Congrats on the 19.88 Trev!

Congrats to Chris and Barry on signing up for IMFL!!!  Can't wait to cheer you guys on. 


I feel like a slug for missing my 10k yesterday, but it was pouring buckets yesterday morning as I was getting ready to go to the start...and it really wasn't a very hard decision since I hadn't registered yet.

I made a really yummy healthy banana bread instead.    Do we still have a recipe exchange???

I went to look at my schedule for the week last night and saw that my run today would be at least 10k...it ended up being 6.3 miles...and then I had a threshold bike file...which just about killed me this time!  I suppose that is what I get for opting out of my 10K!!!  Arrrgh. 



Have a good week everyone.

Edited by kt65 2010-11-08 7:21 PM

snacking on Trader Joe's Soy and Flaxseed Tortilla Chips and Guacamole.  Twist my arm to get those Omega 3's!!! 

hello , hello???
East coast?? West coast?? Where are you??

(raising hand)

HERE!!!!!

Getting caught up on my IM thread. Thinking about IM training. Watching it rain. Getting ready for a tempo run. Planning out ski lessons for kids (which gets back to my 2nd sentence, thinking about IM training). Getting kids ready for school. Updating library holds (including an IM training book, relating back to 2nd sentence). And checking in here too.

With that, it's time to get this party started, so I'm off!!

Happy Tuesday to all, and to all, a good day!!

Mid-west is here also.    Really got nothing to say....just working and lurking here! 

East coast is getting ready to leave work to run the last 1.2 miles of a family marathon with my kids at school.

At the airport on my way back home, super busy few days.  Looking forward to a couple days off and scheduled massage.

West Coast (not as far north as Kyla) here!

Enjoying a sunny SF morning here.  Hope my after work run is not pitch dark at 5:30pm...time to pull out the Petzl headlamp. 

Be sure to check the batteries.  I learned the hard way this season... 

Be sure to check the batteries.  I learned the hard way this season...

Edit- need to look like I am posting a lot ! 

Edited by swbkrun 2010-11-09 5:01 PM

West, just a bit further south, Here!

Just sent the oldest back to college....waiting to hear from youngest for a ride.  Signed up for the Big Sur Marathon!

Deep South reporting ... not much happening today. 

Just got off a 15 mile ride which nearly cost me my life.  I am in aero cruising in the bike lane on a long slight downhill...approx 23 mph when an 18 wheeler passes me in a right hand curve, and the rear end of his trailer shares half the bike lane with me. 

I was in the gutter and a milli-second from ditching it to the right over the curve.  I "affectionately"
motioned to him that he was #1

Hilarious post from ST about the guy that scoured his drawers.

*Cue-ing Budweiser tune* Slowtwitch Light presents: Real American Heroes <singing> Real American Heroes <singing> Today, We Salute you Mr. Iron Man--his-pants. <Mr. Iron Man--his-pants!> After swimming a span greater than the Amazon, you pressed. You biked a 112 miles... More than the years in a century. We're sure you felt it coming, but did you let that stop you? No, That Kona Slot was all to important. <Must have been really important!> Most would have quit, some would have stopped, but not you. You crapped yourself! <Dude, you totally just crapped yourself!> For the final 15 miles of running on the hot roads of Florida, you pressed; Torturing the runners behind you with a smell the likes of a rendering plant. Its ok though Mr. Sheall, if that slot was our dream; We'd have crapped too. So in 40 years when the grandkids ask if you did anything cool, you can tell them: I was an Ironman. So crack open an ice cold Slowtwtich Light, Mr. Iron Man--his-pants, because we know that 140.6 is a long way and you got to go through a lot of crap to get there. <Mr. Ironman dude that totally crapped himself...>

SE here.  Perfect weather- cool nights, but warm days.  Excellent for golf!  I realized Saturday that unlike when I was  younger, I have to actually practice to maintain my game.  I suck. 

Those are some of the longest and hardest!  Have fun

That's a heart stopper!  This happen to my B-I-L with a truck pulling a camper,  they took him out, and didn't stop!  He went to the hospital (a few years ago).... So frustrating, but we were thinking that the driver may have not even realized what they did (one can only hope?).....

Edited by swbkrun 2010-11-10 11:59 AM

People really are clueless, or heartless.  A friend of mine was clipped with the DRIVERS SIDE mirror when a car was passing another car.  Didn't stop of course.  How can you not see a biker coming directly at you when you are in the wrong lane??!!

Hope you and your bike are okay, Barry.  Scary stuff.

*shock* 

I got an email from Silverman triathlon stating the winners and my jaw nearly dropped to the floor. I had NO idea that Chris McCormmack was racing the Half course.    GUESS WHO TOUCHED HIS BIKE?! 

ME THAT's WHO! Everyone was clapping at me when I grabbed his bike and racked it. I dismissed that as grabbing the first bike that came in.   I had absolutely NO IDEA that it belonged to Chris.  No wonder why it looked so PRO and I was practically drooling over the zipp wheels.  I even turned off his bike computer so it wouldn't record the distance from grabbing the bike to the rack (it recorded at 55.98mi...yeah I seriously remembered that!).   Sweet Specialized Bike!

I even went back to the bike a little while later because there was two things that I saw on that that I was puzzled at.  They were Salt Sticks! LOL! Went online, and saw the video of Macca and the SaltStick inventor installing on the bike to see what the heck Salt Stick was.  Little did I know, that I had a brush with a well-known triathlete!!

I think the reason why everyone was clapping at me was because they HEARD his name over the announcer. Me, being deaf, of course had no idea.  

How cool is that?!

Now I *so* regret for not snapping a picture! :-( 

Sorry, I always drop off the face of the earth on the forums when I travel.

Anyone racing this weekend?

Sam and I are doing the OBX half, I know Ronni is also doing the race and we're going to try to meet up with her there.

Good luck to you, Sam and Roni!!!  You guys have a great race, and kick some OBX bu## 

A little visit to Terps log says she has another marathon on Sunday.  Amazing.  Good luck, Linda!

The runners are out in full force!! GO GO GO!!! Make us all proud!!

Good luck to you all of you guys.  I need to head that way sometime.  Maybe next year.