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Good Morning America!!!!!!!!!!  I hope everyone is doing well this fine day, well not in Mobile, its very ugly outside, cold, windy and very gray, yuckkk

Sarah - I hope you had a great bday.  Yum, I love some REAL mexican food, not the stuff some places serve. Then again I love to eat foreign foods.  When me and the family would go on cruises, I would try to find were the locals went to eat and go there.  My family would watch me eat and then we would go somewhere that served more American foods.  I remember seeing the face on my wife when we were in St. Thomas and I was eating curry goat, oh and it was good.  Me and my wife have not been out on a date night in a very very long time.  Im not a drinker either so no later party for me.  When we have gone out in the past w/out the kids we are normally back home asleep around 10pm.

Steve - I hope your hip is doing better.  I'm trying to find a way to keep my training up during the winter.  I thought about doing a lot of strenght training 4x week and run atleast 3x, but Im finding its hard to get to the gym and back home in the short amount of time I have since the gym does not open till 5am.  I was wondering if strength training is a must, or if I can just use some dumbbells at home and do some lifting for the arms and let the biking and running work the legs.  What are your thoughts on strength.  I want to really focus on my running since that is what I struggled with this year and I would also like to get 2 yoga a week to help with my core and stretching.

Jeff - Congrats on the Marathon. Man its hard for me to see myself going 26.2 miles when at this time I struggle to get 2 miles in.  My hats off to you.

OH, In case most of you have not heard. ALABAMA IS GOING TO NOLA TO PLAY lsu FOR THE NATIONAL TITLE.  ROLL TIDE ROLL... I just hope our kickers and special team does a better job this time.

I hope everyone has a great day

Im feeling pretty good today, some mild soreness nothing debilitating. I have considered, Cowtown, the OKC Memorial marathon and others but will see. There are some early triathlons I am looking at as well. Later this month I will try to give shape to 2012.

23 degrees this morning......

I ran the Vegas Rock n Roll 1/2 marathon last weekend. Running down the Strip at night was an experience. I wrote a semi race report on my blog if anyone wants to look there. I've been hearing a lot of stories of stuff that went on during the race and afterwards because of poor planning and allowing 44,000 to race. It'll be interesting to see what they change for next year.

Johanne

Thanks George, that is so nice of you to say! I appreciate it more then you can imagine. It hasn't been overnight (obviously ) but it's been such fun and rewarding change for me.

Running the strip was really fun. We've done this race the last couple of years and there is a pretty small crowd at 6:00 am. The night race brought out a LOT more people and some 'interesting' ones. When we ran through the old downtown area, they had brought in portable street lights with generators because it's kind of a sketchy area and would of been really dark otherwise. The crowd there was interesting  

Hi All,

I am coming to the end of the semester and have started to read what I missed.  I would have waited until  I had some actual training to report but I read Sarah's blog and I just had to say how impressive what you have done is. Well to me it is very impressive.  I'm like  George, INSPIRED!!!!

I would go out and do some physical activity but I am giving my last exam and I gave blood today.  Being a quart low I am grateful to be standing.  

Ellen

OOPS!  I messed up but I find all of you inspiring.  I have a lot of trouble staying on track and get off track pretty easily.

New year  coming up!

LOL~! glad I'm not the ONLY one! 

Ran outside today... the cold really beat me up. Weather has gotten colder this week with temps in high teens/20's today with some wind. Been working on keeping my foot stride short and quick but the overall pace has not really been affected ...yet at least. 

Crazy now with the christmas to do's ... shopping, cooking etc... but its all good. I've been thinking alot about all that I'm grateful for in my life and how blessed I am to have been touched by some incredible people. Some of those people no longer walk this Earth but for that time I shared with them, priceless. I hope everyone can find the wonder of the holiday season in their hearts and carry it with them throughout the year. 

stevebradley - 2011-12-12 6:35 AM JOHANNE - Ack! How did you sneak that one past us until after the fact?!? I will get to the report later, but congrats on doing it -- another feather in your overflowing '11 cap! Mercy almighty, you really did manage a lot this season. Ya gotta be proud and pleased with that, yes? I will also check out the kerfuffles of the race.....but 44,000 says volumes in and of itself. I cannot imagine catering to that many people, and so in my mock-RD shoes....it'd be almost survival of the fittest. That is, here's hoping they have people waiting to greet the runners at the finish line and help them recover, because the race itself cannot properly service all of them. Yikes. BUT!! YOU survived, and that's all that really counts, huh? Anyhow, i will get to the report when I finish catching up here. So......What's next??

Steve,

I'm very happy with my season. I added new distances and finished them all feeling pretty good which was my goal. It's just been a step by step process and sticking to it. Now if I could only get faster I know, that'll come somewhat but I think I'm ok being a middle packer or even just below that. I love the training and the race day jitters and just doing this stuff. My next big race is the Surf City marathon the first weekend of February. I think that'll be my last stand alone marathon. I just want to do one more before Ironman and then that'll be it. It's a lot of running and I like a more evenly split focus.

There is still people up in arms about the Vegas race. Part of the problem is the organizations lack of clear apology but I'm sure they are following their legal departments advice. 

Ellen and Sarah,

Thanks for reading my blog and your very nice comments. I've been encouraged by so many people that I feel that if I can encourage even one person, I've passed along the good tri vibes

It's been cold in California! Almost freezing overnight and actually in the 50's during the day. You should see how layered up people dress

Johanne

Hello everyone.. I must confess to being a lurker these days.  My training has been very sparse and is for the short term going to get even more so.  I had a cortisone shot in my left knee this morning... (almost passed out!)  so the Dr. wants me to take a break from anything that aggravates the knee.  So looks like I will be hitting the pool more often, which I guess is a good thing...  Then in 3 weeks I will start a series of "gel" injections that are suppose to keep my knee lubricated... If this approach doesn't help I may have surgery in my future but I want to avoid that at all cost!

Hope that everyone is having a productive winter  

Alex

We are in that weird winter pattern of alternating 40*, 75+, 25 back to 50 etc-all Fahrenheit. I haven't mastered the metric conversions for temperature or weight the way I can distance. 4.36 miles today, some light rain but pleasant.