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TrevorC - 2011-01-18 12:14 PM


I may be a bit late here but,

THAT IS WHAT SHE SAID.

Tobey91 - 2011-01-18 12:33 PM
Question for the group:

A friend of mine wants to do an unusual race with me, and we are looking for possibilities.  He is a runner by background (including a number of marathons) but has 4 kids and in the past few years has not exercised as much as he would have wanted to.  He and I have talked about doing a sprint or an Oly together, but circumstances have not permitted it.  And I am not sure he is really ready for either - without some training.  (The race with me on a specific day would be the carrot to get him to train more.)

So far, we have discussed:

Muddy Buddy
Great urban race
Warrior Dash

Any other suggestions? Any views on those? 

I would love a race that he and I get to participate together as a team and are competing/racing side by side, rather than relay-style.  (Neither of us drink, so the "post-race-beer-party" is not a big part of the draw.)

velcromom - 2011-01-18 4:32 PM Yesterday's ride with Kim was great.  We had a real mix of weather - pea soup fog, sunshine, and everything in between.    Made the clothing choices a little problematic, but we managed with just a few chilly moments!

Kim's an animal on the hills!!!  We did over 5500 feet of climbing in the 50 miles, and Kim made it look easy.  Makes me think seriously about a coach, a trainer, whatever she's doing - if it would help in hills like these, I'm in!!

We chatted the whole time, except for when I was chugging too loudly on a few of the climbs , and it was great!  Some wicked downhills that got pretty hairy with wet roads, and we met a few drivers that didn't take kindly to sharing the roads.       ...and then there was the bridge on Highway 1.   whew.

We had great artichoke bread, and Kim risked the loss of aero to bring some home for Kathy.  Impressive!

Talked about how great the MG is.....and she raved about John - tall, dark, handsome, sensitive, supportive, blah, blah, blah.

I promised to go home and try to see that in the logs.

3 down - batting 1.00 for greatness....can't wait to meet more MG peeps.

GrapeJuice - 2011-01-17 11:24 AM OK I have a question for those out there that wear contacts, when racing do you swim with them in? I don't know what to do? a pool swim is fine with no contacts but OWS I wont be able to see in the distance to well to identify buoys and such?

tdl1972 - 2011-01-18 3:12 PM


Safari or Explorer depending on which laptop my wife isn't using at the time, though I prefer Safari.

tdl1972 - 2011-01-18 9:04 PM Makes perfect sense to me.  Thanks for the help, John.  

Is there a way to link an avatar image as well, or do you have to resize them to under 50K?  I used Kim's link to the resizer and after a number of tries finally got a pic small enough to upload.  Unfortunately, cutting file size didn't make me look any thinner.  

trying1 - 2011-01-18 8:42 PM Hi everyone, long time no speak.  I'm so far behind.  I see I missed so many things like a birthday (and an interesting cake).  I've been so busy at work and getting ready for another trip to Hong Kong and Thailand (Krabi).  This time part of it is for pleasure.  It's going to be my 3 yr old's first trip to Asia and first time he'll meet many of his relatives.  It should be a lot of fun.

I haven't had much time to train.  Yesterday was the first time I ran in freezing temps (22f).  Wow is that a different experience. I have a whole different level of respect for the northerners..  I was cold pretty much the whole time but still really enjoyed the run.  One weird thing, can you be so cold that you can't tell you're sweating?  I didn't think I was sweating until I got home and noticed that my base layer and mid layers were completely wet and my running gloves were wet as well.  The only thing that was dry was my running vest.  Any who It's been such a long time since I ran outdoors, I forgot how nice it is (even though it was freezing). 

SoccerGK - 2011-01-18 10:42 PM

So, who has two thumbs and got in her first swim since August!?


***This girl!***

Super easy 700, broken up into sets.  Only had like 30 minutes to get to the gym, get ready, swim, shower, and get back to class, so I'm impressed I even got it done, but I'm really happy I did! 

Has anybody else done the Learning to Swim plan that's in the articles here on BT?  I'm doing that, kind of, to help me get up to 1.2.  Hope it works!

SSMinnow - 2011-01-19 6:46 AM PEEPS...today's the day!  Lay out your race plans if you're toeing the line!!!!!

For the rest of us slackers, what's the one thing that's going to make you faster in '11?  Could be a device, a habit, anything goes.....

SSMinnow - 2011-01-19 5:46 AM PEEPS...today's the day!  Lay out your race plans if you're toeing the line!!!!!

For the rest of us slackers, what's the one thing that's going to make you faster in '11?  Could be a device, a habit, anything goes.....

SSMinnow - 2011-01-19 7:46 PMPEEPS...today's the day!  Lay out your race plans if you're toeing the line!!!!!

For the rest of us slackers, what's the one thing that's going to make you faster in '11?  Could be a device, a habit, anything goes.....

SSMinnow - 2011-01-19 6:46 AM PEEPS...today's the day!  Lay out your race plans if you're toeing the line!!!!!

For the rest of us slackers, what's the one thing that's going to make you faster in '11?  Could be a device, a habit, anything goes.....

trying1 - 2011-01-18 9:42 PM Hi everyone, long time no speak.  I'm so far behind.  I see I missed so many things like a birthday (and an interesting cake).  I've been so busy at work and getting ready for another trip to Hong Kong and Thailand (Krabi).  This time part of it is for pleasure.  It's going to be my 3 yr old's first trip to Asia and first time he'll meet many of his relatives.  It should be a lot of fun.

I haven't had much time to train.  Yesterday was the first time I ran in freezing temps (22f).  Wow is that a different experience. I have a whole different level of respect for the northerners..  I was cold pretty much the whole time but still really enjoyed the run.  One weird thing, can you be so cold that you can't tell you're sweating?  I didn't think I was sweating until I got home and noticed that my base layer and mid layers were completely wet and my running gloves were wet as well.  The only thing that was dry was my running vest.  Any who It's been such a long time since I ran outdoors, I forgot how nice it is (even though it was freezing). 

dalessit - 2011-01-19 7:54 AM Hello from Colorado!

No racing for me this weekend, I'm still on my 2 week's off.  Not 100% anyways so good timing I guess.

As far as 11, I plan to be more focused on training.  With everything else we have going on with kids, my workouts, Sam's workouts, etc, I have gotten in the habbit of just reading workout and doing it.  I do what's asked but I don't usually have time to look at the workout before I get started.

Plan is to do be ahead of my workouts, know what's coming up, and make sure I am focused on improving, learning what the workout is supposed to be working on.

Not sure if that makes any sense or not, but it does in my head.

SSMinnow - 2011-01-19 5:46 AM PEEPS...today's the day!  Lay out your race plans if you're toeing the line!!!!!

For the rest of us slackers, what's the one thing that's going to make you faster in '11?  Could be a device, a habit, anything goes.....