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Originally posted by Snewo Check in: No workout today, I took a day off to recover. Back to the grind tomorrow. Gear I am now the owner of a base Wahoo Tickr. - I calculated my zones with this website: http://www.briancalkins.com/HeartRate.htm- I found a 16 week RPE/Zone based Olympic training plan that looks interesting. - My target Tri is exactly 16 weeks from my half marathon. Almost like I planned it that way. Beer I had a Burning River Pale Ale from Great Lakes Brewing Company. I like their beers.

Originally posted by aviatrix802  Alan - I'm not sure which one you are, but a very cool picture!!  

Originally posted by justinfss

Hey Guys,

I probably missed it, but can we order the shirts now?

Originally posted by justinfss

Bike Jersey Ordered!!!

Thanks Dave for all your work on this, looking forward to wearing my BDAS jersey with pride. I noticed that we only have until the 31st of MArch to get the order in so lets everyone get on board! only one day left to order. Looking forward to all the selfies and jersey shots of the team!

Originally posted by GeauxHard

Saturday update... RACE DAY!

A fairly large group of coworkers got together this morning for the Epilepsy Foundation seize the day 1 mile fun run and 5k. One of our coworkers daughters suffers from a rare form of epilepsy, and we lost a coworker a little over a year ago to epilepsy, so the foundation holds a big place in our hearts at work. We hit our goal of raising $3000 this year, and had around 30-40 people from work show up to walk the fun run together. The fun run for me turned into watching over the bosses grandson who wanted to run most of the mile...which turned into a mile and a half or so..so before the 5k I had already ran more than I have been with my training plan 0.o

Stretched out and let my heart rate settle a little before the 5k started.. I got into what I though was gonna be a good starting spot..ended up getting stuck behind a car they started the race from for a solid 20-30 seconds. Settled into a decent pace...there was WAY more hills than I was expecting, 80% of the course was probably climbing.

The course was through LSU's campus, started and ended next to Death Valley..which was an awesome feeling. Back half of the course was through sorority Rowe, along side the campus lakes...happened to notice a group of sorority girls behind me...decided to drop off pace a bit for a little drafting Picked up the pace the last 100yds or so, got up on my toes as best I could, past a couple people on the final stretch..

What surprised me more was the fact that I finished 25th out of 420! Considering I've never even attempted a 5k in training, much less in a race, I was shocked.

Now I just gotta get my calfs loose, I've gotta work tonight 0.o

Originally posted by Snewo

Race Day Summary The original plan was to run with my buddy for the first 3 miles until after the big hill and then try running race pace for a few. I was going to treat it like a training day. Instead, my buddy dropped off immediately so I changed the plan to a race day practice run. I started at a comfortable pace and after warming up I improved the pace throughout the race. I didn't push myself too hard, but I modeled the curve of what I would like to do come half marathon day.

I've only done one other 10 mile race in the past (this one last year). It's obvious that the training I've been doing with your guidance/support/motivation/etc. has better prepared me. Here are a couple of notes:

- Things don't hurt right now (specifically calves). They hurt immediately last year and I was 9 minutes slower. I'll check in on DOMS in a day or two.
- I didn't walk anything this year, last year I did - a lot.
- The hills didn't kick my butt as much, training more on hills this time must have helped.
- I could have taken this to 13.1 today easily. Last year I was DONE!
- I was the passer when the going got tough, not the passee
- The weather was 29F and breezy. Last year was 44F. So one could argue the conditions were worse...at least for those near me to hear me whine about the cold.

So in summary, when you prepare better you do better and feel better. Hmmm...

Results PR time - 1:39.00 (9 min improvement); Pace: 9:52 Continuing this pace would give me a 2:09ish half marathon time, that's a PR by 12 minutes, but I still have 3 weeks. Also the HM course isn't hilly like this one was, so I hope to improve on this by default.

Beer I swung by the local beer authority to get my deserved reward (in full gear on the way home). I wanted Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse Dunkel, but I had to go with the regular. Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse is one of my favorite beers. I like trying new ones, but today was not that day.

Originally posted by firebert

Alan - that's some serious business right there. Great job!

Originally posted by Snewo

I don't think that's the deadline, at least they didn't make it obvious in any communication. I think they are just indicating that their plan is to do the run of our shirts at that time since it's most likely easier to run multiples at once. I suspect that the date will be bumped back again after March 31st to say....April 15 and all orders made after March 31st won't be run until then. We can check that out in a few days. Hopefully everyone who wants a shirt gets their order in though so that they get it asap. I ordered a cycling jersey. I plan to wear it to both my practice tri in June and my target tri in August. I don't have anyone doing it with me, so I'm sure that the jersey will be a conversation starter with the other competitors.