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Congrats on the team! 

congrats to your brother, his wife and your whole family... Babies are great as long as they are not coming out of my wife

Congratulations!

That's fantastic that you got picked up by a team! 

20 inches of snow here today and even more falling as I type.......

Wow!

Please do not send it my way.

I think you actually want them tighter so that the slightest turn of your foot will release them.

What type of pedals are you using?

OK I am laughing that you crashed in your new pedals . . . but have no fear, we all do it and sometimes even once a year.  I did it last year as I was trying to stop for a very large pick up coming my way.  It was at a standstill but still embarassing. Thank god no one was there cuz thats the first thing you do is get up and look to see who's around.

You will get used to them.  It just takes a little time.  Most will clip out before they get to a stop and just let that leg hang there while stopping so as to not worry about it at the last minute.

11 mile run tomorrow, about 40 or so degrees, probably just a tad too cold to go without a jacket.  Maybe I will pull out the zip off sleeves jacket.

40F is glorious.  What I would wear is a long sleeve compression top with a crew neck and a thicker top over that with a zipper neck, gloves, ball cap and maybe shorts or maybe tights.  That's assuming its not damp or windy.  Another thing to think about for an 11 miler is how the weather and temperature will change from the beginning of the run until the end. 

Whoooo hooo.  Home from work.  My phone hates this place.  Wish there was a mobile version.

So congrats to those with new babies in their lives.  I'm just getting to the point everyone here sleeps through night so no new kids here.  Oh and Cindy doesn't want to be pregnant when we're in Italy this October.

Congrats on the bike team broseph.

Swam this morning with a bunch of fish at the pool.  Felt really slow.  I NEED to log a ton more pool time.

Wetsuit came today.  Sorry guys no booty shots.  Cindy says I don't have one anyway.

I had a pretty off week of training.  Overwhelemed with work, and a full winter of sitting in the same spot on the trainer and treadmill all winter has done it's job of getting to me. It looks like this week is supposed to be warm (40's anyway) but with the time change it's going to be dark at 6:45 am still.  Ughhhhh 

Need to find my motivation again.

Looks good.  Wetsuits are like spanx, they give everyone a booty.

Go to a parking lot, quiet street or other paved and traffic free area and just practice starting clipping in, slowing down, clipping out and stopping.  Over and over and over and over and over again.  Once you get the hang of it, try stopping from different speeds at a particular point (that's actually important - in real life the particular point is usually right before cross traffic.)  It takes practive to ingrain it.

When I panic on the bike, I tend to pull my foot up instead of twisting, like I'm trying to pull my foot out of my shoe.

I'm thinking about getting mountain bike shoes so I can walk around, but I don't know if they will work with my pedals.  I've also seen sandals (like Teva's not flip-flops) - but a floppy shoe seems to defeat the purpose of clipless pedals.