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Jeff AWESOME JOB on the race, anf Congrats on winning the socks. I did not know there was a variety of socks. I have been wearing Hanes Cotton low socks. Well when I went to get my shoes the guy told me I need to wear wiker way socks.  I wore a pear or acisis features and man those things felt great, but they did not have my size.  I will look to get some of those. 

Im really proud of everyone and their races.  Yall are doing great with the running and I cant wait till the day I an run the times and distance yall are running.  Hats off to all of you.

Went swimming today and did 1000 yards.  My bilateral breathing is doing great, I only took in a little water twice when I went up for air. Yeah me.  It was funny the guy next to me I guess was trying to show off.  At first he was doing his own thing and then I noticed he would wait for me to swim my lap and then he would go, of course he would beat me and I wanted to say Dude, we are not racing, Im doing easy strokes to work on my breathing, but I didnt, I did not want to hurt his feelings.  I wanted him to leave thinking  I beat that man.. Maybe next time I will kik it up a notch so he can eat my wake.  But the swim was good.  I would swim either 50 yards or 100 yards and then take a break to think about what I did and how to improve.  I think I need to look at gettng some of those paddles yall are talking about.  Hey what is the pull or pool bouy for?? they have them at the pool to use, but not sure what to do with them. I know yall talked about it way back about 50 pages ago.  Well have a great day 

 Hitting a 1000 yards was a huge psychological boost for me. A "Pull Buoy" you hold between your legs, it holds your legs level in the water and allows you to focus on your stroke without kicking. We don't have them at my pool but we do have those foam, dumb bell things that work just as well.

 I knew there were technical socks, I have some left over from my cycling bygone days. These are very small though, I will give them to my wife..

45-49 ..there were some sub 1hr times in other AG's

Actually, my brothers do surf in NS... but you need a full wetsuit and its still DAMN cold.

I learned while on vacation in Bali.  It's a long story, maybe I'll type it all out at some point, but basically the only good thing that happened on that vacation, was having a free afternoon and learning to surf.  I must admit, I've never gone again after learning.  I always mean to, Taiwan has some decent surfing on the North Coast, but just never get around to it.... Maybe this summer.

Took my new bike out for a spin this morning.  I did a big hill close to home, then around a bit, and back again.  It was really nice.  Plus, I managed to complete at least my first ride without a wipe out... (worried about clipping out).  A few stats.

I was also significantly faster.  I usually averaged about 20 ~ 21 km/h on my old bike while doing this ride.  Today, I did 26km/h.  Pretty happy about that.  Also, on the way down the big hill I topped out at 59.5 km/h and I was still peddling... also pretty happy about that.

Pictures will follow tomorrow, since I don't have the download cable with me at home.  You can see them on my facebook page if your a friend though.

Steve, i made you a friend in teh training Log Blog siet. I am not sure that is the right place so I changed the privacy setting which I thought I had already done but, you need to tell it you meant it in the next checkbox.

I am at the computer where I can't paste the link so I typed the link but if this is incorrect please go back to the previous one.  Thanks.  Maybe this will work someday. Off for a run.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/index-monthly.asp?type=train&memberid=139189&year=&month=&day=

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Duncan,  here is my link to my facebook.  Can you send me a friend invite?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002186950879

Duncan, Sorry that was my wifes facebook, you can friend her also she is nice..

Here is mine  http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=1054576871

Kinda happy with my 9:17 1 mile brick run today, after yesterdays run. Granted: it was a ridiculously easy bike ride first, fun afternoon though.

Tomorrow begins an gradual ramping up of volume and intensity leading to May 22.

Wife is out of town so I am going to sleep in my camper tonight as a test run. Named it "My Little Tow"

I rarely share a lane. Only 2 times this off season. So ... what I do to sort of 'acclimate' myself to race swims -- is to rather than stop and either A-dump out water that has leaked into my google or B. stop to unfog my google --- I let the water and/or fog stay as it is and EVEN let it get worse so that my eye sight is greatly hampered. That to me is how it can feel swimming in murky water. I have to rely on training and doing this odd thing has let me work out some of those heebie jeebies of feeling 'lost' and get more comfy in the water.

Dude! That is a nice pace coming off a brick! Don't discount it.