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Well, it *would* be. If Slugger had let me just watch the TdF. But noooooooo. She wanted a run challenge. And she didn't want to organize it herself. And since I ran one LAST month, I didn't want to run one THIS month. And so, the Slugger vs TaserDee challenge resulted.

And now, I have to actually get outside and run wog.

*sigh*

Oh, and Shawn is going to pick sides.

(Go ahead, Shawn. Pick....)

Oh - I did my first "nearly-a-tri" today (500m swim, 6 mile bike (it was advertised as 8 but I think it was changed) and 3 mile run.  I feel good about it overall.  On the down side, as you all know, I run like the stay-puffed marshmellow man terrorizing Manhattan, but as I told my TDF challenge group, I also learned that I do transitions about as quickly as a teenage girl choosing an outfit.  At least my swim and bike went as well as I could have hoped.

There's a write up on the race in my log for today, if anyone is interested.  I like to blather on, so I didn't bother posting it here.  My thanks and appreciation to all of your for your guidance and support over the past couple of months.  One small step for Clydesdales, one giant leap for me...or something like that. 

Here are my official times...

M30-34

00:10:27.527

00:03:14.362

00:19:09.256

00:01:39.984

00:34:10.796

01:08:41.925

Congrats Shawn and nice job Triathlete!!!!!  You have come a long way!!! you should be proud of yourself!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Although, I was drinking some Gatorade when I read the line about the Stay-puft Marshmallow.... And I ended up spitting it all over myself....

Great job, Shawn!

My first sprint tri is 3 weeks from this coming Sunday so I figure I have about 3 more weeks from today of good training in before my taper. I want to do a few bricks, a long ride and maybe a mini tri with transitions (on my own) in preparation.

The triathlon is Sunday August 2nd Distances : .8K (.5 mile) swim, 25K (15.5 mile) bike, 5K (3.1 mile) run

Any suggestions on what I should do for my bricks, long ride and mini self tri?
Because of my knee I am trying to take it easy on the running and keep it to a max of 2 miles.
I am currently riding 10-20 miles 2-4 times a week (and doing more for the TdF challenge) and swimming about 1000-1200 meters 2-3 times a week.

Edited by losta 2009-07-06 9:23 PM

So I just thought I would check in. My pinky is back to normal and my knee is holding up really well to my training. Im getting pretty excited about my first tri of the year coming up as well as starting med school.

How has everyone else been??

Btw..someone copied my BT name!!! Now there is a patchadams and a Patch-Adams!

Congrats!!!  Great job!

Hope everyone is doing well!!  (Feel better soon Crews!)

Sorry I have been MIA for a week or so.  I took last week off from training after competing in my race on the 28th.  I know I probably should have jumped right back into a routine, but it was 4th of July week and I just wanted some downtime.  This week I'm back to a training plan.  My next tri is the Wilmington YMCA Sprint Tri at Wrightsville Beach on September 19th!  I'm doing the 2xbalanced 16 week sprint plan...but starting in on week 5 since I only have 11 weeks until the 19th.  I feel ok about doing that this since I have already been training to an extent.  This time around I want to be more comitted to my training (so race day isn't so hard!) and I've been focusing on my eating too (getting my weight down will really help).  No wine till the weekend!  and I've been making these "Green Monster" smoothies that I read about on healthy eating blogs I read...YUM they are awesome.  I just posted some pictures in an album from the Kure Beach Tri if anyone is interested  I still haven't gotten around to writing a race report yet, but I still intend to.  I also started doing Jillian Michaels 30 day shred this week for my "weight training"...it's going well so far.  I love that it's only 20 minutes so that way I still have plenty of time to get my training plan workouts in! YAY  Happy Wednesday to everyone!!

LOL, no wonder I was confused. I saw a post by Patch-Adams, but it wasn't you.

Yeah, it took me a couple of minutes to figure that one out as well.  For the right to use the name, we should just have the two of them rumble in THUNDERDOME!

"Two Patch Adams enter, one Patch leaves!" 

Heh, I like Shawn. He has cool ideas.

Of course, now I'm signing Tina Turner's "We don't need another hero" in my head.

Hey Cat, have you checked the BT user listings lately?

Sacre bleu - how can this be?