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I'm doing the sprint at the Lonestar festival March 31st / April 1st. 

Over the next 5 months I have the following planned:

• 2/10 Tiger Dash 10k
• 3/3 Eye of the Dragon 10k
• 4/15 Tri-America Long Course (2k/60k/15k)
• 5/12 Run For The Gecko 5k
• 6/3 Pineappleman Sprint
• 7/14 Henderson Harbor Sprint

End of the year I have:

• 10/7 Health First Olympic
• 11/11 MiamiMan HIM

current plan is

3/17 Parris Island Sprint Tri

3/25 ING Half Marathon

4/15 IMAZ

7/2007 Mistletoe Sprint

8/2007 West Point Lake Oly

10/2007 SC HIM

I have 4+ on my list:

1. 3-31  Lonestar (sprint: 500/12.5/5K)
2. 7-29  Concreteman (almost an Oly: 1000/24/5mile)
3. 8-18  Tiger Tri (sprint: 300/12/5K)
4. 8-26  Alligator's Creek (sprint: 300/18/5K)

I may find another one in the late summer/fall.  I would like to do an official Oly this year.

My crystal ball says that by October 7th your going to be in great shape and will be doing the Olympic

I have always wanted to change it but never did.  Donto = Don + Tonto.  A wise freind once called me that in regard to being half Native American!

Don't feel bad, I haven't raced in 1.5 years after my year from hell !!!! We will get you out on one of the Moss Park sprints. They are very small and low key.

Just because I changed mine :-)

Yeah that's it, your my hero

I like the old avatar!

Also, no one here is a slacker.  We are all stellar triathletes in evolution.

Joe, Don and I were a ways from the tornados so we are fine. I didn't have any family over there. Very sad though.

Bluejack, the commonly prescribed guideline about working out when sick is above the neck train and below the neck rest. I also don't train if any fever.

All right guys.  So how's your training coming along?

Personally I'm doing ok, not great, but ok considering I was sick for a few days and then injuried my calf which is more or less healed (still sore to the touch).

This week I doing a reduction bike/run week to be ready for a 10k run race on Saturday.  Haven't run one of these in a long time, so I've been working on running form the last few times out.  McMillans run calculator says that I should be able to do a 45:11 (7:16) based on my 5k time last year. Hmmm I don't buy that right now! I'm guessing I should be able to hit a 48:00 (7:43) comfortable enough this time and go for the 45 next month, a lot depends on the weather though, suppose to "warmup"!  Race plan is to negative split the miles starting at with a 7:50.

One thing I do know I need to start doing is core work.  My lower back is hurting again, always a sign that I need to focus on my core again.  If you guys could encourage me on this issue that would be great!

So far so good, but I'm still in that nebulous area where the reality of a race, my first tri ever, is off in the distance (April 28)...this said, my swimming's improving, my cycling's fine (an upcoming ~9.5 TT will be a good guage), and my running's coming along too.  The biggest thing at this point - I'm healthy!  It seems that so many people are dealing with "crud" right now and so far my body's put up a good defense.  My plans for the coming weeks include:

• Refinement of swimming technique (last few weeks were focused on just getting used to the water and building some endurance) - it's time to start creating some efficiency.
• Ramp up my running.  While playing competitive soccer, a full 90 at a high work rate was not an issue for me; since wrecking my knee late in '01 and getting fixed in early '02, I've not run consistently.  My training runs feel good and I feel like I'm headed in the right direction, just need to do more of them.
• Work on bike/run intervals.  Lots of people have told me the transition from bike to run is tough; articles I've read indicate the same.  Somebody recently shared that doing 5-10 min intervals on the trainer and then hopping off and doing 5-10 min runs and repeating several times is a great prep tool for this aspect of the tri.  We'll see.

Keep up the great work everybody - I enjoy being part of this group and look forward to sharing a good race report with everybody before too long!

Tod, what did you do for the Plantar Fasciitis? My wife has it and is struggling with whether or not to get the night time boot thing.