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Ok I don't know where to start.. the snow ball fight or the "screw shoe " idea lol. Well no snow yet but you can feel it coming that or I am just not ready for it so I started whinning early this year The screw in the shoes idea...ummm... and I went to the sports store last year and spent 20 bucks on these cleat things  you put on your soles.  The other idea is much cheaper, what was I thinking !! 

I got to the gym again tonight, I have a bit more than just a few weeks off so I am building back up again.  Caius get over your cold , that'sno fun at all!

Have a good weekend everyone !

Just checking in with everyone - we're all starting to go a little quiet on our forum now that the season is over.  But I guess this is to be expected.

I went for my "long" run on Sunday, and it was absolutley awful.  Slow pace, high HR - no idea what was going on, but it wasn't fun, and I only lasted for an hour.  On the flip side, did a nice steady 7.5km run at lunch today and everything just felt good.  Didn't try to push it, but didn't really hold back, and HR cooperated with the level of exertion.

Hope everyone is staying motivated as it gets cold and dark outside.

Neil

Tim!  Dude!  There was a whole thread a few weeks ago on BT about music entitled "What do you listen to when you run?"  I copied some of it to download onto my iPod.   Caius, slap me if I'm overstepping my bounds, but I thought with some Christmas money, I'd try some of this music from fellow BT'ers....

"Technologic" - Daft Punk
"The Distance" - Cake
Lose Yourself" - Eminem
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
Remember the Name- Fort Minor
Til I collapse- Eminem
Heart of a Champion- Nelly
Headstrong- Trapt
Reason to Believe- Dashboard Confessional
x gonna give it to ya – dmx
"Wave of Mutilation" - Pixies
"Santa Monica" – Everclear
five finger death punch -  white knuckles
slipknot -psychosocial
three days grace - animal i have become
august burns red - back burner
acdc - thunderstruck, and moneytalks
aerosmith - i dont want to miss a thing woooo
"Jump Around" - House of Pain
"Wish" - Nine Inch Nails. 
Dropkick Murphys- State of Massechutes or Shipping up to Boston
Float On - Modest Mouse
Vertigo - U2
A Perfect Circle - The Noose
Beck - Youthless
Nickelback - Animals
Fort Minor - Remember The Name
Hedley - Hand Grenade
Sugarcult - Pretty Girl
Weird Fishes - Radiohead
Machinehead - Bush
Been caught stealing - Jane's Addiction
Inside the fire - disturbed
down and out - tantric
lit up and whiskey in the morning- buckcherry
Stranglehold by Ted Nugent
Lose Yourself  -  Eminen Trouble  -  P!nk
I'm Shipping up to Boston  -  Dropkick Murphys
"I'm Too Sexy"--Right Said Fred
Limp Biskit
Jump Around - House of Pain
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Jammin' - Bob Marley
She Moves in Her Own Way - The Kooks
Hey Ya! - Outkast 
Pump It -- Black Eyed Peas
Daft Punk – Technologic
So What by Metallica
Lose Yourself – Eminem
"The Hunter" - Danzig
"Fa Fa Fa" - Datarock
"Time to Pretend" - MGMT
"Over and Over" - Hot Chip
"Lights and Music" - Cut Copy
"My Favorite Thing" - Bob Mould
"1,000,000" - NIN
"Let Go" - Paul van Dyk
"Move Away" - The Killers
Crazy Frog - I like to move it
Riton - Candy
Black Eyed Peas - Pump it
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle, Let It Happen
Daughtry - Home
Social Distortion - (Leaving You) Far behind - great one for race day too
(Anything by Social Distortion!)
Carolina Liar - I'm not over Incubus - Drive
3 Doors Down - It's Not My Time
REM - Man On The Moon - a great live version from ITunes - "if you believe..." - for that last hill on the way home, the 13th mile, etc.
Paralyzer- Finger 11
Big Wheel- Tori Amos
Leah- Donny Iris
Shut your eyes- Snow patrol
"My Mathematical Mind" - Spoon
"Excuse Me Mister" - Ben Harper
"Three Little Birds", "Get Up Stand Up", "Exodus" - Marley
"White Room" - Cream
"Rodeo Clowns" - Jack Johnson
"Treat Yo Mama" - John Butler Trio
"Me and Jiggs" - Josh Ritter
"Achilles Last Stand" - Zeppelin
"Run Like an Antelope" - Phish
"Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms" - String Cheese Incident 

Again, this is a BT thread from a few weeks ago for "running" music on your MP3 or iPod.  So, I snagged it.

My iPod is full of 80s as well, all of the Linkin Parks, missing only two Nickelbacks (to include the latest one).  Some of your music listed there brings back some fuzzy memories... heheheh!

Anyone working out a tad extra this weekend to work off some excess eating?  I had a great swim this morning, will bike this afternoon after leaving the office early, and will run tomorrow morning before the inlaws pile in on top of us for 3 or 4 hours.  Not much else planned for the weekend.  I like it that way!

I could definitely run to *some* of that music.  "Ah Leah", "I Like to move it", Right Said Fred, "Pump it" - I love it!  I usually run to the music in my head and I think those songs will be playing for my longish run on Sunday!

What is y'all's favorite Christmas season indulgence?  Something that you like at this time of the year that  you wouldn't generally touch during the competitive season? 

Mine is my mom's (and mother in law makes a good one too!) homemade coconut cake.  Also, down south here, we have something called "Boiled Custard."  It is like egg nog (whic I don't like), but this is much sweeter, richer, and a gazillion calories.  I can only drink a small, orange-juice sized portion and I feel bloated.  But man, is it good!  By the fire at night, while watching football on TV, while putting up the Christmas tree (which we'll do tomorrow).  Yum.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Spent mine with my husband and daughter kind of quiet which is good 'cause I have houseful of relatives coming for Christmas I just found out lol. To try to catch up to all the postings...I have several CD's worth of USMC marching cadence on my IPOD , with a daughter and son in law in the Marines it's no wonder however I find it fun to run to.  Stuff I like at Christmas, oh boy where do I start ! I am a sugar addict so all the sweet stuff around just gets me. This year like last year I won't have much in the house and I will be planning a head so the parties don't sabotage me, that works well . The boiled custard is something I  had not heard of but would try too. I like a little bit of egg nog this time of year myself.  Hope you all have a great weekend, next week will be busy at work for me, month end closing of the books again. So have a good week if I don't catch up with you before next weekend !!

We put our tree up yesterday and have most of our presents wrapped and under the tree.  This is because we're celebrating Christmas next Sunday (and Santa Claus has been engaged for a special early visit)!  We're leaving for Mexico on Dec. 17!! 

Indulgences:  I love eggnog (usually the low fat kind but on Xmas day the good stuff) in my morning coffee every day during December.  My mom's Christmas cake was always wonderful, although a lot of people don't like Christmas cake!  It was dark and rich, full of fruit and nuts and cherry liqueur.  Yum!!  We don't make it anymore as it costs a gazillion dollars for the ingredients.

We should all have some virtual boiled custard over the holidays!

Cheers!

The original mince meat actually has meat in it, if I recall.  Yikes!

Happy belated Thanksgiving to my American friends!

I've had to recently move to the next biggest notch in my belt so for me the "off season" has officially ended!

As for Christmas time indulgences, that's my problem...I indulge in that stuff all year round. Even during peak of fitness. I mean, I eat pretty healthy. Lots of fruits, a good amount of veg, not much read meat, try to eat mostly organic stuff, low cal, low fat, very rarely drink juices or pop, etc. but when it comes to deserts...watch out. Ice cream, cakes, cookies, you name it. Boiled custard? Never heard of it, but bring it on. Sounds delicious! I have no self control.

One of the problems is that my wife is a junk food aholic. She loves to have all kinds of tempting yummy treats around the house. But, she can have like a tiny square of a chocolate bar, or maybe 3-4 spoons of ice cream and she's good. Me? No way. Got a chocolate bar? I'll eat the whole thing. Ice cream? I'll take half a tub please. Like I said, I have no self control.

During the peak training months this is not a problem as I burn it off no problem. But now in the off season, I find it hard to cut down the caloric intake to match the much lower caloric burn.

I'm working on it

Yeah Tim, seeing that 2009 Cervelo P2C (with the oh so cool gray/silver/blue color scheme!) a few weeks ago in a tri shop took my breath away! 

I have a bike question:  What is the difference between a clincher tire and a tubular?  I presume tubular has something to do with inner tubes?

Howdy Terry!

See page 22 of our thread. There's cutaway drawing of tubies vs clinchers and some pros and cons. Happy reading!

Howdy Tim, tell me about your treadmill. I've been thinking about getting one for a couple of years and I think this time I'm actually going to go ahead with it. It's BITTER cold today and have no desire to go outside. Plus, my wife said that she would use it if we had one; the remote possiblity that she could learn to run and join in me even once in a while sounds very exciting.

Any words of advice on treadmill shoppin? I checked all the typical google recommended links and am looking for some first hand experience.

How did I miss that thread?  Must have been a busy week that week!  Thanks for the info.  I saw the article in the Jan Triathlete mag, but didn't know the technology between the two - i.e. how they mounted to the rim until I just reread pg. 22.  I've always used clinchers.

I need a treadmill too.  My 33 degree run was really cold today!  A coworker told me to look at Sears "scratch & dent" location.  We have one here in Nashville.  I'll see if I get some extra Christmas money.