July Battle of the Sexes (Page 5)

rnihill - 2011-07-11 12:45 AM Got an awesome ride in outside today.  I had planned on going an out and back 20 miles, but decided to veer off into the countryside.  So glad I did since it was just so quiet and gorgeous out there this morning.  Ended up with a little over 25 miles.  Now I'm off to get my suit off and play in the sprinkler and kids pool! 

Sounds like a fun ride Rhoda!

I had a good ride too. Friends were staying with us and bought an extra guest who is a triathlete. She had bought her bike so we went out together. It was so nice to ride with someone for a change and I have a new tri friend too

Ha ha - and did you ever get an outift you are happy with for the wedding?

On the other end of the spectrum, we all know I loathe swimming but now I am irate because our pool has extremely restricted hours for the next 10 days because Michael Phelps and his fellow US team mates are taking it over!

10k swim!  God God, that sounds awful....

Phelps, Schmelps ... TJ Fry here on BT is hotter and almost as fast (and much faster on a bike and on his legs).

Unfortunately, not even TJ can probably get you the pool hours you want ... actually, he might have, but he'd have needed an awful lot of advance notice.

2:15 for an Oly makes you one of the fastest guys on BT. That's just nuts!!!

Anyhow, conditions change from year to year--maybe it was just a slow swim in general this year?

In any case, 2:15 is 135min and 2:18 is 138, so you were within (say) 3min/135min or 2% of your goal.

Hence, you actually get 98% for that particular goal.

It is, in much the same way that a marathon or a metric century ride is awful -- well no, worse, since there ain't no scenery but glubglubglub and no real contact or connection with other competitors ... but I must confess, I think I am terribly addicted.

There are also some very odd things that happen to you during 3.5 hours of immersion in salt water with exertion that wouldn't on land (or without exertion). I am hoping that some of these niggles can be sorted out or mitigated so I can do 15K, 25K swims (yes, I might actually train for these) ... I would really like to do a marathon swim eventually, as in, one of the 40-50K swims.

It is, in much the same way that a marathon or a metric century ride is awful -- well no, worse, since there ain't no scenery but glubglubglub and no real contact or connection with other competitors ... but I must confess, I think I am terribly addicted.

There are also some very odd things that happen to you during 3.5 hours of immersion in salt water with exertion that wouldn't on land (or without exertion). I am hoping that some of these niggles can be sorted out or mitigated so I can do 15K, 25K swims (yes, I might actually train for these) ... I would really like to do a marathon swim eventually, as in, one of the 40-50K swims.

It is, in much the same way that a marathon or a metric century ride is awful -- well no, worse, since there ain't no scenery but glubglubglub and no real contact or connection with other competitors ... but I must confess, I think I am terribly addicted.

There are also some very odd things that happen to you during 3.5 hours of immersion in salt water with exertion that wouldn't on land (or without exertion). I am hoping that some of these niggles can be sorted out or mitigated so I can do 15K, 25K swims (yes, I might actually train for these) ... I would really like to do a marathon swim eventually, as in, one of the 40-50K swims.

Egads, sounds like you might be moving to Melbourne eventually to start training for a crossing of the English Channel (our bay in winter is supposed to be the same conditions as the actual channel, hence why anyone from around these parts who wants to do a channel crossing relocates to Melbourne for a winter)

Secretly I would love to one day do a channel crossing as well, pretty amazing feat when you consider more people have climbed Everest than have swum the channel.

Yanti, I have always known you are a nutter, ( a very lovely one at that), but seriously?!!! This is crazy talk! Fair play to you though, honestly, that would be a great challenge!

Yes, I did!  Found a cute dress.  Now I just have to figure out what do do with my foot and my hair...

Is the toenail completely off?  I seem to remember there was no pain once the toenail was completely gone, the only pain I had was when it was still hanging on by a tiny bit.

I'd rip the sucker completely off if not gone already and you should be fine.

Otherwise try putting your foot in a bucket of water for a bit (maybe with some salt?) and get your answer now before you head off in the morning.

Look at the leaky goggles as good practice for the wave starts where you cop a foot in the face and lose your goggles.

Good goggles are hard to find, I've got a favourite brand I used to use, however after my personal research showed every 1 in 2 leaked really bad I stopped buying them after the 4th pair.  I've gone back to the simplest pairs I can find now