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Thanks Kim. Will think about it since it is right before my vacation and won't be able to do another race til early a Aug.

Went for a swim today. Think I found out something to help me go a little faster. I have not been pointing my toes which has caused drag. Toes have been pointing down. Once I realized this my times have decreased.

Will go for a run later today to get back into the swing of things.

Lost 2.5lbs this week.

I asked this of people earlier.

Does anybody the new nike+ unit for the nano? I got one before christmas if it has done wonders to motivate me to run more. I would recomend it to you if you were thinking about it. Great to see your workout on a graph to see your pace at different times in your run.

Just curious if anybody else has caught the bug.

Ran on the treadmill today. Ran 2.34 miles in 18:25. Felt pretty good.

The nike + has really upped my running total. Have a new year resolution that I have to run 50 miles for the month of January of I have to clean all of our bathroom spotless. This is motivation cause I hate to clean them. YUCK!

 Up this morning and off the the Y for my swim. yesterday was a rest day.  This gettin up early stuff is for the birds huh?!  Well I just got back a few hours ago from my longest training swim ever.  3000 yrds.  I couldn't believe it.  1hr 10min.  Mike Ricci from D3 multi sports has me swimming my a-s off.  Seriously, I think it's gone.

So I took a rest day and coming out to the pool I was dreading the thought of 3000 yrds. However, I managed it and felt great at the end.  Two things here, 1 - Never underestimate good rest.  A good day off doing nothing can be much more beneficial then over doing it all week.  Give the body time to recoup and you'll come back stronger.  2nd - Swim lessons broken up into different things like 1 x 400, 4 x 150's, 6 x 50's etc... with varying intervals can really make a swim day go by fast.

Keep on tri'ing everybody.

-T

I probably would have gone with something like this as soon as it came out if I hadn't already went for a Garmin Forerunner 305.  Being a pilot, I love gizmo stuff.  Things with bells a whistle....except on my bike.

T

 Just a stoopid factoid about myself and my 1st year at Tri's.  A whopping 2 yrs ago.  I did my first Tri in a lake in southern NJ.  A sprint.  440 yrd swim.  I did the entire swim backstroke.  I had to keep my head out of the water to constantly breath. A little embarrasing but I still turned out a respectable time.  Over time with time in the pool I got more comfortable and now just get in and go.

What's sort of odd about it for mself is knowing that I grew up with a huge pool in my backyard and spending my summers at the Jersey Shore.  I was a water rat  But that's all body surfing, swimming around head above water & monkeying around. I even SCUBA dive.   When it came time to put my face into the water and go for 10-15 mins that was very tougher then I thought it was going to be.

So once again, it just goes to show that with time and effort it all gets rewarded.  I heard from a friend - "Gotta put those "pennies" into the Tri piggy bank, for that one day when you want to make a withdrawel."

-T

OMG is this thing fun.  I lost my embarassment gene in my dna from chemotherapy, so I thought I put this up there to break up the conversation a little.  Last night my fiance and I had a small dinner party with friends and family.   My college roomate from 16 yrs ago brought over this playstation with a guiter game.  We all thought he was old and crazy trying to hold onto his college days.  When the night wound down, my fiance, my old roommate, his son & found ourselves all "rocky out" with this toy on the playstation.

It's a guiter with a long button where the strings would go.  The song plays and scrolls the notes (buttons) on the tv screen that you have to press in sync with the song.  Kinda like karoke with a guitar.  All the while the song is playing.  Stuff like Kiss, Van Halen, Nirvana, Warrant. 

Anyway this thing is a blast!  I figure til I get my bike, I'd post pics of something    Notice the core workout my fingers are getting.   Jonathan, the little kid, is only 4.5 yrs old and really was getting it. 

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