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Who's racing this weekend?  Spill it and tell us your goals and your plan to accomplish them.

Question of the week: 

Have you decided on races for the season?  Reply to this email with your race schedule for the year.  Let's see where everyone is going to be and when your going to be there.  Maybe I'll spend my summer traveling around and cheering you on!!

Who's racing this weekend?  Spill it and tell us your goals and your plan to accomplish them.

Question of the week: 

Have you decided on races for the season?  Reply to this email with your race schedule for the year.  Let's see where everyone is going to be and when your going to be there.  Maybe I'll spend my summer traveling around and cheering you on!!

I've been really quiet lately so I'll jump in here .... no racing.  My goals for this weekend are to ride my bike outside without it snowing or it being 34 degrees and raining (which is worse than snow in my opinion).  My plan to accomplish this may require me to start kicking the crap out of Mother Nature, but I am open for suggestions here ....... I completely understand the Rule 5, Rule 9, HTFU, etc. but this has been a crazy spring up in Dairyland.  We got 8 inches of snow in Green Bay last night?  Global warming....  my A$$!   

Racing Season for me will once again peak around a 10 day stage race around SE Wisconsin at the end of June and then a full Cyclocross Season in Fall.  Plans are also to travel to race in Madison, Louisville, and Iowa City this year for National Level Cross Races.  I hope to qualify for Masters (think old, not good) CX Nationals again, it's in Boulder this year, but waiting to see what College Tuition bills look like with 2 in college later in the year.  Volunteering at IM-Moo for the 5th year in a row and Minnow is desperately trying to convince me to stick around till Monday ..... finally.     

Good luck to all our Racers......  REPRESENT!!!  

I'm racing! Not technically this weekend, but Monday, Patriots' Day, when I will celebrate our Revolutionary heroes by running 26.2 miles with a whole buncha other people in BOSTON! The training is in the bank, so this week I'm preparing by watching the Departed, reading Dennis Lehane novels, and listening the Dropkick Murphys turned up loud. I'm thinking I should find myself a tricorn hat for race day. Wonder if they have those at the Expo. Special wicking ones. This is going to be fun!!!

Dino is right, I would love to have him race MOO in '14.  He has been so supportive these last few years he deserves to have some fun and show off his awesome bike and swim skills!  And he is also right, Mother Nature doesn't love the Badger State one bit.  Blech!

My race calendar still remains pretty fluid.  The bolded things are for sure.  As most of know, when the weather turns nice in WI, I don't leave!  I didn't race much last year and plan to change that this year.

1. June 15:  Horribly Hilly Hundred  Bike Race

2. Some Oly in June (either Pleasant Prairie in IL or Verona WI Triterium)

3. July 13th Phillips Sprint Tri  (near Minocqua)

4. August 10th Minocqua Oly Tri

5. September 8th  IM WI

6. September 11th  Two week Safari Adventure with the man! 

Who's racing this weekend?  Spill it and tell us your goals and your plan to accomplish them.

Question of the week: 

Have you decided on races for the season?  Reply to this email with your race schedule for the year.  Let's see where everyone is going to be and when your going to be there.  Maybe I'll spend my summer traveling around and cheering you on!!

Not racing this weekend. So far...

4/28 Iron-girl Half

5/5 Frederick Half

6/15 Baltimore 10

8/? Ft. Ritchie Olympic

A Fall marathon and half mary

Who's racing this weekend?  Spill it and tell us your goals and your plan to accomplish them.

Question of the week: 

Have you decided on races for the season?  Reply to this email with your race schedule for the year.  Let's see where everyone is going to be and when your going to be there.  Maybe I'll spend my summer traveling around and cheering you on!!

I love looking on BT on a Saturday afternoon Sunday Morning and seeing 4 posts from Terps.  Thinking of your family, Linda, especially Kris! 

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(In true Treps Fashion) 

Let's start getting ourselves excited to track our marathon girl of the month, Julia!!!  Tomorrow is the best marathon in the country IMO and she will be representing us!!!  

Julia, give it everything you've got!!!!  There is only one first time at Boston!

Let's start getting ourselves excited to track our marathon girl of the month, Julia!!!  Tomorrow is the best marathon in the country IMO and she will be representing us!!!  

Julia, give it everything you've got!!!!  There is only one first time at Boston!

Julia, we are all very excited for you!!

Today I Got an oppurtunity to train on the Oly course, I will be competing in May. The format was a little different bike run swim. I think the bike went very well 1:25 for 25 miles. Then onto the run. This was my first experience with running after riding and it was quite different. I pushed on and did 2/3 of the hilly run course. It seemed that every turn took you up a hill. I heard it was hilly but wasnt expecting that many hills. Then onto the ows (my first). It was maybe 60 degrees F and the water was 67 they said but it did not feel that way. I did one of the 4 laps and got out of the frigid water.

What I learned from this experience.

I feel most comfortable on the bike (even not super fast). 

Running after the bike is not going to feel like it does with fresh legs 

I need more swimming practice in the pool and ow.

I have a question for the group.

I am doing a dualthon on Sat and am wondering how my training should be leading up to it? 

It is 2.5 for the runs and 13 for the bike. Any advice would be appreciative.

Good luck tomorrow Julia