Pshorty's Group-GO NATHAN!!! (Page 32)

Hey cool.  The local paper was taking pics at the race Saturday and they got ONE upclose pic of a swimmer.  That swimmer happened to be me.

gracetheterp - 2008-06-11 6:18 PM 4.4 miles

dude

wow!

55?  Was there ice in the water?

Well, I've started the process of getting a tri bike.  I'm looking and bidding on frames, trying to find a QROO fork, frame, and seat post.  Then I think I'm going to build it up with SRAM, just to be different.

Negative.  I'm 5'9"

A B12!  With the rear calipers all tucked away by the crank?  Some people may call you crazy, but the B12 is hell of a lot of bike for that price.  It's really a pretty insane deal.

I guess I logged back in just in time for catch-up :-) I've been traveling for the past 6 weeks or so and backpacking & hiking for a month now. But as of friday we're in Portland and looking for jobs, and newly engaged :-) and I am getting seriously back into marathon training- and hoping that tons of hiking & backpacking translates into something since I haven't been able to run in a few weeks!

 Hope everyone is enjoying the summer!!

Wow!  It's alive!  Nice idea, Grace.  Sux about the knee.  Be extremely careful with it, don't want it to turn into something worse.  Good luck on the job hunt.  What sort of position are you trying to land?  You never know if any of us might have a random contact or something.

Paul, that is lame about your HIM.  Good news on your knee as well as IMW is coming up.  Let us know your bib number when you get it so we can track ya.

Hooray for swimming, Candace!  I'm about to join a masters club, too.  Didn't even know there was one around here, but I'm pumped. 

Congrats on the engagement, Kerry!  Good luck on the job hunt as well!

Dang, Nathan.  Glad to hear your ok.  I know you can't wait to get back to racing.  Good luck to you!

As for me?  Grace will be proud to know that I finished in the top 10% of the swim in each tri I did this year  Although I did one half mile swim in 10:20 and one in 15:30.  Both were mismeasured, but I'm just gonna say the 10:20 was more accurate.  I did my last tri of the year on August 2nd and it went pretty well.  Temps were getting into the high 90s by the time I was finishing, though.  I did throw one more half marathon in as well and put up a PR.  I'm still engaged, too  She's got the thing pretty much planned, and I've got the honeymoon booked.  November 15th is getting here fast!  Oh, and we finally got the local tri club back up and running.  I'm the head of the training comittee...hah!  Our jersey proofs come in Friday, too!  Watch out for the Mississippi Heat!

And... I built a new bike, because I'm an addict.  Her name is Marie, and she's my baby that I'm taking to New Orleans in April.