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That's a great way of looking at it Fred and it's really what it's all about.  Enjoy the journey, enjoy the race and see what happens.  I think you are going to have a great day.

I've had a lot of success with a similar view. Writing up about a race this past weekend and it might be one of my favorite. Non-standard distance based out of a 1-road town way out on a peninsula. Riding and running through the woods and along the shores of Lake Superior. It was all about being out in a great area and putting in a good effort. 3 days later and I'm still riding high from the trip. Made a couple FB postings on it and forgot to mention placing in both of them.

I can stay at my place easily for both Milwaukee and Chicago races, but am not doing Nats and not interested in Worlds as neither venue will have what I look for.

BOOM!

Melissa - great to hear you are getting your feet back underneath you!

Note to self: If I ever direct a race remember to use giant yellow rubber ducks as turn buoys - that is absolutely fantastic! FWIW I think the photos are awesome - you are obviously having a great time, and that sprint finish looks like it might have hurt a little. Please tell us you put the old-man smack down on that kid????

Seriously, congrats on the 3 minute PR at the race - that is huge.

Anyone using the free RoadID App on their iPhone?  I just installed it and took it for a run today, and it's pretty cool...and FREE.  It lets you send up to 5 people an email or text with a link, then uses the phones GPS to send eCrumbs and whoever has the link can check your location any time they want.  If you stop moving for more than 5 minutes, and don't turn off the alert, the app will send a notification to anyone you set up that you've stopped moving.  You set the duration of the activity at the beginning of your activity and when time expires, it stops tracking you - also gives you an option to extend if needed.  It also adds a new lock screen on the phone with some pertinent details, if you choose to use it.

Anyway, maybe we've even spoken about this before and I forgot, but it will be very useful for those long rides where my wife has no idea where I am.

Great idea.   Now if I could just convince my wife to get rid of her flip phone and start using a smart phone.....

LOL...I will gladly take whatever mockery you can dish out if I suffer in the "cold" for one day.  I always look forward to making "cold" jokes during your winters.  

Looks a lot like Glympse.  It's pretty cool, only drawback is it caps out at 4 hours before you have to reset it.  I'll have to try the RoadID app and compare them.

Up at 4am this morning for 90min on the trainer followed by a 25min run.  I wasn't built for mornings...

On a bright note, the legs felt surprisingly good for the run considering I had a tempo ride on the trainer last night, followed by a few harder intervals on the trainer this morning.

Steelhead 70.3 this weekend for me.  Weather is looking really good at the moment.

I am pretty pumped for it - in really good shape and targeting sub 4:35.

32 Swim

2:24 bike

1:32 run

This course on paper is much easier than Grand Rapids where I went 4:42 in early June.  Best Bike Split actually has me faster than that using Grand Rapids data.  Really wanting to throw down a solid run this time around.

Neil, good to see the training is going well!  Stick with the mornings, they become routine..... eventually.  

Ryan, those are some rocking splits, good luck with the race!  What is the weather looking like?

I'm a bit worried about my race on Sunday.  The forecast for all day Saturday and Sunday morning is for some fairly strong winds from the north and with the race on the north shore, the surf could really be churned up and might result in a cancelled swim.  Obviously that would be bad for me!  

Looking forward to the race report Ryan - hope all goes as planned.

Did you pay for the Bike Split membership, or pull this data when it was first launched?

re: Best Bike Split, you can still use it for most things without a paid membership.  There doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of courses you can have but you can only have one bike and one race.  However, you can go manipulate the bike data all you like and you can also switch the course that is tied to the race.  It's a bit more work but still quite useful.

Partly sunny, high of 80 and light winds.  Lake Michigan swim so trying not to let cancelled swim enter my mind since that just happened at Grand Haven about 3 weeks ago.

4 of my 5 races this year have swims in the Great Lakes.

BBS - I did what Arend mentioned.  They have me at just under 2:23 with data from Grand Rapids.  I am in a later wave so not sure how much impact that is going to have.

Good luck Arend.  I imagine rough water would be a benefit for you...assuming the swim happens.

For both of my HIMs last year I was in a late wave.  I was worried it would cause me grief with traffic but in the end I think it ended up helping.  Lots of slingshotting and I was never really interfered with.  

Rough water - bring it on!

The Mont Tremblant course is the only one that seems to be off for me.  For both the full and half IM, it estimated my time to be several minutes faster than I actually was.  Something like 2:34 predicted vs 2:37 actual.  For the full it was something like 5-6 minutes.  For Miami and a couple of others I have done, it was scary close.