Hashers and Mashers - Open (Page 37)

Hi Guys -

I'm trying to catch up after being sick. :/

PsyTri - Great race and way to stick it out in spite of bike issues. I always think I have a flat, during races and training, especially when I turn on to a rough road. I have decided to ignore that worry. If it's really flat, it will be obvious. Otherwise I'm gonna keep going. I also use Yankz and love them. Good time to bike shop is now - year end deals.

Stryker - Awesome trophy race! Yay! Cancelled swim happened to my hubby once too. He was happy - doesn't like swimming. I'd be pretty annoyed. How did they start the race with bikes? Was it start from transition?

To make my goal of 70 miles this month I have to run 6.1 miles per day for the next week. Gah!

-Rebecca

Alright all.  I'm making a concerted effort to get back into things.  My main home projects I've been working on wrapped up this weekend.  Starting to run again.  As noted previously, had to quit masters but I added myself to my wife's membership to the local gym for $10/month.  After doing only masters for three years I'm a bit of a pool snob but it's going to have to do.  I've set some price alerts on Amazon for a couple mid to low end trainers, because it's hard to get out with how late the sun rises now.  And I'm reluctantly starting to eat better.

Frankly even during training this year I really let my eating habits get out of control, so that's going to be a point of focus now and in the coming year.  The lowest I could get myself down to was 203lbs.  This year I'd like to focus and get that down to 195.  Not sure if it's possible, but I'm going to try.  Of course I have a long way to go because in the last two and a half months I've put on around 10 pounds, so I'm up to about 215.  Ugh.  I'm just not a guy who does well at controlling my food intake.

So a buddy of mine, one of the guys I did the tri in April with, is going to try to sign up for Vineman 70.3 this Friday.  I'd love to do it with him, but my money situation is a little precarious at the moment.  I should have a better idea after the new year what my finances are going to be like, so I think what I'm going to do is try to get on the wait list and in an ideal world I'd get the call around January or February and I'll know whether I can take it or not.  So we'll see.  I wouldn't normally sign up for a race this early but I guess Vineman sells out really fast, last year it sold out in like 20 minutes, then the wait list gets closed shortly after that.  But they end up taking like 500-800 people off the wait list every year because of dropouts.

It's in Sonoma here in California.  Hence the "vine", the whole thing takes place in and goes through some beautiful wine country.  Vineman and Wildflower are two of the biggest races on the west coast and they're both here in northern California. 

But that doesn't mean Sonoma isn't beautiful.  It certainly is.

Originally posted by strykergt

Originally posted by Fresno_Joe

It's in Sonoma here in California.  Hence the "vine", the whole thing takes place in and goes through some beautiful wine country.  Vineman and Wildflower are two of the biggest races on the west coast and they're both here in northern California. 

Joe It's been a while man. How's it going looks like your planning on another HIM. My brother in law at South Cali wants us to do VM but like you said other than have to travel 70.3s are expensive. Any chance your friend prefers a none branded HIM like HITS Tri Napa Valley it's still Wine a Country.

Anyways, if I'm going to pay that much money I'd rather do a race as universally loved as Vineman.