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during your taper week, you want to have short workouts, but want to try and go fast..   Have your big meal 2 days before..

NJ crew: just found out the July 22 NJ State Oly is sold out and saw a post from Larry from CGI that the Sprint had 60 slots left, so i signed up for that.  I'll see ya there.

oh, and i also signed up for the Annapolis Tri in Sept.  I think I'm addicted.  This is like the healthy man's QVC.

Chris: nice work on getting 1st place... good for you.....   glad to hear your open water swim is working out for ya...

i'll be there on July 22nd... this is going to be a 1st class race.

Hey guys.... how are things how is training????  Did anyone race this past weekend, or maybe this coming weekend???

I was finally able to get in some open water this weekend. 

Kevin:  i'll be at the philly tri on Sunday, i would love to meet up or something.  Drop me a PM and i'll give you my phone #.

Kevin -

Have you tried looking at the Total Immersion techniques for swimming?  www.totalimmersion.com, i think.  I got the video as I heard the book was hard to follow.  Lot's of triathletes swear by it, especially if they don't have a swimming background.  It's like $40 bucks to buy, but I'm happy to lend you mine to borrow...just pm me your address if you're interested.

greg

John -

I'll be @ philly on sunday.  Can't wait to get going.  Taper week feels like caged animal week.

I'm in the LAST wave in the race.  Clydesdales and 55 year olds .

I think you said you were volunteering, right?  Do you know where you'll be stationed?  Would be great to meet up.  I'll be the tallest TNT guy sticking out like a sore thumb in his bright purple singlet!

Greg

Kevin Yes i am talking to you about the philly tri...   You aren't doing philly with Team in Training???  Then who is??? 

Swimming takes time, a lot of time.  The one thing i can suggest with swimming is work on one thing at a time, the most important thing to work on is keeping your head down when you swim, if you lift your head your feet sink.  So try to keep your head do looking at that black line.  When you get the head down thing figured out, then you move on to something else.  That's why i say it can take a long time.  

good to hear you are loosing some weight and building muscle.  Keep up the good work....

Now who is doing the philly tri???

Greg... sorry about that.... 

Don't let taper week hold you back, taper doesn't mean don't do anything it means REST.  So you can still do somethings, but you just want go short, maybe 15min run instead of 40mins, maybe only 45min easy bike instead of 2hours.  Swimming is always a good thing. 

I don't know where i'll be for the race, i am sure i'll be just floating around, I'll be looking for ya

fun!  Really enjoyed it and came in just under my target at 2:49. 

Did better on the bike than expected, but a little worse on the run.  Run got hard out in the sun and coming back into the wind.  I was a little timid as I felt some cramps coming on and didn't want to sieze up.    Swim was about what I expected, but looks like I took the long "line" in retrospect as I hugged the buoys on the right which doglegged.  I never thought about my line, but I will next time.  That wouldn't have mad a huge difference though.  I think I'm gonna get involved in a Masters group to get some coaching and organized workouts.   All in all, though, I couldn't be happier.

My transitions were MUCH improved from my first race.

sorry we didn't get a chance to meet up.  next time.

Hey guys how is it going??  How is everyone??   How is training coming along???  Where is all the chatter??  I don't feeling i am being much of a mentor if i am not helping anyone..

Greg nice work on the race, to bad we didn't meet up, we'll be sure to meet up at NJ State..