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WAEF - your thoughts are spot on....work on the marriage....and the marathon and keep yourself in shape....

Gary - you rock....congratulations....but your RR link isn't working

Ooops, sorry.  Fixed it.  Well after the race yesterday I felt pretty good.  6 miles no knee pain and lots of enery left.  My running buddies are doing the San Antonio RnR and I am working on may be doing the 1/2 there.  Will see.

Gary - be sure you let me know about the RnR....that's a few days before I leave for IMAZ but we will be there in the middle of it.  I think my brother is going to run the full...I am sure I will run some of it with him.

sTRIve

awesome swim WAEF.....did you figure out your total distance....I bet you were close to or even over a mile.....sweet Sunday swim.....

sTRIve

You are definitely right....in this economy it is critical to be busy.

No issues at all about the distance - I just wondered if you tracked it....keep up the good work.....

Where is everybody????

Gary - go for it....Cajunman it is....is it in BR or NO or elsewhere?  As far as the avg speed , I have often found some online programs are off in their calculation or if the course distance was off a little, it would make a big difference too so don't sweat it too much.....that said.....why would you want to spend more time out there than absolutely necessary.....I say - go for it.....just be sure you keep enough in the legs for the run

go Gary go

sTRIve

Gary - I really like the 3 bike mount rack idea.  Can you tell me where you found it?  Here's the concept of one I recently saw in the back of a pickup...a sheet of plywood fully carpeted front and back - cut to fit p/u bed.  Three front fork locks mounted at the front of the plywood with three false forks mounted in between bikes to hold the wheels.  What was cool was there were two handles mounted on the plywood near the tailgate so you just slid out the whole board and left it tipped against the tailgate to remove bikes and mount front wheels easily.  If you can't understand some of this just let me know.  It was on a pickup with a camper shell so it kept the guy from climbing into the camper but it would also fit in a p/u bed so you wouldn't have to climb up into the p/u.

TI - sounds like you are on the right track already but hopefully you get one or two good ideas from the book.  Sometimes hearing stuff from a different source or hearing it put a different way can be the breakthrough moment.  Also, I would HIGHLY recommend learning to float on your back as TI teaches.  You can totally balance your body by beginning the move to your side from you back....let me know if you want more of TI stuff....I am a big TI guy....but only because I went to the clinic...the book didn't do that much for me....even though I went to the clinic if I did it over I would hire a TI coach and take a few lessons and I think you would get the same thing.

sTRIve.....CapTexTri on Monday.....

CapTexTri done today....Olympic distance....three thousand did either Oly, Sprint or MyFirstTri.  This year's time was 15 seconds faster than last years with light training.  I really felt undertrained going into this one but I got through it.  I pr'd the swim, rode almost the same ride as last year (even with a course change with a couple of short but very steep hills) and then a warming run.  It was about 85 degrees when we finished so much cooler than last year and much less humid.  I feel very good right now.  A little sleepy from the 4am wakeup but okay regardless.  Getting ready to run an errand at Lowe's and then grab some dinner.

RR coming....

sTRIve

... I'm baaaaaaack ...

Hey gang,

Ages since I last logged in to the forum. Absence does though make the heart grow fonder so I will try and remain active and engaged.As I wrote in a recent email to our fearless leader Bryan, I just seem to have fallen out of the habit both of training and of posting.

I am going to try and catch up on the goings on over the past few weeks and months by reading back through the posts later. For the moment though, just wanted tolet y'all know that I am alive and trying hard to get back in the groove.

FBP

I've read back through the posts since last I was atthe site. Well done everybody on the various races that have been completed. Congrats B-man on the graduation of your daughter. Sorry to read about some of the injuries, "training interuptions due to life incursions" and the defection of one of our number to another group.

It's been a decent week or so of activity for me. I got ou on my road bike "Sebastian" for a first long-ish ride on Saturday. We did just over 30k and while I felt good and could've kept going I didn't want to be crippled on Sunday. I've run 2 or 3 times in the last week, 3 or 4 swims and I've been commuting by bike for the past couple of weeks. So all-in-all I've stepped up the activity level.

This weekend I have a trip to Toronto for meetings of the Canadian Diabetes Association board. I'm heading up a day early so that I can connect with my friend Myra, the blind lady that I will be guiding in a sprint triathlon in July. We're going to practice biking on her tandem road bike and then we're going to head to the U of T pool for a session. The swim is the part that I am most worried about so it'll be great to have some time to figure out exactly how we will partner for this part of the event - a tether or voice commands or ??

Best of luck B-man in the Tour de Cure this weekend. Diabetes is epidemic in North America and events such as the TdC are important both for the funds that they raise as well as for the positive lifestyle that they demonstrate. Sadly, most N. Americans don't realize that they can reduce their risks for Type 2 diabetes through very modest changes in exercise and diet.

FBP

Gary - you have your swim dialled in.  You will SO be ready by September -- no worries.  You could be ready in a couple of weeks if you really needed to be.  Great idea on stopping -- when the form breaks down - STOP.  DO NOT PRACTICE STRUGGLE.  We all know how to do that.  As far as the Longhorn 70.3 (Austin HIM) - it was my first HIM last year.  It was HOT.  About 95 by the time I finished.  But it is a great race.  Very well run.  I don't think there are any "easy" HIMs so go for it.  I was doing it as a "I just want to finish" race and I am glad I did not really have any time goals.  It is a tough course.  Bring your hill game....for the ride and the run.  My race report is buried in here somewhere so you can find all the dirty details.  I was DONE at the end and my buddy ended up in medical with an IV.  I probably should have had one too.  I lost 9 pounds....TOO MUCH.  I was really more dehydrated than I knew.  I have heard they are taking the last two hills out of the ride.  There were two HUGE hills that you did right before transition....there were people laying in the grass before riding up the hills as well as people walking their bikes up.  A lot of walking on the run, part is in the park on dirt part on roads.  Not much flat on the bike or run.  On the run, there is one hill they call Quadzilla...I did not even TRY to run it.  Now that I read this I don't know how I had so much fun.  It is a great race and I would do it again this year except it is too close to IMAZ.  I am going to do the PrairieMan HIM in Dallas in September.  I am thinking about doing the aquabike or the relay (I swim and ride and let someone else run the 13.1 at Longhorn.....any takers????).

FBP - Thought of you often yesterday and today as I rode in your honor.  (I also had my coin).  It was a beautiful 52 miles yesterday and about 30 today at the Tour de Cure.  The riders raised $510,000 this year for diabetes research.  If there is a TdC in your area, I highly recommend the ride.  The minimum fundraising amount is less than the MS150 and this ride was GREAT.  The weather was awesome....I finished both rides in the 80-85 degree range.....It has been in the 90s everyday so it was nice to get some cool weather at least in the morning.  It heated up a lot yesterday afternoon and today but I was finished this morning about 9 so I didn't have much heat.

Mav.....knock knock.....anyboday home?

sTRIve

Here's some more on the Tour de Cure 2009....