Francaise Des Jeux (Page 6)

Hi all! Great job on the finisher for the challenge and all who raced this weekend! Just got back from two days of sailing and night of camping! The north shore of Kauai is such a magical place, if you can ever visit the islands it is a must see!

Just going over my week and I am on a taper for my race and it looks like I will be just making my time goal depending on how fast I bike on Sunday! I will try to add 5 minutes to my trainer rides to make sure I make it. My son getting the flu last week didn't help.

BbMoozer - 2009-07-21 11:54 AM

tritwinmom - 2009-07-21 2:44 PM

Hi all! Great job on the finisher for the challenge and all who raced this weekend! Just got back from two days of sailing and night of camping! The north shore of Kauai is such a magical place, if you can ever visit the islands it is a must see!

Just going over my week and I am on a taper for my race and it looks like I will be just making my time goal depending on how fast I bike on Sunday! I will try to add 5 minutes to my trainer rides to make sure I make it. My son getting the flu last week didn't help.

I've been to the big island, Maui and Oahu but never Kauai. Would love to someday. Ahhhh... I could not imagine living there. I'll bet you forget how awesome your views are?!? well...maybe not.

Gotta come to the Garden Island! I will try and post some pictures of our weekend.

Sorry to be missing in action. I'm off to ride the trainer.  My race  was the best ever.  Lots of challenges--but I kept my to my game plan.  My race report is out.

Thanks

Geoff

Hey guys!  So, here are my stats so far.  I've completed 7 stages and 285 minutes.  I know I said I'd do 8 stages but I can't remember how many minutes.  Saph?  Can you let me know?

My tri didn't go as planned over the weekend.  The swim went great but my tire blew out on the bike so I got a big fat DNF.  I was due for one of those.  Hopefully it will be awhile before it happens again.  I hope everyone else is doing good and getting those stages done!  Cheers!

Well done.

I just caught up with the thread.  Great job wie!!!!  Now I'm off to read your RR!!!

I forgot to mention that I got a new road bike!  She is quite beautiful and should be a joy to ride.

I did my 60 minutes on the trainer watching the TdF yesterday.  It completely sucked.  I ran for 30 minutes this morning.  It completely sucked.  I hate the first couple of workouts after a TRI.

You guys are looking strong out there.  Keep it up!

Yeah I hear you!

worthless without pics

stage 8 just finished for 18.7 miles. I have abot 75 miles to complete this week and will try to carve the time out to get them in.

Looks like we are doing well guys keep it up and finish strong. We got a good shot at winning this thing!

I did another stage tonight (YAY!), but I have a question.  I signed up for 9 stages/150 miles.  Right now I'm at 8 stages/172+ miles.  I know I need another stage, but the spreadsheet is showing me at 101.95%.  There must be a problem with the formula...

And don't worry -- I'll get that last stage in.   GO TEAM!!!

BbMoozer - 2009-07-22 5:49 PM

maverick_zh - 2009-07-22 6:40 PM

owl_girl - 2009-07-22 11:04 AM

I forgot to mention that I got a new road bike!  She is quite beautiful and should be a joy to ride.

worthless without pics

stage 8 just finished for 18.7 miles. I have abot 75 miles to complete this week and will try to carve the time out to get them in.

Looks like we are doing well guys keep it up and finish strong. We got a good shot at winning this thing!

Yeah...pix please!!!

How did I forget to take pictures!  I am a moron!  I'll post some tomorrow.

I finished stage 8 of 8!  I'm up to 335 minutes.  I'll be getting a couple more stages to finish up the total time I projected.  For the record, I'm supposed to do 390 minutes.  Less than an hour to go!  Cheers!!!

So, how are the rest of the teams doing?  Where do we stand?

Ok--I've lost my training Mojo this week.  I guess it is a function of the race this weekend.  So this is the time for me to commit to our team. So here I go... 

Ok on the books this weekend are a four hour ride and a three hour ride.   As part of this, I'm going to tackle Mount Diablo--which is the second most rapid assent in the continental USA (outside of the white mountains).  It has a ton of switch backs and only a couple of places were the grade is insane--including the last 400 meters or so.  There I said it.  I will try to do this one and a half times.   There--I said it out loud.   Now, I can't back out.   

You guys need to hold me to this. 

Anyone else doing epic training?  I can't believe we're almost done with this challenge.

Geoff

bbmoozer 8 150 miles 6 113  75.17%  75.17%
juniperjen 9 475 minutes 9 559  100.00%  100.00%
kvesey  200 miles 7 200.3  100.00% 100.00% 
maverick_zh 10 200 miles 8 125.33  71.33%  71.33%
owl girl 8 6.5 hours 8 5.35  91.15% 91.15% 
sappho96  56 kilometres  46.33  82.73%  82.73%
Sledge 9 150 miles 8 172.52  100.00% 100.00% 
tritwinmom 10 600 minutes 8 492.3  82.05% 82.05% 
wieczynski 10 22 hours 11 17.05  93.75%  93.75%
TEAM TOTAL       88.47% 93.30% 84.60%
         

I AM SO FRICKING PROUD OF YOU GUYS!!!! we are soooo close! big shouts out to: juniperjen, kvesey and sledge. seriously guys we CAN win this and DESERVE to win this.

teamies: can you check if what i have down is correct. those who have done over 100% sadly you can't! so i've changed it to a straight 100%.

for those who haven't finished yet i think a confessional/commitment will help, just as wieczynski has done.

me: i have 6.01 miles to do i.e. 9.67 km. will either finish off tonight on my trainer or on sunday whilst watching the final day.

others?

won't be finished until the tour is finished on sunday! Gotta race that day and that will be my last stage. Got stage 9 up for today, never fear I will finish!

tritwinmom: my maths gets you at 491.33 minutes, not 492.3 - argh! fingers crossed your math is better but can you check?

wieczynski: i have you down as 16.67 hours, i.e. 1000 minutes. again can you check?

awesome teamies. so awesome!!!!!! and todays shout out is to all the parents out there who fit in training round childcare. i have no idea how you do it - congrats!

you want me to put your stage 9 on or you? also what's the race? looking forward to it?

Didn't do it yet! Just getting up here in Hawaii!

Got a sprint tri sunday; yes I am looking forward to it, but there is a moderated to big swell predicted and it can make the swim feel like you are in a washing machine. I'm a pretty strong swimmer but still have some anxiety about it.

Your math is probably right I was just estimating..

Here's my new bike!  Felt ZW3.  She needs a name.

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