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Not sure if it is similar but after a rdie or run just my stomach is cold.  It's not like I can feel it internally but actually cold to the touch.  I just thought I was odd.

After the last few days and yesterday in particular, I had to cut off the LBS ride short today.  We were close to the end and I jst didn't have any legs left.  I don't know if this contributed, but it was 25 degrees when I rolled out this morning!

Still, I managed to get in 25 miles at just over 18 mph si I will take it.  Everybody enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Well, the end of another weekend. I'll have Tuesday off as Mardi Gras is still celebrated in Mobile and everything downtown and in most of the area is closed. 

Looks like swim and run on tap for me tomorrow.

ok someone is seriously having a good laugh at my life right now.......I just got back from the vet.  My 11 year old Greyhound has torn her ACL.  This is while my husband is just 6 days out from his ACL surgery and recovering.  Not to mention, I'm supposed to be working 55 hours (minimum) a week because it's tax season and I'm home today because the blizzard we got on Saturday has left my office unplowed.  Also it's sleeting today and the highways are shut down.  

However, I still managed to get a good spin in this am - I mean what else am I going to do, right?

I'm just shell shocked....

Randee, 

So sorry to hear about your dog now that your husband is recovering! Keep up the good work though, you're doing great considering all the craziness going on around you!

I was able to pull myself from my bed this morning to get to the YMCA for Master's practice. I was a bad triathlete last week and skipped all of my swim workouts. (I told myself it was because I needed to sleep in since I was recovering from flu) No more excuses! I'm really glad I went today. I even got a compliment from one of the faster swimmers on how much I've improved!

1hr Z2 ride on the trainer tonight (rainy here) then I'm looking forward to my rest day tomorrow!

-Nate

How about a tiny tiny tiny silver lining.  Your dog is an 11 y.o. greyhound.  We had a Queensland that had two ACL surgeries, one at age 3 and the other at age 5.  When she passed at 14 she still had more energy than our lab!  Her favorite thing to do was run for hours on end. Trying to keep her quiet while she was recovering was about as difficult a task as anything I ever went through with two kids...combined!  

There is a local Greyhound rescue that promotes the dogs as 45 MPH couch potatoes.  Don't know if that's true for your dog (hopefully yes) but Maggie was a nightmare patient after both surgeries.

Randee-hope things smooth out on the homefront.

Tough swim workout done. The weather has been nasty here and the whole time I was doing my workout I was hoping the weather would close the pool. I liked the challenge/format of the workout but just didn't seem to have a very good feel/rhythm today. Easy run this evening...hopefully. Daughter has first HS soccer game of the season tonight so will be tough to get the run in. Given all of the rain we have had she might get cancelled.

Edit...just got text from wife that the game is cancelled....beats standing out in the rain

Hey, guys!

Randee: So sorry to hear about you husband and doggie's injuries.

My weekend ended on a great note even though I was, and am still stick. Had a very positive sprint race and went on a 1.5 hour MTB ride with some friends, a couple who are very strong MTBers. Got some great tips on bike handling, and they had my one friend, who is also doing XTERRA, and me going down a short, but super steep hill repeatedly. Really helped my confidence level. Only on crash this time and it wasn't down a huge hill, so I was happy.

They didn't break down the times for this race like that last one, but luckily I at least was able to time my bike and run. I really wanted to know how I did on the swim because it felt so much better than last year's.

Last year's time: 1:53:05 - (s) 0:24:59 (b) 0:52:46 (r) 0:35:20
This year's time: 1:38:55 - (s) ? (b) 43:44 (r) 31:43

Road bike instead of a mountain bike made a difference, for sure. I know I took my sweet time in T1 because a couple people came out of the water and took off on the bike after me. I was fiddling with my watch and my shoes were hard to put on while I was soggy.

I should do a race report, but I'm so lazy about that stuff, and I feel incomplete with a swim time. Oh, well! The thing I am definitely doing different on the 24th, the next sprints of this series, is DRINK FLUIDS! I usually slam some in transition, but I was so busy messing with the stupid watch I forgot. Totally felt it on the run. GRRR!

They announced that an Olympic distance is going to be offered before Xterra. That will be great since XTERRA is an Olympic distance. Good practice.

Anyhoo, bike at lunch and run tonight. Have a great evening!

Blanda great job! Keep up the good work.

I wasn't going to ride today after getting beat up over the past few days but my wife has been thinking about getting a bike.  So today she asked if I could adjust the seat on my mountain bike so she might ride it.  She picked up a gel foam saddle cover for comfort and I made the adjustments so she could at least be semi-comfortable riding it.

The I threw the bikes in the truck and we went over to a county park with a two mile kinda oval paved track.  Not too many people mid-day so she went around once, struggling on the back side hill a bit.  I went around twice and waited for her.  She had enough for the first outing but asked if I would mind bringing her out again later this week.  Everyone has to start somewhere.

As I was loading her bike in the truck she tells me she brought her license so why don't I ride home.  So I took off and took a nice moderate ride home.  All tolled it was 20.25 miles.

That brought my monthly total to 200.14 miles, half of my 400 mile goal for the month!  Now I have 17 days to log the other 200 and the weather is going to warm up all week with friday in the 70's.  What a great pickup from the way I felt yesterday.

Blanda-fantastic gains over last year. You have made huge progress over the last year. Keep it up!

Stuart-nice ride. Amazing how quickly the legs can bounce back and feel better with a nice ride. 400 is in the bag!  

Thanks, guys! I knew it was going to be better during the swim. I was jostling with swimmers from beginning to end. Maybe not as many towards the end, but I wasn't alone by a mile this time.

The bike was a learning experience. I was messing with the gears  and kind of hanging back behind someone who looked like he had a plan. I was so eager to get off the bike I cranked it up the last mile. Big mistake. I couldn't feel my legs when I took off for the run!

Forgot to mention it was a 750m swim, 12 mile bike, 3.1 mile run.

This gave me a boost in confidence. The Xterra failure is just hanging over my head right now. Every time I recall that day I end up in tears. I keep trying to visualize myself racing it strong and finishing strong, but then I remember the moment they took my number away, ugly crying in the car on the phone with my husband, then I'm in tears again! Oh, here I go... all "verklempt" again...

Blanda-Congrats on the race time improvement, those are pretty huge gains!

Stuart-great job sticking with the biking goal, those are impressive numbers!

For me, today was my rest day. It's swim and run tomorrow for me. But, more importantly, it's a big day for me! I'll let this link explain it...