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Everyone be safe on the road, trails, pool, lake, or ocean this weekend.  Have fun and happy training!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Just another exciting Saturday at our house:Quick bike ride, stripped the Chlorine out of my hair, got out the crack pipe, aired up a few wheels. Now its time to go shopping at my favorite running store.

Happy Memorial Weekend everyone!

No workout for me yesterday, as was traveling, but I did get a nice 5k in this morning.   Only bad part... I left HRM Strap at home by mistake, so had to run without it this morning.   Had the Garmin with me, so that was good, but I can sure tell I've gotten into the habit of running to HR.  I ran to RPE this morning, and sadly, went out too fast and ended up walking a bit.  Not complaining though.  Temp was near perfect for the run, my average pace was faster than I've been doing, and so all things considered, and the fact I ate like a pig yesterday, I feel good about the run.  Just got to stop walking....

Enjoy Memorial Day, and as others have said, thanks to all those who have served our country!  But even more important, is thanks to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country.  We need to never forget them.

Cornhole competition?  Is this a southern term? 

First outdoor ride done.  Only 1:20, but it felt good.  In fact, I am really happy that I'm not cranking out 6 hour rides like some of our IM will be doing soon.  Hit the boat afterwards and now we're heading to a "pour-out" party.  We have some friends who are moving and want all of their open bottles of booze gone so they don't have to pack them.  Did I mention that their family room focal point is a 15 foot bar? 

What's the over/under??  5 1/2 beers?? 

Gary- where are you swimming that it is so cold? 

Nancy- I can't even remember what type of road helmet I have. 99% of my rides are on the trainer. I basically ride outside for races only. Which is kind of funny as I came from a cycling background. It just seems like there are more cycling accidents now than there were even a few years ago. 

Suzy- nice ride. Looks like your recovery is coming along nicely. 

 - If you figure out how to go hard during a sprint please let me know. I'm still working on pushing hard and going fast. Just once I'd like to be able to cross the finish line and not have anything left. So far I haven't been able to go to the point of no return during a race. Mentally I was prepared to push the run today during the race. Instead I struggled with breathing problems and couldn't push the pace. 

I raced today and got 1st place AG. I also had the fastest female bike split of the race. Which is something that I'm really excited about. 

Swim and run still need some work. I'll try to write up a race report and put it on my blog tomorrow. 

My half marathon was a bit of a bust today.  I was hoping to go under 1:30 but I didn't have the legs today and finished just under 1:36.  No real reason that I can identify, just had a bad day.  The only upside is that I can now run a 1:36 HM on a bad day while it wasn't all that long ago that I had to bust my azz to do a 1:49.

I'll be doing up a RR but here is the Strava file.  http://www.strava.com/activities/145544592

Arend- Congrats! 

Some great results are starting to pour in....congrats to Rene and Arend!

I use the old fashioned hard Garmin Heart Rate strap and have only had an issue once when I ran a marathon in pouring rain and it rubbed me raw.  The key for me is having a tight sports bra to hold it in place.  While I'm not a slave to HR, I find it an important metric for training and racing.

Congrats, Arend!  Great race.  I get that feeling you have when you miss the goal by just a short amount.  I'm forever going to be working to get my 1:59:59 half under my belt.  So far closest has been 2:00:18.  Last race -- which I thought for sure would make the goal sounds a lot like yours.   Training pacing had me coming in about 1:55 -- Ended up at about 2:06.  Was a bummer.   You did great!

RE:  HRM Strap.  I'm tending to agree with the group here.  I just upgraded from a Garmin 305 - with the older version 'standard' Chest Strap.  I thought I'd like the new 'soft strap' that came with the 910XT is just got.  Nope.  The old standard strap is MUCH more comfortable.  Don't know if there is any difference in the sensitivity, but it is much more comfortable on me than the new one.   You can still get one of them from Garmin, and it will sync with a Garmin.   Might want to give that a try

Hi Gang:

Short, very uncomfortable run for me today.  Plan was 5k, ended up doing on 2 miles.  Low back was screaming at me by about a mile and a half in.  Anyone have any ideas on how to help get rid of that?   I know what caused it, so I suspect it's mostly just fatigue from standing for nearly 18 hours over the past couple of days singing in a recording session, but I sure could use some advice on how to stretch it out or something.

Planning 3 more runs, a swim and bike this week.  Maybe I can get my pace down on the run a bit.