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Hi Kelly. Have fun at your race on Sunday. I am looking forward to your race report. An indoor tri sounds like fun; even I would run on a treadmill if it were for a race!

I understand your being anxious about your daughter. Three and a half years will be here before you know it. It may sound sexist, but I always worried more about my daughter than my boys. BTW I think I missed my son more on Wednesday when I was shoveling the driveway

Everyone have a good weekend. I am working tomorrow, but 1 of my 2 assistants is going to Daytona, which actually means I'll do about half my usually work. I am looking forward to some fun training and good relaxation.

Anthony

Happy Monday to everyone!

Thanks for the encouragement on the race yesterday. It went pretty well overall. I covered slightly more distance is each of the three segments this year than I did last year, so that was good. I'm still such a slow runner, though. Ugh. There were 10 of us BT-ers in the race though, and that made it great fun. There were several cameras floating around, so I'm sure there will be photo evidence. (yay...)

I think our next racer is amschrod (Anthony), with his half marathon in a couple weeks. Woo hoo! Is anyone racing before then?

Hi Kelly. I read all the race reports from your race on Sunday and it sounds like everyone had a great time. It must be fun doing a race with so many people you know. You are an incredible swimmer. Don't your legs get tired from all of those flip turns? From the way you described how you felt after the end, and from your pictures, it seems like you just got way overheated. Most of the race reports mentioned how hot it was. In the summertime running and biking outdoors I like it when it's really hot, but inside when there is no air circulation, it's so much harder to keep cool.

Well, obviously you had a good weekend. I also had a good weekend training wise, and feel totally confident for my half mary in 2 weeks. I hope everyone else had a good weekend, too. 

Anthony

Thanks Anthony! My legs weren't bad after the swim, surprisingly. And yes, it was terribly hard to stay cool in there. I tend to overheat very easily anyway, so put me in a room with little ventilation and it's just asking for trouble. The kicker is that both ends of the bike aread had doors leading to the outside that sure could have been opened to let some air in! The treadmill room was the worst though; no doors and only a couple of fans (and *really* out there bad techno music).

I just looked at your training log and you are most definitely ready for your half marathon! I hope you have a great time!

Our dear Robin did the Dasani half marathon last weekend and had a great race! Check out her race report!

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=66841

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good week, and are looking forward to a good weekend.

Thanks for the good words, Kelly. I feel totally ready for the half marathon, and I can't wait until the big day. I sort of have a race this weekend; the last of my local runner's club 4 Winter Series 5K's. I've run 2, and they determine the final standings by best 3 out of 4, so if I don't run, I will be last in my age group as opposed to like second or third to last Plus, this week they give out the t-shirt.

Robin's RR is a definite must read. It's funny, entertaining, and inspirational.

Anthony

Snow--we're supposed to get a bunch of it tonight and tomorrow! That's going to put a cramp in my plan to run outside tomorrow. If it's not too cold, maybe I'll put on the yax trax and give it a whirl!

My younger daughter has a kids tri tomorrow too, so that should be run. She's excited about it. I'll post some pics next week.

Have a great weekend!

Hi everyone. I hope everyone had a fun weekend and is feeling good. I really can't wait for the warmer weather so I can start putting in more miles on the bike.

Kelly, that kid's tri looked like a lot of fun, and your daughter sure looks good in the water. Congratulations to her, she did really well, and you should be very proud.

About my 5K series; they didn't give the complete breakdown, but I was ahead of at least 2 guys in my age group. The overall winner was in the 40-49 age group and his total for 3 5K's was 49:09 for an average of 16:23. Man he is fast! He most likely will win the half mary next week at around an hour and 15 minutes. Somehow, men 40-49 is pretty competitive, and I don't think it will get any easier when I hit 50 next year.

BTW, I promise a more detailed and hopefully more interesting RR next week

Hey Terry, that's good you are feeling relaxed in the water. Relaxed means smooth which means faster with less effort.

Anthony

Hey there, Terry,

Great job on the swim!! I'm just like that with running--it's the milestones along the way that keep me going! I should really try runervals. I have a spinervals dvd and it really helps the time pass on the bike trainer, so maybe runervals would do that same on the treadmill.

I haven't tried tri podcasting... what do you listen to?

Happy Friday everyone!

We're totally snowed in around here, but at least I was able to make it to work today. (Yippee, lucky me...) And hopefully I'll be able to fly out tomorrow as scheduled for a conference for work. I'm going to San Diego so although it's not blazing hot, it'll sure be a lot nicer than good 'ol Minnesota!

I'm actually out of town tonight too for a swim meet for my daughter, so I'll be away from home from tonight until very very late on Wed. I don't know exactly when I'll get to check in next. I'm guessing sometime Sunday after we get through our conference orientation and such.

Have a great weekend and HAPPY RUNNING THOUGHTS for Anthony (amschrod) who is running his half marathon this weekend!

Hi everyone.

Nice job on the swim workout, Terry. It's really quite a feeling when you've had a great workout. What is a tri podcast? I don't have an I-Pod or even an MP3 player so I'm not real familiar with podcasts.

Thanks for the "happy running thoughts" Kelly. Going to San Diego in the middle of Minnesota winter sounds pretty good. It would be very cool if you could bring your bike. Good luck to daughter with her swim meet.

Everyone have a good weekend

Anthony

Hey everyone!

I got back from the half a couple of hours ago, and I just wanted to say thank you for the good thoughts and good wishes. It really helped me. I was especially thinking about you around mile 10 when there was about a hundred foot climb in three quarters of a mile. You really helped push me up that hill. The final time on my watch was 2:08:41 and I think the official clock was 2:08:50, so I easily beat my goal of 2:15.

I will post my race report when the official results are available.

Thanks again!

Anthony

Hi there everyone!

Hope you all had a good weekend! It was unseasonably warm here in MN, so I actually ran and rode outside for change! I know some of you are tough (terry!) and ride outside in the cold all the time, but I'm moderately wimpy on the bike.

I have been so MIA lately--sorry! But my daughter's swim season is over now so I'll have more time for the next month or two...at least until the spring/summer seasons gets going. Whatever will I do with all my time?? Oh yeah--train! My training has taken a hit the last few weeks with the travelling I've been doing, so I need to get back on track. This is the week that my training plan changes from "winter maintenance" to "intermediate sprint." I think that some of my planned duration times actually go down a bit because of this switch--less base building and more actual speed work and such.

Anyone racing this week? I have a 5k on Sunday that is always a fun race. It's almost totally flat too--my kind or course!

Hello everyone. How are you all?

Kelly, looks like your 5K on Sunday will be lots of fun. St. Patrick's Day, 5 BTer's, flat, and a local race. Don't forget to warm up really well. There's a "Shamrock Scramble" near me, but I don't think I'll do it because it doesn't really fit in with my schedule, although I checked a map and it's about 18 miles from my house, so I was thinking I could ride there maybe...

Anyone else racing soon? I was thinking about a duathlon in Central Park in Manhattan on 4/1, but it filled up before I could register.

kelpeng - 2007-03-12 9:58 AM Congratulations again!!

Thank you so much!! I am really psyched about that race because it went so well, plus I didn't have any of that let down that you can sometimes get after a big race. My training would be better except for the change in daylight saving time messing up my mornings because it's dark again. The weather is also a little freaky; mid 70's yesterday and now we're supposed to have snow on Friday and Saturday. That's OK though, because Spring has got to get here someday

Anthony

Congratulations on the swim, Terry! Just focus on adding one length at a time! You'll get there!

I'm very jealous on the 10 pound loss! Of course, eating bar nachos and skipping workouts (me, last night) doesn't help much, does it?? Doh!