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Morning everyone!

I'm excited for my first race ever...5K tomorrow!

And Ken, the track coach said to breathe in the nose, out the mouth with big belly breaths, not chest. Also, sorry to hear of your recovery time, I'm sure it will go by faster than you think, hopefully!

Good luck to everyone racing this weekend.

And Peter, glad you're back!

WOOOOOOT WOOOOT! :-)

Today I got in a nice little run, not very long. Great run. And you know what feels really weird? Doing this run at 6:30am and finishing up by 7. At 7pm, I felt like I didn't get any workouts in, felt like I wanted to go out for a run. Looked at my calendar, and boom, I did my run already.   Really feels weird!

Kind of busy this weekend - Going on a 8 mile hike tomorrow sans dog (which saddens me, but because of the heat, and she seems to get exhausted after 1 1/2 hours of hiking, and begging me to pick her up).  Will put in a short mile run before the hike (super easy), then hopefully a 45-60 min easy-moderate bike trainer ride later on depending how I feel. 

Sunday - MTB again, and this time it'll be around the beginner's loop (which I didn't go on last week), so I should be okay. 

Have a great weekend everyone!!!  

Good luck and have a great time today!!  I bet you will have a blast!!

Sounds like a lot of fun this weekend DJ!  Have a great time!

Wesley12 - 2012-05-19 8:04 AM Holy Batman!  I thought Florida was suppossed to be flat.  I think they found the most hilly 56 miles for the bike and just for kicks went back and looked for a more hilly 13.1 for the run.  Might have to adjust my goal time just a little.  Not many hills where I train.  But Hey at least the swim is flat LOL.  My bib is 1642.  Either way I've got a PR on the way .

I knew the run had a few hills but thought the bike was fairly flat.  Of course I guess that is all relative since I train in a hilly area where 2 or 3 mile climbs aren't out of the ordinary.

Have great race and a lot of fun!!

Been a little behind on posting.

Russ and Lynn - how were your races?

Ann and Wesley - have great ones.  I don't envy Wesley, schlepping around Disney after 70.3!!! 

I've got a sprint tommorrow.  My only goal is to bike as fast as I possibly can.  In last year's sprints, I wanted to save for the run, and saved too much.  Tomorrow's run is only 2.6, so I'll try to go all out on the bike (but still wont have a fast bike split)
.  I had no intention to rest before this race with a half-rev creaping up, but life happened and gave me a mini-taper anyway.

Happy training/racing to all.

My brother in law just emailed me a bunch of pictures of Lance on his way to winning, it looks like it was warm there today!  I didn't want to mention this before the swim, but did you see any gators Wesley?

I hope you race has gone as you wanted!! Enjoy the recovery time on the cruise!

I hope your race went as you wanted Bill!!  Looking forward to hearing about it!!

Wesley - congrats!! Your training is really paying off. I'm looking forward to your RR. Enjoy Disney.

CONGRATS to all the racers this weekend - WOOT!!!!

I volunteered at the Gold Nugget Women's only Sprint here in Anchorage (I believe it is one of the oldest women only races - 30 years). I was a bike catcher - got the ladies off the bikes and then handed them over to be put in the Uhaul as T1 and T2 were in different places.  It was very cool to be on the other side of the race and will definately have to do it again!

Great job Russ - it's not a race if you don't puke! Actually that didn't sound very pleasant - way to come back and get 'r done! Good luck on your studying for and taking your test! oh and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

It sounds like people were quite busy this weekend  

I was going to go for my first outdoor ride yesterday but we had a day of rain which is very unusual here and I wasn't into riding in the rain with 40 and 50 degrees temps. The people who did ride are training for IMCDA and since I have a ways to go before I must do the rides, I decided to stay home and watch IMTX on my laptop.  I did do a two hour trainer ride in the evening and reaquainted myself with my Adamo saddle. I took both my road and tri bikes to the bike fitter on Friday for some adjustments and decided to give the Adamo a second try. I so want it to work out but was having lots of problems with it before IMAZ last year. The trainer ride went pretty well and the saddle felt OK considering I haven't been on it in many months. I hope to take it out for a real ride this weekend and see how that goes.

I spent a good part of the day reading Chrissie Wellington's book.  I do recommend it. It is a good read.

I hope everyone has a good week, heals quickly and/or stays injury free.

Ken, best of luck with your surgery!! 

Nice job to all the racers this weekend!  I look forward to reading your race reports!

Busy weekend of getting projects done and was mostly successful.  Just a couple of small projects to finish evenings over the next couple of days.

Going to sit on the bike now!! 

Happy Monday!

congratulations and you are right, that's a very competitive age group!!!

Wesley12 - 2012-05-20 5:03 PM Well, it didn't kill me.  I think it was somewhere around 150 degrees.  Let me start by saying that hills are relative but I train where the biggest hill is usually an overpass.  But in my opion the RD is a big fat liar.  The first 30 miles or so on the bike were nice but it was like running into a wall for the last 26.  The first mile on the run was pretty ruff.  Actually the whole run was ruff for me but I finished and that was the main goal.  I'll post a RR a little later but now I've got three more days of Disney and a Disney cruise Thur - Sun. 

Congratulations!! I too live and train in a flat area, so am handicapped on a hilly course. Enjoy the rest of your vacation!

Morning all! I had a good Olympic yesterday. Not a fast race, but I achieved my goal. In 2011 I had a terrible time at this course with asthma and just could not breathe. The whole race felt like one big panic attack. My goal was to complete the race feeling calm and in control. With the wonder of modern medicine and some focused breathing, I achieved my goal. 

Had a great time too. Drove down with my training buddy's husband (she is injured, so came as a spectator on race morning) and he completed his first Olympic distance in a smoking fast time. Also met another BTer and found a great pizza place. I would call it a good weekend.