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The lone survivor... Glad there was one of us. Thanks again. My coffee at home was the bomb.

Mike--great work,but what's up with the AT?  are you ok?

Linda (Terps)--awesome work today.  Winning Masters is a big darn deal!

Linda--I feel like I've known you for a lifetime already.  Isn't wine your middle name?  I'm having a glass of Syrah in honor of you and David tonight.  Maybe two! 

To the Seattle threesome--very jealous you can all run together so frequently!  I want to know who talks the most.  I am guessing it's Birdy.

Kim--what do you think?  My Vietnamese girl had a heart attack when she saw the second character so this was the best we could do.

Life is good in the land of Wisconsin.  My Badgers won again and I have my last longish run tomorrow. Then I'll be thinking of slightly warmer temps, meeting Linda and Kim and consuming a lot of DIM SUM!

Terps421 - 2013-03-16 4:02 PM Finally got to cross a marathon finish line again! Just had to re-adjust time goals due to being sick, but I enjoyed the experience! Thank you MG for your support, it means a lot to me!!

Congrats! I'm super impressed by marathoners.

Caleb

After my duathlon last month I discovered that I don't have Suzy's training consistency. With the exception of a family hike up Enchanted Rock, I've been fairly inactive due to some long hours in the office and a trip to San Francisco.

This week has been much better! I finally stopped putting off learning how to swim. I was in the pool everyday from Monday to Friday and I just finished up a 25M bike ride that kicked my butt.

To keep things rolling I've committed to a daily blog of my training activities. By chance, a Google search turned up a co-workers triathlon blog from two years ago when he did his first Ironman. I'm going to follow his lead because it seemed really effective.

Caleb

Congratulations to Linda and all those working hard out there this weekend.

I am stuck in bed today with a stomach bug....ugh...

One of the good things about being stuck in bed is you get to read more at least in between those trips to the ...well you know ...

Here is an inspiring story that you might enjoy about perseverance and the human spirit and being grateful for the little things and the big things we are able to do.

Bruce, thank you for sharing the link to that story, he was a winner for himself and his family. I was thinking about my father today for similar reasons  : )

You're back!  Awesome.  You've taken the first step to building consistency!  When you feel like slacking even a bit remember how awesome you felt in the duathlon and the way your family supported you. 

Welcome back.. where are you a dive medic at. Just curious seeing I have been scuba diving for about 17 years and it was my primary sport before I got into triathlon.

Hey Tech,

I'm a diver on the east coast (nova scotia).  I have been diving for 13 years myself, and this will be my first comitted year to Triathlon.

Tough sledding on my 10k. About 3 minutes off PB.

But windy/snowy/icy weather and 29k the day before. I'll take it.

Have a good Monday!

Excellent that is awesome. I have never really done any east coast stuff. I dive the great lakes mostly. I have been out west a few times and Florida to cave country every spring.  I switched over to CCR diving about 4 years ago.

Same time I started to take my health serious and Triathlons soon followed. I know of several other divers that made the transition to include triathlons into their lifestyle. I lost a lot of weight, improved my cardio and it made me a safer diver along the way. Down side was I had to go out and buy a new darn drysuit after losing the weight....lol

Everyone told me triathlons were costly.. I didn't know it meant It would cost me more dive gear though...hahaha..

Stay in touch.

I'm personally just trying to improve my cardio and strength for Triathlons and SCUBA.  Also just to challenge myself and have fun in the summer!!

On a side note thought we were getting some summer but it went all winter on us out here again...boo-urns!!

Jeremy

Sounds like a good day to me...congratulations considering all the challenges !

Nice job toughing out the conditions--Yuk.  I don't know about you, Trevor, but I'm ready for some nicer weather.

Not exactly a pain cave, but ...  Sunday morning.  Abyssmal nutrition/sick.  Should not have run.  Stomach virus during the 24 hours leading up to the race and couldn't hold anything but water down during the race.  ... but not from a lack of trying.  Threw up three times in the first seven miles.  No energy to run uphill, so I tried running only the flats and downhills.  Running downhill started causing additional nausea and dizziness by mile 8.  Walked it in with a couple of short jogs near the finish.  Never considered just quitting.  Going back to 41M.  37F is too dammed difficult.

Mile repeats last week.  I did quite a bit of visualization beforehand and had developed a phrase to hang on to during the last couple of minutes of each interval when I really wanted to jump off the TM.  It worked, but it definitely didn't hurt any less.

Hi all.  

My DS (Robbie) and his GF (Kristin) had their wedding this weekend and it was perfect.  Perfect weather, the grounds and the facilities, the service itself, the reception, the attendees, everything.  I know I'm not objective at all, but there's never been a better wedding.   No hiccups whatsoever.  I was soooo happy all weekend long.  I had so much fun being the host.  I'm very quiet and not outgoing at all, but everywhere I looked were family and friends - people I love.  For a few hours at least I ran around like a true social butterfly - the only running I did!  (No biking or swimming either for that matter.)  The Newlyweds have gone down to Key West for a few days away from school.  Real life will return for all of us shortly - but not today. 

Here are three of the billion or so pictures taken.

Bill

Honestly every work out feels like this right now. I do not seem to have the mental drive that I used to for any of this. I hate every run right now and have a mentally tough time. I hate the few swim workouts I have done and I can't stand spin class. I am FORCING myself to go and I want to quit every single time right now.

I had a better go at this when I was 285lbs trying to lose weight. Mentally I have wanted to cry on every run I have been doing. Surprisingly I feel good after it and that alone hasn't been enough to make me want to run 2 days later.

I am not so sure it is a pain cave. But it sure is a lack of motivation cave. I can't control my nutrition either. I eat junk every night right now.. I say no then when I give into a little I say screw it I already messed up may as well keep eating.

I will get through this I have had a rough 6 months with Surgery, separation and the loss of my best friend my dog 3 weeks ago.

This is the most peach I have seen on my logs in 6 months.

But I honestly don't feel like doing a single workout.