The Mysterious Dark Arts (Page 69)

Neccessary bonus! ;-) One tour was 9 hours long and that evening I was walking like a cowboy that was sitting on the horse for 2 days.... it all just hurt.... there was definitely some beer needed to numb the pain.

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Puts my cheap takeout to shame. I feel like I'm living like a college student these days.

June 28. I took my first swimming lesson ever (never had them as a kid or anything) on May 9 and I still really couldn't swim when I did that sprint. I had to backstroke almost all of it, but I was hooked. I only got to do two more - an oly and a longer sprint - before I crashed my bike and ended my season But 2009 is a huge year for me. I have my first HIM in the spring and my first IM in September. So my recovery turned out to be my off season.

Are you new to the sport, too?

Eeew... my flatmate is away so my fridge nad pantry are getting a thorough clean in the next week... only time i can do it without him driving me nuts at the same time!

9 hours???? WOW!!! Yeah Id be needing some beverages (and pain killers)

I am planning on my first sprint tri in May.... Still a lot of time to train. Will do my first 5K in November, just to get my feet a little wet with the racing experience... And probably do some more... Around here the winter is very mild, so there are races pretty much all year.

As a kid/teen I was a gymnast, the competitions there are not quite that 'fast', I guess... So that will be a whole different experience. ;-)

Good luck with that... I can completely understand.... I think men have just a completely different understanding of clean or tidy....

Wow. You can't catch a break! You had litter and toilet duty last week and now fridge duty? I'd say someone owes you

I think you're going to love it. I was never athletic at all aside from running (more like jogging) so it was a totally new experience for me. There is nothing quite like the first race as well.

Man, I am thought I was the only one that was thinking that.  Neither one of them can follow the rules that they agreed upon either.  What's up with that?

I didn't even bother watching it.... Besides, boyfriend will give me the download later on anyways... so I have the summarized version! ;-)

Looking forward to it.... The couple of people I was telling about my plan think that I am crazy... I am so glad, that I found BT!!! ;-)

He is actually more of a neat freak than me... but when it comes to food - buying, maintaining it, cooking it, the fridge/pantry... he has a complete disconnect!

Its bizarre....

I found the VP debate to be mildly interesting - maybe just because I was waiting for Palin to crash and burn - but the pres debates are always a bit of a bore.  Just the same thing over and over again.

Big Time!

Weve got it on all the office TVs here... but thankfully Im not quite close enough to hear the details...

This is the first time I can remember there being quite so much interest here in the US debates/election... always a lot of interest but it seems much BIGGER this time! (obviously what happnes in the US affects this part of the world)

Crazy is kind of a compliment... when you do it its like proving the impossible to them!

I'm a year into it and my friends still look at me cross-eyed when I talk about it.  No one believes me when I tell them how much fun it is.

This is the first time I can remember so many US citizens actually paying attention.  Even the young kids are really getting involved.

Yeah... I agree with that.

My family and a lot of my friends live in Germany and they tell me all the time that it's time for those elections to be over.... It almost seems like there is more interest in the US presidential elections than the German elections next year... But I find out in 2 weeks, if the focus starts to shift a little.

I read that the best thing to do with a camelbak is to rinse it well and store the bladder in the freezer. This keeps it from forming bacteria or mold and you can just fill it up frozen and it will thaw. I've never used one so I don't know if it works, but I read it in Runners World or Outside or similar magazine.