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and you and abbe join the club in first class   WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

I am helping my 12 year old daughter with math and we are doing percentages, fractions and decimals, and you would fail my friend! 3.238 miles! Dont feel bad her teacher messed it up to and she's American! Tell you what to make it up to us Americans in the group  mail us each a six pack of Brador!

Ha! Kim -- there's a great iphone app called Convert (I think). I love it -- use it for all sorts of random things (usually baking). It would come in very handy for you right about now!

two thumbs up!!!!

My, my...how did this get past...I'll say it for you, Kyla, heck I'll say it for all of us!  BITE ME!!!!!

George, you need to add your name to the bottom of you postings so the rest of the MG can tell us apart.  

This group is fast moving today.....doing real work today (well, paper work anyway) and every time I check in....there are another couple of full pages....geez, how do you all make a living and keep up here????  

Anyway, Suzy asked earlier about my strategy for the race on Sunday.  I am keeping it simple as we discussed a couple of weeks ago....go out strong in mid to high Z3 til mile 11 and if all is going well, going all out to the finish.  This the race I have been focused on since finishing my last triathlon in 2010 (in September).

I was hoping if I ignored him he'd go away. Glad you got my back!

Wow....haven't had one of those in about 30 years.  Glad to see that they're still around.   Back then, the nickname for them was "high test".

By the way, I grew up south of Buffalo (less than an hour drive from Canada).  They would only close the schools based on a forecast if there was already 3 feet of snow on the ground and the lake effect weather system was not moving.

 

That type of lacing system is used on snowboard boots.  You really crank those down tight and I have never seen anyone have a problem with it (I have only used a couple of times).  I don't think durability would be a problem.  Comfort factor might though...especially if the tongue of the shoe moves over a bit and you have that wire digging in...

I got one of these last Oct and put it on once I moved my bike inside onto the trainer.  I'm liking it so far. 

nice,  what did you go from?   i'm currently on a cobb max. 

Back amongst the living sort of. Finally back home.

Brought the Flu back from Disney, woo hoo!  My daughter ended up missing her Bippity Boppity Boo appointment and lunch with Cinderella at the castle since she got it also, my son picked it up last but now we're one happy germy family...

LOL, I was coughing the first full day we were there so I figured it was allergies.  Didn't have a fever or anything so I didn't think anything of it.   We went to dinner and during I started not feeling well, and pretty much was in bed the rest of the trip.

At least we go to Disney every year so not like we won't be back in 7-8 months I guess.

Suzy, yes everyone wears their medals around Disney for a few days after the race.  At dinner that night you saw 1/2, full and goofy medals at most tables.  People wear them to the parks also.  That's what made us want to do it.  A couple of years ago we saw people walking around the parks wearing them right after the race and Sam said she wanted a Goofy medal for her Disney pin lanyard.

http://www.asiorders.com/view_user_event_video.asp?EVENTID=74488&BIB=7100&S=230&PWD=

Here are the pictures from the marathon, they had official photographers at the majority of the characters, but we have even more on our camera.  And yes we were cheesy and held hands crossing the finish line.

Quite a different experience from any other race.  Every other person we talked to that was doing the Goofy challenge was doing the exact same as us, stroll through the half, and then have a great time in the Marathon taking in all the sights.  There was more entertainment every mile than anything else I have seen.  Tons and tons of spectators.  I highly recommend it if you want to have fun.  

Only thing is how early you have to be up.  We were staying on resort and still got up at 2:50 and 3:00,  They wanted you in the corrals by 4:30 or something like that, I think it was still dark at about mile 9 or 10 of both races, crazy early.

Off work at least tomorrow, need to see what the contagious(sp?) period is for this, so will try to catch up and get back to my serious posting ways.  I am taking about 2 weeks off to let my body completely heal, Knee issues, Bronchitis, Flu, etc need to all be gone before I get started.


Edited by dalessit 2011-01-12 8:01 PM

definitely.  or maybe even once that tongue wears down and gets a little thinner.  i'd think you'd put a lot more pressure on the top of your foot snowboarding (turning?) then on the bike. 

My Lake shoes have the Boa system, I think Boa must have the patent on it or something, since both Specialized and Lake call it Boa.  It's pretty nice.  I use them as tri-shoes.  easy to spin the dial to tighten while riding, and just pull out on the button and they are ready to take off.

struggling to keep up with her.  




finally she slowed enough for a decent pic.  congrats on the win sam!



edit. LOVE THE BRAIDS!!!!!

Edited by fattyfatfat 2011-01-12 8:15 PM

Agree on all accounts, I had to ask her to slow down a few times.

And I like the braids also.

The stock saddle on my bike was a San Marco Ponza.   My butt was really sore after about 30 minutes on the trainer on that saddle.  I'm currently up to about 80 minutes max on the cobb and it has become a lot more comfortable.   It did hurt at 30 minutes for the first few weeks, but seems to have broken in after that.

Edited by dcon 2011-01-12 8:23 PM

Nice pics!!!  Congrats, you guys. 

I thought Florida was supposed to be warm! Was it cold or was it your flu, Tony, why the long warm up suit!?

OK, that race (those races) just look like a buncha fun. Was telling hubs about them the other day... maybe we'll put that on our to-do list.

So what did you do with the kids while you were running?

Welcome home, congratulations, and feel better, Tony!! Awesome job to you, too, Sam! And yeah, love the braids too!!!