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ray6foot7 - 2010-10-27 12:58 AM Woo Haa!  James Doil Samford is with us for good.  Pictures to come soon.  Thanks for the thoughts and prayers. 

I need to get a good stroller, and start taking him for some runs soon.

ray6foot7 - 2010-10-27 12:58 PM Woo Haa!  James Doil Samford is with us for good.  Pictures to come soon.  Thanks for the thoughts and prayers. 

I need to get a good stroller, and start taking him for some runs soon.

itsallrelative_Maine - 2010-10-25 1:47 PM Yeah Jeremy! Great job making your goal. Now - all that's left on the books for you for 2010 is the JingleBell Tri - right?

Bill - go for it - the Xterra's that I have heard about sound really fun. I love mountain biking.

I've got a 5K on Sunday - I did it last year in 29:04...hoping to come in under that this year. But - it's in costume, so that could add a wrinkle. (My friend went as Tinkerbell last year and said she caught too much air on her wings...), otherwise I think I'm done for the year...but contemplating a half marathon at the end of Feb, another half marathon in May, a relay (race across New England - RI, MA, VT, NH and ME) run late June and then the whole triathlon thing thrown in late summer. I'm about 90% sold on doing a HIM in Sept 2011...just haven't signed the dotted line yet. There is also a half marathon that goes from Lubec (the northern most coastal town in ME) to Canada and back that is niggling the back of my brain. I think my husband is going to start to have an opinion about all this.

I've started reading "Racing Weight" by Matt Fitzgerald...have any of you read this? One thing that is surprising to me is the amount of carbs he is recommending ingesting on a daily basis - for someone 130 lbs doing between 7-10 hours of exercise a week, he recommends 472 g of carbs a day...that's a WHOLE lot.

RunRene - 2010-10-29 1:48 PM Will I be running a Marathon on Halloween Day??  Read here to find out.
http://rene-guerrero.blogspot.com/2010/10/dancei-meanrun-in-rain.html

mdfahy - 2010-11-01 1:53 AM Anyone ever aquajogged?  What was your experience, is it beneficial?  I'm looking into it to reduce stress on my hip and maintain some fitness.  Or is it better to just keep swimming? I'm thinking aquajogging sounds pretty boring, plus I would still likely do laps as well on other days, so it would be a lot of time in the water.

itsallrelative_Maine - 2010-10-31 4:52 AM That's still a great time Warren!

I participated in a 5K today...got 2nd in my AG (out of 4 - but I'm still pretty pumped)!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween.

mdfahy - 2010-10-31 10:53 PM Anyone ever aquajogged?  What was your experience, is it beneficial?  I'm looking into it to reduce stress on my hip and maintain some fitness.  Or is it better to just keep swimming? I'm thinking aquajogging sounds pretty boring, plus I would still likely do laps as well on other days, so it would be a lot of time in the water.

ray6foot7 - 2010-10-31 6:15 AM That's an awesome costume, Jennifer.

Warren - my wife is 6'2".  We get a lot of stares and comments when we go out in public.  (well, when we go to the big city, anyways.  Everyone, here in podunk, usa knows us)

Here are some pics of the new family.

ray6foot7 - 2010-10-31 9:15 PM
Here are some pics of the new family.

mdfahy - 2010-11-08 5:27 AM I feel like a broken record.  Went to another doc, this time a sports doc that was a top AG triathlete.  He felt I have a sports hernia (first doc that seemed to know this term, I researched this online before my appt. and the symptoms fit well with what I have experienced).  He also thought that I could go either way in terms of surgery now or later, same as my last doc.  He said that B2B this weekend should be fine, which I liked. ;-)  He also said that surgery now would eliminate me from IM CDA because it would be an 8-10 week recovery time before I could just start to run again AND not having any base would make it too much to pick up and start an IM program, this was not what I wanted to hear.  Another thing he suggested, that I didn't expect, was that I could try to keep going and then train for IM CDA without surgery, the pain would definitely increase especially on the long runs, but I may be able to do IM CDA still.  Based on my training since June , completing the aquavelo reasonably well considering, this option makes me wonder if this is a viable option.

So here I am, back to the main decision, surgery now or later, go for it or get it fixed.  Of course, I want the best of all worlds.  Also, if I went for surgery next week, recovery is anywhere between 4-10 weeks, say it took 10, that puts me right at the start of the 20 week BT IM beg. program, and do the BT IM beg program and just go for an IM finish (it will be very hard and not ideal, as I wanted to start the 20 wk program with a solid base).  Also, if I can't ramp up IM training after surgery, which I'll know by March/April, then I could sign up for a late season IM (B2B, Chesapeakeman, Florida, etc.?). 

Assuming the surgery goes well and I get myself recovered, I am determined to do an IM in 2011, but I'll take it one step at a time.  Also, I'm going to do B2B HIM this weekend, see how I feel at the end and then make a decision on surgery.  I am leaning toward getting it fixed next week and just taking what life gives me from there.

OK, Team, tell me what you think, where am I misleading myself or does any of my plan, plan B or plan C make any sense or not???  Help! :-)