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Courtney, good to hear from you. The weeks can go by really quickly. The lessons at the Y for that price is fine. Hopefully you get to pick who you receive your lesson from. Now is a good time to do it, you still will have time to work on those things you've been instructed on before your event.

A girl at my work is doing the warrior dash this weekend as well. I assume it's the one in Lake Wales, have fun and be careful.

Good Morning and congrats to Courtney and Brian for joining in a going clipless. Its amazing how much more power you have being connected to the bike. But with that comes some peril. Courtney hopefully you had a nice gentle fall? When you first get to riding clipless you'll need to understand your dismount tendancies. If you tend to lean one way or another but don't unclip on the corrrect side you can go down real easy that way. So as you and Brian get to riding more outdoors and dealing with the road it'something you have to prepare for and give some thought to until it  becomes a little more natural. I'm sure everyone here has a great I didn't get unclipped story to tell. And I'm sure Corey has some good scars from his CAT racing.

This is a recovery week for me, I had a pretty uninspired 3 mile run yesterday. At about mile 2 I could have stopped real easy but go through it. There are days like that.

Brian I saw the jetstream display on the weather yep it looks like its going to be cold in OK, the weathe for the Super Bowl activities doesn't look so good.

Sean and Roy thanks for the concern and congrats! Not a bad fall at all just a little bruise on my bum to know I fell. Did a little 11.3 mile ride this morning at Ft. Desoto and did not have any issues. Hoping to get out again tomorrow if everything falls into place. Do you guys think it would be a good idea for me to do a sprint in March before my Olympic in April? Here is the sprint's website http://www.raceit.com/search/event.aspx?event=e2a9cb29-b7c1-4f8a-ba49-04b779c8fdf9.aspx
It is only the 2nd annual so I thought it would not be too crowded and would give me some practice before the Daytona Frogman in April. Thanks for the advice, Courtney

Sean glad that you have shaken that cold. I know a few who are in the same boat, just can't seem to shake it. You've got plenty of time in prep for IMCda, but I'm sure your anxious to get going. Looks to be good weekend to ride in SanAn. I've got a swim meet this weekend, so no early rides for me.

Courtney, the Bartow event would not be a bad idea at all. It is a pool swim in meters, non heated pool. So a wetsuit will be needed. I've heard good things about the bike ride and run alot of folks who live around Lakeland and such will ride that route as part of their ride. I have a conflict that day, I live about 15 minutes from there it would be very convenient.

Awesome nose clip Sean.

Wow, congrats on the Super Bowl tickets. Are you going to go with your buccaneer colors or neutral? The weather is supposed to improve a bit for the weekend. So it shouldn't be to bad. Have fun and be careful.

Brian, I don't think its that important to make up the missed training at this point. If it were a little bit closer to an event might be a problem. Your staying active, get another trainer ride in with some high rpm intervals like 10 min. easy spin, 5 min at 85rpm, 5 min at 95 rpm repeat two more times and then cool down 10 min. or so. Or something similar that appeals to you. You can do push ups and some weights over the weekend then hopefully next week when the weather lets up you can get back in synch. My sig line "do what you can when you can" kind of tells the story for most of us.

Good to hear from you, I got a picture from a friend of mine in Kansas City, about a 4 foot drift in his driveway.

Good Morning Gang, I hope you all have a productive week, or at least got something accomplished. I know Brian has been kind of weathered in. I've got a busy weekend ahead, tonight a Rotary Club 5K, not really in 5K shape(froma speed aspect) but its a good community event. Then a swim meet with our team over the weekend. I'll be playing hookie from the meet on Sunday to play some golf with some buddies from college(Kansas State) who are going to be in town. I've got other coaches so I'm not orphaning the kids on Sunday. I might find some time to get a trainer ride in on Saturday, we'll see.

Whats your plans for the weekend?

Hello to the group. Hope your weekend was well and if your football fan the game went as you wanted? Not to bad of a game. I've had some college friends in town who are here on business for our industry(Golf), got some golf in with them over the weekend, ate some good food andf told some old stories(eeeehhhhh). I'll see them a couple of more times this week in Orlando at the conference. So no triaing for me over the weekend, should get back on schedule for the most part this week.

Lets hear whats been going on with you all, training going as you planned, having to deviate, injuries or anything else.

Hey  Sean, looks like a good weekend. What kind of plan are you following for Cda? Running around downtown in Lakeland is a great place to train. Thats where the Rotary 5K was Friday night. Had a decent run, definitely not in 5K speed shape, went 24:04, about 45  seconds off of my PB.