kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2011 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 91)

All this chatting is forcing me to NOT work.  Ughhhhh.

I really need to get a fuel belt as well, now that I am approaching 8+ miles.  I tried carrying a small water bottle.  Pain in the A$$.

Kelly, I see the Sprint sign while watching the TdF, as  green "S".  Same thing on your map you posted.  But I often see the fork and spoon.  Now I know they don't stop to eat.  What does that stand for?

With 4 kids and a cereal eating husband, we go through 3 gallons of 2% and 1 gallon of whole milk (for the 15 month old).  I drink unsweetened almond milk.  That's a lot of milk!!!!!!!!  $$$$$

edited to add that last week's fruits were: 12 bananas, 2 bags of grapes, 10 peaches, 2 containers of strawberries, 2 containers of blueberries, 1 melon, and 1 watermelon.   

They are 6, 4, 2, and 15 months.  Popped out 4 babies in 5 years.  LOL  I think it's been good for them to see me doing something for me.  I try to include them whenever possible, too.  Only downside is that my house has fallen apart.  With training and running the kids around, I have dustballs the size of tumbleweeds rolling around in my house.  My bathroom looks like it belongs in a frat house. 

How old are your LOs? 

I think I've posted this picture before, but here's what happens in my house when I'm cooking dinner (or training, or cleaning, etc.) and things get too quiet.....

Baby powder ALL OVER.  It was so hard to clean up. 

Andy schleck (from the 2010 TdF) with his mussette:

Do we need to explain "nature breaks" as well?

Very cute picture.

Looks like Shaun trying to make pancakes.

I thought the same thing.  He makes Crowie and Macca look fat.

I use this same belt, but with 4 bottles.  For those wondering the revenge series much better than the original series - bottles are much easier to move in and out.

I only fill 2 bottles for the start, then have the other 2 bottles ready with gatorade endurance powder in them to fill with water.  Then for the rest of the run, I determined last week to use hammer perpertium solid bottles (or nuun bottles) and I store extra powder in there to refill when ready (I mark the bottles for fuel belt bottle amounts).  Cuts down on the weight, but I still get my electrolyte drink throughout the run.

I am fortunate as my 18 miler will be aid stations every 2-3 miles, so I never really need to worrry about carrying too much.

Yeh, on that subject, I am amazed they can pee while riding (some of them anyway), but do these guys every stop for for #2?  Or is their diet such that it is out of the way before they start?

And why don't these guys pee on their bike like IM's do?  Is it cuz its not a big deal to stop off or peeing on themselves every day will create problems?

Fixed that for you

Edit:  Ooops missed Carrie's post

Once I started thinking about it, yeah.  I grew up with 2 a days in football and catching double headers in baseball.  It just feels normal to me.