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Yes. This is awesome!

I agree 100% ..... A quote that hangs on my office wall for all to see: 

“What we have is based upon moment-to-moment choices of what we do. In each of those moments, we choose. We either take a risk and move toward what we want, or we play it safe and choose comfort. Most of the people, most of the time, choose comfort. In the end, people either have excuses or experiences; reasons or results; buts or brilliance. They either have what they wanted or they have a detailed list of all the rational reasons why not.” -Anonymous

Fan of both!  I wished I could recover like I did in High School too.

David- great picture!  When they start asking if you have cancer.. you really know you are in shape!

Kyla- They finally posted the new bike course for CdA down 95.  Total ascent is less than my 44 mile ride today by about a 1000 feet.  Should be a faster course but probably not as pretty. 

Chet -- thanks for the head's up on the bike course! I see the run course is the same as last year, so I stand by my earlier statement about the cold beers being available at the party houses!! That run course has one decent hill, that you get to run up and then down the back side, then turn around and go up and over again. It's a mental mind-$*#( and the downhill is quad torture. You've been warned.

Much of the bike controversy over a course change has to do with how hard it will be to train on the course now (i.e. unsafe). It's too bad, too, as the hilly farm routes out in the Hayden area were really gorgoeus. There was a cool little home-grown aid station out there too, with water/gatorade/gels and a porta-potty and a tip jar. Some former Ironman keeps it stocked during the spring, and sponsored teams donate him gels and supplie and such.

Kim -- yay for your paragraph formatting!! Glad you are on the mend!!

TGIF, peeps! Tomorrow is sleep-in Saturday -- my kids start school an hour earlier this year than last year (thereby preventing me from doing my morning workouts 3-4x a week, oh well!), and sleep-in days have become very special around here for everyone!

Also on XM, let's not forget about HairNation!

David - I think you look great! ... : ) ...  Clearly doing something right, who cares what others are saying.

keep it in the air force, bro.

HA!           GO NAVY!

ROFL!

Yep, I figured... Thanks.  I thought it was funny after I typed it but left it there for some laughs.

Edit: Guess I killed the thread... we were way down on the page!!

RR is up for the Virginia is for Lovers 14K

Overall a decent race for me... well... it's all in the report :-)

i went to target this morning an bought white board for my trainer workouts.   this worked out really well.  i like not having to think about the workout... just do whats written and keep it in the zone. not sure if its related but i usually don't like the trainer.. today was an 1:15.. i didn't even realize i was on that long until after i was done.

here's the view from my bike. 

That is a great idea, John.  I should do something like that, my yellow sticky notes are environmentally wasteful.  Not too mention the little inspirational things we can put at the bottom like you have there.  Is that true, 38 weeks???   BTW, nice workout!

Hey, I've seen that workout before .......

 ......  Powermeter will be next???    

Ha ha, Kim!! I was telling John I use post-it notes too, but I'm poaching his whiteboard idea!! (We have several white boards of various sizes, as I have an OCD artiste in the house!!) My post-its inevitably blow away due to the fan and/or the breeze from my open door, and then I try to read them off of the floor, at weird angles and too far away. It's not a good system. White board = Much easier.

So funny for me, I had a self-imposed test week this week. I did two bike tests and one run test. I was all super-duper excited to get "official" bike numbers for Jorge's plan, as I've been using guestimated numbers based on where I perceive my bike fitness to be. After killing myself for both tests, I was simultaneously pleased and pissed off that the numbers I now get to use are only 2-3 watts different than those I was using. WTF??!! Why bother testing?? Can't I just predict from here on out?? As my son said, "It's good that you know yourself so well." He's right, I'm secretly happy with myself that I've been training "appropriately." But I'm still pissed since testing is SO F'ING HARD!! Ha!! Oh well... Onward!!!

On an entirely unrelated note, my daughter plays indoor soccer, which I LOVE because it's warm and dry for us parents. And they sell beer. She played keeper today for her first time ever (they are rotating through every player for one half this season) and it drove me to drink. She rocked it, yay for her. I got a great buzz, yay for me. I feel like such a lush copping a buzz mid-afternoon. And she's subbing in another game in about 1.5 hours, so I think I'll head back and drink more. Why not?! Tomorrow is sleep-in Sunday!!

I'm equally curious about what's going on in that room?  Is that a velour sofa next to your water heater?  Not much of a man cave if you ask me!

I really like that you're so into the EN model.  Dineen must have had quite an effect on you!  I agree with the others, how long until you get the Powertap?

kt65 - 2012-02-11 6:09 PM

dcon - 2012-02-11 3:49 PMI like the white board idea - now all you need is a power meter and some power zones on there

Haha, I thought those WERE his power zones! Eta...I am sorry, I don't know what just got into me, the devil made me do it!

And Kim is in the house!!

Glad to see you feeling better, girlfriend!!

Soccer game #2: Matt Hasselback in attendance. Very cool. Tall, bald, handsome.

kt65 - 2012-02-11 9:09 PM

dcon - 2012-02-11 3:49 PMI like the white board idea - now all you need is a power meter and some power zones on there

Haha, I thought those WERE his power zones! Eta...I am sorry, I don't know what just got into me, the devil made me do it!

ha!

yes velour.  chair from jarrett's grandma i inherited 15 years ago.  best chair ever!  if that thing could talk...  now its a garage chair. washing machine, not hot water heater.  yes, man cave is very lame, still in the rental house.  this is gonna change soon, we hope!

trev..lower your hr!  10-4 on kale

very impressed and happy with EN so far.   not power meters in the near future though.

vanilla ice is on.. i'm out!

TrevorC - 2012-02-11 8:32 PM

fattyfatfat - 2012-02-11 3:09 PM

i went to target this morning an bought white board for my trainer workouts.   this worked out really well.  i like not having to think about the workout... just do whats written and keep it in the zone. not sure if its related but i usually don't like the trainer.. today was an 1:15.. i didn't even realize i was on that long until after i was done.

here's the view from my bike. 

 

155 z5? Dude, get that HR up!!!!! what a difference.mine is >178

I think those are walking zones. 

I missed whole three days from the first week of February and 3/4 of the run workouts this past week.  I will also miss my long bike ride tomorrow and possibly more heading into next week as I am still sick.