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Hi Folks,

What a pleasant surprise to log in this morningand find several pages of new messages. It is going to take me a while to read through them all but I will try to do that over the course of the day and/or evening. In the interim though, WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW LRR GROUP MEMBERS!!

B-man - 2 finish lines to start off the year. Mrs FBP and I did the January 1st Resolution Run 5k. It was a very pleasant day compared to past years - temp was right around the freezing mark, very light snow and virtually no wind. I finished in a very comfortable 31 minutes. Mrs FBP finished in 35 minutes.

Bit of a scare at the end of the race. Mrs FBP was experiencing numbness in her lower lip, chin and cheeks. Slurring speech, etc. We left right from the race and straight up to the hospital. By the time we got there the numbness was gone but she had some tingling in her arm/fingers. We got seen almost right away, some bloodwork ordered but in the end no firm diagnosis. Doc said no heart attack but it could have been a very mini stroke. Also though it may be something related to migraines which she seems to have been experiencing with greater frequency over the past couple weeks. Scan ordered for later this week or next. She's seeing our family doc later this week and may end up referred to neurologist. After a couple of hours in the ER she was released and ever since has felt totally fine. (For those of you involved in the healthcare debate - we didn't have to pay for anything !)

Today I hope to get to the pool for the first time in ages. I may have to dog paddle its been so long

Got Sebastian set up on the trainer yesterday. It took a while - I had to change out the back tire which I HATE doing. Plan to do a short ride tomorrow.

Lastly, looking forward to the World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game tomorrow night. Canada vs. USA. Canada is going for a 6th straight gold medal. This year's tournament Canada won the round robin game against the US, 5-4 in O/T on News Year Eve. Game was an all-time classic. Final should be just as good - regardless who wins

Pete

(Special for Mav - sad to see our boy Jason leave for the Big Apple but at least its not to the Yanks!)

Yahoo - I got to the pool and did a 500m swim at lunch. You know its been too long between pool visits when you need 4 attempts to open your combination lock !!

I am going to try and do 3 sessions per week (I'll try to do 750m - 1000m) through the month of January and then I will launch into the "Zero to 1650" training plan http://ruthkazez.com/ZeroTo1mile.html 

Sticka

Thanks Nancy. 

Have you ever thought about running the Indy Mini in May?  If you haven't, it's an awesome race.  35,000 runners/walkers can't be wrong can they?

MSU Dan - great to have one of the prodigal sons return. I'm sure that our patriarch the B-man will be "slaughtering the fatted calf" to celebrate your rejoining the group!!

I realize now that I have been less than precise insofar as my race goals for 2010 are concerned so here is what they are:

February - Cops For Cancer 5k (my bro is a 'copper and who hasn't been affected by cancer)

April - Lincoln 5k (a race put on by a friend that raises money for our regional children's hospital)

May - Fredericton Race Weekened 10k

June - Rockwood Sprint Triathlon (Saint John, NB)

September - Lobsterman Olympic Triathlon (Freeport, ME)

I may also do another Sprint distance event in late July or mid August.

Peter

Bryan, here's my stuff:

Lena - 33 - Carpentersville, IL - 2009 A race: baby #2 lol - 2010: Illinois Marathon, Big Foot Olympic Tri

A couple of questions for all of you:

1) would you recommend upgrading to a (considering Silver) paid membership?  I've read what the site says about the added features, but just want to get your opinion..

2) I'm usually not tech-dense, but for some reason I can't figure out how to subscribe to threads? Is this a paid membership feature?

thanks!

Gary, thanks.

I use a Polar now and was thinking that after the May Marathon, maybe will look at getting the Garmin, since its use seems to be so wide-spread everywhere I look.. nice to know i can upload stuff on here from it.  THat, plus the coming (hopefully really soon) iPhone app will make BT a VERY tech-geek-friendly site for me hehe

So, email notifications is the only way to sub? I saw an option in the Preferences for Thread Subscription, so that makes me think there has to be something else.. Of course, BT is not set up like a regular forum, so I'm not sure..