Oh And I'm racing on Saturday. Finally!!!

Doing a sprint with the whole family.  750m pool - 25.5k (16 mile) bike, and 5k.

Michelle signed up for it last minute. She is a little panicked over the swim. She did her 1st race a few weeks ago - 250m swim. She had a hard time. I think part of that was the 1st race jitters. But we'll see.

Girls are doing the fun kids race. Last year the bike got SNOWED out, so hoping weather is better this year. Supposed to rain. good times.

Totally normal. I don't know why it is but off-the-bike speeds are usually super fast for me, but feel like crap for about .5 to 1 miles. I work really hard to dial in the pace as quickly as possible (i.e. tell myself slow down, slow down), although for shorter distances the quick speed nice! Ha!!

Thx man u2. Looking for to catching up. Jsm - you are one crazy cat!

dude.  he's nuts.   remember at tom's wedding when he had that old lady doing a keg stand! 

I remember him and i and a few guys you don't know all went down to Vegas. Lets just say JSM channelled his Pacman Jones that weekend.

so it seems there are two issues here.  both of which are very common.  one of which will get you into some deep trouble.

-the feeling of dead legs.  don't worry, they'll come around.  i'm not sure the feeling ever goes away but as you train and race more you'll gettign a better understanding of the feeling and you'll know that it will go away shortly. 

-pacing.  this can/will crush you as you get out to longer distances.  and you can't just say something like ok for a sprint i'll come out of t2 at such and such a pace.  you need take lots of things into consideration... course, weather, how you're feeling, etc...  and you might have to update your plan on the fly.  experience helps figure all this out.  i still don't have it down.  slow it way down coming out of transition then gradually speed up to your goal pace or hr or rpe or whatever.  not the other way around.

i think it's pretty safe to say we all go through this.  you'll get it figured out. 

Thats more like it!!

Hey Linda - you didn't let Dozer beat you in the Maryland 1/2 did you?

Funny story
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43114158/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/

LOL!

This came up a while back about the benefit or lack there of for single leg drills.  This came out of an active.com email with tips from Bicycling magazine.  So for what it's worth:

3 Leg-Strengthening Exercises for Cyclists

 Single-Legged Pedaling: Strengthens hips and backs of thighs; also teaches muscle memory for smooth cycling.

nice one, Trevor. ha!

Happy Birthday, Christina!

Good luck and have fun this weekend, Sam and Trevor!

Thanks everyone for the birthday and race wishes! Calling it a training run is really just my excuse for being so slow of late.  

It is a great story, his run has actually raised a lot of money for the cancer center!

do you want to make another movie?

Do it....  and you can call "Slow and Steady gets you onto the Bike...... Eventually."

or  make a kids movie and call it" I Like to Slowly put on my Socks."

So nice that you boys are putting the band back together.