used to work around the corner from there when I was in college.  I'd ride my mountain bike from New Brunswick and had to go there for tubes.  Great shop.

YEs, nice guys. I think Princeton has more bikers and runners per capita than any other town in the US.  Jay's is very good too, down the road on 27.  We went to a couple shops and everytime was impressed at how nice the bike sales people were.  No one tried to push anything and they described the pluses and minuses of bikes, makers, features etc.  I seem to be gravitating towards the Jamis Comet or Trilogy, not only because of price but it seems they have all the features I need without the bells and whistles I don't. Plus the local bike shop features them and should I have any problems, they're the closest.

I looked at a couple of Fuji, Trak, Cannondale and Specialized and still was leaning towards Jamis.    

Ok, so now I feel completely deprived for not working out in a public gym!

G.

You do realize thats sort of a Monty Python skit waiting to happen!  But I do have the same thing when I run outside.  In my neighborhood there are a few dozen runners (my wife being one but thats a whole 'nother story!). Occasionally I'll start my run and another runner will be 10 yards ahead or behind,  and thats when the competitive fire kicks in.  When the weather breaks my runs are usually under 9:00 per mile, I think thats because there are more runners outside!

Speaking of Treadmills, I have been having a problem with my Pacemaster Silver Select. Seems when I try and go above 6.0 the speed blinks and it never gets up to speed. I first noticed  when my heart rate would not go above 135 when I was running at 6.5 (It should be 148-50 at that speed)  Seems if I hold the rails, and "stabilize it",  it works fine. but at 6'3" and 215 this is pretty tough. Its still under warranty and had it serviced and the only thing he could figure out was it may need a new electrical board which he will put in Friday.    He waxed it and it helps a bit, but it still not perfect. We'll see...anyone ever have a similar problem?

I have an interesting excuse for missing all my swim workouts this week.  Because  I live in Florida all my workouts are out of doors, including my swims which are all in the open ocean.  This week is the annual spinner shark migration.  These sharks (plus a few random hammerheads and bulls) follow bait fish as they make their way south.  A local TV helicopter filmed a school of about a thousand working south the other day just a few miles north of me.  I'm a diver and spearfisherman so I'm very used to sharks, but I figured it might be wiser to stay dry and avoid looking like lunch.  It was dead calm today so I was kinda bummed to miss out on a swim today.  Then I'm wondering if maybe I'm was just being too cautious.  Thos sharks swim pretty fast.  They've got to be way south of me by now, right?  

As it turns out, I think I'm gonna skip the ocean for another week.  I'm on the bike on the way back home this AM riding right by the beach when I see a 5 foot shark leap out of the water, spinning like a top.  This is maybe 40 feet from shore, closer than I usually swim.  I've come up with plenty of excuses to miss workouts, but I didn't expect that "potential shark attack" would be one of them.

Here ya go

Too much excitement for me.

I don't have to worry about either here in Nova Scotia. I guess that is one of the upside benefits of living where I do.

While I can't use wildlife as an excuse for training, I have been out all week with a nasty cold/flu. It's been quite a bummer and hopefully I am getting on the better side of it...