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That's good the soreness has gone down. Still, do be careful of how much you push things for now. Could be a painkiller element in the meds or just the anti-inflammatory making things feel a bit better than they are. I've seen too many facepalm moments when people will take something and go push until it hurts just as much as they'd normally do, forgetting to compensate for their reduced sensation to pain and wondering why things swelled up or whatever even worse.

Well that's good news!  Glad your pain level has drastically dropped.

Please keep me off the DL, too, as I'm really only not allowed to swim.   I'm among the WW, walking wounded.

Yay for no DL for you!  So glad to hear there's no major damage and the anti-inflammatory helps.  One thing to keep in mind:  taking the anti-inflammatory regularly rather than just when it hurts will help reduce the inflammation more over time.  On the other hand, it turns off the pain signal that helps keep you from overdoing it so it's kind of a balancing act.  I've found that taking an anti-inflammatory regularly for at least several days, then trying to taper off works better than just taking it when it hurts.  Keeping my fingers crossed for a speedy recovery!

Wow, Emily, you've been working a LOT.  No wonder you've been grumpy!  Even with that, you managed to get on your bike today and got some good run time in as well.  Good job!  I've found that if I can coast a little on my bike before taking off to run, that helps get the legs a little more relaxed.  When you do your race, walking your bike into T2 and walking out before you start running can help you get your legs moving in the right direction. 

As for doing the sprint, here's the Manatee Mantra:  DOOOOO  EEEEET!!    Seriously, your tri is in at least 6 weeks, so you'll be fine doing the sprint.  I'm about at the same point with 8 weeks to go and DH tells me I could probably finish one now.  He's pretty realistic about these things, having done a few tris himself and with a background in coaching, so I (pretty much) believe him.  Based on your training log, you're right on track to be able to finish.  I say go for it!!

I think this may be the most quiet day in the pod EVER!!!  My only contribution to this great discussion  is I'm heading out now for a massage.  Don't hate 

Oh sure.  Rub it in.  (Hee hee.  Couldn't resist.)

Yeah, people must be working or sumthin'.  Weird.

Danged job.

Yeah, what he said.  Plus I finished up my Race Report from Sunday. I put a nice sunrise pic that I took on the way to my friend's house (note the ground fog) as the first one so the gory ones wouldn't show in the big box by default. You are welcome.

Yo, I caught a glimpse on the internets of some crazy open flesh and stitches that I believe belonged to you. Glad to see you are alive! Did you throw some dirt in it, slam a beer and get on with the day?

Might not have time for the RR at the moment but I'll try!

Oh and Monica & Matt, when you move to Austin from downtown run across the river and up the creek via the Ann & Roy Butler trail to the Barton Spring Pool. 

A small part of the creek was dammed up and turned into a natural swimming pool. It's awesome! Plus, I think it would be a great controlled environment to practice OWS. 

There are plenty of other amazing trails to run on and whatnot, I am sure you will figure it out.

Other tips:

1. ABGB for beer and music (and pizza)

2. Container bar (a rad little space)

3.  Rogue Running (super cool warehouse space they share with a gym) They have a lot of good running groups all the way up to elite. 

4. Make sure you have a couch I can crash on for SXSW and maybe the beer mile championship

Don't have time to read your RR at the moment so I just skipped to the gore.  Wow, those are going to be some scars.  Talk about a race for the ages!  Will read all the deets later. 

Alrighty, folks, I'm off to a retirement party (sadly, not mine).  Will check in later after tonight's muggy (for here) bike ride.

Ha, close!  Pear martini and cider therapy

Wow, that place looks awesome!  Austin sounds like the place to be!

Gosh, so far behind!  Jonathan TX, awesome news about Houston, congrats.  Mary, you certainly have come a long way!  You are going to rock it.  Stacey, hope the knee is improving.  Yanti-ummmm, what can I say?  Not surprised?    Monica, Ann Marie, Jo, well done!  Melanie, I haven't looked at the pics yet, but it sounds pretty awful!  Hope you are healing up.  Jen, sounds like you had fun on your ride!  TJ, sorry about IT band.  Take care of it!

I bet I missed sumpin'....

Looks like it is a suburb of Indianapolis which is a large midwest city.  That pretty much sums up my knowledge of Indiana (other than South Bend is home to Notre Dame - Go Irish!!)

Here are a couple of articles/wikipedia stuff that may help.

http://brownsburg-indiana.funcityfinder.com/brownsburg-indiana/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsburg,_Indiana

Sounds like a nice place.  And, wow, what a big move!!

We rode the first part of the Bike route today, plus 10km of the run route.  Wind again, this time on the run.    Ah well, we will be ready for it on race day!

I was on my bike for almost 65 miles today.  Then I went to my Body Back class.  Ride did not go as well as Sunday.  Legs are really sore.  My tailbone hurts a lot when I ride and I don't know what causes it.

Wow, that's quite the day!!  Great work.  Sorry about your legs and tailbone though.  I can't help on the latter...

I saw the manatees at Disney World today!!

I do have pictures of them but there are so many in my file that I need to go through them.....

I also got a good shot of a gecko  

So much good stuff to see in the past couple of weeks in here. Good races, good training, good family time. I hope everyone continues with more of the same.

Jen - I'm not sure how/where you are making contact with your seat. It could be an issue with your seat, with your shorts, or your overall fit. How much riding have you been doing? I know if I haven't been on the bike in a while, it takes a bit for things to toughen up a bit. Has it been going on for a while?

You are going to crush it race day!

x2!

You are super tough for tackling DW in our summer weather!  I think we are even hotter than our normal June, so you get bonus tough points!

It hasn't been too bad as they planned a lot of attractions indoors so it's just walking from point A to point B then getting water.  We did wilt for a bit yesterday, the frozen drinks outside of the test track ride fixed that.